7 WTF Enemies Who Wandered in From a Different Genre

when you buy a game you usually know what you've signed up to fight because of course you've vibe checked the box art or perhaps you've played this kind of game before and you've made some assumptions about the sorts of enemies you expect to be blasting into smithereens but very occasionally some enemy will turn up that just doesn't fit with the rest of the game at all prompting you to ask how the hell did this thing get in here where did it come from and why is it my problem now prepare to be very confused by these seven inexplicable enemies who wandered in from a different game who wear spoilers for the following [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] growl is a game that asks how could indiana jones be sexier with the answer being if he had an even more defined six-pack and cared deeply about animal welfare ked so deeply that is that he's prepared to risk life imprisonment by wholesale murdering poachers in this early 90s sidescrolling beat em up and when we say beat em up we also mean explode em up and occasionally elephant em up [Music] although there are various enemy types presented in the game they all have one thing in common these scumbags believe exploiting animals for personal gain is fine and would have the ivory off an elephant faster than you can say oh no you don't get somersault kicked instead [Music] also all the enemy poachers are human a weird thing to mention yes we agree but mention it we must because in a truly bizarre scene that the game has not foreshadowed at all when you get to the end of growl the final boss poacher bursts open and an evil alien explodes out before helpful on-screen text explains what the heck is going on here [Music] this is the final boss controlling evil hunters oh right we're glad we got that cleared up presumably this plated rolling alien monster got programmed in by accident perhaps by a programmer at taito who was working on the company's alien-filled darius space shooter and accidentally drag and dropped the wrong files into the wrong folder okay that doesn't make much sense but look at this you can see why we're grasping at straws oh look this random alien also has a mouth laser chill [Music] the final boss is a massive curveball in growl not least because it asks us to believe all the poachers we've mangled thus far acted according to its sinister will or something why does this horrible alien want to poach earth animals is ivory a requirement for faster than light travel [Music] if it is elephants i recommend you keep it on the dl [Music] if i asked you to point out a threat from outer space in majora's mask you'd probably point towards the big scary moon that's about to crush everyone yeah that big scary moon that's about to crush everyone head over to romani ranch however and you can discover something quite extra terrestrial extraterrestrial this will make sense in a minute sure this ranch might seem safe with its cute little doggy race track and rolling hills but chat to the youngest resident also named romani and you'll discover something sinister she's noticed that once a year these otherworldly floaty creatures come down from the sky in a glowing orb and steal some of romani ranch's adorable cows even though that's something that aliens do and this is a zelda game a series which has never mentioned aliens before or since [Music] so suddenly you go from a game where you're fighting fantasy monsters to save the world to a game where you're sniping aliens to stop them stealing cattle oh and if you fail well the aliens abduct not only a bunch of prized cows but also little romani [Music] look there are enough nightmare creatures i have to fight in hyrule can these weirdos find a different planet to bother yeesh [Music] okay look there are already some fairly inexplicable things in mario odyssey like when mario possesses a frog what happens to the frog's mind oh hang on [Music] hello oh mr mayamoto hi i didn't know you were watching it's destroyed it the frog's mind is destroyed uh okay wow i thought it was maybe left deliberately ambiguous but what's that say again everything mario possesses experiences total brain death right yeah i'll tell them i said i would i said i would jeez but even more inexplicable than that is the presence of one enemy in particular in this colorful 3d platformer an enemy who somehow has ended up in a children's game full of cartoon enemies like these silly rabbits or this big funny bird we're talking about the ruined dragon [Music] yes despite looking like and having the name of an enemy straight out of dark souls the ruined dragon also known as the lord of lightning is somehow a thing in the latest 3d mario game [Music] nintendo's cheerful plumber could not look more out of place in the ruined kingdom which is the extremely odd level where this metal af dragon resides the ruined dragon's list of attacks is pretty much the only thing about this boss enemy that feels like it belongs in a mario game because at least defeating it involves for instance avoiding these spiked discs and waves of electricity before platforming up onto its head for a ground pound and not i don't know plunging a broadsword into its foul heart unlike every other mario enemy the ruined dragon doesn't vanish into a tasteful cloud of smoke once defeated instead it lies still only offering the depressing comment that it is so tired if you talk to it probably because like all the other dark souls bosses it is a magnificent beast doomed to a slow and possibly endless descent into ruin can the ruined dragon even die yes yes hello mr mayamot yes yes permanent state of undeath i'll tell them i'll tell them i have to change my number [Music] wolfenstein 3d is a pretty straightforward game with a very straightforward goal climb through the maze-like levels collect all the stolen gold and crucially shoot the nazis but for players who like to explore there are some slightly less corporeal enemies that one can stumble into as the wolfenstein creators at its software decided to take adorable arcade classics and turn them into your nightmares find the secret level episode 3 floor 10 and you're greeted by [Music] whoa is that blinky from pac-man man they look scarier when they're [ __ ] massive the entire secret level is built to look like a game of pac-man right down to its map layout there are gold chalices to pick up instead of little pack tops one ups instead of power pills the walls are blue now and the whole time you're being stalked by blinky pinky inky and clyde in what is needless to say a strong departure from the nazi hunting that makes up 99 of wolfenstein 3d the truth is these things are terrifying not only because they can just appear around corners to scare the living daylights out of you but also because they are invulnerable to your many bullets although that probably won't stop you panic firing every time you turn to discover one right there and though getting got by one of these ghosts isn't an insta-death like in pac-man they will quickly drain your health to zero [Music] so while this level might be a treasure trove of extra points and extra lives you can still die to these very far from home ghosties whose presence in a wolfenstein game is never explained or they might just shorten your life irl when they silently creep up on you damn would you stop doing that i can't take it although apparently the mac version is worse no no no no no no no no you don't understand it thinks for itself it writes its own code it tracks its targets to blend in you won't see it coming tom clancy's ghost recon break point is a game about um hang on i know this is it fighter jets no that's hawks there are a lot of these hang on right looked it up now sorry it's a tactical shooter in the long-running ghost recon series that sees your special forces crew fighting on the island headquarters of a technology firm where a private military company has taken control ghost 1-1 disgusting i'm two bikes at your location by the guy some fans on my ass it's a serious game with a great deal of beards and grunting in which you typically spend your minute to minutes gameplay doing things like deploying aerial drones plotting tactical incursions performing first aid on yourself and visiting a factory that's making terminators from the movie terminator sorry did i read that last one right yes i apparently did because in an extremely bizarre crossover dlc event in the first months of 2020 a two-part mission was added to ghost recon breakpoint in which you make friends with a time traveler who has you face down a new enemy the t-800 terminator except this one doesn't have arnie's face because i guess arnie's face is expensive legal property to be fair the ghost recon series has formed when it comes to beaming in movie baddies for no obvious reason in 2017 the predator from predator showed up in a dlc mission for ghost recon wildlands which is also odd but for our money nothing beats the tonal shift of seeing killer robo-skeletons from the movies suddenly rock up in the otherwise pretty serious break point frankly it's a tonal shift we welcome and we're surprised at ourselves that we missed out on playing this dlc when it first launched i mean what else was going on in the first months of 2020 oh ants is this some kind of a joke you got ants in your pants call an exterminator i'm on vacation what how big command conquer red alert is a cold war real-time strategy game about conflict resource management and space yes yes and spice thank you tim okay but seriously these games may be a little eccentric at times but for the most part the gameplay is strategic military conflict against military targets like tanks enemy bases infantry and tesla coils explore the game's bonus missions however and you'll find yourself in a world where your biggest threat has far more than two legs and your superiors are just as confused as you and yes with zero explanation you're thrown into a bunch of strategic missions where your main enemies are giant ants these insidious insects have different ranks from scouts to full-on fire-throwing foes our base is under attack yes sir of course lost this is not the kind of red army i was expecting to fight today and not only that but they're all huge easily messing up your troops and your base all right you mess up my base i'll mess up yours hi uh london zoo uh do you know where i could get an anteater the size of a london bus mr miyamoto you work at london zoo until you need to get out the safe zone get ready for it always feels like enemy call of duty players have some secret advantage like better perks or faster internet or they're able to target you with a 400-foot lizard to be fair the latter example only applies in call of duty war zone the battle royal mode of call of duty where you fight opposing teams across an increasingly gas-filled battlefield and that for several weeks in 2022 inexplicably also featured king kong and godzilla this extremely odd clash of genres was a special event in celebration of the movie godzilla vs kong and just like the movie had the absolute nerve to position this clash between giant ape kong and the king of monsters godzilla as something like an even matchup even though godzilla would win easily a hundred times out of a hundred as i will explain to my colleagues again as soon as they let me back in the work whatsapp group you would think that having godzilla and kong rock up on your island to kill you and each other would be a real good reason to put aside the battle royal stuff and have everybody team up to defeat these astonishingly powerful foes or at least try to dig a big hole in the dirt to collectively hide in but humans being humans you're expected to keep headshotting each other even as godzilla's atomic breath raises the landscape pretty sure this lizard's extremely radioactive folks you're all dead anyway you're also expected to keep headshotting kong and godzilla because unloading clip after clip into the titan enemies in this baffling warzone event somehow counts as collecting intel the intel is stop shooting godzilla and start digging a hole in fact the intel is battle bonuses like a gas mask or a heavy weapons drop or if you manage to stay alive long enough and deal enough damage to fill your intel meter a scream device i don't know i think the situation engenders enough screaming already once unlocked the scream device lets you target other players with the titans attacks though of course you being distracted by this jumbo tape deck is just the opening godzilla needs to laser you very hard in the face just a superior monster in all categories what categories you ask well aggressiveness bite power terrain and speed i've assigned each a score weighted by overall temperament and canonical height across cinematic entries excluding 1998 to find [Music] so those are just some of the enemies that turned up in games where they just really didn't fit the mold like why were they there we don't know but why are you here you're here to enjoy some fantastic videos with some here you should hit that like button and subscribe if you really enjoyed it that's a really good thing to do while you're here and uh maybe you'll go and join our patreon and you can join our discord folks sorry i've just had mr miyamoto on again all right he wants he wants to be known that every time mario dies it hurts a lot apparently important okay oh god

Channel: Outside Xtra

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Keywords: Ellen Rose, Luke Westaway, Outside Xtra, video games, gaming

Id: _GX3TauQxbs

Length: 16min 47sec (1007 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 13 2022