Cool weapon!

[Mr Bacco [deprecated]]

Given three choices I'd say:

1. The Shotgun from Halo:CE

2. The OICW from Far Cry

3. The wonderful Hunting Rifle from Stalker (not the Sawn-Off, I can't remeber the name.)

Each and every one is what they call "a twenty-four carat deathstick."

 

[Lightbulb]

Lord_Sammael - Winner! Lightsabre clearly the most fun weapon to use in any game.

Modern/real weapon M4... Still not quite over my CS addiction.

Bladed weapons.... Well the old Gladius is a very cool sword.

Favourite BIG weapon - Tactical Nuke from World in Conflict

Favourite 'crazy' weapon too many to list.

 

[L4Y Duke]

The Serious Sam cannon.

It fires giant balls of rolling metal death that will explode on contact with any enemies that are too big for it to just crush instantly (Which makes it the SS equivalent of the Instagib rifle in UT2004 when it comes to PvP).

 

[Arbre]

BFG 9000. Lord knows how it would function in reality, but it's still really cool. Loves it to death!

Yeah, any BFG. Even Quake III's.

Just because it's the BFG.

The chainsaw as well.

 

[anti-emo-cult]

I spent hours on Star Wars Jedi Knight Killing people with the forces like Grip and Lightning, i used to love picking up the troopers and hurling them across the room or throwing them of cliff. This was before HL2's Gravity gun that was so awesome, i don't think i used another gun after i got that.

 

[ruyzen]

Let's see here: (Note: they're not in order, I just love them all)

a) Hidden Blade, Assassin's Creed: Put your hand on an enemy and "tsunk" he's deaaad.

b) 50. Caliber Sniping Rifle, Way too many games: You shoot on the head, you shoot on the leg, you shoot at a tank, you shoot at whatever you want, it dies.

c) Gravity Gun, HL: The enemmies are Half-Dead when you get this thing on your hands.

d) C4, BattleField 2: Throw 'em on a car, then ALLAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!.......BUM!

e) Katana (Samurai Sword), Many games: The glorious, beautiful blade, hack,slash,stab!

I could get this list on and on, but I'll stop here.

 

[Danimal3K]

~~Dante's fire gauntlets from the original Devil May Cry. Hand to hand has never felt more powerful to me in any game. Power 'em up, and you can literally explode your enemies with a single punch.

~~And there are few things in life as satisfying as a well-timed melee to the face in Halo 3.

 

[Sayvara]

*So* many to choose from! In no particular order:

- Grapple Gun (Quake CTF). Completely changed the geography of the maps. Worked quick and smooth and made for very interresting play.

- Trip Mines (Duke Nukem, multiplayer). Endless fun booby-trapping the powerup/health pickup points.

- The greatsword (Dungeons And Dragons Online). The first time you swing that into a pack of enemies after having dabbled with daggers and longswords is a big bunch of "Ooooh!"

- Gravity Gun (Half-Life 2). Comments superfluous.

- Oil Slick (Spy Hunter). And there he goooooeeeessss! *CRASH*

- P90 (Counter Strike). Nothing says "Get out of my friggin' way!" quite like putting a bullpup SMG in belly-height and letting a full 50-bullet clip rip right through a pack of enemies.

- JDAM-154 (Jane's F/A-18 Simulator). "Smart pigs". GPS-guided winged bombs. Come dashing in at tree-top level, pull up hard until you are in optimal toss angle, release and dart to the side. Bomb does a pretty parable and finishes the job for ya without you having to expose yourself.

- Fireball (Baldur's Gate Series). The ultimate room-cleanout. Caution: do not use in close quarter battle.

- .45 Pistol (Delta Force). Most fun moment ever: came up behind someone sniping with a Light 50 (Barret M82), completely oblivious to the fact I was standing at his feet. I pulled out the .45, triggered an audio emote saying "Hey, behind you!". Just after the thought "Oh shite, I'm getting screwed" flew through his mind, I let three bullets do the same.. then walked away with the most smug grin ever seen.

- Lynx (Buggy equipped with rocket launcher in UT2004). Perfectly balanced and easy to manouver despite having to control both vehicle and where you are looking. Could easilly have been cocked up and made an user-unfriendly nightmare... but instead they are just about right.

- Satchel charges (Operation Flashpoint). Totally unapprechiated... until I discovered that they can be set on a timer. Problem: covert-ops trying to take out three targets that are spread out + limited range on the radio detonator. If I take out one or two, the remaining one(s) get alerted and all hell breaks loose. Solution: I snuck in under each of the targets and set the timers so that they would all be blown up simultaneously. Snuck out and put myself on a hillside near my extraction point almost a kilometer away and quietly waited for the fireworks. Timers reached zero on the same second and BOOM! *sigh* It was beautiful.

- Spy (Civilization II). That klaxon reving up... followed by the marvelous, earth-shattering KABOOM... a *beautiful* mushroom cloud animation. Doesn't get much better.

 

[dannyodwyer]

Grenades from Quake 2 (twist and throw!) and both the Topsy-Turvy bomb and Shark-Gun from Armed and Dangerous.

 

[goodpoltergeist]

The Chestburster from Turok: Rage Wars.

The game itself was pretty bad. An arena style multiplayer game with a lot of generic aspects, and the game had an unfinished feel.

But the Chestburster was very cool. It was kind of slow, but if you could hit another player with it, they had around 12 seconds before they fell over and an serpentine creature rips out of their chest. Isn't a very original idea, alien ripping out of someone's chest, but it was just a very cool gun to have. The Turok series featured some very fun weapons overall, it's a shame the series kind of went down the drain by the third installment.

Also, the Snarks from Half-Life. Not really a gun, but it was just so fun to let three go in a room with some Marines then charge in once they start firing trying to stay them off. Some very nice animations too when you just had the Snark out and idled.

Yes, LOVE Turok Rage Wars, and even though the Chest Burster was one-hit kill, it was pretty much a hit-or miss weapon. The recharge was pretty slow and if you miss, you probably weren't getting another chance. It was a challenging weapon to master, but it was definitely awesome.

Also, the Inflator from Turok: Rage Wars is probably the most hilarious weapon ever created. I love it.

 

[p1ne]

UT's shock rifle (any incarnation). Unique idea, very effective if you know how to use it, and just plain fun.

The railgun (Quake 2 version).

The Flail of the Ages from Baldur's Gate 2 with all attachments - turn that pansy cleric Viconia into the Drow badass she deserves to be.

The baseball bat in Worms: Armageddon.

I bet I'd have a pick from the Soul Caliber series if I'd ever played it much... lots of cool weapons in those games.

 

[Kaisharga]

Metal Blades, Mega Man 2. Lord, yes.

Sniper rifles of any type get a mention, though the one in the Ratchet+Clank series gets special note because it exploded on contact with a target. One of my favorite gaming stories involves that sucker.

The best "BFG" in my opinion was the Mauler from a little-known FPS game by the name of Strife. Still awesome.

And let's not forget the Dagger of Time.

 

[Kermi]

I like the Harpoon gun from Crackdown. That game got old really fast, but I stupidly paid for and downloaded the extra content pack hoping to squeeze some more life out of it. The harpoon gun was the one worthwhile addition - nothing like nailing enemies to walls, or even engaging them strategically so that when you're done, you have their corpses bouncing along behind your car as you depart the scene.
In terms of how the weapon functions as opposed to what it can do though, I'm pretty fond of the BFG 10,000 from Quake 2. I know it's blasphemy to take the 10K over the 9K, but really: not only did it shoot a giant ball of... something... that vaporised your enemies who happened to be in the area of impact, but as it flew across the room it fired out energy beams to cut down anything in its way as it travelled.

 

[Atlas Greatcreek]

Chainsaw bayonet in Gears of War. I mean, I've seen blood before but Damn. Also, and while this might justifiably be called a gadget rather than a weapon I have always had an illicit love affair with the Hookshot from the Zelda series. In Twilight Princess, you get to look like Spiderman, only twice as cool. Pure awesome.

 

[McLrn227 [deprecated]]

I'm gonna have to go with the "protoss corsairs" in starcraft.

 

[Landslide]

Railgun. Quake 2.

 

[Landslide]

Oh! And the stake gun in Painkiller. Even MORE fun if you use the slow motion cheat. Fire stake. Run around to a perpendicular angle, and watch it slowly fly into an enemy and pin them to a wall. Satisfying.

 

[big daddy]

half lifes gravity gun
halo's spartan laser
unreal tounament sniper and shock rifle
gears of wars hammer of dawn
and the big daddy drill

 

[Landslide]

Post-hole digger from Dead Rising.

 

[dwallack79]

Shame on all of you!

It's a tie between the RC-P90 and the silenced PP7 from Goldeneye 64