Video game weapons you found most useless!

[ThePurpleStuff]

Nothing will ever beat the Giant's Knife in uselessness from LoZ: OoT. 200 rupees for a sword that breaks after 8 hits, can't spin attack and you can't use your shield with it.

 

[Omega Pirate]

The Gravity Gun.

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

It's nice to have in Ravenholm. Zombies are much easier to kill with sawblades and boxes and don't make you use alot of ammo.

I did the whole of Ravenholm with just the Gravity Gun, for the achievement. It was quite fun.

 

[L4WLI3T]

Tk's Wave, borderlands. Seriously, it waves, and goes OVER your damn target

 

[subject_87]

I can't believe no one has mentioned it but
The klobb from goldeneye.
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with the exception of an excuse to yell "IT'S KLOBBER'N TIME" during multiplayer.

Ninja'd! Although in Goldeneye: Source, I inexplicably managed to get a long-range kill with it.

Also, the Loch-n-Load and the Direct Hit from TF2 are pretty much useless if you don't have really, really good aim, the LnL especially. Maybe they're great weapons in the hands of a pro, but I never really liked them.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Wooden Sword, Minecraft

Golden sword. Even more worthless.

The throwing knives in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and certain times of AC2. You can hold ten with no upgrades and it takes half of them to take out a guard. You could alternatively use one hidden gun bullet and stay undetected. You could also buy the crossbow and stay undetected too. I never used them effectively once, completely pointless.

 

[Therumancer]

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?

Yes, that is exactly who you get.

You know, the disturbing thing right now is that I started checking Final Fantasy IX sites to find a referance for you to prove this wasn't another "Aeris Resurrection" gag, but it seems like nobody has any information on Beatrix other than the cheat using a gameshark.

I even went and dug up my old Final Fantasy IX Strategy Guide, and unfortunatly it's that one guide that required you to use "Playonline" and it no longer seems to be supporting the FF IX keywords because it's so old apparently.

At any rate, the bottom line is that if you get Excalibur II your supposed to be able to give it to Beatrix in exchange for her joining your party. You lose the game's penultimate weapon, but get the game's best character in return.

This is why there is so much data on her and she's unlockable in the game, she can be more than a very brief temporary character, albiet you can't use her in a typical game playthrough I don't believe without cheating.

Of course I can't actually *prove* this, and it has been a long time, so feel free to take it with a grain of salt. I sort of feel stupid for mentioning something that I thought was common knowlege and then being unable to prove it myself.

At any rate now that I'm suffering allergies from dust I might as well say I believe the relevent keywords from the cluebook should be STNREX7, and EXCAL9. Between that it should be everything official on Excalibur and Excalibur 2 from Playonline, but again I can't access it, and I'm pretty sure the stuff about getting Beatrix legally is (or was) there.

 

[park92]

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!

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it was good for those guys those little guys that shoot stuff at you

 

[Rock Beefchest]

Glock 18 in MW2. Useless.

I have to disagree. with a riot shield on your back and two G18's with lightweight and marathon you are a lightning fast death machine.

 

[DanielBrown]

Prince of Persia; Warrior Within
Teddy bear!

I never got it myself, but I saw how in a video. It's an awesome easter egg, but I reckon it's extremly useless. Other than that... the crowbar in the Half-Life games. It's only good for wacking headcrabs!

 

[Starke]

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

At least the Zhu Rhong could set people on fire, not much of a perk, but still.

Anyway, on topic, any Shotgun in Shadow of Chernobyl. Yeah, they fixed it for Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat, but why would I mess around in my inventory, and carry ammo that weighed .05 kg each, instead of just hosing someone down with my assault rifle?

 

[Atmos Duality]

This same exact topic was done months ago, with the same original post almost word for word.
Either that, or I'm slowly losing my mind.

Useless items/weapons:

-The Cloak of Darkness (Wizards and Warriors [NES])
It's not a weapon, but rather an item that amounts to little more than assisted suicide.
Why? It made it so you couldn't see your character.

 

[Royta]

Istarelle from Demon's Souls. It looks so amazing but it's stat-requirements are just stupid making it complete trash.
18 dexterity needed? A class using that weapon shouldn't have more then 10. To make things worse it's bonus, a resistance to Plague and Poison are nearly pointless since it's too low of a resistance to matter in PvP and statusailments barely make an appearance in PvE.

Add terrible damage and a mediocre moveset and you've got a painfully bad weapon.

But it does look insanely badass though!

 

[penguin5465]

The bubble gun from Just Cause 2, it's an easter egg, no damage but funny to use =D

 

[Jfswift]

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 thought the pulse rifle was okay, if a bit weak at that. What I got rid of eventually was the contact beam and the flame thrower (which is useful for maybe two rooms in the entire game and chews through ammo way too fast)

 

[Redwall]

The alien guns in Borderlands, sure they could regenerate ammo but they were so slow it rendered them completely invalid in a combat situation (not to mention the fact that later in the game you could find normal guns that did the same thing better)

 

[GundamSentinel]

The standard Halo Assault rifle. I just can't hit a damn thing with it. Even when I'm a meter from my target it sprays all over the place. I hardly ever used it. Oh, and the .32 pistol in Fallout 3 I don't think I fired more then 5 shots with it. It was just plain useless.

 

[TheTaco007]

The stakeout shotgun in Black Ops multiplayer, it's like the military in the BO universe were like "this people-grade ammunition is too unfair, give the troops bird-hunting rounds".

Dude, I LOVE that shotgun. It's one of my favorite weapons in the game! I guess you're expecting it to act like MW2 shotguns. No, the Stakeout you actually need to AIM with.

OT: All the pistols except the Python in Black Ops. Seriously, it used to be that you could actually use them if you ran out of ammo, but now it takes so long to kill someone that they would have time to turn around, aim down sight at you, and kill you before they die. It's ridiculous.

The alien guns in Borderlands, sure they could regenerate ammo but they were so slow it rendered them completely invalid in a combat situation (not to mention the fact that later in the game you could find normal guns that did the same thing better)

AND they make you move slower. They're innacurate, they don't really 1-hit-kill everything, and they take so long to regenerate ammo that it's really not even worth it.

 

[elbrandino]

Anything that wasn't the sword or crossbow in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Especially the throwing knives. They weren't useful in AC2 either. They were ONLY useful in AC1.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

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

You're aware that the idea of the Prod was to prod your enemy off ledges or into land mines, right? Imagine how awesome it'd be to take out half the enemy team using nothing but the Prod. Theoretically it can be done.

OT: The stick in Fable. Never used it again after getting a proper sword.

 

[JackandTom]

The secret bubble gun in Just Cause 2. What a load of crap! It provoked enemys but couldn't harm them, even though Rico made that gun badass.