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[Derek]

Ye Epic Gaming Bestiary

It's no secret: I love monsters.  I really dig bestiaries, especially game ones.  I dunno, seeing a big index full of monsters (with pictures, natch) gets me wet, 'cause I'm a nerd.

So yeah, here we collect and discuss all things monsters.

Castlevania



http://castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com/history/monstermyth.html - for all you castlevania fans out there.  They also have a great list on weapons featured throughout the games. (Contributor: Outer God)

Chrono Trigger



http://www.eyesonff.com/ct/ctbesta.php (Contributor: fartron)

Doom



http://www.doomwadstation.com/bestiary/comparison/ (Contributor: Alevice)

Dragon Warrior



http://www.woodus.com/den/resources/bestiary.php - All the Dragon Warrior enemies, with lots of display options!  Gotta love Akira Toriyama.



Elder Scrolls



http://til.gamingsource.net/bestiaries/bestiarydaggerfall.shtml (Contributor: toastie)



Final Fantasy



http://www.ffcompendium.com/h/monster.shtml - this is a great collection of all the recurring creatures in the Final Fantasy series, with comparisons from all the different games.  I love it.



And for Final Fantasy 1 only, you can't beat FFClassic.


Mana Series (Seiken Densetsu)



http://www.seikens.com/bestiary.html - this site just rocks.  It's beautiful!


Warcraft



http://www.wowwiki.com/Bestiary

Zelda



http://bestiary.zeldalegends.net/

[FARTRON]

Chrono Trigger



http://www.eyesonff.com/ct/ctbesta.php

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemies_in_The_Legend_of_Zelda_series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosses_in_The_Legend_of_Zelda_series

[ravuya]

MOTHERFUCKER NO!

[Derek]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemies_in_The_Legend_of_Zelda_series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosses_in_The_Legend_of_Zelda_series

rinku, you fail using Wikipedia!  Behold...

ZELDA



http://bestiary.zeldalegends.net/

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

Nice, now I need to email that to one of my friends, she's a the biggest Zelda fan I know.

[Outer God]

http://castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com/history/monstermyth.html

for all you castlevania fans out there.  they also have a great list on weapons featured throughout the games.

http://www.pantheon.org/areas/bestiary/articles.html

might not be game specific, but they've got some pretty interesting articles related to monsters based on myth and folklore.  check out their other sections too, they're a good read.

[sandcrab]

Blogleech's site has a considerable wealth of monsters from a variety of games, popular and obscure alike.  I especially liked his section on El Viento (a personal favorite), where he points out which monsters were discreetly borrowed from H.P. Lovecroft.

Edit, it was really awesome of me to not include a link xD
http://www.bogleech.com/games.html

[Arne]

I hate when people mess up sprites with shitty pixel re-scaling. I made some proper ones. Adventure gets my love for its attempt at persistence, emergence and free roaming.

[Ivan]

Daggerfall forever!



http://til.gamingsource.net/bestiaries/bestiarydaggerfall.shtml

<3

[Alevice]

A wc3/wow bestiary: http://www.wowwiki.com/Bestiary

Too bad it does not include the old best from wc1/wc2 lore.

Resident Evil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Resident_Evil_creatures (yeah, I couldn't find anything non wikipedia for them). You could check each game's monster section here as well: http://residentevil.planets.gamespy.com/index.shtml

Doom: http://www.doomwadstation.com/bestiary/comparison/

[Derek]

Yay, great job, guys!  I updated the first post with your contributions (or, at least, I will in like a second).  Also, check out this real lyfe medieval bestiary for some awesome illustrations:



http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/bestiary.php

[BMcC]

AQUARIA

http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/bestiary.html

[Dan MacDonald]

 

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

AQUARIA

http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/bestiary.html

YOU TRICKED ME

[jeb]

Whispers in Akarra

http://apedia.talonz.com/monsters.htm

 

[Slash - Santiago Zapata]

Metroid

http://www.bogleech.com/snes-metroid.html

[Alevice]

Metroid

http://www.bogleech.com/snes-metroid.html

I forgot about the existance of that great webiste. It still rules after all these years.

[Guert]

A simple website with all the enemies of all the NES Megamans:
http://freexbresse.free.fr/mmf/picsenes.html

[Kon-Tiki]

Cave Story bestiary