Most useless Videogame Weapons

[twistedmic]

OT: The Poison Blades/Darts in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (in single player). I mean seriously who would even use that weapon? To me, it served absolutely no purpose during the story mode missions. I only messed around with it for a bit after I beat the game and got the Armor of Romulus. I would have just used the Dual Hidden Blades!

The Poison Blade/Darts is really a matter of opinion. I used them quite often, either to cause a distraction to run up and brutally murder guards, or to eliminate those annoying bards/minstrels. In fact, I was able to use every weapon effectively during each play through of the games.

 

[Fuselage]

NO! I have it! A more useless weapon than the Single Shotgun!
[HEADING=1]THE ROCKET JUMPER[/HEADING]

 

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

For me, it's a toss up between the Archimedes Orbital Laser from New Vegas

Oh God, I totally know what you mean, dude. The majority of the Energy Weapons that I tried in New Vegas seemed to suck harder than a Dyson Vacuum!

But maybe it had something to do with me NEVER leveling up my skill in that area...?

I'm old school. Lead is the way to go!

 

[Urgh76]

Everything you pick up in Amnesia Dark Descent.

AH! Well played!

OT: I can't.... he wins the thread

 

[Conn1496]

Magikarp that pokemon was ass. Yea I know it evolved into one bad mother fucker, but dragging that thing through levels was a pain. Magikarp used splash, fuck you magikarp.

Magikarp is not a weapon.

As for me, I have no real complaints. In most games heavy weaponry is my weak point, I can barely use them, but give me a pistol and say goodnight to Mr.brain. Worst IMO is green shell from mario kart. It was completely luck based 90% of the time, and rarely hit anyway.

 

[gigastar]

The Tanegashima musket in MGS4. Sure it has the chance 1/3 of blasting out a hurricane every time its shot, but the reload is just too long to bother with.

It was fixed in Peace Walker, sort of, where the reloading took about half as long. And it still packed a decent punch even if it didnt tornado your victim away.

 

[dancinginfernal]

Darts in Morrowind.

Seriously, did anybody use those and manage to hit when you actually did?

 

[Hemlet]

The fish food in Jet Force Gemini springs to mind. You throw the fish food like a grenade-style weapon. It attracts... get ready for this... FISH! But only if you throw it in the water. If you try to throw it at enemies they'll laugh at you while they fill you with holes. It's only other use was to distract these giant roach things that did fuck all for damage anyway and could be easily taken care of with ANY OTHER WEAPON.

 

[twistedmic]

For me, it's a toss up between the Archimedes Orbital Laser from New Vegas

Oh God, I totally know what you mean, dude. The majority of the Energy Weapons that I tried in New Vegas seemed to suck harder than a Dyson Vacuum!

But maybe it had something to do with me NEVER leveling up my skill in that area...?

I'm old school. Lead is the way to go!

The Laser RCW was pretty decent, though it burned through ammo like a ************, and the Alien Blaster (if you chose the Wild Wasteland perk) was devastating. I killed Legate Lanius in two/three shots with the blaster, though I did max out the Energy Weapons skill when I did that.
But for the most part I was like you, I stuck to the good old fashioned lead slingers, or the explosive and flame weapons. I used the grenade machine gun to wipe out Ceaser's camp on three separate runs through the game.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Magikarp.

Darts in Morrowind.

Seriously, did anybody use those and manage to hit when you actually did?

It's Morrowind, so you have to hit AND pass a marskmanship skill roll for it to actually register (pretty sure it was marksmanship for darts, might be wrong on the specific skill). Maybe your marskmanship was bad? Some of the darts you get in Tribunal are decidedly overpowered with a decent marksmanship score.

OT: The Poison Blades/Darts in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (in single player). I mean seriously who would even use that weapon? To me, it served absolutely no purpose during the story mode missions. I only messed around with it for a bit after I beat the game and got the Armor of Romulus. I would have just used the Dual Hidden Blades!

The poison blades (and especially the darts) are ludicrously useful once you realise that no one notices you using them. You can walk up to a group of guards, stick one in the stomach, and walk away. If you get far enough away, they have no idea you did it. If you mean "why bother when you can just stab them", that's sort of true for essentially every weapon in AC - once you can counter, it never really matters what weapon you use.

 

[Stammer]

Wakka's ball in FFX.

You lost. Wakka's ball was the strongest weapon in the game!

 

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

For me, it's a toss up between the Archimedes Orbital Laser from New Vegas

Oh God, I totally know what you mean, dude. The majority of the Energy Weapons that I tried in New Vegas seemed to suck harder than a Dyson Vacuum!

But maybe it had something to do with me NEVER leveling up my skill in that area...?

I'm old school. Lead is the way to go!

The Laser RCW was pretty decent, though it burned through ammo like a ************, and the Alien Blaster (if you chose the Wild Wasteland perk) was devastating. I killed Legate Lanius in two/three shots with the blaster, though I did max out the Energy Weapons skill when I did that.
But for the most part I was like you, I stuck to the good old fashioned lead slingers, or the explosive and flame weapons. I used the grenade machine gun to wipe out Ceaser's camp on three separate runs through the game.

Speaking of the "Wild Wasteland" Perk, I didn't notice that many changes...

Do you remember what it DID change?

 

[sidecord]

staff of dyslexia from Diablo

 

[The Random One]

Klobb klobb klobb klobb klobb klobb klobb

It's even worse when you realize it uses 9mm ammo, which the starting pistol, the PP7, also uses, but you can learn to use the PP7 effectively. Not the Klobb, whose suckiness magically makes bullets do less damage, probably due to its rubberband-based delivery method.

Magikarp that pokemon was ass. Yea I know it evolved into one bad mother fucker, but dragging that thing through levels was a pain. Magikarp used splash, fuck you magikarp.

I remember watching a video on youtube that used a Magikarp to do insane damage, one-hitting even a Mewtwo and a Lugia. I don't remember the details, but it involving using Baton Pass and some other move whose name I forgot to get out a Magikarp with 1HP which got a bonus to all stats inversely proportional to how much HP it had. Then the Magikarp would attack with Flail (which also deals more damage the lowest the pokemon's HP is) and always attack first because of its inflated speed, which would hit with twice the force of Explosion.

I never found that video again.

 

[twistedmic]

For me, it's a toss up between the Archimedes Orbital Laser from New Vegas

Oh God, I totally know what you mean, dude. The majority of the Energy Weapons that I tried in New Vegas seemed to suck harder than a Dyson Vacuum!

But maybe it had something to do with me NEVER leveling up my skill in that area...?

I'm old school. Lead is the way to go!

The Laser RCW was pretty decent, though it burned through ammo like a ************, and the Alien Blaster (if you chose the Wild Wasteland perk) was devastating. I killed Legate Lanius in two/three shots with the blaster, though I did max out the Energy Weapons skill when I did that.
But for the most part I was like you, I stuck to the good old fashioned lead slingers, or the explosive and flame weapons. I used the grenade machine gun to wipe out Ceaser's camp on three separate runs through the game.

Speaking of the "Wild Wasteland" Perk, I didn't notice that many changes...

Do you remember what it DID change?

Not much changed outside of the Alien Blaster and some aliens where you'd otherwise find mercenaries and a rail-gun (I can't remember the name).
Leaving GoodSpring, you'd run across a skeleton wearing the 'suave gambler's hat' (very similar to Indie's iconic hat)lying in a discarded fridge.
In Nipton you'd come across a pair of charred skeletons named Owen and Beru, lying in the same position as Owen and Beru in Star Wars.
Near the Devil's Throat ( I think) and Bitter Springs you'd come across a large, undetonated nuke.
And after leaving the robot factory (where you re-program FISTO) you'd get attacked by three mean old lady bandits
Also, Mr. New Vegas would occasionally mention that he tried to measure his charisma on a Vigor Tester and had the machine burst into flames.

 

[Mute52]

NO! I have it! A more useless weapon than the Single Shotgun!
[HEADING=1]THE ROCKET JUMPER[/HEADING]

He said most useless, not weapons that do little damage.
If you're referring to the Rocket Jumper in TF2, have you ever rocket jumped to the point with the Pain Train equipped taking no damage from your rockets? That weapon is the backcap glory gun if you can rocket jump worth anything.

If you're not referring to the TF2 one, disregard everything i just said.

 

[Tsuki Akechi]

The first dagger you pick up in Morrowind.

Most new players think "Oh, cool! A free weapon! Let's go kill some mudcrabs!"

They soon would be proven terribly wrong...

Mudcrabs....foul creatures...steer clear of them.

And cliff-racers, uhhh I HATE those things!

 

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

For me, it's a toss up between the Archimedes Orbital Laser from New Vegas

Oh God, I totally know what you mean, dude. The majority of the Energy Weapons that I tried in New Vegas seemed to suck harder than a Dyson Vacuum!

But maybe it had something to do with me NEVER leveling up my skill in that area...?

I'm old school. Lead is the way to go!

The Laser RCW was pretty decent, though it burned through ammo like a ************, and the Alien Blaster (if you chose the Wild Wasteland perk) was devastating. I killed Legate Lanius in two/three shots with the blaster, though I did max out the Energy Weapons skill when I did that.
But for the most part I was like you, I stuck to the good old fashioned lead slingers, or the explosive and flame weapons. I used the grenade machine gun to wipe out Ceaser's camp on three separate runs through the game.

Speaking of the "Wild Wasteland" Perk, I didn't notice that many changes...

Do you remember what it DID change?

Not much changed outside of the Alien Blaster and some aliens where you'd otherwise find mercenaries and a rail-gun (I can't remember the name).
Leaving GoodSpring, you'd run across a skeleton wearing the 'suave gambler's hat' (very similar to Indie's iconic hat)lying in a discarded fridge.
In Nipton you'd come across a pair of charred skeletons named Owen and Beru, lying in the same position as Owen and Beru in Star Wars.
Near the Devil's Throat ( I think) and Bitter Springs you'd come across a large, undetonated nuke.
And after leaving the robot factory (where you re-program FISTO) you'd get attacked by three mean old lady bandits
Also, Mr. New Vegas would occasionally mention that he tried to measure his charisma on a Vigor Tester and had the machine burst into flames.

So basically the Perk is "useless" (yay it fits in the thread, err...sort of) besides providing additional entertainment?

 

[brinvixen]

The "wind-up cannon" in inFamous that you get as a special move when playing as "Good Cole". I don't even know the official name of the power up, but who cares? --> it was useless. It took way too long to load, so that by the time it fired off, the enemy you were trying to hit has long danced out of the way. Worse, now that you've missed, you've used up value energy that could have gone into ANY OTHER USEFUL ATTACK (really, you would have been better off zapping them to death). Then, to add insult to injury, when you play as "Evil Cole", his special power up is Arc Lightning! (I mean, I found Arc Lightning just as useless in combat, but at least it was fast and made for good fun when destroying stuff!)

Also this:

Magikarp that pokemon was ass. Yea I know it evolved into one bad mother fucker, but dragging that thing through levels was a pain. Magikarp used splash, fuck you magikarp.

So accurate.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

Pretty much everything that has been said so far
also personally i NEVER use shotguns, so when i get one as a drop or loot or something im pretty disapointed... just not my jazz at all