These Video Game Enemies SUCK!

2. Snipers - Batman: Arkham Trilogy

These Enemies Suck
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So far in this NOT LIST, we’ve covered enemies that were terrible at their job, and some, like the madmen and the Blowdart Sniper that are weirdly too good at their role to be fun to fight against, but the next entry somehow sits in between them both and is arguably even worse.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome with all your middle fingers raised in the air, the snipers from the Batman Arkham series, because hoo boy are these lads the slackest crack-shots going.

I say this because when you're coming toe to toe with snipers in combat sections they are usually an utter pushover, and I'm not just saying that because I eliminate the vast majority of them by pushing them over the edge, and you might start to think that stormtroopers have better accuracy than these clowns. However, as soon as you even attempt to glide into areas that the games deem as outside of your jurisdiction, they will suddenly act as if Deadshot was behind the scope and hit you again and again with absolutely devastating shots.

It builds a truly odd relationship in which, because they are effectively acting as the game's invisible walls, they are both overpowered and then suddenly not when fighting them in person, making each encounter with them truly unsatisfying and utterly aggravating. It's a goon that you'd want to protect your property but only as long as your mansion exists just outside of the boundaries of the game.

 
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