Impractical weapons in games

[Wintermantis]

Putting poison on a sword would probably only reman effective for 1-2 kills and killing peope with a sword is tipically done in a single swing. Also finding poison that would work and appling it would be difficult.

duel wielding pistols would have very poor accuracy, be difficult to reload, and not have much impact on your actual rate of fire.

 

[Bradd94]

The frying pan, Fable: The Lost Chapters.
I liked the game, however it was the worst weapon.
Considering you had to chase clues across the whole of Albion.
And if you knew where it was buried already, and dug it up without clues, it had 0dmg.
Zero.
-(No picture, It's a frying pan.)
--(Also, im quite lazy.)

 

[Versagen]

The Great Knife from Silent Hill 2.

Spoiler

Yes, it looks neat. And it's usually a one-hit kill for the majority of the monsters. And it makes that awesome, creepy, scraping "Here comes Pyramid Head, bend over now" noise when you walk.

But, sadly, when you have it equipped it takes about an hour for you to get to the next room. And you need to walk around with your flashlight off unless you want to the monsters to swarm and kill you. Or you can use the hyper spray and just keep switching weapons. But it's easier just to shoot the damn things instead of switching weapons every minute.

It's fun to use, but it's useless against Pyramid Head unless you're looking to see how many times he can stab you before you can hit him with a weapon that has no effect on him.

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Rock-It Launcher in fallout 3. It was completely god damned badass but it made no sense.. A vacuum and a few other small things make a big ass thing that shoots out anything from sporks to garden gnomes.. How do they propell at that speed?! I can understand how a gnome can blow someone brains off... But a spork?! Or a clip board? Seriously, it confuses me..
Allthough I am actually deeply in love with that weapon.

 

[Dedtoo]

The gatling gun from resident evil 5, how does he carry that all across africa?

A real life minigun (which is closer to what Chris carries) has a weapon weight in excess of 100 lbs. Considering that a legitimate minigun consumes 4.5mm disintegrating belt ammunition at a rate of 2000 RPM (clocked down from the maximum cyclic rate of 6,000 RPM), you come to realize that you need a LOT of ammunition to get the job done. As such, while a mingun can be considered man portable if disassembled, it is a crew served weapon and is generally only considered mobile if mounted upon a vehicle of some sort.

As such, while it is concievable that a certain level of badassery could account for being able to carry about a weapon and ammunition supply that push up against 175lbs for great distances, the odds of being able to effectively employ such a weapon without properly mounting it and whatnot is fairly slim. Chris is, however, not the first person to do such a thing. Predator gave us a man (Jessie Ventura) who could carry and fire a minigun himself, and Terminator 2 gave us a machine that could do the same.

*chough* http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/heavy_back.jpg *chough*

 

[Flour]

I found a real gun blade

its from this list(on the second page)
http://www.cracked.com/article_17428_7-ridiculously-over-top-modifications-deadly-weapons.html

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The Boltcaster, an automatic shuriken launcher. Made even sillier by the fact that you also get a chaingun and, in the expansion, a submachine gun.

If that weren't enough, it can also shoot electrified shuriken. Somehow.

That's the Electrodriver. The Boltcaster is the sniper from the expansion.

 

[HAZEANDHALO]

The smoke gren in MW2.
You can see.
and the scrambler, you will know when a person comes

 

[Evil Tim]

Actually, they were used during the 19th century.

I think the main thing that makes Blue Rose unworkable is that it's an over-under design with the barrels on opposite sides of the cylinder, which would require that it had a second hammer where the mechanism for advancing the cylinder should be, articulated roughly on the point the top hammer should be pivoting on.

A real life minigun (which is closer to what Chris carries) has a weapon weight in excess of 100 lbs. Considering that a legitimate minigun consumes 4.5mm disintegrating belt ammunition at a rate of 2000 RPM (clocked down from the maximum cyclic rate of 6,000 RPM), you come to realize that you need a LOT of ammunition to get the job done. As such, while a mingun can be considered man portable if disassembled, it is a crew served weapon and is generally only considered mobile if mounted upon a vehicle of some sort.

I believe the Predator / T2 minigun was actually firing at closer to 1,200 rpm so the barrels were visibly turning rather than a blur and to reduce ammo wastage [anything firing faster than 1,440 rpm is pointless in a movie since it will fire faster than the frame rate of the movie camera]. Jesse described the recoil as 'fucking ridiculous' and 'like firing a chainsaw' and that was just with blanks.

As for impractical; Vinnie Valentine's ridiculous Cerberus. A single-trigger, three-cylinder double action revolver with three barrels and three hammers [and god only knows what kind of trigger pull]. It's eight spicy kinds of stupid.

 

[ThePantomimeThief]

The wookie bowcaster, with it's wonderful bouncing bolts, sits pretty high in my impractical weapons. http://www.freewebs.com/shadowsite/bowcaster.bmp

 

[Sev72]

Almost every single gun in borderlands.

 

[A Weary Exile]

The Great Knife from Silent Hill 2.

Spoiler

Yes, it looks neat. And it's usually a one-hit kill for the majority of the monsters. And it makes that awesome, creepy, scraping "Here comes Pyramid Head, bend over now" noise when you walk.

But, sadly, when you have it equipped it takes about an hour for you to get to the next room. And you need to walk around with your flashlight off unless you want to the monsters to swarm and kill you. Or you can use the hyper spray and just keep switching weapons. But it's easier just to shoot the damn things instead of switching weapons every minute.

It's fun to use, but it's useless against Pyramid Head unless you're looking to see how many times he can stab you before you can hit him with a weapon that has no effect on him.

Holy Christ that thing agitated me! I was trying to do the "Wall Glitch" to beat the two Pyramid heads toward the end and James' stupid ass just kept switching the side he was holding it on! AGGRAVATING! >:O

I also thought it took away from the whole survival/horror thing and the "James is just some wuss in a bad place." idea, no regualr man could swing that thing even as clumsily as James did.

BTW where did he put it when he un-equipped it? He must take storage lessons from Link.

 

[traceur_]

Actually, they were used during the 19th century.

Spoiler

That is so fucking cool!

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Does anyone recall a shark launcher? It shoots sharks on dry land? Anyone?

 

[Crow555]

The Snake from Cave Story. Well, to be honest, every weapon from Cave Story, really. Pretty much any weapon that is not used now-a-days,(tanks, machine guns, pistols, etc.) and old weapons (swords, catapults, spears, etc.)

Those were at least practical for their time.

 

[Versagen]

I also thought it took away from the whole survival/horror thing and the "James is just some wuss in a bad place." idea, no regualr man could swing that thing even as clumsily as James did.

BTW where did he put it when he un-equipped it? He must take storage lessons from Link.

Haha, I always thought of it as since it belonged to Pyramid Head James could use it. xD If everything there is a product of his mind then the Great Knife counts, too.

I still see it as survival horror - it's hard to use, impractical, and you can't run away with it equipped. xDD

My friend determined that James was putting it up his... Well, I guess I don't have to say it. ;D

 

[traceur_]

Any boomerang-like weapon.

Getting those things to come back to you is really hard even with no wind, and if there is wind then you're going to be running a lot. And when you see the ones in games return after striking a solid object then it gets really crazy.

Aiming them is also extremely hard.

 

[warbaloon]

The cerebral bore. Very cool but lets face it... a brain seeking drill or a bullet between the eyes. Which is more practical?

even in the game (turok 2) it was pretty useless...it was just fun seeing things scream as your "bullet" took its sweet time drilling into their skull

the shredder with explosive shells from that game was interesting as well...it fired a cluster of explosive bullets that would explode then ricochet and explode on something else until they felt like stopping...turok 2 was awesome

 

[A Weary Exile]

Haha, I always thought of it as since it belonged to Pyramid Head James could use it. xD If everything there is a product of his mind then the Great Knife counts, too.

That explanation actually makes some sense, I never thought of that. Points to you sir for making the illogical somewhat logical.

 

[Blind0bserver]

I remember in Bad Day L.A. one of the weapons was a pair of nailclippers that you found at the airport... that somehow was the most powerful weapon in the game...