General Discussion

I've been cutting thorugh 18 mmorpg's since i started with Ultima Online back in 97 or 98 and there is 2 monsters that comes to my mind.

Everquest I: The Sharks.

The first time i swam across that big lake in a zone with the big birds on the islands and i encountered a shark in the water and it attacked me i jumped like 10 feet.

i guess Jaws had an effect on me after all since i saw it the first time when i was a wee little kid.

Asherons Call I. The Olthois.

Those alien lookalike beeings were not to mess with.Eeeek that olthoicave were a scary place.

Which monsters maded you jump several feet into the air?

EQ Skeletons.

Those bastards would scare the crap out of me when they snuck up and hit you from behind with that damn laugh...

EQ Sand Giants.

*Boom* what was that? *Boom* Wheres the sand giant? *Squish* Found em....

EQ The Unrest Hand.

Zone into an Index finger and death music....

The Devilsaurs from wow, in un'goro crater.  I was walking around for the first time in Un'goro, just doing some quests. Right after i looted a mob I turned around and saw two giant claws, so i quickly zoomed out with my scroll wheel and turned the camera upwards and saw this giant head ful of sharp teeth comming at me... it scared me shitless, i even dropped my cigarette on the carpet :P 

here's the creep: www.wowwiki.com/Devilsaur

I like this thread, it's fun in comparison to the normal droll around here.

Project Entropia:

Those damn Atrox.  They used to run at like Mach 4 and were 1 shotting me and everybody I was playing with.  All you'd see is this blip on the radar running towards you and then all of a sudden this TRex was tbagging you and running back to it's patrol point.

It wasn't even visual on my screen before I gained agro.

Anarchy Online:

I can't, for the life of me, remember the name of this dog-like robot.  But you had to farm it to get the required mats to make a Stilleto.  He didn't have the best respawn rate either.

He was huge, but he also spawned a bunch of guys around him regularly who all seemed to have fully automatic weapons.

World of Warcraft:

It's not that this particular mob is scary, but I never see it coming.  The thing that looks like the Loch Ness Monster in the water... used to kill me off every single time because I just never saw it... dunno what setting I wasn't using correctly or what, but I NEVER saw it... I'd just start dying.

The Saga of Ryzom:

Atys.  You'd be out trying to harvest some mats and BOOM!  The ground beneath you would explode for like 1k damage.  I can't remember any other game where harvesting was basically more dangerous then the mobs.

Just to name a few... again: good thread.

  I find this thread very funny,aimed at kids that play MMOs ,right ?

Originally posted by airstrike

  I find this thread very funny,aimed at kids that play MMOs ,right ?

If you say so.

Then i'm a 39 year old kid

Devilsaurs in WoW was a good one; they moved faster than a mounted character and being chased by one was very.. Jurassic Park. In recent times, Striders in Tabula Rasa. Often the first thing I saw of them was a stream of fire that pretty much incinerated me.

Stalkers too; they dropped from the sky and when they land right in front of you and the ground shakes it's a guaranteed "gaargh wtf!?" moment.

;Nice topic.

Neocron would be my first nomination: Wandering around teh barren wastes to come across the dinosaurs and monsters they had there. They were tough, hunted in packs and were quite a perverse animation of a traditional dinosaur.

EQ2 would be my second nomination. The sharks, especially the epic whose name I cant remember, were very impressive and caught me unawares far too many times to admit. Terrrorantula is pretty impressive epic as well.

Eve, (not a traditional monster), the first time battleships, the gold versions, were trialled in the game post release. Seeing these huge ships slowly move toward you filled you with awe, until they totally pwned you with a one shot blast.

I think, except for Eve, its nothing to do with the quality of the animations of the detail in the model but either impressive size and difficulty of the monster or the fact they seemed so good at creeping up on you when you really should know better.

FrEsH mEaT !!!

Originally posted by Neopsych

I think, except for Eve, its nothing to do with the quality of the animations of the detail in the model but either impressive size and difficulty of the monster or the fact they seemed so good at creeping up on you when you really should know better.

Yeah size does not matter.

Everquest I had one small NPC called Nillipus the brownie in Rivervale and after he beat the crap out of you he ran around town bragging :D

He just popped up in my mind when you mentioned size.