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that's funny, I like how they include the fact that they are always all male bad guys

#1 Villiians but not common enemies

Took about 10 seconds to remember Half-Life's Assassin class.

Assassins

Like women in skintight leather? Well guess what: they don't like you. You don't want to mess with these government trained killers. Assassins possess great speed, agility, marksmanship, and stealth. One of the toughest enemies you'll encounter, and by far the most intelligent. These ladies know that the quickest way to a man's heart is through his sternum.

In other words, like most of NC's human dates.

http://planethalflife.gamespy.com/View. … amp;game=4

The flip side- less fps, more console.

16 Game Cliches That Must Be Destroyed
Think you’ve seen it all before? You have...

What would a Zelda game be without a water temple or a Mario game without a Bowser boss battle? And yet there’s a point when lovable traditions become infuriating clichés and, before you know it, it’s a capital offence not to have a slippy-slidey ice level in a platform game. Presented here are the fallbacks and formulas that make developers’ lives easy, and yours a constant battle with déjà vu…

Roll out the Barrel

From the very first time Donkey Kong hefted one in anger, the barrel has been gaming’s most dangerous WMD for enemies and heroes alike. Barrels have become ever more dangerous as technology has advanced – to the point where DK could nowadays take out a whole skyscraper at a time with one. And yet despite all this, bad guys still think they’re a sensible thing to hide behind.

Super villains are notoriously poor when it comes to health and safety for their underlings, though, and apparently feeling that a few house plants aren’t quite the right look for their secret hideout, instead fill it with barrels full of highly explosive toxic waste. Even so, you’d think someone would realise the dangers or perhaps even work out that they’d make a good weapon and fire them at you out of catapults or something. Luckily for games characters throughout history, however, the stupidity of bad guys is one cliché that always works in their favour.

Water Disaster

Just as Superman has his kryptonite, so too do videogames characters fear the terror of H2O. Pick any random game from the Virtual Console, particularly anything pre-N64, and you’ll find that despite being able to wrestle bad guys’ heads off in an instant and punch through solid steel, the act of getting your toes wet results in an instant loss of life and dignity. The technical reason for this is that in the old days water made a great obstacle for the necessarily small game worlds of the day. Or maybe it was a political statement about the dangers of fluoridation in public water supplies.

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