Video game weapons you found most useless!

[s0m3th1ng]

How about the wrench in BioShock? Did anyone use it after they got the pistol? And the drill in BioShock 2? That thing used up fuel so fast the rail gun was a better weapon and it could barely kill the thug splicers.

Electro zap to stun, whack with the wrench is pretty much how I killed all the splicers. I had so much ammo 1/4 into the game I was forced to start shooting shit.

 

[velcrokidneyz]

plasma pistol in halo (on its own and not dual wielded with anything) goddamned useless, nvr rly killed anythign with it and im not a dial wield fan so i nvr bothered to pick it up. lame.

 

[escapistraptor]

The bomb suit in the original Megaman. Besides beating Gutsman, it's a useless weapon. That is, unless you can somehow convince your 8 bit robot enemies to stay in one place while it takes forever to go off.

 

[pearcinator]

The Flamethrower in Dead Space...there was like 1 enemy it was really effective against and all it did to the other enemies was set them on fire but they would still be running at you like they were just slightly annoyed that they were on fire.

Pulse Rifle was also pretty useless in that game but at least it stopped most enemies in their tracks.

 

[LogicNProportion]

I'll see your Chinese pistol and raise you the Zhu Rhong 4V18, which is the unique version of it and still utterly useless.

I liked the chinese pistols. Felt more exotic...

I love Mausers/Lugers... *Germany fanboy*

I say the Archimedes Death Beam in New Vegas is pretty much useless. Sure, it's powerful, but the blast radius is so damn small. Feels like I'm playing 40K all over again...

 

[Azure Knight-Zeo]

I didn't find a use for anything other that the sword, hidden blade(s), gun, smoke bombs, maybe the throwing knives, and your own fists in Assassin's Creed 2. Mainly because you have so many weapons that you have to go into a sub menu to select them. Seriously, your an assassin, why wouldn't you choose the sword over the hammer?

However, here's a recipe for some fun: use the poison blade on someone and then throw coins around him, then all the people will run in to get hit, it cracked me up. XD

 

[Tallim]

How about the wrench in BioShock? Did anyone use it after they got the pistol? And the drill in BioShock 2? That thing used up fuel so fast the rail gun was a better weapon and it could barely kill the thug splicers.

Seriously? I loved the Drill! I put on the Drill Specialist, Drill Vampire, Drill Lurker and Drill Power 2 Gene Tonics and then went to town! By the end of the game I was basically killing everything with one use of Winter Blast and a Drill Rush to the face. Best weapon in the game hands down in my opinion.

Also I don't see why the OP didn't like the Poison in AC2.
You can poison one person in a large group, the guards will go investigate and then you pick them off one by one while they aren't looking. Or you can use it as a distraction to get into a building or anytime you want the focus to be not on you. One of the best things in the game, I have to constantly stock up on Poison supplies because I use it so much.

As for worthless weapons in games... Half of the spells in Demon's Souls. Specifically Fireball, Fire Spray, Flame Toss, Soul Arrow, and Soul Ray. There is almost no variation in what these spells do. Straight line damage spells. The only difference is Fire Spray which you can hold down and do multiple straight line damage spells. It was pathetic and one of the reasons I went from loving the game to loathing the game. Most ingenious spell in the game was Demon's Prank.

Fire Spray is actually really good *providing* you have a fairly high magic stat. It is awesome against the Penetrator as you can just dance around him and he will never hit you. Any other spells require you to stand still and cast and then he mangles your face.

EDIT: Oh forgot I totally agree with the Drill from BS2 being awesome. Even early game in the levels where there is a fuel station to refill it for free. Drill will allow you to just murder a Big Daddy then you just go and refill it from the station.

 

[Vibhor]

In almost every RPG, using a staff as a melee weapon rather than as a spell casting implement.

What if the staff in question is the enchanted bo staff of the monkey king?

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Now to get back on topic of naming something which actually IS useless i would say the drunken missiles/rockets (cant remember the name perfectly) from the old game Rise Of The Triads. It was extreme fun in multiplayer though.

It may not have been particularly useful, but that weapon is the single reason I will never forget ROTT. The first time I saw someone use it, it was easily the most awesomest FPS weapon I'd seen. Of course, then Duke3D came out...

There are so many useless weapons/abilities in so many different games that I really don't even know where to start. Good call on this, though:

In Worms, prod. Although it was so bad that it was delicious to get a kill with it.

After all this time, I still get myself killed trying to be clever and pull that off sometimes. It's up there with Luigi's taunt kill in SSBM.

 

[th3xile]

By the time you find it in the game, I found the Mag-Net Launcher in Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time to be quite useless. By then you already have the Groovitron Glove and the Cryomine Glove, both of which are far more effective at keeping enemies distracted/at bay than the Mag-Net Launcher. So why bother bringing it back from Tools of Destruction? I never used the damn thing after I finished leveling it up.

Also the Volcanic Pistol in Red Dead Redemption. Man I hate that damn thing. Such a low firing rate, and it always feels so weak. Add to it that for some reason, every time you enter multiplayer, it selects the Volcanic Pistol as your selected pistol even if you have better weapons like the High Power Pistol or Mauser Pistol, and I would like to toss that piece of crap back into the volcano it crawled out of.

And an honorable mention to every weapon in ModNation Racers, although it's because the AI cheats and blocks even instant weapons like the sideswipe and level 1 bolt, not because the weapons are bad. If the AI played fairly once in a while, they would actually be pretty good.

I actually NEEDED the Mag-Net launcher for my Hard and Challenge mode play-throughs. The battle against

Spoiler

Azimuth

was just so unforgiving on ammo that I would have to take advantage of those precious few seconds to get a few wrench wackes in.

 

[Weresquirrel]

My prime vote goes to the Tranq gun in Turok 2. It earns my vote on account of it being fairly worthless, taking several shots to put an enemy down for just a few seconds. Second, it has an aggresively low level of ammunition. And lastly, it's a flipping Turok game, you're meant to (and do) have a vast array of over the top weapons, why the hell is the Tranq gun there?! At least the Charge Dart gun does some thing useful.

 

[archvile93]

The Gravity Gun.

I'll take a bullet fired at the speed of sound over that, thank you.

Not if you're playing multiplayer, then everything else is useless. Ha I shot you in the back of the head with the crossbow. Oh wait you survived and killed me with a paint can despite my full health and shields. Yeah that actually happened to me. Did not play that game long.

 

[Kadamon]

Personally, the shotgun in Mass Effect 1 and 2.

Never used the shotgun with Charge, huh? You're really missing out.

 

[zega frega omega]

The crowbar from Half-Life 2. I realized it's pretty much replaced by the grvity gun, but after Ravenholm, you won't even consider whipping out the crowbar. Same thing with the pistol.

 

[Tennou486]

Personally, the shotgun in Mass Effect 1 and 2.

I agree, but the one exception to that is the Geth Shotgun that was in the weapon DLC for Mass Effect 2. It takes only one shot to kill anything that isn't shielded and it can hit stuff from across the room.

 

[sumanoskae]

Wait, something that definetly should be added to your list: The BB gun from Fallout 3! Piss-poor damage, slow firing speed, and add it to the rareness of BBs.

Wasn't that intended to be a practice gun?. You got a better gun almost as soon as the next combat sequence arrives, and it worked fine against the Radroaches. By that logic you should add the wooden sword from Kingdom Hearts

 

[Antonio Torrente]

i win with the most useless weapon EVER featured... the bubble gun in Just cause 2. or, if you count it, the first ever completely useless weapon, a lvl 5 magikarp in pokemon.

well at least that gun doubles your SMG ammo amount but still why would avalanche studios put it there in the first place?

 

[embrezar]

1) Alien Blaster (especially Firelance), Fallout 3/Fallout: New Vegas
2) Recharger pistol/rifle, Fallout: New Vegas

I know energy weapons in Fallout 3/FNV have been mentioned already, but I have one that's either really crappy or way too good: the Alien Blaster. With its ridiculously high damage (even with a low energy weapon skill) and 100% critical rate, it just makes the game too easy if you're fighting something up close, even on Very Hard mode. From a distance, however, the accuracy just sucks, and each missed shot consumes an extraordinarily rare Alien Power Cell.

You could take this one step further and mention the Firelance, the unique Alien Blaster from Fallout 3. It barely did more damage than the regular Alien Blaster, although it did have a fire effect which could benefit slightly from the Pyromaniac perk, but its condition degraded twice as fast as the non-unique weapon.

The only reason I even got the Alien Blaster in FNV is because I wanted to collect everything; I honestly never fired a shot with it.

My second choice, this one specifically from Fallout: New Vegas, would be anything that uses MF Breeder ammo. Sure, it's essentially infinite ammo, but it recharges too slowly to use in heated combat, and I honestly never found a single MF Breeder in the entire game after playing my first character for almost 100 hours and a second character for about 40 so far. Makes those "Recharger" weapons pretty well worthless.

 

[rh1006]

the golf club in dead rising. i barely even got close to beating that game, and the golf club was the most worthless thing i found in the mall. more worthless then the food in the game! at least the food helped you stay alive.

 

[Blatherscythe]

Yeah, I have my own theories as to why the Brotherhood was doing horribly in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Their armor may be top notch, but they seem to favor laser rifles, the damage equivelent to a really strong flashlight. This can also apply to the Enclave, they favor plasma weaponry that has easily dodged projectiles, thus after using most of the their energy cells and a lot of strafing the Brotherhood was victorious over the Enclave.

And the worst part about the piss weak energy weapons is that I have the console version, so I can't just mod my troubles away.

Me too buddy. I eagerly await the day I can buy a gaming PC and breathe new life into my favorite game.

Alas, with Ireland the way it is right now I could be waiting a long time.

Have you considered picking a bunch of 4 leafed clovers, laminating them and selling them on Ebay as "authentic lucky charms from Ireland" to superstitious idiots? Believe me it could work, you just need to look at cults and religions and you too will realize that superstiious people will buy anything with a good enough sales pitch. You can fake the Irish accent/behaviours sterotype to Americans to make them think your funny and it may in turn increase sales and pull at their heartstrings with a sob story, because another thing about most religious people is that they love to give money to charities. Not always good ones but you can claim to support a charity their faith is assosiated with.

And there you go, a quick way to easy cash with minimal effort.