Most unfair and cheap enemies ever?

[Ashcrexl]

freaking everybody in the last acts of the original assassin's creed. i still have no idea how i beat the game. you attack they block. you power attack they block. you counter, they dodge. you manage to throw one off balance, the others come in for your jugular. fuck those guys. fuck all of them. at least there are tons of additional fight options in ii so i never have to feel impotent when faced with a million identical guards who are kicking my ass.

 

[HellspawnCandy]

Eyeballs in Final Fantasy 1.
GAZEGAZEGAZEGAZEGAZEGAZEGAZEGAZEGAZEGAZE

 

[Judgement101]

I have no idea what they are called but in Demon's Souls on the first area (Not the Nexus or Tutorial but the REAL first level) there is a bridge where a single enemy was, I thought "Okay, this should be easy enough", I hold the block button and slowly and cautiously walked up to it, it took a single strike, then another before I could attack, then he hit me with his shield and my character had to step back from the impact and while his shield was down for less than a second I was impaled by his spear and I went from full health (well, half health due to the whole "kill a boss to get your health") to zero. (There were 7 messages saying "Beware the Powerful Foe Ahead" but I thought if I played it safe I would be okay, apperently not)

 

[Judgement101]

This!

Edit: Or Plesioth from Monster Hunter!

That enemy diserves its own caption saying "Y'all fucked now!" Also, isn't it the final thing before another boss fight?

 

[Judgement101]

Everyone from Demon's Souls

No...seriously...the enemies i that game aren't really unfair, just hard. With one exception: Knights with a shield and a spear...they can attack you while staying behind their shield and be invincible...more or less...

And the Endboss of Two Worlds 2...the only thing he tests is weather you have enough health potions or not...stupid dragon even roasting me with 100% fire resistance...

Oh...that reminds me...the Endboss of Prototype...every attack from him knocks you down, he has unlimited projectiles and unlimited Devastator attacks, you can't stager him unless you hit him twice within a second with heavy things thrown at him and there is a time limit and a billion soldiers around, who still shoot at you although you want to 'help'...that is...they disappear around the center mark and you are left without any walking health potions....

Fuck those spear guys, they are invicible, you have .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 second to attack them before their attack and even if you manage that they'll just stab you anyway.

 

[WorldCritic]

Those damn Medusa Heads from Castlevania. They put them in Scott Pilgrim the game too as a joke and they pissed me off there too.

 

[Bad Jim]

That bit in the COD4 campaign where you are waiting for a helicopter with some dude and about 3 battalions of troops come after you.

 

[Wendigo172]

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CLIFFRACERS from morrowind!!!

But really, in Morrowind, the cliff racers were pretty nasty once they started to swarm you.

Why does everyone hate the cliff racers? I never had a big problem.
My cheap enemy? Higher level monsters on Oblivion (trolls and such). Leveling with me is just cheating. It means I never get powerful enough to clear a nest or something... Unless I cheat my build.

I honestly never had a huge problem with cliff racers. It's just that, until you get powerful enough to kill them in one blow, they can dodge you for what seems like forever, and knock you off your feet, thus scoring another series of hits as you are defence-less. After you do get powerful enough to consistently hit them, though, they're push-overs. They're only cheap to low-level characters. And I get what you mean about the enemies levelling with you in Oblivion. I enchanted a 100% chameleon set and carried it with me for just such an occasion that I run into a bunch of high-level monsters. If they can take advantage of the system, in my mind, that means it's free game for me too.

Deathclaws in New Vegas.

This I also like to add hunters from prototype. Seriously I just attacked you with a giant blade and a rocket launcher and you not only survive but shrug it off like it's no business and do an unblockable attack.

I did play on either normal or easy difficulty so that might have something to do with it, but I never got that from them. Sure, they can tank any damage I deal for a while, but they go down pretty easily if I go at them one by one with the blade, especially once I can grab and absorb them to instantly regain all my health. Also, the unblockable attack, while a pain, is easy to dodge since they telegraph it pretty obviously.

 

[Genji Bullet]

This!

Edit: Or Plesioth from Monster Hunter!

That enemy diserves its own caption saying "Y'all fucked now!" Also, isn't it the final thing before another boss fight?

Yup! Well, he's a random encounter on a floor which ends with a boss ...
They tuned him down on the PS1 remake though

 

[Serenegoose]

The ant-pus-things in singularity bug (hoho) the hell out of me because they often appear in areas you can't predict at point blank range and then explode. You're supposed to be able to do little tactics to them that render them easy but the first indication I ever get that they have popped up again is when I lose half my health to them randomly. It's most, most irritating. They're certainly not a candidate for the most unfair, cheap enemies ever, but they're really really really annoying.