Most useless weapons in gaming

[zdgrafyd]

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

Not if you're playing NV on hardcore, where ammo has weight. Melee weapons are fucking life savers!

Or even if you're not playing hardcore, melee weapons are the most fun in every Fallout game

OT: Broadhead arrows in the Thief series. If you kill anyone you fail the mission, so what am I supposed to use these for?

 

[999realthings]

The wrench from Bioshock.

 

[])rStrangelove]

The BFG in Doom games. No fun at all, i like to take them one by one.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Seriously though, the microwave gun in Crysis 2, WTF?
It only seems to work within 5 metres, takes like 10-15 seconds to do anything to the target!

 

[The Floating Nose]

I say the Soul Cube from Doom 3. That weapon, just killed the game for me. It made the game soo damn easy and it was just ridiculous and pointless they should've rather putted the laser gun from Doom 64.

 

[Ninjat_126]

The Mac 10 in Killing floor [if you have level 0-3]

i call the gun the 'Recoil 10'

Put it on semiauto and use Firebug. You now have a fire spitting dragon of incendiary doom.

Seriously, you can shoot the heads off most weak enemies from huge distances and let the bleeding/burning kill them off, or just bodyshot them and they'll burn before they close the distance.

The fist in Doom/Doom 2. It did like piss weak damage and since most of the enemies had some sort of projectile running up and punching them was a good way to get yourself killed really quickly. At least the chainsaw did half-way decent damage. If you ran out of ammo in Doom and didn't have the chainsaw, you might as well kill yourself right there 'cause trying to punch enemies to death was a waste of time esp. later in the game.

Two words: Berserker Pack. Your fists are now better than the chainsaw.

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.

It's crap against Combine Soldiers, but good in Ravenholm, can be used for puzzle solving/crate opening and is good when fighting Antlions as the primary fire knocks them over.



The first rocket launcher in Battlefield 2142. I couldn't hit a thing with it. Normally, I can at least hit one thing, but no.

 

[Bostur]

The Imperial Guard flashlight maybe? Shows the exact position of the guardsman and doesn't do diddly.

http://the-imperial-guard.deviantart.com/art/A-Message-from-the-Inquisition-41944789

 

[Tax_Document]

This. You're honestly better off punching zombies until you can find two pieces of cobblestone

Gold is now much quicker and does more damage than DIAMOND, only for shorter periods of time.

It's incredibly useful.

 

[ztara]

Magicarp

 

[Rofl Harris]

The Klobb. God that gun sucked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0korpion_vz._61

 

[Jakub324]

This thing in the Halo games:

Yeah, I thought that.
Pew pew pew pew through the seemingly impenetrable shield of an elite. Shit, it wasn't even god against grunts!

 

[Robert Ewing]

The cane in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

You know what is sad? I have a Strange version of the Boston Basher. Granted, I don't care to use it or play Scout very much at all, I just think the weapon looks cool. However, yes, I have killed myself many times with it.

It's odd how you can miss and hit a wall or the ground, and it won't make you bleed, but if you hit nothing, it will.

OT: I'm going to have to go with either the .32 or Chinese Pistol from Fallout 3. Easily.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

[sub]The only purpose of this post is to force the previous one to reappear.[/sub]

 

[Hamish Durie]

This right here.

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUU- dam ninjas
poor sad klobb

 

[easternflame]

The P.E.P.S. from Deus Ex Human Revolution. So useless...

 

[windlenot]

The foam hand in Dead Rising 2.

Yeah, that. I was gonna say the spray can alone, but it kinda has a use. ... No, it's useless too, save use for combining stuff.

 

[Treblaine]

So i ask you, in your opinion, what is the most useless weapon in gaming?
Persnaly i say the Chinese pistol from Fallout 3.

Remember when the knife used to be the most useless weapon in games? But then it became a quick-key executable, with one hit insta kill and massive lunge distance... well then it got out of hand.

Nowadays I'd say the pistol is the pointless one. They are so weak and inaccurate, with small capacity and slow rate of fire. Sure, games like COD may have a SLIGHTLY quicker draw time but barely better than reload cancelling and when you reload a gun then you have a full-auto assault rifle compared to a weak ass semi-auto pistol.

I say to cure the weak-sauce of pistols is the same as for grenades and knife mount it as a quick-draw button. Just like how grenade was moved to shoulder button to draw and throw, the pistol should be on a shoulder button so holding one draws the weapon (to be fired by pulling the trigger) and holstered again as soon as the button is released.

Though weaker than Half Life 2's gravity gun is something which I think is unforgivable is the iconic Crowbar. IT'S USELESS! Especially once you have the gravity gun, you never need the crow bar at all. I'll tell you how to fix the crowbar:

-give it a much long reach
-a wide "sweep motion" so you don't have to be precise (it's like a shotgun, wide spread)
-hold to "charge-up" a hit, as if raising high over head
-Most of all: give it a long stun lock

This would make it a really effective weapon then, you could scrap in close quarters, as the stun lock means you don't have to take a few pieces of lead in your fillings before you take them out. I'm telling you, stun-lock is the difference between a fun melee weapon and an annoying one. At distance with a fast firing weapon I can avoid getting hit but not at point blank.

 

[Amdor6]

Splash in Pokemon games and bubble gun from Just Cause 2. At least the latter looks hilarious.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Guns in Bioshock 2 once you got the Drill Charge and upgrades...

Not to mention you can make far too many Gurren Lagann references per minute if you play pure Drill...