Most useless weapons in gaming

[Arqus_Zed]

The starter weapon in almost any JRPG.

In many games, you'll often find a better weapon even before your first real battle.

 

[KissofKetchup]

The splash attack from the pokemon series.

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But yo momma's so fat her splash attack actually does damage!
Sorry couldn't resist

 

[The Bandit]

This thing in the Halo games:

Extraordinarily useful with Mythic skulls on, when overcharged plasma bolt doesn't insta drain their shields. It was also great with an SMG in Halo 2.

 

[MammothBlade]

The .38 revolver in VtM: Bloodlines. I don't usually complain about guns as I know how to offset the drawbacks of most, but the weak firepower, terrible accuracy, and slow fire rate make it little more than a toy.

 

[TorchofThanatos]

Halo 2 pistol!
Most useless thing ever!

 

[Yosato]

Anything other than the use of magic in Fable 3 was utterly pointless. Hold down one button and clear or decimate ten enemies at once, or spend ten minutes firing a slow reloading flintlock at wolfmen that can dodge any attack. Oh and here's a sword/axe, just because we think you'd look cool.

I'd have to completely agree with this. The melee in Fable 3 was dog shit compared to the guns, which were awful compared to the magic. The most horrible thing about it is that magic was badly overpowered even in Fable 2, and instead of fixing the problem they made it far worse.

 

[L9OBL]

People are proberbly going to yell at me for this but I don't care;

The Gravity Gun.

Yes everything can be used for ammunition, yes its an impressive use of physics but I found it didn't have much of a punch unless you had a saw blade, difficult to aim and in many cases left me wide open to attack while I was trying to pick up something decent to shoot with from the piles of crap left lying around.

That is untill the end of HL2 when it became over powered and could throw people. But before that point I completely agree. It was useless. Though the most useless weapon i've encountered is probably the Alternative Fire mode for the Shotgun in Painkiller. it was hard to hit with slow to fire and all it did was temporarily nullify an enemy's armor for 5 seconds. A complete waste

 

[viking97]

People are proberbly going to yell at me for this but I don't care;

The Gravity Gun.

Yes everything can be used for ammunition, yes its an impressive use of physics but I found it didn't have much of a punch unless you had a saw blade, difficult to aim and in many cases left me wide open to attack while I was trying to pick up something decent to shoot with from the piles of crap left lying around.

while i understand this is an opinion, i feel i have to disagree. true in pitched battles with the combine it can be a bit underpowered, but it rocks against zombies. not to mention it made good moveable cover, like say picking up a barrel running into a soldiers face at launching it at him. goood times.

 

[band43seat]

the wooden sword from kingdom hearts, you know, the weapon that cant hurt any of the heartless

 

[AD-Stu]

The entire SMG category in Alpha Protocol. Given that assault rifles had longer range, were more accurate and were silenceable, did anyone bother using SMGs outside of the training mission?

Sniper rifles were next to useless in Mass Effect 1, though they managed to fix that for the second game.

 

[Benpasko]

Sniper rifles were next to useless in Mass Effect 1, though they managed to fix that for the second game.

I disagree whole-heartedly. Sniper rifles were awesome in ME1, you could oneshot any normal enemy, and assassinate Armatures with no problem. I think ME2 made sniper rifles way worse.

 

[Ice Car]

Since firearms are so common, I would have to say pretty much any melee weapon in Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas.

Does that count Unarmed? Try creating a Melee/Unarmed character and choosing a lot of melee based perks. It is very enjoyable and they aren't useless at all.

Ballistic Fists, Super-Heated Saturnite Fists, Gehenna/Shishkebabs, Chainsaws... There are a lot of great Melee/Unarmed Weapons.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

*Snip*

Can I just say that I agree with you completely, Bobmus; Spartan 448 doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. He seems to have confused 'less effective' with 'takes more skill'. Especially when he talks about BR users 'cowardly' staying out of the fight to get 'easy skills', it's really obvious he means people playing effectively stamping him into the dirt again and again because he keeps trying to rush them with an AR.

 

[AlternatePFG]

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

Upgrade a +10 version of that with one of the boss souls and you get an amazing weapon from it. The stats to actually use it are a bit on the ridiculous side though.

As far as weapons that seem good, but end up kind of being useless, the Gargoyle Tail Axe is kind of crap.

 

[Porygon-2000]

The splash attack from the pokemon series.

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

Spoiler: I disagree

But, anyway, my pick would be the bubble gun from Just Cause 2. Pretty much exactly what it sounds like, with nothing special at all.

 

[Blade1130]

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Giant's Knife. Or was the Biggorin Sword? I forget which one sucked. Remember how that went down? You spent all that time getting the bigger wallets to hold the cash to get the sword, FINNALLY did it, went "WAHOO!!!" and started hitting the walls until "CLANG!!!"

...

It broke... IT BROKE?!?!?

Obviously the most frustrating moment in that game. All the time you spent getting the sword, gone... Just like that...

 

[AD-Stu]

Sniper rifles were next to useless in Mass Effect 1, though they managed to fix that for the second game.

I disagree whole-heartedly. Sniper rifles were awesome in ME1, you could oneshot any normal enemy, and assassinate Armatures with no problem. I think ME2 made sniper rifles way worse.

Thanks to AI quirks you could take down Armatures easily with any weapon though. My point was that 99% of the enemies in the game are engaged at ranges that make the sniper rifle impractical at best and useless at worst. I guess there were spots where you could choose to use it over, say, the assault rifle, but there never seemed much point to me.

 

[blind_dead_mcjones]

the forearm blades, chemical laser, heavy rifle, rocket launcher, assault rifle, machine pistol, and plasma rifle in deus ex:human revolution

the M622 avalanche in mass effect 2, seriously. even the massively impractical M920 cain was more useful then that thing

 

[Jak LesStrange]

The Portal Gun. Joking obviously, but seriously, the worst weapon I have used in a video game would be the Lightning Bolt cannon for the Deuce in Brutal Legend. Why on Earth would I use that slow firing hunk of rubbish, when I can have rapid fire missile launchers instead?

 

[UrieHusky]

Any super powerful weapon with limited ammo in any game ever.
It have an aggravating tendency to cause the whole "I COULD NEED IT IN THE VERY NEXT ROOM" issue
EDIT: Or maybe that DLC gun in Just Cause 2 that fired air, I literally never found a use for it.