Best Game Enemy?

[This Side Up]

Beserker in GOW.

First time you see it, it is ****-your-pants scary. For me, the adrenaline was always pumping when myself and a mate were trying our hardest not to run into the world geometry whilst simultaneously trying to avoid the Beserker.

After a few goes, she's fairly easy to take down if you know how.

 

[Sleepery]

The spider demon in doom. It was the way you could hear it getting closer when you couldn't see it that freaked me out.

 

[Squark]

Everything in AvP (when playing as Marine).
The Facehugger 'scuttle' scared the life out of me, seeing aliens zip across the corridors did too.

 

[mattyj1085]

Choking hand off Blood - "I'll swallow your soul"
They scared the crap out of me when you go through a door and 5 fall from the ceiling

 

[sharpygsxr]

System Shock 2, Shodan /thread

 

[Pish]

Everything in AvP (when playing as Marine).
The Facehugger 'scuttle' scared the life out of me, seeing aliens zip across the corridors did too.

+1

 

[aob]

Floormasters from Zelda were pretty awesome

 

[SourChipmunk]

The spider demon in doom. It was the way you could hear it getting closer when you couldn't see it that freaked me out.

Is that the one that sounded like a buzz-saw in the distance?

 

[MikeHunt79]

Sandworm in Dune 2

 

[Sleepery]

Is that the one that sounded like a buzz-saw in the distance?

Nah, it a kind of pneumatic piston sound with all its legs moving (but only when it moved). Scared the bejeesus out of me.

 

[Trox]

Poison Element from Ultima Online

Not so much in the later years but in the UO-R days these were wicked, especially the one that was in Deciet!

/thread

 

[carlazai]

Bloodsucker in Stalker, for the first time you meet one. I was like......"I know there is something down here....wait, it's, what is that moving towards me?"

Same here, they really scared the out of me

I used to love the bosses in gradius and r-type as well

 

[krooton]

Nah, it a kind of pneumatic piston sound with all its legs moving (but only when it moved). Scared the bejeesus out of me.

You mean the Cyber-Demon then

+1 for the above and sandworms in Dune

 

[medley]

I always liked facing the zombies on Half Life 1. They were fun to pray around with. Their slow reactions meant you could run up to them, hit them on the head with a crowbar then back away before they get a swipe in at you.

 

[ianh]

Everything in AvP (when playing as Marine).
The Facehugger 'scuttle' scared the life out of me, seeing aliens zip across the corridors did too.

+1,000,000!

Only game so far that's actually "scared" me (a facehugger was trapped behind a window so I got right upto it and I accidentally shot the glass and it jumped at me - jumped a mile and screamed like a girl! )

 

[stude1983]

I'm gonna say the cyber demon, big daddy and glados...

 

[Rybo89]

tomb raider 1 2 3 bosses

 

[Shamikebab]

The poison headcrabs in HL2. Even though they couldn't actually kill you, their death rattle would strike terror into your heart and you'd instantly flail around wildly trying to find the little buggers. Good stuff.

Oh god yes they still scare the **** out of me. Especially when they're in a dark stairwell or something. Probably the scariest game enemy ever, if only for my reaction!

 

[caff]

The cyberdemon (from the original doom).

Yeah! I had some big bassy speakers hooked up to play - the thumping of his feet still haunts me.

 

[sargatanas]

Everything in AvP (when playing as Marine).
The Facehugger 'scuttle' scared the life out of me, seeing aliens zip across the corridors did too.

agree'd, the first and second ones like that. The pouncing praetorians in the single player of the second one were hilarious.