Odd enemies

[gigastar]

A more recent one for me, the Goliaths in Borderlands 2.

What was the design team smoking when they churned out that one...

 

[SweetShark]

ho ho ho HOHOHOHOHOOHHOHOHOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
That reminf me the old thread I created in GT and here also.

http://forums.gametrailers.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1272976
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.340599-Weird-Taboo-WTF-Creatures-Database

But if I had to select only one enemy.........is this one:

Spoiler

Imagination............I love you humanity.....

 

[Palademon]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Amaterasu from God Eater.

It has giggle physics.

 

[FalloutJack]

{1} Any creature whose job is to...explode. Earthbound has these, but I think exploding enemies overall have got to be some of the weirdest ones out there. You're a thing, and you live out your life until one day something threatens you and...your one real defense against them is to explode? How does that work? Is that a "You can't fire me, I quit!" move?

This is actually a valid tactic if you prize the species/group/many above the individual. If a predator tries to eat an animal and it explodes, then odds are good the predators will learn to stop trying to eat them pretty quickly. The individual creatures may be dead, but the species as a whole will benefit from it in the long run, kind of like a more flashy version of the "Don't eat me, I'm poisonous" tactic.

It's not even an entirely fictional thing, several species of Ant and/or Termite actually do explode to deter predators.

I know the insects, seen 'em on nature shows. They...don't die, however. It's a 'gas' bomb. Even still, I do take your point, or would except...Bombs from Final Fantasy don't wait for anyone to eat them.

I seem to recall a gang of old women in either New Vegas or Fallout 3. They attack you with melee weapons such as frying pans, rolling pins and, a single kitchen knife. They only appear once and when you kill them that's it (and that's only with the Wild Wasteland perk). I want to fight more senile delinquents...

Ah, the old Hell's Grannies routine. Could've been worse. Could've been the Baby Snatchers...

I always found the Centaurs on Fallout 3 quite odd

Not to mention the original Fallout 2 Centaurs (WITH TWO HEADS), Floaters, and Wannamingos.

MOVING ON!

Honarable mention to Professor Genki [http://the-void.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/saints-row-genki.png] from Saint's Row The Third. That was a WTF moment there, followed by "WHY WON'T YOU DIE!", and then I parked a car on him and collected oodles of cash.

Can I also just include THE ENTIRE CAST OF BLAZBLUE?! They're all enemmies to SOMEONE, and they're all weirdoes!

 

[Shocksplicer]

Honarable mention to Professor Genki [http://the-void.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/saints-row-genki.png] from Saint's Row The Third. That was a WTF moment there, followed by "WHY WON'T YOU DIE!", and then I parked a car on him and collected oodles of cash.

UNETHICAL!!!

OT: Midget Shotgunners in the Borderlands games. Why? BECAUSE THEY'RE MIDGET. SHOTGUNNERS. Why am I fighting midgets with shotguns? WHO CARES? Thinking is for losers, shut up and shoot!

 

[FalloutJack]

UNETHICAL!!!

Ethics? In Saint's Row? How quaint.

OT: Of course, Destroy All Humans 2 features Coyote Bongwater and his hippy-dippy ray-gun, not to mention Shama Llama...who reincarnates for every life you've lost in the game and summons ninjas all over the place.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

I've always been baffled by the eggplant wizards in Kid Icarus. I mean, I can't think of anywhere in Greek mythos where Eggplant-mancy is ever spoken of...

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

A more recent one for me, the Goliaths in Borderlands 2.

What was the design team smoking when they churned out that one...

The whole while I played through the game, I was kinda hoping for a sidequest or ECHO that would've explained just what the hell they are. I mean, Cyborgs? Why the teeny-tiny skull? Too many additives in their bloodstreams? Corporate experimentation? They could be ANYTHING!!!

 

[gigastar]

A more recent one for me, the Goliaths in Borderlands 2.

What was the design team smoking when they churned out that one...

The whole while I played through the game, I was kinda hoping for a sidequest or ECHO that would've explained just what the hell they are. I mean, Cyborgs? Why the teeny-tiny skull? Too many additives in their bloodstreams? Corporate experimentation? They could be ANYTHING!!!

According to supplemental material (Official Strategy Guide as quoted by TvTropes) theyre always whacked out on adrenaline. When thier helmets come off, theyre exposed to Eridium particles that have been floating in the air since the first Vault opening, causing a positive feedback adrenaline rush loop and causing thier heads to literally fly off.

Like i said, what were they smoking...

 

[Syndarr]

The Shadow Hearts games (and their predecessor, Koudelka) are great for bizarre, disturbing monsters. Seriously, whatever the monster designers were on, I want some.

One of my favorites is the Mailman. It looks like a German Shepherd with a human arm growing where its face should be. It balances on the hand, with the dog's body sticking up in the air, and it attacks by hopping up to you and BEATING YOU WITH THE DOG.

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[D-Class 198482]

{3} Of course, EVERYTHING in Oddworld is odd. That's a given.

Just for mentioning Oddworld you win the internet
fuckin' love those games
OT: Uh. Everything in Corruption of Champions (which I actually made a thread of)... The Snowman-Husks from Killing Floor's Twisted Christmas... let me think...
And the fucks in Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia. Some of them are really generic, I know, but WHAT THE LIVING (dead) FUCK IS WITH SOME OF THE THINGS IN THAT GAME

 

[TheNecromancer]

I found Father Mother in Zeno Clash to be incredibly odd. Actually I think most of the enemies in that game would be considered odd.



A runner up has to be the monstrosity that is a Deus Ex from E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy. The picture doesn't do it justice honestly. A large demon with cybernetic parts and a rocket launcher, whats not to love?

 

[Tarlane]

*snip*
Also gelatinous cubes.
Who the hell thought that one up.

I see you've only dipped into the weird back catalog of really, really dumb enemies.

Spoiler: Not the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it's the...

Behold the flumph!

Spoiler: Rhyming Mollusk of DOOM!

The dreaded flail snail!

Spoiler: Disproving Darwin, a creature whose only reason to exist...

The gas spore, a creature whose only reason to exist was to confuse the players into killing it. Seriously. It floats at you. It looks like a beholder. You hit it and it explodes on the party for heavy damage.

Spoiler: Oh my God, one is on the Normandy!

Dear God, Minsc was right. Be careful, Shepard!

Mocking the incredibly silly monsters some of the writers has come up with is a tradition which started long, long ago. You can find whole pages of these. Surprisingly, Paizo actually wrote an entire book trying to make some of the most insipid creatures ever published into something acceptable.

How do you toss out those old monsters but not mention the wolf in sheep's clothing? A man eating treestump that looks like it has a rabbit sitting on top of it. Creatures come to eat the rabbit and then get eaten themselves.

 

[Doneeee]

Remember those cute little crawler bastards from dead space 2? I don't know if it's the bloated belly or the twisted neck but something about them is just... odd.

Spoiler: A crawler

 

[TK421]

Ridley. The thing is immortal. Everytime Samus kills him, he comes back.

Spoiler: Or oddly enough these things from Halo 3

Or maybe the dildo-wielding mascots from Saints Row 3

Or that one time my buddy Kyle and I were playing Red Dead Redemption and we found a man who acted like a mountain lion. It was creepy O_O

 

[Lugbzurg]

Earthbound and the like have weird enemies. This is unarguable. Consider their source.

If you're asking us to top that...I don't know.

Well, no. I can think of something.

{1} Any creature whose job is to...explode. Earthbound has these, but I think exploding enemies overall have got to be some of the weirdest ones out there. You're a thing, and you live out your life until one day something threatens you and...your one real defense against them is to explode? How does that work? Is that a "You can't fire me, I quit!" move?

{2} A good contender in enemies is probably Mega Bomberman. Let's see... Giant monkey-controlled banana monster, giant zigguraut mech, a bubble-shooting crab, a ninja man-bat-thing, a big ice princess... These are bosses, by the way. Regular mooks might include floating blimp-fish, ice-skating bunnies, little red dudes that are attracted to bombs, burning ferris wheels, little yellow dudes who cry alot, little guys in Indiana Jones hats,...

{3} Of course, EVERYTHING in Oddworld is odd. That's a given.

I'm suddenly very interested in this game...

I can't recall any weird enemies off the top of my head, but I've made up a few of 'em. Take for example these skinny dudeguys wearing patriotic underwear, hanging onto the legs of giant eagles. The dudeguys shoot fireworks out of their mouths, and also try to poop on you. Is that decent enough?