And They Said it Was... OVERPOWERED.

[YouBecame]

Raphael from Soul Calibur 2. Playing single player he had an attack you could just spam and beat almost everyone.

In multiplayer, I think some of the compositions from WoW arena used to feel a bit rediculous.

 

[Zaik]

I was playing Arathi Basin(in WoW) at level 60(back when that was the cap, before any expansions) with a warrior that had a mix of PVE gear, the best of which came from that troll based raid with the animal guys and Hakkar in it, can't remember the name. Had that sword from Hakkar, anyway.

I was afking alone at stables because i didn't actually care what was going on, and i look back to see a rogue has been attacking me for a some amount of time, because i'm not stunned anymore. So, i turn around, and press the MS button and I see the following:

Melee attack crit: 2200ish
Mortal Strike crit: 2400ish
Sword Spec crit: 2200ish

It doesn't sound like anything by today's standards, but doing 6000+ damage in one button press was SFB back in the day, even if it wasn't something that would ever happen again in a million years, lol >.> The best part was it was actually an alt, if it had been my main it would have been 100x worse.

 

[Tsaba]

the pistol from Halo CE comes to mind, great game, over power weapon.

Pistol in Halo: CE. Srsly, that thing was stronger than most weapons (Rocket lawn-chairs and sniper rifles aside).

Ahah, I knew I would find a few of these...

I would argue that the pistol is hardly overpowered at all. Slightly, maybe, but overall, heck no. It has its own uses and if you know how to use it then you can capitalize on that.

One small example I can use is just that of how you use the weapons. Go for headshots, you will get a quicker kill using the pistol. What the hell is wrong with that? Who doesn't go for a headshot in any shooter game like this? They kill faster. Just cause the pistol kills fast like this too, its overpowered? Try shooting someone in the torso only with the pistol, and compare that to how long it takes to kill someone doing the same with an assault rifle. Same amount of time really, probably faster with an assault rifle actually. Weapons have their uses, their strengths and weaknesses. The pistol's strength was that of a quick headshot-kill ability.

Ah ha! I knew I'd run into one of these (fanboys)! The pistol is over powered, you could kill at a ridiculous range. First, it doesn't have the barrel length to support such accuracy and second, if it can fire that far, why doesn't the assault rifle or the other weapons use the same kind of ammo, it was freaken ridiculous how much better it was than the assault rifle. To quote from the wiki, that weapon is supposed to have a max effective range of 50 meters, not sniperific head shot tastic abilities that it has in game. So in conclusion, the pistol is over powered.... get over it.

Source: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/M6G_Personal_Defense_Weapon_System

 

[Hader]

Ah ha! I knew I'd run into one of these (fanboys)! The pistol is over powered, you could kill at a ridiculous range. First, it doesn't have the barrel length to support such accuracy and second, if it can fire that far, why doesn't the assault rifle or the other weapons use the same kind of ammo, it was freaken ridiculous how much better it was than the assault rifle. To quote from the wiki, that weapon is supposed to have a max effective range of 50 meters, not sniperific head shot tastic abilities that it has in game. So in conclusion, the pistol is over powered.... get over it.

Source: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/M6G_Personal_Defense_Weapon_System

Don't get too mad, I'm not here to flame, just prove you wrong.

And don't blame me for bungie not being consistent or correct with their weapons. I agree the assault rifle kinda sucks for what an assault rifle really should be, but it does have its uses, even in multiplayer, trust me. Usually, it is my weapon of choice for flag capping, or just as a secondary whenever else. Which is why the classic gametypes are always my favorite, starts me with the two weapons I need to play my game well so I can get right into things.

Now first of all, the range issue: it did have quite the range on it, I can tell you from experience that its MAX range was a little under 120 meters or so. I might be off but thats what tests told me using the flag distance indicator. Now in terms of its actual effective range, I would say that fall more to about half the max range, more like between 60-80m. The pistol has to be used as single shot though, that is, one click for each shot. I find it comparable in some ways to the Hammerburst in Gears of War 2, where you got a higher fire rate if you tapped the trigger faster. The pistol has a great fire rate yes, but holding down the trigger for it reduces its accuracy dramatically. The calculations the game uses for sway/offcenter shot is much higher just holding the trigger down, but shooting each shot at once will give it its best accuracy, even if you are clicking fast enough to be near the same fire rate as holding down the trigger.

Now it can be accurate up to its max range, but even for the best shots with the pistol, its a hard thing to do. Honestly, I rarely, if ever, get a kill at max range with my pistol with a minimum amount of shots. I usually have to use two clips on someone at that range to finally kill them, even if they are not shooting back. And if you try to have a pistol duel at the range, well someone is going to run your ass over in a warthog before either of you are able to get a killshot on each other. So to conclude my point there, YES it has quite the effective range on it, but it is not preferable to even the best pistol users. And I wlll not say its range is that overpowered when actually, all the human weapons have the same range (though much less effective ranges, sniper rifle and rockets being exceptions here though).


And I might point out that in that wiki, it seems they talk more of the Halo reach verson of the gun than the Halo CE one. Maybe I am missing something but that is what it appears like to me. Seeing as how so many weapons change from game to game (also a reason I hate the newer games, their inconsistency with ALL weapons), I wouldn't base your range argument off of that if it only refers to the newer gun versions.

 

[Xcelsior]

If a gun kills you it's overpowered it seems.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

THE TACTICAL NUKE IN MW2

Who would create a killstreak that automatically makes you win I mean sure you have to get 25 kills but that's not much of a challenge with chopper gunners and harriers.

I still don't understand how nuking the place wins the game when your team's objective is to disarm a bomb...

Apparently Natascha in TF2 is noob...only learnt that today after dominating a scout with it >

Uh, but something that makes me rage is akimbo G18's in CoD. Especially when the person is using steady aim. Oh God...

Ah Natascha, I think Valve is in process of nerfing it with the TF2 beta, but I've never seen it as overpowered, as soon as another heavy shows up, you are screwed, it just means he's more effective against lighter classes.

 

[technoted]

Do Prot Warriors count in PVP? They take practically no damage from physical attacks, deflect magaic attacks back at casters and then charge into close combat with them, they have a nice chain of stuns and now they do even more damage from attacks!

 

[Space Spoons]

Not really a weapon per se, but...

Now, I know it's been said many times before, and at this point, it might be seen as cliche to point it out, but it's the absolute truth. In Street Fighter, most characters have at least one weakness, if not several. Ryu has none.

This isn't to say a player who uses Ryu can't be outmaneuvered by a cunning and skillful opponent, but it's never easy to do. Even if you start to turn the fight in your favor, any Ryu player can simply start mashing the Dragon Punch motion and come out ahead 90% of the time.

 

[E-Penguin]

Mages in Dragon Age
The lightning tube (The actual name of which escapes me at the moment) in Fallout 3
You at the end of KotOR 2
Blue Shell in Mario Kart

I liked the Mages in dragon Age, as they were very powerful, but very squishy.

 

[TOGSolid]

So, what's one weapon from any game you've played that was so disgustingly overpowered that you just wanted to stop playing?

This is more aimed at multiplayer, but singleplayer counts too.

I would say the Black Ops rendition of the AK74u did it for me, but it's not really overpowered, just really overused. Seriously, there are other guns in the game, people!

That said, the Buffalo Rifle a la Red Dead Redemption gets my vote. One hit kill, super accurate and manageable reload time (considering it's single shot only) and that's one hell of an OP'd gun in my opinion.

Yeah, it's overused just because it's easy. There are guns in the game even more disgusting, but nobody wants to learn how to use them.

The super fighter(forget the name) from Ace Combat 6 the fact that all you had to do to unlock it was finish the game AND that it wasn't disabled for multiplayer make me weep.

Su-47?

I don't think so,
In Ace combat games there's usually a fictional experimental super fighter you can unlock by (normally) doing something difficult, or at least time consuming,
EG: Ace Combat 5 - you have to destroy certain non priority buildings during the course of the game to recover the parts
Ace combat zero - you have to complete every level with every Ace type, Knight, Soldier and Mercenary.
Ace Combat 6 - you have to... complete the game, once, on any difficulty.

This wouldn't be too bad but it has absurdly good speed and maneuverability easily out matching everything else in the game,
It also comes equiped with one of three super weapons, either a rail gun(not too bad high power hard to aim) a missle deflecting emp burst(again not too bad limited uses, didn't stop machine guns) and a multi lock any target missile system that if memory serves targets 12 indvidual targets, almost never misses and deals high damage,
The worst part is it could be used in multiplayer.

The community tends to avoid using it out of respect for other players though. I played a lot of Ace Combat 6 online when it was still active and unless we were doing an intentional lulz match, nobody would ever pick the superfighter.

 

[Eggsnham]

And you're not strange, sometimes a little provocative Noob-cannon-ing the enemies is what puts a smile on my face when I'm feeling down

Nah... I'm even more sadistic than that. I like to give 'em exactly what they want. Complain, *****, whine and rage-quit. Leave's 'em feeling all superior.

And we all know what happens to people who keep getting exactly what they want!

Muahahahahaha!

That... That's GENIUS!

 

[Lawyer105]

i LOVE your display pic xD

Thanks. That's how I work out what to write in my posts. The moose tells me, and I write it down.

What was that?

They don't believe me?

Well, that's their problem isn't it.

Sorry. He's distracting.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Saiga 20k with slugs in Bad company 2.

It's so overpowered, I feel dirty using it.

 

[Eggsnham]

I would say the Black Ops rendition of the AK74u did it for me, but it's not really overpowered, just really overused. Seriously, there are other guns in the game, people!

That said, the Buffalo Rifle a la Red Dead Redemption gets my vote. One hit kill, super accurate and manageable reload time (considering it's single shot only) and that's one hell of an OP'd gun in my opinion.

I would say in the second gun's case it's acceptably OP'ed, due to how it functions.

With the AK-74, though? It's the only "sub-machine gun" which you can strap a grenade launcher to and it's got the stats of an assault rifle, too. Combine that with the mobillity of a sub-machine gun and you've got an annoying weapon.

Eh, you've got a point, but it's not like it can never be matched.

I usually roll some of the other weapons that game has to offer (imagine that!) and I can do fine in most cases.

 

[Eggsnham]

I would say the Black Ops rendition of the AK74u did it for me, but it's not really overpowered, just really overused. Seriously, there are other guns in the game, people!

Once I get the game, I plan to use it.

But only because it's been my favorite gun in any modern shooter. I love the look of it...

Am I a bad person?

Not really, I just don't get why everybody has to use it, there are other weapons that perform just as well if not better.

I mean, if it's your favorite, then go ahead, but I'd be willing to bet that a majority of these people didn't know what it was, or that it existed until Black Ops came out.

I honestly don't know why it bothers me =/

 

[Captain Pirate]

Half the guns in MW2.
UMP 45, Rangers, 1887s have all been mentioned.
FAMAS was overpowered, and the Intervention was way overpowered.
Not because of quick scoping, but in regular sniping (I did test this) it one-hit kills anywhere above the waist. Every other sniper takes two hits apart from the head/neck.

AK74u in Black Ops is pretty overpowered too.

Armour Lock in Reach.

Not gonna mention anything in Red dead, 'cause I swear to God sometimes the weapons work in your favour and obliterate a guy, and the other half yours just don't get the kill, when by all means they should have, and the other guy's do.

I'm not just having a Nerd Rage, and I know that they may have fired first or whatever, but sometimes if you both use the same gun and you pepper him with about 3 shotgun shots, then he shoots you once in the legs you die.
Or something similiar.
It just seems that way to me.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

Boone in FA:NV. Didn't even bothering carrying a gun after meeting up with him.

For real. I just ran around with Spiked Knuckles just in case. I just kept leveling up without killing anyone and was like "what the hell, seriously?" I kept getting into scraps on purpose just to enjoy the combat, but he would always kill the hell out of everyone first... jerk.

Don't know what you are talking about in some cases. He was convenient for taking out the wasteland scum but he does diddly squat against the sentry bots at the crashed vertibird. Also he gets knocked out before he can take all the enemies out. That's unless you gave him All American.

 

[Doclector]

The damn Saiga from Bad company 2.

You're going along, thinking how damn perfectly balanced this game is, and how brilliant it is to play, then Mr Saiga comes along to ruin everything. Dammit.

 

[loc978]

The Mk.19... IRL. Damn thing is scary even when you're the one firing it.