BFG syndrome

[Baby Eater]

me. you know that one idiot on firefight running at 2 wraiths and 2 hunters with a hammer? hello nice to meet you

 

[Ganthrinor]

BFG syndrome is the compulsive need to use gigantic weapons unnecessary size to crush, blow up, smash, kill, maim, and other words that describe a horrible and merciless death.

What game characters do you know (or if you yourself) suffer from this syndrome, and what your favorite BFG is?

I myself want to point out that swords and other things like that count.

I actually suffer from the reverse of this in most games. My first time through Fallout 3, for example, I used a common kitchen knife for the majority of the game, upgrading at a later date (Lv 18 or so) to the Shishkebab. I'll use the small, quiet weapons as efficiently as I can out of a compulsive need to conserve ammo for some titanic final fight that never seems to really happen anymore in today's games.....

 

[New York Patrick]

BFG syndrome is the compulsive need to use gigantic weapons unnecessary size to crush, blow up, smash, kill, maim, and other words that describe a horrible and merciless death.

What game characters do you know (or if you yourself) suffer from this syndrome, and what your favorite BFG is?

I myself want to point out that swords and other things like that count.

Does my nuclear powered dagger in morrowind/oblivion count?

(The Morriowind one actually has does OVER 9000 points of fire damage, in a 100 mile radius. It would crash my old computer if used outdoors.)

 

[chris11246]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the scarab gun from Halo 2. You cant even see when firing that gun it takes up the whole screen.

Spoiler: Im not sure where its from but who cares

 

[MBurner 93]

Anyone whose compensating for something else.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Doom Guy
Quake Guy
Asians
Ratchet and Clank
Serious Sam
Duke Nukem
Master Chief
The Heavy
Painkiller guy

I could go on forever.

 

[yrogerg]

The MIRV from Fallout 3. Every BFG should have at least a 10% chance of killing the user.

I'm pretty sure the MIRV won this thread before it even started: One mini-nuke can kill everything in a 20-foot radius, possibly short the truck-sized Behemoths. The MIRV? It fires NINE of them at once.

Man, the most fun I had in that game was firing off the MIRV in the Capitol Rotunda.

 

[badgersprite]

The Lone Wanderer. Even my sneaky snake stealthy character shoots nukes. But, when you're facing a big mutant, you need a big gun.

And, while not technically guns, there is no overkill like the summons from Final Fantasy games. Yeah, all of the summons, with their minute-long intros and giant rain of fiery death on unsuspecting wild animals totally have BFG syndrome.