Examples of enemies that manage to be challenging without having tons of health...?
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There are plenty of examples of bosses who are hard for reasons other than ridiculous health.
The problem is most of these alternatives are just as 'cheap'.
Such as bosses who do ridiculous damage.
Or bosses who dodge ridiculously(which when you think about it isn't really any different to them having lots of health. Only difference is you spend more time not landing a hit on them).
Or have ridiculous speed (which usually results in one of the above^)
But i suppose it's cause those sorts of things are what makes stuff hard. Really, what other way could you make a boss hard without them either doing high damage, having high health, or having high speed?
.. unless perhaps they have some sort of debilitating effect, but even thats playing off the above things, just in reverse :/
The problem is most of these alternatives are just as 'cheap'.
Such as bosses who do ridiculous damage.
Or bosses who dodge ridiculously(which when you think about it isn't really any different to them having lots of health. Only difference is you spend more time not landing a hit on them).
Or have ridiculous speed (which usually results in one of the above^)
But i suppose it's cause those sorts of things are what makes stuff hard. Really, what other way could you make a boss hard without them either doing high damage, having high health, or having high speed?
.. unless perhaps they have some sort of debilitating effect, but even thats playing off the above things, just in reverse :/
Headcrabs and the zombies thereof. They don't have a ton of health but they are quick and numerous. The poison headcrabs defiantly don't help.
Necromorphs from Dead Space 1 and 2. You can shoot them all you want, but unless you take out the limbs, they'll just keep coming at you. Meaning you can't just blindly shoot at them and expect to win.
Even the big bad bosses don't have just a lot of health, you have to kill them in specific ways.
Even the big bad bosses don't have just a lot of health, you have to kill them in specific ways.
Mages in skyrim. They can hit you hard and fast but when faced with a 2H they go down real fast. Most of my deaths - in fact all - are by the hands of mages. IMO, classic examples of glass cannons.
Riot shields in almost any game. Getting around them has always been a challenge for me.
Riot shields in almost any game. Getting around them has always been a challenge for me.
I'll see your Vanitas and raise you a Vanitas Remnant. Only one HP bar, but can kill you in one, maybe two hits if you're lucky. Though that might not count, since that's a secret boss.Riddle78 said:
On a related note, pretty much any fast, airborne enemies in the Kingdom Hearts series tend to be overpowered bastards. The Crimson Operas from Kingdom Hearts 2 come to mind (the ones that lay homing aerial mines everywhere.)
Edit: Oh! Forgot one!
The Pyros from Mass Effect 2. ANY Pyro. Seriously. They don't have that much health, and can easily be one-shotted with Overload or Incinerate (using either of those attacks on them causes them to burst like a fiery zit), but let them get close and they WILL kill you. It doesn't help that Shepard does that flailing animation as s/he tries to put the fire out, not bothering to get out of the fire first, instead standing there helplessly as the Pyro continues to torch them!
I think the sendinja from pokemon can be called so. 1 hit point. Can only take damage from super effective attacks.
Fission-Metroids in Metroid Prime 1.
The first form can be killed with a pair of charged shots. Easy.
Then it splits into two more, both of which are immune to every attack you have except a specific beam, or a Power Bomb.
And you don't get THAT many Power Bombs...
Oh, and the area they spawn in, they spawn in infinite numbers. Peachy.
The first form can be killed with a pair of charged shots. Easy.
Then it splits into two more, both of which are immune to every attack you have except a specific beam, or a Power Bomb.
And you don't get THAT many Power Bombs...
Oh, and the area they spawn in, they spawn in infinite numbers. Peachy.
The worm type enemies in Terraria, they don't really have a lot of health but they can burrow through the terrain and come up right under you and then do massive damage because every piece of their multi-segmented bodies does damage when it touches you.
And as other people have said those black poisonous headcrabs in Half-Life 2 can go fuck off in the hottest sun in the universe.
And as other people have said those black poisonous headcrabs in Half-Life 2 can go fuck off in the hottest sun in the universe.
