Grenades in ANY game... Makes me angry at times!

DanDanikov:
I'm glad someone mentioned System Shock 2's nurses. Kinda made me think of Silent Hill's nurses, but SS2's were better. Hell, the damn monkeys were scary too, that whole damn game was, pretty much everything had you shooting at shadows, but those damn nurses were tough and with SS2 being a true survival game and ammo being scarce, they were a real threat. At least with big daddies you can infinitely respawn, there's plenty of ammo and EVE, not to mention it only takes the tiniest amount of care to not set them off. You can chose to engage them only when you're ready, so they're hardly 'oh shi-' moment worthy.

However, Bioshock does have my winner- the plaster spider splicers. Fort Frolic is full of plastered corpses posed in macabre dioramas so they blend in perfectly, happy to pause and imitate the common statues. Some of those motionless, indestructible dioramas on your way into a room may come alive as a nasty collection of plaster splicers when you return, and all of it performed in the eeriest of silences. Sure, they're not the toughest enemy ever, but they creep they hell out of me and have one of the best weapons on their side- surprise.

While I admit it does cheapen the action with the vita chambers, when you really need Adam and you see a Big Daddy and a little sister walk up there is an "O shit" moment right before you engage, it's kind of like, "well here goes nothing" and then the giant beast fixes a glowing red eye on you and charges with a small girl encouraging him

Neosage:
Bloodmounts from gears 2.

Oh dude hell yeah, especially on hardcore and insane

Xvito:
Why is the Big Daddy even an option? I didn't die once playing through Bioshock. I took out all of the Big Daddies. You can beat them on hard, with the wrench, without dying FFS.
The toughest enemy I've met in a game is probably the final boss of Halo 2 on legendary. I've beat him once... just once, and I'm really good at shooters.

I've beaten him a bunch by getting the banshee inside the chamber, which is still insanely difficult since the Brutes that come in can chuck plasma grenades with god-like accuracy

Oh and how the heck did you get through bioshock without dying?, you lose health incredibly quick, and if you aren't on your toes your being revived before you know it

captain awesome 12:

Xvito:
Why is the Big Daddy even an option? I didn't die once playing through Bioshock. I took out all of the Big Daddies. You can beat them on hard, with the wrench, without dying FFS.
The toughest enemy I've met in a game is probably the final boss of Halo 2 on legendary. I've beat him once... just once, and I'm really good at shooters.

I've beaten him a bunch by getting the banshee inside the chamber, which is still insanely difficult since the Brutes that come in can chuck plasma grenades with god-like accuracy

Oh and how the heck did you get through bioshock without dying?, you lose health incredibly quick, and if you aren't on your toes your being revived before you know it

Yeah, I've done like that to, but that's a little like cheating... well, not exactly but...

Xvito:

captain awesome 12:

Xvito:
Why is the Big Daddy even an option? I didn't die once playing through Bioshock. I took out all of the Big Daddies. You can beat them on hard, with the wrench, without dying FFS.
The toughest enemy I've met in a game is probably the final boss of Halo 2 on legendary. I've beat him once... just once, and I'm really good at shooters.

I've beaten him a bunch by getting the banshee inside the chamber, which is still insanely difficult since the Brutes that come in can chuck plasma grenades with god-like accuracy

Oh and how the heck did you get through bioshock without dying?, you lose health incredibly quick, and if you aren't on your toes your being revived before you know it

Yeah, I've done like that to, but that's a little like cheating... well, not exactly but...

The only other way I did it was getting up on the platform above where he stays and shooting down at him with plasma rifles whenever his shield goes down.

Metroids. Walking into a room and hearing that very particular sound they make gives me the creeps. Also: Mirelurks from Fallout 3, they can get pretty nasty, especially early in the game cause once you start building up they loose steam a bit.

Its Wild Dog, from the time crisis series.

Hammer bros.

TMAN10112:
I would have to say the big daddys from bioshock, It's really terrifying to hear their footsteps and not know where they'r comming from while playing bye yourself, with all the lights turned out, at 3am.

Yeah but they don't outright attack you, I even got the big daddy protector plasmid. And had one following me around mowing people down.
Personally my most hardcore enemy is any for of zombie or nazi, and even the scarier Nazi zombie.

Big Daddys all the way. Those guys get pretty hard to kill on the harder difficulties.

TMAN10112:
I would have to say the big daddys from bioshock, It's really terrifying to hear their footsteps and not know where they'r comming from while playing bye yourself, with all the lights turned out, at 3am.

Yea they're just scary. They never start the fight and are easy to kill even on the hardest difficulty. You can safely take many pictures of them! How mean and tough can they be if they might as well pose for the camera and wait for you to take a picture?

Final form Nemesis Resident Evil 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZuidKexBQ

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Using Apocalypse Tanks to destroy Mammoth Tanks
Iam aroused just thinking about it, yet alas, it cannot be done.

The Chainsaw folk from Resident Evil 4. Yeah I know they are sub-bosses at best, but you hear one of those things go revving up when you're almost out of ammo and...

waffletaco:

TMAN10112:
I would have to say the big daddys from bioshock, It's really terrifying to hear their footsteps and not know where they'r comming from while playing bye yourself, with all the lights turned out, at 3am.

Yea they're just scary. They never start the fight and are easy to kill even on the hardest difficulty. You can safely take many pictures of them! How mean and tough can they be if they might as well pose for the camera and wait for you to take a picture?

The thing that makes them difficult is that there's a moment of hesitation before attacking one. It would be different if they attacked you on sight, because it's like you know what you're getting into, but you need the Adam. It's just that moment before the storm that is cool

I would have to say Dr. Salvador.
Every time I heard the chug of that rusty chainsaw, I would frantically spray ammo in his general direction.

Goomba

Regenerators and Iron Maidens from Resident Evil, it doesn't get more creepy than that.

Before I got the dart gun in Fallout 3, it was Deathclaws, here was my first encounter with one:
Me: "Oh hey, a big lizard, let's shoot it!"
The Deathclaw begins to come towards me, closing the distance at amazing speed
Me: "Oh come now, it can't be that bad, OH SHI-"

The Tank. Simply for the music. Every time you hear that music you just keep running.

Probably the Witch from L4D. I don't know what it is, but whenever I hear that sobbing I tense up and my hands get sweaty. Also Metroids.....hate them.

All the people mentioning L4D... It's time to give up and get it :d

OT:
- Other
Diablo - when I got to him I realised my paladin is not capable of killing him using melee so I took him down with a bow... Took some time >.>
Meeting snorks and mutants with tentacles instead of mouth in Stalker:SoC for the first time was really scary... and brief

Beware, I live!

SINISTAR HUNGERS!

pyramid head...sure hes only about a foot taller then you...but fuckin A his sword is like 10 feet long...

you missed one

These two jerks can go right to hell.

Bowser from the first super mario bros. He shoots fire AND THROWS HAMMERS!?!?!
not cool.

stormcaller:
Hammer bros.

you know, this thread is actually a lot bigger then I thought it was, and I'm glad someone mentioned them, even if I mentioned them later, I'm glad you share my animosity with those bastards.

Jumpman:
Bowser from the first super mario bros. He shoots fire AND THROWS HAMMERS!?!?!
not cool.

Well, if you're talking about the last boss.. he's the last boss, he's supposed to be hard, and we can't begrudge him that :P

the 6-8 end bosses were all ass :/

meta ridley from metroid prime

Spike and Trident Demons in God Hand. Nothing makes me go "oh, maaaaan..." quite as much as seeing a Spike Demon or Trident Demon spawn amidst a group of enemies.

Anything in the second Ninja Gaiden

The Sires from GOW2

That damn toad from DMC4

The End, MGS3

Nurses from Silent hill homecoming, Seriously they pin you in a damn corner and do not let up until you're dead.

Apocalypse Tank:
Using Apocalypse Tanks to destroy Mammoth Tanks
Iam aroused just thinking about it, yet alas, it cannot be done.

Meh, Emporer Overlords filled with rocket troops could destroy both of those at once.

The Brumak fight in Gears of War PC is more hardcore than anything I've ever seen.

urprobablyright:
meta ridley from metroid prime

Meta Ridley's not so bad once you get his attack patterns down pat. He's just tedious, like the Metroid Prime and Essence.

Now Metroids, they are a pain in the ass. You need the ice beam and they take 5 fucking missiles to kill you and OH GOD GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME ARRGAHSGHAGSDJHASasda...