the laser from RE4, metal blade, storm tornado, and farsight come to mind

4/7/2008 4:57:15 PM

4/7/2008 4:58:00 PM

oh and

4/7/2008 4:58:56 PM

haha...i came in this thread to make a warlock joke.

4/7/2008 5:04:06 PM

4/7/2008 5:22:44 PM

human pistol from the first halo.

that fucking gannondouche bitch move from super smash bros where he grabs you in air and electrogizzes in your face.

4/7/2008 5:24:38 PM

^Pikachu's damn lightning and Pit's forward spinny sword thing are way more annoying.

The rail gun in Perfect Dark was pretty badass. As was the Golden Gun in Goldeneye, but that was meant to be overpowered.

[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 5:27 PM. Reason : ]

4/7/2008 5:26:49 PM

4/7/2008 5:27:22 PM

are people still bitching about warlocks, god damn

4/7/2008 5:53:05 PM

scarab gun in halo 2
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/559941/halo_2_scarab_gun/

4/7/2008 6:07:27 PM

golden fucking gun from goldeneye

4/7/2008 6:08:35 PM

the hornet in halo3 multiplayer before they dialed it down on the upcoming maps

4/7/2008 6:09:46 PM

Did you mean overpowering weapons?

4/7/2008 6:18:39 PM

2nd placed lightning in mario kart 64?

4/7/2008 6:24:43 PM

the remote mines in goldeneye were overpowered as hell. Once you had them you could basically never be killed by a person with a gun, just throw a mine in their general direction and explode it midair for an instant kill.

4/7/2008 6:30:32 PM

quad laser

4/7/2008 6:38:23 PM

lol i laughed at Warlocks.




Sword in Halo II

4/7/2008 6:40:57 PM

^^^Exactly. I could rack up kills like woah once I got my hands on a supply of remote mines. They're also an excellent defense against guided rockets and prox mines.

I wouldn't exactly call the Golden Gun an overpowered weapon, though. The one-shot-per-magazine limitation balanced out the instant-kill ability; you couldn't just run into a room and spray everyone with golden bullets.

[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 6:41 PM. Reason : blah]

4/7/2008 6:41:07 PM

Helicopter in COD IV

4/7/2008 6:42:18 PM

^ You just have to know how to guard against it.

My friends used to turn on 1 hit kills in Goldeneye and play Klobbs only. They called it Man With The Golden Klobb. I just thought that was funny. They were in like 6th grade too. I thought that was pretty clever for some little kids.

4/7/2008 6:45:08 PM

4/7/2008 6:47:44 PM

Guard?

so like when i'm inside a building that has no windows and i get shot through 2 / 3 Yeah thats completely my fault.

4/7/2008 6:47:47 PM

I just run into a building and try to stay there. It is really powerful and I do get killed sometimes, but that's your punishment for letting someone go 7-0.

4/7/2008 6:50:54 PM

yes, i should guard when i spawn and am immediately killed by heli fire. how silly of me to not react before i can move.

it is only overpowered on a few of the maps though.

[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 7:07 PM. Reason : and if you have a team that wont shoot at it, else it goes down quick]

[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 7:09 PM. Reason : 50 cal in COD3 was retarded too]

4/7/2008 7:07:03 PM

I think the spawns in COD4 are generally retarded. Sometimes they spawn you right into Hell and there's nothing you can do. It's not exclusive to the helicopter.

4/7/2008 7:11:36 PM

i thought they did a generally good job compared to most other games.

4/7/2008 7:13:38 PM

The problem is it spawns you close to teammates without any regard to where the enemy is which can lead to some really bad situations where you're going to get spawn killed. Most other games tend to put a priority on spawning you away from enemies which is where COD4 does a bad job.

But this isn't the COD4 thread and I feel bad about discussing it in here.

4/7/2008 7:17:23 PM

gravity gun in HL2

4/7/2008 7:31:46 PM

I mean it was an awesome concept and all but was kind of overpowered

4/7/2008 7:44:22 PM

awp in cs 1.5 and the mp5 in 1.3 .... mp5 was retardedly overpowered back then

4/7/2008 7:47:52 PM

Don't worry, they nerfed the Farsight on the 360.

4/7/2008 7:49:44 PM

My friend had the Turok game that came out for Gamecube.

In multiplayer it had this gun that would shoot blue orbs, but they could lock onto other players from across the map.

I learned where that gun spawned on every map and it was pretty much game over after that.

4/7/2008 8:24:07 PM

that ghost scepter for the cleric in Hexen was retardedly good too.



[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 8:27 PM. Reason : THAT MOTHERFUCKER]

4/7/2008 8:24:50 PM

Quote :

"golden fucking gun from goldeneye"

Awesome.

4/7/2008 8:53:21 PM

came in looking for the awp.

did not disappoint.

4/7/2008 9:00:34 PM

quake iii arena

rail gun

4/7/2008 9:03:41 PM

Maybe not overpowered, but easily the most useful weapons in the game

Metal Man's Blades (Mega Man 2)


spread gun (Contra)

4/7/2008 9:03:58 PM

In case anybody didn't know what games the weapons I was talking about were referring to, here:

Plaga Removal Laser (or PRL) was in Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition. I think in the ps2 it only stunned zombies, but in RE4:Wii it straight up KILLS them

Farsight is obviously perfect dark.

Metal Blade is from Mega Man 2

Storm Tornado from Mega Man X.

4/7/2008 9:05:44 PM

so who's starting the "most useless video game weapons" thread?

4/7/2008 9:11:53 PM

piercing guided arrows in D2X

4/7/2008 9:33:05 PM

Quote :

" The Accuracy International Arctic Warfare rifle is a family of bolt-action sniper rifles designed and manufactured by the British company Accuracy International. It has proved popular as a civilian, police and military rifle since its introduction in the 1980s. Generally Arctic Warfare rifles are outfitted with a Schmidt & Bender PM II [1] telescopic sight with fixed power of magnification or with variable magnification. Variable telescopic sights can be used if the operator wants more flexibility to shoot at varying ranges, or when a wide field of view is required. Accuracy International actively promotes fitting the German made Schmidt & Bender PM II product line as sighting components on their rifles, which is almost unique for a rifle manufacturer. The German and Russian Army preferred a telescopic sight made by Zeiss [2] over Accuracy International's preference. "

4/7/2008 9:39:38 PM

reavers

4/7/2008 10:04:06 PM

^Only pre 1.04 reavers.

Zergling rush on blood bath.

The hammer in Super Smash Brothers.

4/7/2008 10:12:34 PM

Quote :

"so who's starting the "most useless video game weapons" thread? "

klobbklobbklobbklobbklobbklobb

4/7/2008 10:16:46 PM

the super loogie in "beavis and butthead hock a loogie"

4/7/2008 10:17:02 PM

The reverse elbow attack on Double Dragon that you get when you rack up 8 hearts or so.

It looks so weak, but you can pretty much polish off an Abobo with four of those things.

4/7/2008 11:57:46 PM

jump + back + low kick, repeat

makes you almost invincible in Mortal Kombat 2.

[Edited on April 8, 2008 at 1:17 PM. Reason : ]

4/8/2008 1:16:46 PM

I immediately thought of the Thundersword bomber in Tribes 2. You get yourself a good crew of 3, and you can have 100-kill/0-death games in high population servers. I need to find some of my very old scoreboard screenshots illustrating this.

And speaking of air-to-ground support, the jets in Battlefield 2 were also vicious.

4/8/2008 1:28:21 PM

Quote :

"2nd placed lightning in mario kart 64?"

Or a spiny in DD or DS when you're all seconds from each other.

4/8/2008 3:09:59 PM

^^^ No joke. i beat MK2 with every character on the genesis doing that

until the computer figured out what i was doing and started shooting me out of the air whenever i jumped backwards. it was probably due to some compensatory programming, but at the time i was like

4/8/2008 11:12:41 PM