Favorite melee weapon in any game (or real life?)

[Toaster Hunter]

A huge axe. Its probably the simplest, most effective weapon ever made. Swords require training and practice, but with an axe, all one has to do is walk up to whatever you want dead and swing really hard. If something doesn't get chopped off, bone will still break from impact.

 

[War Penguin]

*stares at fists*

*nods approvingly*

Seriously: The Crowbar from Half-Life games or the Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda games.

You ninja'd me on so many levels.

OT: The fan in SSBB. I will conquer the game with that weapon.

 

[klakkat]

I hear ya on that. I actually prefer close range over long. My aim sucks, but I tand to be able to keep my cool in hand to hand. I like to get close and personal with my opponent because thats how most people crack. Hence my preferred choice of a short Italian longsword (i know there is contradiction in there but its actually possible to have a short longsword) with a Stilletto in my off-hand.

And I used to play warhammer 40,000k. The tabletop not the video game. And I had an eldar army that could turn any space marine unit of equal point value into my little power armored B*****es...... those were good times....

I'm mediocre at two-weapon fighting. I can handle dual machetes or Niten style (wakasashi and katana) but am inexperienced in any other (and not good at those two styles). I might start playing tabletop 40K soon... want to take up a creative hobby, and a friend of mine wants to sell a bunch of Orks, which I figure should be easy to paint (since orks could give two shits how they look...).

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

The gnome from dark carnival in left 4 dead 2...HeHeHe eat my gnome zombies

Damn! Ninja'd! Also, Gnome Chompski (That's his name) is perfect for stopping Chargers, all you have to do is throw him at them!

But my most favourite of bestest most funnest of all melee weapons would have to be the Crowbar in L4D2, just the way I can send a zombie's cranial cap flying along with the satasfying CRACK, it just makes my day.

 

[klakkat]

A huge axe. Its probably the simplest, most effective weapon ever made. Swords require training and practice, but with an axe, all one has to do is walk up to whatever you want dead and swing really hard. If something doesn't get chopped off, bone will still break from impact.

The Axe requires a lot of skill if you want to actually *survive* the experience. It's mostly in convincing the enemy that you're fast enough to cut them before they can cut you, so it rapidly becomes a psychological game rather than "who's strongest."

 

[Hussmann54]

I hear ya on that. I actually prefer close range over long. My aim sucks, but I tand to be able to keep my cool in hand to hand. I like to get close and personal with my opponent because thats how most people crack. Hence my preferred choice of a short Italian longsword (i know there is contradiction in there but its actually possible to have a short longsword) with a Stilletto in my off-hand.

And I used to play warhammer 40,000k. The tabletop not the video game. And I had an eldar army that could turn any space marine unit of equal point value into my little power armored B*****es...... those were good times....

I'm mediocre at two-weapon fighting. I can handle dual machetes or Niten style (wakasashi and katana) but am inexperienced in any other. I might start playing tabletop 40K soon... want to take up a creative hobby, and a friend of mine wants to sell a bunch of Orks, which I figure should be easy to paint (since orks could give two shits how they look...).

I once got to spar with a real stilletto..... the weapon was simply magnificent. it had a five inch handle, an eleven inch blade and it balanced beautifully. The sides were perfectly rounded, and I drew blood just sliding my finger across the point. Whats more amazing is that the guy who owned it had no problem with me using it, in a live spar against him of all things. Made my day/week/month.....

I miss the creative side of Warhammer as well. As for the Orks, go for it. They are a decent race and good for starters. Found a hobby shop with regular open play sessions?

 

[Scumpernickle]

Dual daggers with blades about a foot long.

For added damage, put some poison on those things and make them serrated too.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Give me a sword or a pointy stick, and I am good to go.

 

[klakkat]

I hear ya on that. I actually prefer close range over long. My aim sucks, but I tand to be able to keep my cool in hand to hand. I like to get close and personal with my opponent because thats how most people crack. Hence my preferred choice of a short Italian longsword (i know there is contradiction in there but its actually possible to have a short longsword) with a Stilletto in my off-hand.

And I used to play warhammer 40,000k. The tabletop not the video game. And I had an eldar army that could turn any space marine unit of equal point value into my little power armored B*****es...... those were good times....

I'm mediocre at two-weapon fighting. I can handle dual machetes or Niten style (wakasashi and katana) but am inexperienced in any other. I might start playing tabletop 40K soon... want to take up a creative hobby, and a friend of mine wants to sell a bunch of Orks, which I figure should be easy to paint (since orks could give two shits how they look...).

I once got to spar with a real stilletto..... the weapon was simply magnificent. it had a five inch handle, an eleven inch blade and it balanced beautifully. The sides were perfectly rounded, and I drew blood just sliding my finger across the point. Whats more amazing is that the guy who owned it had no problem with me using it, in a live spar against him of all things. Made my day/week/month.....

I miss the creative side of Warhammer as well. As for the Orks, go for it. They are a decent race and good for starters. Found a hobby shop with regular open play sessions?

Not yet, but I know there are several in my area. I live near a large city. My friend is an active player, so I'll just ask him where to go when I get the models.

I've never sparred with a real weapon, though I have used my katana for kata. We've also used it to cut through a stainless steel bar once... the sword is made of hardened steel, wonderful stuff, didn't take a scratch. Still took forever to cut through the bar (I highly recommend using a hacksaw instead, unless you're just screwing around).

 

[[Insert Name Here]]

A good ol' Katana. Or the Auto-Axe.

 

[Flashfire07]

I'd have to say the AC support thingy from Condemmned 2, or if I'm feeling immature the toilet seat.

 

[Spitfire175]

a weapon that can cut multiple people in half.

[small]You are drowning in hype, mate...[/small]

OT: Screw Japanese impractical butterknives. An European medieval longsword, 1450s, German steel, blade crafted in Munich, hilt and pommel from Milan. German steel of the period was much harder and better quality than any other, and when the European sword crafting was at its peak, a longsword was not only more practical than any other sword, but also more durable (and easier to repair) and most of all the deadliest. This in combination of traditional European martial arts, which are just like eastern ones, except they're designed purely to kill, without any ceremonies or rules, and the best personal protection humankind has ever produced -15th century plate armours- makes up for the most prominent close combat killing machine of all time.

Japanese swords are something that get hyped about as much as the AK 47 and German WW2 weapons combined. It's a shame, really, since they are not any better than their western counterparts. The idea "a katana will cut a western sword in two" is bogus, based on a presentation held to Dutch merchants in the 16 hundreds in Japan, where a local samurai smashed a Dutch sailor's knife. When put head to head, a katana is the first one to snap against a bastard sword. All the hype about how Japanese master smiths spending months with swords are true, but not for the reason you want to think: Japanese steel was very poor, so they had to spend a long time refining the material. And the anti-hype towards European swords in much due to the rubbish quality replicas you see around today, and of course people who think European swords have just been pieces of blunt iron used to pummel others. Well no. Italian master craftsmen, too, used months forging a single blade, creating some of the most sophisticated swords of all time.

As for the martial arts, the "barbaric and stupid Europeans who only used brute force" developed martial arts equal to those of the far east, with uncanny similarities to kendo and others. Italian "maestro" has the exact same linguistic meaning as "sensei". The same techniques were developed in two places, separate from each other. Some might know Miyamoto Musashi, arguably Japan's most famous Rōnin. Well, Europe had a guy just like him: Johannes Liechtenauer. If these two had clashed in a duel, I wouldn't know who'd win.
Some extra reading:
http://www.chivalrybookshelf.com/titles/ringeck/ringeck.htm
http://www.thearma.org/essays/TopMyths.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Liechtenauer
http://www.mbdojo.com/stances/kenjutsustances.html < chudan-no-kamae, hasso-no-kamae, gedan-no-kamae and kasumi-no-kamae known in Europe as Pflug, vom Tag, Alber and Ochs

 

[Lemon Of Life]

A crowbar. The first thing I do when I move into my own place is buy one of these babies.

 

[God's Clown]

Scythe that Arumat uses in The Last Hope(Star Ocean.) Really any scythe will do. I love scythes. If I were a master blacksmith, I would make one.

 

[Klepa]

The Übersaw. The Medic's so damn fast that it's actually very very viable.

 

[sephiroth1991]

a cat, just throw it and run

 

[Caligulove]

Beehive maybe?

 

[ButanicXpandA]

yamato with dark slayer fighting style in DMC 4 ... owns up.

 

[thylasos]

Shaolin Spade.

 

[Toar]

Baseball bat.