Most useless weapons in gaming

[Madaxeman101]

The frying pan from fable and it took ages to find the damn thing and it did 0 damage -_-

 

[Monkeybald]

All weapons in Disgaea games, until they are leveled up in the item world.

 

[Spartan448]

Direct lie = argument invalidated. MLG does not feature the assault rifle. It is not available. Anywhere. Professional players simply do not use it.

No, whoever shoots first is not guaranteed to win a BR duel, as the other player can move to avoid headshots, and take headshots himself, thus winning. In an AR duel, there is no dodging to be done, he has been shot first and will always die unless the other player is so stupid he didn't reload first.

The AR is the cheap way to get kills, as it does not require any aiming skill at all. The BR involves aiming skill, and so is of less use to the unskilled player. The AR can be used with discipline, I agree, but the BR is a weapon of disciplined aiming.

This argument is immensely frustrating. At this stage I'm simply tempted to assume you're a troll.

EDIT: Sorry, not a troll, just unskilled. As evidenced by your 0.45 ranked KDR and 0.78 social KDR, in less than 200 games of Halo 3. Clearly you were just speaking from ignorance. Never mind.

Assumption = Make yourself look VERY stupid. Don't do it. I DO recall seeing a few MLG matches that used Assault rifles. It takes QUITE a bit more skill than the Battle Rifle to use, and in the right hands, can be quite the effective weapon, rather than a tool used soley by CoD noobs who have no idea how to play a real gam, like Halo. Noobs, like you, for example.

Yes, whoever shoots first IS guaranteed to win a BR duel, as the cooldown between shots can stop you short to re-aquire a target and thus continuelessly and flawlessly hit the target, whereas in an AR duel, if your target moves, you've just wasted 5 or 6 bullets, and you need to come up with a new plan REAL fast, or die.

While not requiring as much aiming skill as the BR at CLOSE range (Though the lazy bastards who usually use the BR most of the time know enough to keep their cowardly asses out of the close combat areas so they can get easy kills), the Assault Rifle does require a lot more than the BR at medium range, and does require quite a bit more discipline and tact to use.

You are quite quickly getting on my nerves, and I REALLY do not want to keep pointing out the obvious to you.

Addmittedly, my low K/D in H3 does cast a shadow on all of my points, however, I should note that Halo 3 was the first console shooter I playe, and I was still transitioning from PC controls to Console controls at the time. However, that still doesn't change the facts about the weapons. One does not need to be the master of all weapons to simply point out what a gun can and can't do.

 

[doomspore98]

the extinguisher from gears of war 3, literally useless, but pretty funny. Also apart from ravenholm, I found that the gravity gun was used less as a weapon by me but more of a cover maker

FatMan from Fallout 3.
It causes "save for later, never use" syndrome. :|

Hm...you're right. You always feel bad when you use it, thinking you just wasted ammo...

I call the poke attack from Worms Armageddon, I think it took away 1 health from the enemy and just pushed him a little.

mfG diebane

Dude, the poking thing from the Worms games was EPIC! Imagine an opponent standing next to an edge, almost full health and everything, then you just come over there and give him a little POKE that sends him to his doom. Better than humiliating people with the knife in the CS games, I tell you.

Sure, it was epic as hell if it worked, but the situation hardly ever came. You had to be sure there was not ONE pixel in the way, it made you look so stupid if you failed to fatality-poke someone. In these situations, I preferred the baseball bat.

mfG diebane

Crap I quoted the wrong thing

Apart from ravenholm I found that the gravity gun was less of a killing machine, (unless you count explosive barrels) then a cover maker, saved my life many time. Also, I found that the pool que from fallout 3 to be completely useless. One time a raider came at me with this thing, and I blew his head off with a single shot from a double barrel shotgun.

 

[bobmus]

Direct lie = argument invalidated. MLG does not feature the assault rifle. It is not available. Anywhere. Professional players simply do not use it.

No, whoever shoots first is not guaranteed to win a BR duel, as the other player can move to avoid headshots, and take headshots himself, thus winning. In an AR duel, there is no dodging to be done, he has been shot first and will always die unless the other player is so stupid he didn't reload first.

The AR is the cheap way to get kills, as it does not require any aiming skill at all. The BR involves aiming skill, and so is of less use to the unskilled player. The AR can be used with discipline, I agree, but the BR is a weapon of disciplined aiming.

This argument is immensely frustrating. At this stage I'm simply tempted to assume you're a troll.

EDIT: Sorry, not a troll, just unskilled. As evidenced by your 0.45 ranked KDR and 0.78 social KDR, in less than 200 games of Halo 3. Clearly you were just speaking from ignorance. Never mind.

Assumption = Make yourself look VERY stupid. Don't do it. I DO recall seeing a few MLG matches that used Assault rifles. It takes QUITE a bit more skill than the Battle Rifle to use, and in the right hands, can be quite the effective weapon, rather than a tool used soley by CoD noobs who have no idea how to play a real gam, like Halo. Noobs, like you, for example.

Yes, whoever shoots first IS guaranteed to win a BR duel, as the cooldown between shots can stop you short to re-aquire a target and thus continuelessly and flawlessly hit the target, whereas in an AR duel, if your target moves, you've just wasted 5 or 6 bullets, and you need to come up with a new plan REAL fast, or die.

While not requiring as much aiming skill as the BR at CLOSE range (Though the lazy bastards who usually use the BR most of the time know enough to keep their cowardly asses out of the close combat areas so they can get easy kills), the Assault Rifle does require a lot more than the BR at medium range, and does require quite a bit more discipline and tact to use.

You are quite quickly getting on my nerves, and I REALLY do not want to keep pointing out the obvious to you.

Addmittedly, my low K/D in H3 does cast a shadow on all of my points, however, I should note that Halo 3 was the first console shooter I playe, and I was still transitioning from PC controls to Console controls at the time. However, that still doesn't change the facts about the weapons. One does not need to be the master of all weapons to simply point out what a gun can and can't do.

You've still played something like a tenth of the games I have, and clearly lack experience in what you're talking about.

MLG does not have assault rifles. Ever. You are wrong about that. Indisputably wrong.

Yes it can be an effective weapon. It rarely is though, except when entering a small room and you have no alternatives bar the BR. BR is more versatile, more effective over a greater range and more skilful.

You've not been in enough BR duels. Players aim for the head to kill in 4 shots. If you can dodge those headshots you can kill someone else first through your own skill. If you are shot with an AR, unless the person is truly hopeless, they can easily fix on your chest long enough to kill you, and your AR will not drop them first, unlike a AR vs BR duel.
Also, 4-6 shots out of the entire case of ammo it takes to kill someone with an AR? They are incredibly inefficient when it comes to reloading, and thus a preserve of the run forward and hope the other player runs at you brigade. Also those are only dropped if someone moves the massive distance it takes to dodge a chest shot. There is a lot less requirement for precision or control in handling an assault rifle.

Also, talking about CoD noobs is irrelevant, and counter-productive - the assault rifle is closer to the standard from CoD than the BR is.
Calling me a noob is both insulting and without point or accuracy, as we have already shown with comparison of our relevant experience at the game.

 

[cgmetallica1981]

Guns in Call of Duty multiplayer. Why shoot people if they're just going to absorb your bullets and knife you?

 

[thebeast2000]

im going to have to say the throwing knife in 007 golden eye, especially the source mod version of the multiplayer, you will never hit anyone with it and even if you do they will shoot you in the face before you kill them, its just an aggravating piece of garbage that could be better used for stabbing but they wont let you do that unless you have the other specific knife

 

[Rodrigo Girao]

The bubble gun in Earthworm Jim 2.

 

[ViralBiae]

The grenade launcher from L4D2. Yes, it can blow zombies to tiny little pieces. Commons only though. And that's really only useful if they're bunched together in a really large group, seeing as how the explosive radius is extremely small, and reload time is ridiculous. It can only 1-shot the Boomer for Special Infected (and let's face it, EVERYTHING can 1-shot the Boomer) so if you're trying to kill one of them with that thing as your main gun, you'd be better off switching to your secondary weapon.

 

[Kiju]

The splash attack from the pokemon series.

END OF TOPIC.

Except that's not a weapon...that's a physical attack, and you can't really consider a Magikarp's body as a weapon. >.>;

I'd say the most useless weapon in gaming is your mind. Generally now-a-days, games have been dumbed down so fucking much that a complete idiot can get the best scores. Look at any modern FPS's multiplayer for my proof of this matter.

But to be more realistic about this, I would have to say the most useless weapon I've come across was the miniguns on the back of the Hummer in Resident Evil 5. Seriously, worst guns ever.

 

[Last Hugh Alive]

Probably two-thirds of the players abilities in Prototype. I only used the extendo-arm, the claws (for fun and satisfaction, mostly), and something I else I can't remember.

 

[Coldflame727]

Dark Souls' broken straight sword. You'd be quicker using your fists, really.

I've played Dark Souls, and can honestly say that that is 100% true.

 

[JakePwnsAtLife]

The frying pan from fable and it took ages to find the damn thing and it did 0 damage -_-

Aww, but it's so fun!!

 

[jcj94]

Wooden sword in minecraft. Only slightly better then bashing baddies with your fist. Not much considering it takes less time to get a stone sword than it does for it to turn to nighttime.

 

[team star pug]

Any sniper rifle in Borderlands.

I loved the idea of the hunter with SR subclass, for the fluff of the concept and because hell, I could, in theory, one or two hit kill and pick off dudes from across the desert before they could reach me to beat my head in. a sound strategy.

I then realized that unless you score a headshot, you could spend an entire clip trying to kill one dude, and scoring a headshot was next to impossible because the area of affect (idk the technical term) was so tiny it was equivalent to hitting a pinhead with a fucking dart at range. My character was about as useful to the party as Navi.

Hitbox I believe the term is. I couldn't get into sniping because of the bullets not going where I point the gun at. Not cool doing that on SR's Borderlands, not cool.

OT: Ratchet & Clank 2: the Clank backpack laser thing. You get it so late, and it does so little damage. The Tesla Shield and mini turrets were also passive weapons that did more dps by a long shot.

If you pick up any of the volcano snipers towards the end you might find them pretty effective. I could usually down an enemy in one shot, and they always caught fire. I really wish you could hold your breath or something though, as the constantly moving sight did make headshots a tad too difficult to pull off.

 

[holographicman]

the majority of the guns in Darksector
2 pistols, a sawed off, a magnum, 2 assault rifles, a sniper, a shotgun, an uzi, and another shotgun
the uzi (vekesk) and the second shotgun (protecta) are so powerful thAt everything else is a waste of time, money and ammo
still i enjoyed the game
if there's a sequel HAyden should grow a beard
up his badass level

 

[The Lugz]

honestly, any quest item weapon you cant use is obviously the worst weapon in the game
i get that so often too.. you pick up item of xxx powning and have to deliver it to some place to get it enchanted, or have a demon excised from it and you cant use it to defend yourself when your chipped short-sword of laugh-ability finally breaks
it annoys me, i has axe i want use. ug.

 

[Fredrikorex]

The MIRV in Fallout 3, You keep it and never use it.

I only used it when I was cheating so I could use it more than once and kill everything.

 

[INF1NIT3 D00M]

Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedlerrrrrrrrrr...

If you can aim, there is no use for the Needler. And every time Bungie released a new Halo, they said "We changed the Needler so it's useful now!" and it never was.

In Halo Reach, the needler is one of my top weapons precisely *because* I never needed to aim. Once an enemy is out in the open, fire roughly 5 shots to get his shield down, then 8 to 'splode him. It's so effective it's scary. I'd pull of double kills by releasing the mist at someone, then as the shots tracked the first guy, I'd whip out my other gun and kill a second guy. When used properly, picking up the needler can net you roughly 5 kills (at least) with full ammo.
Step 1: lure them out.
Step 2: release the cloud in the general area of where they're going to be.
Step 3: +1 kill

Also, it pays to learn to dodge the needler. VERY hard, and VERY unreliable, but if you can do it, the guy with the needler is boned.

My most recent example of unused and pointless guns would be any gun that isn't a plasma cutter in either Dead Space game. There's just no reason to use anything else. In DS2, the pulse rifle becomes a bit more useful, but even then I just waltzed through the game using the plasma cutter most of the time. In DS2 they even skew the ammo drops in favor of what you're carrying. By the last few levels I had no room in my inventory for healthkits because I had so much ammo. All it dropped was pulse rounds and plasma shots because that's all I used. Everything else was so lame or so expensive to fire that I just didn't bother. The stabby things and explosive stuff was either hard to aim, hard to find a use for, or just impossible to dismember stuff with. Besides the plasma cutter, the only other two "cutting" style weapons are the ripper, which feels too weak, or the line gun, which costs a fortune to buy ammo for (not to mention the pitiful stacks of like, 2 per slot).

 

[Booze Zombie]

Most assault rifles I find piss ammo all over the place in a lot of games, I find it a lot better to fire a pistol one shot at a time. Then again, I go for headshots, so maybe I'm biased...