What's the most overpowered attack, weapon or ability in a game?
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In Final Fantasy 10 Lady Yunalesca could use an attack called Mega-Death. It instantly killed your whole party unless members were undead or you had prepared with a Death-Ward armor. Yes, she had a previous attack that inflicted the zombie effect, but if you didn't know you were probably curing that effect as she also liked to attack with heals on characters with the undead effect. She started the transformation into her third form with it and could use it any time during the fight. I'm pretty sure we all beat her, but if you died, it was because of Mega-Death. It really is an overpowered attack.
Any attack in a game that allows you to continuously stun-lock or be stun-locked.
Sniper Rifles tend to be pretty OP. Especially in game modes that don't let people see where you were. Gotta love killing people in areas that they think they're safe, though.
I'm going to call the Space Troopers in Star Wars: Battlefront 2 as extremely over-powered. But awesome. They come equipped with a blaster rifle, rocket launcher, and sticky grenades. While you can only use hem in space battles, and they are pretty useless on your ship, if you can get over to the enemy ship, with all the healing and ammo restoring droids, you are pretty much unstoppable. And can easily destroy most of the enemy ship from the inside. If you could use them in other battles, I would never use another class.
Any attack in a game that allows you to continuously stun-lock or be stun-locked.
Sniper Rifles tend to be pretty OP. Especially in game modes that don't let people see where you were. Gotta love killing people in areas that they think they're safe, though.
I'm going to call the Space Troopers in Star Wars: Battlefront 2 as extremely over-powered. But awesome. They come equipped with a blaster rifle, rocket launcher, and sticky grenades. While you can only use hem in space battles, and they are pretty useless on your ship, if you can get over to the enemy ship, with all the healing and ammo restoring droids, you are pretty much unstoppable. And can easily destroy most of the enemy ship from the inside. If you could use them in other battles, I would never use another class.
Can't remember the name, but the spell in Fable that damages and knocks back guys in a circle around you. Rendered pretty much all enemies as mere annoyances rather than obstacles.
When playing with friends, we always agreed never to use it... yet someone always used it as a last resort. Bastards.Arkley said:
The stun gun in Deus Ex, Human Revolution. Absolutely trivializes boss fights. They take all damage as normal damage, so it's entirely possible to stun-lock them and just sit around blasting them in the face with it once they come around. Hell, the first boss is the only one with any defense against it, and only then by spamming grenades at you just as he comes out of it. (And given the plethora of explosive barrels around him, he can easily kill himself with that grenade spam.)
Of course, since the boss fights in DXHR suck the proverbial ass, being able to steamroll them isn't that bad a thing.
Of course, since the boss fights in DXHR suck the proverbial ass, being able to steamroll them isn't that bad a thing.
Yeah, the Crissagrim in SOTN was pretty much "Well I hope you enjoyed how challenging this game USED to be, now have fun walking around with a force field that vaporizes anything that gets near you."Akytalusia said:
Oh, and the Calculation ability in Final Fantasy Tactics was pretty damn overpowered as well.
Henriot said:
That's what I was talking about:
Combine the Wind AoE to knock everyone off their feet and the Swords AoE to stab the fuck out of everyone annnnnnd yeah, you should never get touched again.RJ 17 said:Oh, and just for an odd-ball reference. Maxing out your magic in Fable 3 and using dual casting Wind and Spectral Swords (or whatever). Insta-kill most enemies around you while keeping the rest stun-locked? Yeah...that's pretty overpowered.
Final Fantasy 7 : Knights of the Round. Powerful my itself, but you can pair it with other materia to make it insane. I went with MB Absorb - a devastating attack that gives you back way more mana that you spent to cast it ...
100% Chameleon from enchanted items in Oblivion. It breaks the game. No enemy can see you, and you can attack through it. It's pretty much cheat mode.
100% Chameleon from enchanted items in Oblivion. It breaks the game. No enemy can see you, and you can attack through it. It's pretty much cheat mode.
I remember binding knights of the round to MP absorb and HP Absorb. it would give about 1024 mana and 10500 or so health. I didn't even know the game could display the regeneration of more than 9999 HP and 999 mana in a single ability but it could for that ability.9thRequiem said:
From Red Faction Guerrilla there is the Singularity bomb and the Nano rifle. The Nano rifle can make short work of everything but a freaking tank, everything else evaporates in one shot. Though Singularity bombs are rare in the open world, only about 15, in multiplayer I found a way to through buildings across the map just to show I could.
Now lets get a little less well known. In Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, pretty much every boomerang was overpowered, but the kicker is that there was no ammo for them. You throw them, they do their thing, they come back to you, repeat. This is especially true with the Zoomarang, Megarang, and the Kaboomarang.
Now lets get a little less well known. In Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, pretty much every boomerang was overpowered, but the kicker is that there was no ammo for them. You throw them, they do their thing, they come back to you, repeat. This is especially true with the Zoomarang, Megarang, and the Kaboomarang.
Warhammer 40k - Exterminatus litteraly cracks and destroys planets
Virus Bombs turns every biological thing on a planet into slime
Virus Bombs turns every biological thing on a planet into slime
Fog Breath in Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. Not a powerful attack, rather a powerful debuff. It lowers the enemy's hit + evasion rate dramatically, and once you get MP drain + high MP it's real cheap. I had bosses with high agility missing every hit.
Vincent Valentine because of
1. Death Penalty's damage calculation (Power=[Power*[Vincent'sKills/128]/16]+10])
2. Satan Slam (Final Limit break, Instant Death on all enemies)
1. Death Penalty's damage calculation (Power=[Power*[Vincent'sKills/128]/16]+10])
2. Satan Slam (Final Limit break, Instant Death on all enemies)
V.A.T.S. invincibility in Fallout 3. Incoming mini nuke? No problem, fire off a few shots at something in V.A.T.S. and the mushroom cloud will wash harmlessly over you.
Avoided in New Vegas, thankfully.
captcha substitute was oddly appropriate to a 1950s USA futurist aesthetic: golly jeepers
Avoided in New Vegas, thankfully.
captcha substitute was oddly appropriate to a 1950s USA futurist aesthetic: golly jeepers
I don't know why nobody has mentioned this but I'll go ahead and say it
SOUL STEAL
mother fucking SOUL STEAL from Castlevania Symphony of the Night, sure it started out kinda shitty but level it up and you can cast it infinitely, one shots EVERYTHING NO EXCEPTIONS, and as an added effect replenishes your life by the same damage it dealt. If that isn't the most OP bs ever I don't know what is
SOUL STEAL
mother fucking SOUL STEAL from Castlevania Symphony of the Night, sure it started out kinda shitty but level it up and you can cast it infinitely, one shots EVERYTHING NO EXCEPTIONS, and as an added effect replenishes your life by the same damage it dealt. If that isn't the most OP bs ever I don't know what is
That game also had Mellenias Eye of Valmar attack that stunned any enemy in the game for several turns. Including the final boss of the game and you could keep it up from the start until the end of the battle so the final boss never gets to use a single ability.Shanicus said:
Chinese Stealth Armor in Fallout 3. The Stealth Field effect with a decent melee weapon or a good sniper made the game too easy.