What was the most satisfying weapon you've used in a game?

[The Youth Counselor]

Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun, I remember playing with the groundbreaking physics for an hour before even using it as a weapon back in 2004. Then when it gets super powered inside the Citadel, there was nothing like killing a man by throwing his friend at him so hard and fast that it breaks every bone in his body.

Half-Life's Crossbow, Snarks, Gluon Gun, and Tau Cannon also deserve recognition.

Bloodrayne's Dual Arm Blades. Highly impractical looking, but when you dice up nazis into nice little pieces while in slow and super fast motion, it's as beautiful as ballet.

The Ultra-Batclaw and Zip-Line from the Batman: Arkham Games combined with an enemy near a ledge.

 

[Gunjester]

The Boner and the Skullcushioner from Shadows of the damned.
The Teether let me down some, and the Torch seemed to have more impact on the screen than in my fists.

But when you discharge all your revolver's bullets into demon brains, or when you first fire the skullcushioner, feel, hear and watch the giant blast as it wipes the entire enemy out of existence, and then feel the pump of the reload...uuggghhh

 

[Jose Rousselin]

Borderlands' Sledge's Shotgun, not so much accurate, but who cares? Me and one friend jump over the bandits to shot them with that gun and then we saw them to fall away...sometime we shot the corpses to go to an near abyss.

After that, almost every weapon that can Rip enemies is OK...

 

[Mikejames]

Shadow of The Colossus's sword is up there, simply because of the visceral way the finishing blows are delivered.

Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun, I remember playing with the groundbreaking physics for an hour before even using it as a weapon back in 2004. Then when it gets super powered inside the Citadel, there was nothing like killing a man by throwing his friend at him so hard and fast that it breaks every bone in his body.

Finding what random stuff I could chuck at headcrab zombies in Ravenholm remains the most satisfying part of HL2 for me.

 

[bliebblob]

Ok so imagine this scenario: you're playing duels of champions (it's a cardgame, think magic the gathering) and your opening hand contains literally 0 useful cards. But one of them is armageddon, a card that can't be played until way late in the game and wipes out all creatures on the field, including yours.

So you just skip your first turn... And your second... And your third... Drawing one extra card every turn...

Your opponent gets a little suspicious and plays conservatively. "He has over 10 cards in his hand, surely he can play at least one of them?"

You throw some meh creatures on the field, to keep up the ruse...

Opponent is now convinced you either have a dreadful hand or are just stupid. He begins to throw as many creatures onto the field as he can.

And then... At the last possible chance before your opponent finishes you off... Guess what son? ARMAGEDDON IN YO FACE! BOOM! SPLAT! Oh and let me just follow that up by immediatly throwing a bazillion saved up creatures onto the field! Sure, your health is still very low and your opponent's still full. But that doesn't mean squat if he's got not a single creature on the field and like 1 card in his hand. two turns later you win, confirming a comeback from 3 health vs 20 health to 3 vs 0.

That's what I pulled of today and it felt amazing.

Yes trading cards are weapons, shut up.

 

[TrevHead]

These are my current all time faves (in no order)

1) (Yotsubane's) Crimson Clover, lock shot and double break (Bullet Hell shmup)

2) Classic FPS Id Shotgun, Serious Sam has some fantastic weapons too

3) Gun Girl 2 (freeware) Cave Story but with zombies, great weapons, Blue the dev started out making Doom mods/maps and it shows.


4) Binary Domain, Great Game feel shooting parts off the robots.

5) Deadspace, Plasma Cutter (since the series is dead, the weapons and shooting mechanics really need copying)

6) Space Marine, Meaty Bolt Gun, wading through a horde of Greenskins with a Power Axe feels great!

 

[DanielBrown]

The machine gun from Just Cause 2. Loved getting my hands on one during missions. Stuff exploding everywhere, soldiers ragdolling into the air... Good times.

 

[Euphbug]

For me, has to be the Flamethrower in tf2. For burning? Nope, that is simple and doesn't really get the blood flowing unless you have a ton of enemies lined up for the Barbeque. The best part is when you are face to face with a demo or soldier and perfectly time your airblast and watch as they blow up from their own explosives. The blood really starts pumping if you reflect a huntsmen's arrow into someones face.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

The incendiary pig from Rome: Total War because I'm a sick bastard.

 

[nokori3byo]

I guess the short list would include the grav gun in HL2, some of the more brutal Dead Space weapons, like the line gun--despite the fact that its low ammo capacity made me reluctant to equip it--and various weapons from ME3 multiplayer, like the Typhoon and Javelin that allow heavy duty wallbanging. Shooting people through walls is rad.

 

[loc978]

For a strategy game... the Mavor from Supreme Commander. Nothing quite like building an artillery piece the size of a small mountain that lobs nuclear shells with limitless range.

For a more... standard... game: Fallout 3 and New Vegas. set a frag mine. Drop a mini-nuke next to it. Put that between yourself and a group of enemies... Get some distance, this one's gonna be big. Shoot up the group with a pea shooter (like a service rifle or something) and take cover.

 

[soulfire130]

Magic sword Mokoto from Demon's soul
Never put it down when I got it.

Gargoyle's halberd from Dark souls
I just love it for som reason.

If yu said gear then I would have said Armored boar helm.

I just go crazy when I put it on and got want to beat the crap out of everything that moves. >

 

[pearcinator]

If I was to be specific I would say the Shotgun/Blunderbuss from Conker's Live & Reloaded (Bad Fur Day remake). Those were the most satisfying headshots and the humming noise of the laser as you line it up with the zombie squirrel heads just made the head explosion that much better!

Dead Space 2 had some pretty satisfying guns too...especially the Javelin Gun

 

[Mrkillhappy]

For me it would be any type of mech. Seriously its a giant fucking robot who wouldn't enjoy piloting that. Though a close second would be the gravity gun from Half Life 2. It's just so damn fun to launch dumpsters at your enemies.

 

[thatonedude11]

The shotguns in Killing Floor, especially the Hunting Shotgun and the AA-12. Killing floor in general has really satisfying weapons, with fantastic sound design, but nothing comes close to killing huge amounts of clots in one shot.

The Power Axe and Thunder Hammer from Warhammer 40k: Space Marine are some of the most fun and gruesome melee weapons I have ever used in a video game. Slicing through hundreds of Orks never felt so good.

Mass Effect 3 has some really fun guns, but I think the N7 Typhoon takes the cake, especially when playing as the N7 Destroyer in multiplayer. The amount of damage that weapon outputs is insane, and the huge recoil makes it even more fun.

 

[PCG342]

What the hell is wrong with you people? Why has nobody mentioned the Eightball from Unreal, the Rail Driver from the original Red Faction, (or for that matter the Fusion Rocket Launcher), and last but not least: Berserk mode in DOOM/DOOM II!?

 

[Ihrgoth]

the revolver in deus ex human revolution just had the most satisfying feel when you fire it. You feel like it could kill, you feel like you are firing a gun. All around it felt good.

 

[God'sFist]

I would say the overdrive of the Ifrite in Final Fantasy X the guy blows the enemy up into the air and then throws the stage at them how fucking awesome is that


And the combat shotgun from fallout 3 and all of them from New Vegas. Just nothing says Fuck you like a shotgun to the face, by the way I don't use vats its a waste of skill.

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[MrHide-Patten]

Saints Row 4's Dubstep Gun. When I got to have a go at PAX Aus I had a grin from ear to ear, pure euphoria. But then I'm like the only person that likes dubstep.