10 Video Game Enemies We Hate More Than The Final Boss

4. Cliff Racers - Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind

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Sometimes an enemy doesn't have to be hard to fight, they just have to be really annoying. And Bethesda has gained something of a reputation for having at least one enemy per game that just grinds players' gears. Whether it's Fallout 4 with the mini-nuke Super Mutants, or the Slaughterfish in Skyrim with their stubborn as hell, fast travel-ruining aggro... but, before all of them, there were the Cliff Racers of Morrowind.

Traveling into Morrowind's mountains will inevitably cause you to cross paths with the nation's equivalent to pigeons. They're annoying and, worst of all, they are everywhere. And like the slaughterfish, they never leave you alone - except these guys can fly - so it's even harder to be rid of them. The cherry on top, of course, is the constant screeching noise they make. And when there's a lot of them, which there always are, you'd better believe that sound gets old real quick. 

They're not even the hardest enemy to deal with, and certainly not harder than the final boss. But these little freaks have cemented themselves in gaming history for just being so damn obnoxious.

 
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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?