The weirdest video gaming antagonist you've seen
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Doesn't quite compete with some of the others I've seen in this thread...
The Nihilanth (Half Life 1) is essentially a giant, telepathic fetus. The designer behind him (Ted Backman) had come up with a whole host of disturbing creature designs, only a few of which made it into the finished product. Nihilanth was the final boss of HL1, but another Backman design was the Gonarch, a kind of headcrab-queen with a 'gonad' hanging from the bottom, from which it birthed headcrab babies. This is the Nihilanth:
Personality-wise... maybe Sander Cohen from Bioshock 1?
The Nihilanth (Half Life 1) is essentially a giant, telepathic fetus. The designer behind him (Ted Backman) had come up with a whole host of disturbing creature designs, only a few of which made it into the finished product. Nihilanth was the final boss of HL1, but another Backman design was the Gonarch, a kind of headcrab-queen with a 'gonad' hanging from the bottom, from which it birthed headcrab babies. This is the Nihilanth:
Personality-wise... maybe Sander Cohen from Bioshock 1?
All the enemies and the Brothers in The Void are weird but the weirdest too me is probably Tyrant.
WTH I'm fighting a wheel.
Then there is Warden who just creeps me out.
WTH I'm fighting a wheel.
Then there is Warden who just creeps me out.
Aye, I'm with you on this one. I had other, more technically advanced foes in mind, or my beloved go-to games for over-the-top weirdness (Demon's/Dark, Conker, God Hand, Zeno Clash, etc... hey! I love weird!), but, as you pointed out - Altered Beast was very, very early and it was pretty consistent with its heavy dose of weird throughout the game.6_Qubed said:
Also, the game started with some beardyman shouting ARISE FROM YOUR GRAVE! at me, if I am not completely mistaken. Reading Barker, ogling Bisley and watching Alien felt like taking a break after playing Altered Beast. The actual gameplay I remember but vaguely, but was it not possible to miss the power-up dogs or orbs or whatever and get stranded in literally the wrong shape to advance properly?
The only other game that springs to mind is Kujaku-Oh 2 (aka Mystic Defender). You play as a cross-dressing monk that likes porn and is the reincarnation of Lucifer, Melek Taus (The Peacock King) and Mahawotsisname. You are to 'rescue the girl', which turns out to be a naked lady named Alexandra standing on top of the ultimate boss.
The Western release did away with an average 99% of the weirdness, so it was a pretty unremarkable game that had pretty much absolutely nothing to do with the mind-blowing original. It's a bit much to remember everything, but you start the game in the woods, fighting against some wiggly dudes and very giger-esque aliens spitting balls at you. There are bats and other assorted creepy crawlies. The stage boss looks and acts like tumbling and leaping Blanka will, years later in Street Fighter II. It's just that this one looks pretty much undead and ghoulish and with its skin missing. From then on, things will get super weird right away. The boring human-like enemies from stage one will come back, but they will roll up into big human baby heads of sorts, which will hop around and roll at you. There are holes in the walls that will poop out babies, which will turn into quivering blobs when you shoot them. Perfect nightmare material. (tags: bloaty heads, sewer babies, sperm sharks)
He would shout "WISE FWOM YOUW GWAVE". Zeus had a speech impediment. Shit was so cash.Headdrivehardscrew said:
(seriously designers your voice software gets one letter wrong and you make every word in that sentence have that one letter what in the actual hell)
Actually, Once I got thinking about old Genesis games, the other big offender I can remember is Jame Pond 3, specifically a boss which I think was called The Kentucky Fried Fiend. He was a giant chicken who would hop along the bottom of the multi-tiered level and couldn't take damage. You'd have to trick him into pecking away parts of these two bridges in such a fashion that he'd peck the bridge out from under him, fall into the lava (actually boiling hot custard because we are on the moon and everyone knows the moon is dairy) and die... NOPE JUST KIDDING he'd transform into a pheonix and chase you around spitting napalm at you until you ran up to the topmost level where he couldn't get you and you shot him with the now-useful fruit gun that had been sitting there the whole time mocking you with its ineffectiveness.
Also you are a fish in a spacesuit that has legs so you can walk around and not be fucking useless because you are a fish. Third game I ever owned. Goddamn games used to be weird.
...Admittedly, I could probably think of a more recent example so that anyone who hadn't owned a Genesis would know what I was talking about. But now I'm thinking of my favorite bosses as of late and they are sorta boring, what with being a screaming zombie and a psychotic hippy and all.