Top 10 Scariest Video Game Enemies
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 5, 2010 02:20 JST
- Tags: Character Design, Guro, Rankings, Resident Evil, Zombies
A recently circulated list of the scariest game enemies has been provoking some debate, not least for its lack of diversity.
The ranking, based not just on looks but also suspense and method of destruction:
1. Crimson Head – Resident Evil
2. Iron Maiden – Resident Evil 4
3. Slayers – The Suffering
4. Slashers – Dead Space
5. Nurses – Silent Hill
6. Deathclaw – Fallout
7. Spider Splicer – BioShock
8. Fast Zombie – Half-Life 2
9. ReDead – Legend of Zelda
10. The Witch – Left 4 Dead
The makers of the list evidently have something of a fixation on zombies.
Those wondering about the absence of pyramid head can rejoice to know that such is his status he is now considered a “character” rather than a mere “enemy” and so gets to appear on some other list. On the other hand, it is harder to explain the absence of any System Shock enemies…
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F.E.A.R enemies arent included :( fail list is fail.
Yea The Suffering! One hell of a scary game.
The Witch isn't very scary after the first time you see her. The first time it's "Hey look, that girl is crying! She must be a survivor so Ill just HOLY FUCK IM DEAD". But someone better make a list like this for bosses and add Pyramid Head.
Probably been said but, the list is invalid.
It lacks Pyramid Head in the top spot.
Therefore, this may be ignored with out consequence.
Did you even read the article?
"Those wondering about the absence of pyramid head can rejoice to know that such is his status he is now considered a “character” rather than a mere “enemy” and so gets to appear on some other list."
2D scary stuffs (such as Irem bio bosses) are scarier than anything at the list above.
Know Irem? They are behind the creations of R-Type and X-Multiply. Not forgetting the giant living statue with fleshy innards in In the Hunt.
X-Multiply is full of scary shit as fuck.
Where the hell is the Cyber Demon from Doom and Hammer Haunts from the Thief?
Where is Alma?
2D stuff are scarier than the ones above.
Try playing X-Multiply, you'll understand.
And oh yeah, Giygas.
Where is that horrific people faked dog thing from Siren? Oh, the horror! That thing is nightmare inducing.
It's hard to make a list like this because it lumps ALL genres of horror in. Most of these enemies are purely of the "cat scare" variety. They freak you out because they pop out of nowhere and shriek. Hunters, Crimson Heads, pretty much every horror creature form any FPS, especialy love this, but then the Silent Hill creatures love to pull this as well, but usually, they just spawn after you go through a door that had a safe hall a moment before.
As for real scares, those Regenerators and Iron Maidens from RE4 had the stuff to make you wet your pants, even though you knew where they were and that they were slow as crap. The RE1 remake zombies were effective thanks largely to their ability to kill you in a 1 on 1 every time. A few Silent Hill creatures liked to pull this trick as well, and Deathclaws will ruin you if you aren't prepared, and they'll ruin you even if you are prepared and they are standing on the other side of a town.
Those ghosts from Fatal Frame are more scary shit than all of the list.
Where is the sun of doom from Mario 3?
I totally freaked out when it first moved.
What? No (semi-?)invisible bastards off F.E.A.R. on the list?
Dead Space..
where´s Phanto?
Deathclaws scary? They weren't even scarier than the demons in Doom 3.
Nothing from Doom 3 here. What has the world come to...
Giygas from Earthbound is scarier than anything in this list.
Where are the Flood from Halo one? Or the wallhands from LoZ?
The Flood were more an annoyance than anything.
Crimson Zombie made it instead of the hunters? Or any of the G & Veronica Viruses? Morpheus from dead aim was one of the most terrifying experiences I've ever had. You'd have thought Kojima designed that first encounter after he ejected himself.
Vincent from SH3 or Your mother(no joke here) from SH0rigins should have been there. No broken neck from Fatal Frame? Or at least Sae from Crimson Butterfly :/
YES That @!#$!@ that jumps off from on top of the house (Fatal Frame Crimson Butterfly) CREEPS ME THE !@#@!$# OUT! actually those 2 loli twins omg.... *shudders*... im really surprised none of those made this list.
Why no Boks?
where's pyramid head?
Read the article again.
Killing Floor's "Flesh Pounder" deserves to be on the top 3.....
man, i shit my pants everytime i remember my first encounter against iron man
No STALKER creatures? Not even a Bloodsucker?
This list is invalid.
I nearly crapped myself the first time I fought a controller. Seriously that game was just messed up, in a "holy shit this is awesome" kinda way.
This list, on the other hand, is completely pathetic. The only remotely scary monster on here is #5.
If the witch looked anything how fans draw her I'd actually put her higher on this list XD.
So where's Doom 3, Quake 4 monstahs?
Isn't Bio Shock the spiritual successor to System Shock? Does that count?
Ok, who in the world had the idea of using a KNIFE against the Iron Maiden from RE4!?
whether adrenaline junkies or an eternal virgin
I thought of Pyramid Head as soon as I read the topic.
Sad.. the scariest monster for me are modded Hunger from Morrowind.. To see those long legged devil runs toward you in the dark then paralyzing you while beating you silly is enough to give you nightmare >.<
quake 4, teleporting maiden. wtf, teleport in your face .... WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!
You know, as a kid I've always been terrified of the redeads in OoT, but an enemy from that game which terrified me even more is that one thing you have to fight before you get the lens of truth. Deadhand, I think its name was?
deathclaw and witch shouldnt be there. there should be fatal frame ghosts the rest are pretty justified
All of D2's bosses should be on there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbbiUzwphVk (Skip to 2:58)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ov5FehgF84
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewfOw5kpsWE (Can you say "vagina dentata"?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61dzdLWPRG0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6PeIshk1KI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmar-PkDokI (I'm amazed this one made it past the censors)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0903gccBRrg
redead? hahahhahahaha ah well considering to Link is half GAY elf, maybe.
I still get nightmares of the Iron Maiden, Took me a month to beat RE4 just because I was scared shitless of that beast. I'm over it though, if you played enough horror games it won't hit you as hard anymore. Suffering was a great scary game too
Spot on about the System Shock absences. I will never forget those ever so friendly suicide bomber robots.
"Sir? May I help you?"
"OH GOD! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT!"
How about Fatal Frame ghosts?? like the blinding woman and the tatoo priestess??
I'm suprised that the crimson head is in but no NEMESIS?! that one almost made me wet my pants when he comes out from nowhere!
epic loss! no giygas, SOTN beelzebub, or even drac's true form! epic loss! epic loss!
TVTROPES's High Octane Nightmare Fuel series is over 9000 times scarier!
What, no Evil Otto? You babies!
The witch is not scary at all..
Personally I think Dr. Salvador should be on the list, but maybe deranged human beings don't count...
No wallmasters?
Haaa I Love it how Zelda not only makes it to Top 10 Ways to Die in a video game but also to scariest Enemies! Yay Zelda! XD
They should do a ranking list of the scariest enemies on non-horror/terror games.
Giygas~
did they ever played eternal darkness? XD
nearly every enemy from there beats all of this top 10
The scariest video game enemies are bears IMO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixvh-8W1OS8
The enemys fom Nightmare Creatures 2 are more scary...
Saludos!!!...
How can Pyramid Head be a character when there was more than one of them?
I'm throwing my votes to the ghosts from Fatal Frame, the ghosts from Silent Hill 4, and everything in Siren. Those three scared me the most I think. Don't necessarily agree with spider splicers or slashers. Didn't have a problem with either. Some of the enemies from the first Condemned game frightened me too. Just walking along... arrghh! *thwack* pipe upside the head. Then they'd proceed to shake the fuck out of you. At which point you may kiss your ass goodbye because you weren't able to see shit.
They left behind the facehuggers from AvP? o_O
Meh. None of those enemies are frightening in the least.
No Beelzebub from Symphony of the Night? Or any Dracula's "true form" from Castlevania since SOTN?
FTW, Beelzebub is giant rotting zombie covered in maggots and flies.
Ehhh... the Forgotten One from Lament of Innocence was scarier.
flying ghost head in fatal frame scared me shitless back then. ambushed me when i was taking a picture of another ghost but the fukin head appeared in full view of the frame when i snapped.
what about hatsune miku from vocaloid? her voice is fucking scary made me shit in my pants.
i remember my first deathclaw.i was lookin at the beautiful scenery out nowhere from behind torn me up.i think i jumped pretty good controller flew got me good
ReDead are nightmare material. I feel trapped and can't get away, stuck in its forever gaze... as it slowly creeps towards my helpless body...
Oh Come on! Giygas Needs some Credit!
Hmm....Those enemies in SH:Shattered Memories could have gotten on there.
I don't play first person shooters so none of those count. A recent scary game (when it came out) would have been xenosaga 1 during some parts of it.
It's all about the undead...WITH CLAWS...
Except for Deathclaws...Ugh, those things can sneak up on you and rip you a new one...
Crimson Heads are a b*tch in the RE remake...
That's why you should always blow out a zombie's head off with a shotgun to prevent them from becoming Crimson Heads...
No Pyramid Head? He is one scary dude!
Well, these are the Top 10 Scariest Video Game "Enemies"...
He bloody better be in the Top 10 Scariest Video Game Bosses...
Definitely scarier than the nurses at least. 0:
I don't see anything from STALKER here
Where's the bloodsucker? Invisible blood sucking bastard that sneaks up and kills you
Where's the poltergeist? Wispy floating lights that randomly cause everything in the area to fly into the air and kill you
Where's the controller? Looks kind of like a regular ol guy or maybe a zombie then it fucking totally messes with your head and kills you
Or how about a burer? An ugly little short guy in robes that tosses flames and stuff at you, exhausts you, and randomly takes your freaking gun away and then kills you
It was a Japanese ranking; maybe they still have something against Russians?
Iron maiden should be number 1 not 2!
agreed. i was freaking out when i first encountered them
Alma in Fear 2
where's mara of megaten?
A giant monster penis 0_0;
I agree with Crimson Head taking top spot; unlike the Witch, you can't avoid them most of the time, and they take as well as dish out a ton of damage. But the Witch should probably take 2nd because if you can't get around one and happen to piss one off without dropping it instantly, it's instant death.
There's probably a distance between "Scary" and "Annoying". Too many games have "Pointless Foils" that can make a game maddeningly difficult.
Like the "Flea Humpers" from Castlevania. Esp in the NES graphics days, those things could really kill you off or wound you so much you got killed later if you didn't figure out the timing perfectly. They were in a way a lot worse than the Medusa heads.
Or, there was this arcade game that had incredible graphics for the time, "Magician Lord", but it had these weird gigeresque "Birds" that came from both angles and shot at you, no matter where you were, so too easy to get killed and lose hard-won powers.
As far as really "Scary" plenty of games could make one grotesque after another, but it was more of a matter of if this boss/character was really dangerous or just an annoying foil...
This is a bad list.
No Alma in adult form?
I dunno... the hand from the forest temple was way scarier than the redead
They're missing clock tower bosses!
Yeah, Scissorman definitely needs to be on here. I watched some Clock Tower: The First Fear videos the other night and was too scared to go to sleep afterwards D:
Doom3 fly-kerubs.
I'm an utter pussy and the spider splicers don't scare me.
Metroids from Metroid. Those things scared the hell out of me the first time I met them on the NES.
Aliens from AvP (though I could see a reason to consider them 'characters' rather than 'enemies').
Any Flood from Halo 1.
Exploding Barrel from Diablo 1.
Or The Butcher.
"Ah! Fresh meat!"
*shudder*
If ReDead makes the list, then he sure as hell should have. Of the two, I'd deal with ReDead every time. At least by the time you start hitting ReDeads (at least in any Zelda game I've played) you're usually equipped to deal with them; The Butcher occurs so early in Diablo that you're almost NEVER prepared to fight him (not fairly, anyway - good thing he can't open doors).
No Red Eyed Knight (Demon's Souls) = not knowing what TRUE terror is.
Oh my god, please don't remind me on this guys.
"Hey, he has red eyes! Maybe he is a bit stronger than the oth- HOLY FUCK HE JUST ONESHOTTED ME!?"
*Plays other areas first, kills a few bosses and then comes back*
"Okay, this time... I'm gonna ki- Wha!? What happend to my life? Holy fu-! Oh, I'm dead..."
the list is biased like you said, since it only has undeads.. while some ghost enemies can scare you to death than just some walking rotten flesh....
Are you kidding? Where are fatal frame ghosts? Or maybe silent hill?
the lack of Blind Woman from Fatal Frame in this list disappointed me.
Zombie obsession, what can I say? At least doom monsters didn't make it in.
Nerd Rage!!!!!!
Sure, they may just be 2D sprites now, but back in the day, Doom was ground breaking and freaky. Encountering a Lost Soul for the first time at 1:00am left a lasting impact on me and many others early 90's computer gamers. It wasn't until Half-Life was any first person shooter more than just another Doom clone.
If the lame ass witch from L4D can make it in then the Doom and Quake franchises deserve a mention.
You said it! Doom(sprite) scared the heck out of me. You did not know what/where "something" was going to jump out at you. Plus the ambiance of the music/sound effects kept you on edge...
Lastly, don't forget about the Shambling Mound from Quake. That thing would chase you around the map forever!...
Doom monsters are scarier than some of the monsters on this list, like the Hell Knight. Now I'm talking Doom 3 here, but back when the first Doom came out.. if you weren't expecting it to come.. all of a sudden you'd push a button and you'd hear this super loud sound "NRAAAAA!!!!!!" then you run like hell because you spent all of your bullets on those stupid floating fire skulls..
Agreed. This sure needs more Fatal Frame.
AGREED!!! By far the scariest games I've ever played. I've never actually been scared playing a game except for fatal frame. The heartbeat in the controller quickens my pulse and trying to find that damned hanged man in the cameras finder with him coming into frame the moment he lunges at you is freaky as hell!
Yea, but it's hard to choose which is the scariest, there's the bridge girl, the stair girl, the one in that small space you have to crawl through*shudders*
Pretty much every damn ghost in the game is scary.
Yeah, the ghosts in Fatal Frame scared me so much, I had a hard time finishing the game. >_<
Me too. I especially hated the broken-neck ghost and the kid ghosts from the first game. Not to mention Kirie...
Oh, and the long hair ghost and the family master ghost (the guy with the demon mask).
Mind you, I still have mental scars from the nurse in Silent Hill...
Not to mention painful and scary flashbacks. =(
Like fighting off Alma from FEAR at 3 in the morn. *weeps*
You too ExtrovertedOtaku? *shiver*....*remembers and goes to cry in the corner in the fetal position*
I could probably dig up a few scarier characters from games than a few on the list, but that would take alot of effort.