Video game weapons you found most useless!

[Evilsanta]

anc[is]The heavy weapons in ME2. To me they are either overkill or not much better than regular guns. I never found myself using them. By the time you pull it out, my soldier could have killed half of them already

I do agree with you but i also need to disagree with you. On insane the heavy weapons really help you out in though situtions. But on lower difficulties they were useless. My other weapons/powers took care of them.

OT: Hmmm...I guess most of the starting guns in almost any FPS.

 

[Vivendel]

Ultralisks in Starcraft 2.

:<

Dude, Ultralisks are the bread and butter for any zerg player if the game reaches tier three. 6-8 Ultras and a small army of speedlings can tear through any medium to large sized ground army provided the battle takes place on an open space of creep. I always opt for Ultras and Speedlings if the T or P doesn't tech straight to air.

Not at all useless, and especially not after the last major patch where the Ultra's kept their AoE attack against buildings. (Send a couple of 'em in a Nydus Worm or Carrier Overlord to some workers or supply depots and enjoy the carnage.)

 

[mr. genocide]

Any gun in gears of war apart from the longshot and the lancer (I'd swap the hammer of dawn out for a longshot when i did not need it) because that is all you need. I went the whole of both games without dropping the lancer (And the snub pistol is the only pistol you need because you find loads of ammo and it can easily take down a corpser) because it was medium to close range and if you practice enough the longshot is good at any range.

 

[repeating integers]

Half of the Melee weapons in Left 4 Dead 2... why would you take a Frying Pan or a Police Baton when you can have a Katana?

The Machete & Cricket Bat makes such satisfying noises <3

The SMGs in Mass Effect 2 drove me up the wall they were so bad.

Kasumi's DLC rather changes this. But I loved my Shuriken Machine Pistol anyway. The beauty of singleplayer: you can play it however you like and not get pwned by people using the cheesiest yet most effective guns/combos.

 

[tehannihalator]

OT: I'd say that any parody weapons from various games aren't worth the effort, but more to date, I'd have to say flamethrowers. Oh sure, they're good for cooking with (and not just a lovely meal), but they eat through ammo in any game, not to mention the terrible range and damage-dealing, despite setting the foe on fire. But to counter-balance that arguement, the Incinerator (a type of FT that shoots balls of napalm rather than just blows fire) from Fallout 3/NV are pretty nifty, assuming you can hit your target.[/quoteIn ratchet and clank: tools of destruction the flame thrower did lots of damage.Very Very effective

 

[tehannihalator]

OT: I'd say that any parody weapons from various games aren't worth the effort, but more to date, I'd have to say flamethrowers. Oh sure, they're good for cooking with (and not just a lovely meal), but they eat through ammo in any game, not to mention the terrible range and damage-dealing, despite setting the foe on fire. But to counter-balance that arguement, the Incinerator (a type of FT that shoots balls of napalm rather than just blows fire) from Fallout 3/NV are pretty nifty, assuming you can hit your target.

In ratchet and clank: tools of destruction the flame thrower did lots of damage.Very Very effective

 

[Wereduck]

The First time I used the boxing gloves in New Vegas I thought they were useless, but that's because I wasn't using them right.

At first I tried just straight up punching them to death using the gloves, which took forever.

But then I realized that the gloves are best used to knock an enemy unconscious, then throw dynamite or a grenade at their feet.

Oh how much fun I had when I finally figured that out.

Agreed as regards victory by KO but I beg to differ regarding boxing gloves. Boxing tape knocks people unconscious too but does more damage and weighs less than 1 pound. Even the Golden Gloves from Lucky 38 are useless compared to vanilla boxing tape.

I think you had it right the first time.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

Hmmm, the Pulse Rifle in Dead Space was fairly useless and chewed up ammo like no tomorrow. It was great for supression though, put your back to the wall, aim at the horde of enemies charging at you, and spray!

I bought Dead Space yesterday, and the aformentioned situation was the only one where I used the pulse rifle. My vote goes to that.

 

[Eatbrainz]

Archery in Dragon Age : Origins, if your DPS went to high you would get threat then you would be dead, I found it useful once and only because it was a awakening char and I was lvl 18, your damage doesn't get very high anyway.

Funny to note how i played a rogue to level 18 once and it actually did less damage than a sword and shield warrior.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

#4) Poison stab (Assassins Creed 2) This had no purpose for anything other than giggles (or ad least i could not find one) it made enemies take out there swords and start waving them around.

As far as I could tell, it made the guards stand around distracted for a while longer, although I've never had to use it myself.

O.T. The Rock-It Launcher, also from Fallout 3. OK, it was entertaining, and wasn't exactly that weak, but you had to carry around a load of junk and you had to be careful that you didn't accidentally fire away anything that could be used to make something useful, like a Bottlecap Mine. For me, that rendered it useless compared to the Minigun and other such awesome big guns like that.

I upgraded my Big Guns skill solely for that thing. I used it all the time! I thought it was very useful, but that's just my opinion.

 

[tsb247]

The blaster from Tribes 2 was utterly useless. Actually, I would call it a tie between that and the E.L.F. gun. All the E.L.F. did was slow people down a little; providing nothing more than a minor inconvenience.

 

[Cheesepower5]

Excalipur - Various Final Fantasies. Does 1 damage every time.
Excalibur II - Final Fantasy IX. Get to the last dungeon in under 9 hours and get this broken-ass sword that makes a character who already does obscene damage do a bit more.
Giant's Knife - Ocarina of Time. "Oh hey this is a good sword." "Oh... it broke."
Every weapon in any game ever with copper or bronze in its name.

Well, to be fair the purpose of Excalibur II is to trade it to unlock another playable character that you can't get legitimatly any other way. I don't know many people who actually kept the sword after getting it.

To be honest I was a bit disappointed with the small revolvers in Fallout (like most people here) but then again I have a fondness for small pistols you can easily hold/conceal in the palm of your hand. The .38 also brings back memories of "Joe Friday", a bit before my time but I remember watching "Dragnet" on USA and thinking it was kind of cool especially considering when it was made.

Wait, I've never heard of this.

Who do you get? Beatrix?

 

[Alleged Despair]

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.

You did play Bioshock, right?
The guns were terrible, I killed everything with my wrench.

Ditto, the wrench has no ammunition. Needed to conserve my guns for bouts with the big daddies.

Maybe youre doing something wrong. I always have an overabundance of ammo or enough money to buy more ammo even on hard mode.

 

[Obrien Xp]

Forget the Chinese Pistol; the Chinese Officer's Sword is just as bad if not worse!

Oh and the banana scythe in guild wars is junk, so are all the candy weapons other than the bow.
and other than uniqueness the ogre-slaying knife is of little to no use, neither is dragon-slaying.

 

[gigastar]

Low-quality weapons in Borderlands. As implied, thier stats are inferior to regular, high and v. high quality weapons, the stinger is that they also arent even worth selling because because the quality rating holds alot of control over how much a gun buys/sells for.

An example- Jakobs guns with low-quality will have 'plywood' in thier names, regular guns dont have quality indicators, high will have XX in its name and v. high will have ZZ in its name. The formula varies depending on the brand.

 

[Amphoteric]

So remember kiddies, if you're a dumbass who specs in energy weapons instead of the weapons favored by fucking cowboys prepare to be known as the nerfed gimp of the wasteland.

All true. I did think Energy Weapons weren't as good as they should have been in Fallout 3 either though. I mean there was nothing a Plasma Rifle could kill that the Xuanlong assault rifle couldn't kill just as quickly.

My favourite weapon was the A3-21 plasma rifle in fallout 3. Very high durability, high damage, common ammo.

 

[Alleged Despair]

I say the chemical thrower in bioshock. I rarely find it useful because if you need elemental attacks you can just use plasmids. And while I'm at it the security bulleye if a plasmid counts.

 

[JackandTom]

The bubble gun in Just Cause 2. All it did was make enemies mad...

 

[Sebenko]

All the weapons in Fallout 3 without mods.

Not a single one had a spark of "Fuck yeah, I'm gonna kick some ass now". Even the fat man, since you knew you'd never have any ammo. They were all "bleep bloop, I am a machine, my survival percentage chance has increased 13% with the acquisition of this tool".

Especially since, on very hard difficulty, battles just became a war of attrition. If I swing a god-damned super sledge at someone's face, I don't want their health to creep down a notch, I want their face to explode. Not "explode suddenly after three hundred swings", after one.

And how could the minigun be so shit?

Luckily, mods- how I missed you, vindicator minifun. And yay, realistic combat damage mods.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

I see your fallout 3 pistole and raise you the .32
1. on of the weakest guns in the game
2. It ate up bullets better used in the hunting rifle
3. The only unquie version was in the DLC
4. Even that sucked
5. It's possible to take a bethemouth down with fists and live. Not so with a .32 pistol

Now with Poison Stab. Get a flock of people around a few guards and stab one of the gaurds. They betzerk and attack the crowd. This makes a huge ruckus that you can sneak past.

A medal. GIVE THIS MAN ONE!!!!

Well thank you kind sir. Even if I was half asleep and my spelling was awful.