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Talking Time Presents: The Top 60 Video Game Enemies Exhibit at the Valdez Museum of Video Game Box Art
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Goodbyyye Nurse!
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Tomorrow will be less spooky, I promise.
#57 (38 points, nominated by Dr. Nerd [18], Kzinssie [16])
First Appearance: Duke Nukem 3D
Wow, this sure is, uh, mmm, hoo-hoot! Shinobu, could you, *cough* could you help write this one?
Duke Nukem 3D was hella sexist and cornball and trashy, but hey, they did accurately depict a future where the cops look like how so many of them act. FU--
SHINOBU, THIS GOES ON THE PLAQUE FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION!!!! Hoo-hoot, wildly inappropriate! No, it doesn't matter that I've expressed as much in regards to Rover and such being shelved for New Horizons! This is an insti--
ALL RIGHT! Got it, got it. Let's do this. Pig cops appear as mutated police officers corrupted to work for the alien menace the Cycloids. These baddies attack the "hero" with massive shotguns and heavier artillery, and are clever enough to lie on the ground to avoid shots. They continued to appear in subsequent episodes and games in the series.
Hoo-hoot, that should suffice. I need a nap...
You ALWAYS need a damn nap when the sun's up, Blathers...
Pardon me, but I AM an owl!
Donors had the following to say:
Fuck police, fuck police, fuck police brutality
Fuck police, fuck police, fuck police brutality
Fuck police, ya, fuck police, fuck police brutality
Fuck police, fuck police, fuck police brutality
Fuck police, fuck police, fuck police brutality
Fuck police, ya, fuck police, fuck police brutality
Fuck police, fuck police, fuck police brutality
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But aren't those actually BOAR COPS?
(Feedback: On a phone it was a bit hard to parse that conversation between the characters. Maybe you could add the characters' names before their lines to help distinguish them?)
(Feedback: On a phone it was a bit hard to parse that conversation between the characters. Maybe you could add the characters' names before their lines to help distinguish them?)
I forgot to add in some lines to better delineate the dialogue. What I'll do is I'll redo the uploads over the weekend and add those in.
Appreciate the feedback!
#56 (40 points, nominated by nataeryn [12], Positronic Brain [19])
First Appearance: Civilization (Pictured: Civilization VI)
A unique NPC unit in the long-running sim series Civilization, barbarians exist to make the development of the player's society much more difficult. Their goal is simple: instead of building and sustaining civilization, they do the exact opposite. They can capture unguarded cities, stir discord to cause uprisings, attack your transports, and even surge out of a "goody" hut to ambush the player! Over the run of the series their mischief has grown, with Civ VI featuring the most devious iteration yet. In short, barbarians can make any playthrough sheer chaos at any moment.
Donors had the following to say:
In the year 1994, from out of space comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing Cosmic destruction.
This weekend will see a break from content, but we'll be back on Monday with more baddies and plotlines and excite!
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Barbarian from Civ is a great pick! I never would have thought of that. I hope someday they decide to get rid of the unit though. It's a pretty regressive view of how populations work, one mostly bolstered by outdated/incorrect 19th and early 20th century scholarship and worldviews.
I got this one, fam.
By which I mean I literally own this statue. It's five feet from me. 2K sent it to me when I wrote a thing on GameFAQs for Civ Rev DS.
the dadz thoughts mightz bee fun for Finns to dos somz "did not makz it
" posty. he sayed he is too buziness this weekenx butz the gifty shoppe are notz openz yet todaiso let Finns seez
| The Shaving of Shagpat | George Meredith | Honore Guilbeau | Sir Francis Meredith Meynell | W.A. Dwiggins | 787/1500 | 24 | 5 | 1955 | 260 |
shagpatz is the underwing of Meredeath, ands are using shavers to threatenz teh honorable Guilbeau. The Maynails of Dwigging are teh "heroz" who fights shagpatz.
this have allz teh differents votez...why these not make list?
MIMIC (Prey [2017])
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#55 (41 points, nominated by Johnny Unusual [22], Dr. Nerd [9])
First Appearance: Prey
Mimics are a member of the Typhon, an alien race within the world of Prey. They are experts at camouflage and can transform themselves into a mirror image of an object, such as a coffee cup, a dirt skiff, or any number of other items. This makes exploration for the "hero" difficult, as anything could be an enemy in waiting. When a target gets close, they revert to their original form -- a black semi-solid creature with amazing mobility -- to deliver either a tentacle down the throat and consuming the nutrients of its host to replicate itself, or a fatal sting that could transform the victim into another type of Typhon, weavers.
Donors had the following to say:
Love of two is one
Here but now they're gone
Here but now they're gone
* = Fuck Jeremy Soule
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Their entire body is like lips. They smooch you with it all!
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#54 (42 points, nominated by Issun [24], nataeryn [6])
First Appearance: The Last of Us
Clickers are an advanced form of the Infected taking over the world via the Cordyceps Brain Infection in The Last of Us universe. Clickers have lost any sense of sight from the fungal growth covering their face but are much more sensitive to sound, using their echolocation to track prey and their sharp teeth and increased strength to kill. For "the hero", clickers are incredibly tense encounters because they will instantly eviscerate the player if they get too close, and melee weapons and many guns are not super effective against them. The best way to take them out is to stealth kill them, but failing puts the player into a fatal situation. A curious oversight in the original game's AI allows NPC characters to run around and not necessarily catch the clicker's attention, suggesting that the player is all that matters in the end.
Donors had the following to say:
So needless to say
I'm odds and ends
But I'll be stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is okay
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry
I'm odds and ends
But I'll be stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is okay
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry
They kind of look like Venom, so they’re basically 5 tongues, if tongues skittered around like spiders in your mouth and had poison barbs
All the ones I can think of come from Left 4 Dead.
#53 (42 points, nominated by Octopus Prime [18], Rascally Badger [12])
First Appearance: Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Persephone is a demonic maid that serves Dracula. Similar to the maid enemy in Akumajō Dracula (X68000)/Castlevania Chronicles (which I counted as a separate entry), Persephone either engages with "the hero" by unleashing a devastating flurry of martial arts or by attacking with a sentient and vile looking vacuum cleaner that bites its target. Her incredible politeness when encountering the player in Aria stands out, as she curtsys and says "Yokoso" (welcome) before adopting a fighting stance and kicking at Soma Cruz. A little trick on the act of the developers, showing that even the cleaning staff will take on the "hero" to protect Dracula.
She grown sae fu and she couldn't a boo
I love they attack with vacuums.
I love that their vacuums have little mouths and bite you
I love that their vacuums have little mouths and bite you
The mouths on those vacuums aren't really that little.
I had Persephone on my long list of candidates but I cut her from my final list because it already had reps from the Castlevania series and I wanted to make room for enemies from other games / series.
I had Persephone on my long list of candidates but I cut her from my final list because it already had reps from the Castlevania series and I wanted to make room for enemies from other games / series.
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#52 (44 points, nominated by WildcatJF [14], Ixo [14])
First Appearance: Kid Icarus
Lurking deep inside the depths of Angel Land lurk the goofy yet devastating Eggplant Wizards, sentient anthropomorphic vegetable warlocks capable of casting replicas of their namesake that turn "the hero" into a walking eggplant. The only cure is hunting down the wayward nurses hiding within the labyrinth and getting the antidote to de-eggplant yourself. In Uprising, Eggplant Wizards returned alongside Tempura Wizards, who perform the same action but as a far more crispy equivalent. While slightly outclassed by their crunchy cousins, they did receive an excellent redesign:
The Ultimate Warp Zone!
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I dunno why this wasn't on my list! Eggplant Wizards are just the worst! When Kid Dracula would play Kid Icarus, he'd sooner run from them than risk the curse of the eggplant. I'd often plot roundabout ways through the dungeons just to avoid them. But some can't be avoided. And they're nearly always placed in locations that make them hard to attack, but easy to be attacked by, and their flying vegetable projectiles move faster than lil' Pit can dodge. You have to have a mixture of luck and skill to get past them.
They remind me a lot of Wallmasters from Zelda, in that the penalty from their attack isn't just loss of health, but loss of progress. When you're an eggplant, you can't attack, and the only cure for the status is by visiting the dungeon's nurse. The nurse doesn't cost money, but you do have to locate her. And if you get eggplant'd before you know where the nurse is, that means you need to be exploring and mapping out the game's most dangerous levels without any of your weapons. It's really stressful! And that's what makes them so memorable.
They remind me a lot of Wallmasters from Zelda, in that the penalty from their attack isn't just loss of health, but loss of progress. When you're an eggplant, you can't attack, and the only cure for the status is by visiting the dungeon's nurse. The nurse doesn't cost money, but you do have to locate her. And if you get eggplant'd before you know where the nurse is, that means you need to be exploring and mapping out the game's most dangerous levels without any of your weapons. It's really stressful! And that's what makes them so memorable.
Just the worst wiz’s.