Your favorite enemies of all time

[HeHe]

That is my favorite enemy of all time. A living, breathing, cunning, human opponent.

[epicurian]

For a final boss type baddie, I think Hitler in a power suit with arm mounted gatling guns at the end of episode 3 of Wolfenstein would get my vote.

As for rank and file types, Chrysalids made for some nerve-wracking encounters, especially if you were still using conventional wepaons! Members of the JDF in Front Mission 3 were also quite entertaining for their "I'll get you next time gadget!" fist shaking type antics when you blew their mech to pieces.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Big boss: Baphomet/John Romero's head on a stick, Doom II. (The big skull is never given an actual name in Doom II, but Final Doom calls it "Baphomet," so I just go by that.) Honorable mention to Magus, Chrono Trigger. Practically everything in the game up to that point implies Magus, not Lavos, is the last boss.

Normal boss: Duriel, Diablo II.

Grunt: Warmech, from Final Fantasy I. Honorable mention to the minions of any CEB archer, Diablo II, v1.10. (The CEB archer itself I don't have much trouble with. It's the fact that the attacks of the minions are cold-enchanted, as well...)

[gopher]

Regular Shmoes:
Earthbound:
Those trees in the early part of the game that always explode and kill somebody. Any battle with those Oak Trees meant serious PP usage for healing.

Boss:
Final Fantasy 1
Warmech
On the walkway to Tiamat, the boss of the tower section, you had a 1 in 64 chance of encountering this monster. Unfortunatly, my first time happened to be it. Massive number of HP (rivaling the final boss of the game), massive number of spells (all level 9: Nuke, XXXX!, etc), and even worse, always went first. If you beat him (it?) handily, you could easily beat the rest of the game.


Edit: Did not see the above post. Wow, somebody else encountered the 'Mech!

[aaglo]

Favourite enemies:
- The 4x1 Red Block from Tetris
- Shambler from Quake (shoots lightnings)
- Minotaurs in Heretic

[Chronus]

The villain was 'Evil Otto' , a bouncing smilie face who chased you and would kill you if you stayed on one level for too long.

Holy cow, how could I have forgotten about him! And that was my favorite game at the time.

Best (worst?) of all, he was indestructible! You either had to go on to the next screen or perish.