Moments in gaming when you've just been ridiculously overpowered

[GreatVladmir]

The bit in the Citadel at the end of Half Life 2. You know which bit I mean.

By any chance you only have 1 weapon, but it makes all weapons to ever exsist, ever defunct? I think I know what you mean, who's up for a spot of trans-human forces bowling?

Apart from rediculous moments like the HL2 citadel, my WoW character, nothing makes me feel so OP'd that I actually feel bad, than killing an equal level char, with out doing anything, god I love lvl 22 Nightstalkers .

 

[CloudKiller]

Also Fable 1 & 2, with so many health potions, mana potions, and even instantly revive from death potions littered about the place you never even die and in Fable 2, of course, you can't die, you are immortal, the game is literally unloseable.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Yeah, every game except for RTS.
Seriously, game developers forgot what "challenge" means. (well ok, DMC 4 was kinda hardish on the higher difficulties)

 

[anthony87]

In FFXII, I used a power-leveling tip from the Official Strategy Guide to raise the characters to LV80+. I was able to pwn just about everything, with the exeption of super-boss Yiazmat of course.

The amount of HP they give him was just ridiculous. 4 hours for a boss fight? Thats not a challenge, thats pure boredom grinding.

I think Square Enix realised their mistake though. When they realeased the International version of FFXII over in Japan they nerfed him so that you could beat Yiazmat with even a relatively low leveled party.

Seriously, whoever thought it'd be a good idea to include a boss with 50 million hp should be sacked.

 

[King Kupofried]

In FFXII, I used a power-leveling tip from the Official Strategy Guide to raise the characters to LV80+. I was able to pwn just about everything, with the exeption of super-boss Yiazmat of course.

The amount of HP they give him was just ridiculous. 4 hours for a boss fight? Thats not a challenge, thats pure boredom grinding.

I think Square Enix realised their mistake though. When they realeased the International version of FFXII over in Japan they nerfed him so that you could beat Yiazmat with even a relatively low leveled party.

Seriously, whoever thought it'd be a good idea to include a boss with 50 million hp should be sacked.

Most likely whoever thought the initial release of Pandemonium Warden in FFXI was a good idea.
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/08/pandemonium-war/
I love this game so much (They made him much better now though)

As for me, I'd say Shadow Hearts: Covenant after I spent the time to unlock everyone's side quests and spent enough time using the Mind's Eye accessory of Yuri (Which turns your Judgement Ring invisible in exchange for doing twice as much damage) that I was getting perfects with it, paired with the fact that I'm the sort of person that tends to hoard powerful consumable items, I had a wonderful amount or Third, Fifth and Seventh Keys which made the final stages of the game a joke.

 

[DaOysterboy]

I once made a level 7 fighter, and dual classed to a mage then played through both Baldur's Gate games and their expansions with him. Despite the fact that he had so much magic to throw the smack down with, I still found myself toe to toe with a few enemies and boss fights were pretty tricky anyways. For being so overpowered, I remember everything else was too, but then I didn't have the patience to grind him to the exp cap. A long way though from the orphan who had a 50/50 chance of making it out of his first encounter with a wolf.

 

[Frequen-Z]

Guild Wars, my level 20 Mesmer/Necromancer could fuck anything up relatively easily.

 

[Malediozone]

The Final Boss in Halo 3. You know, when you have the spartan laser and he has the ability to push you a bit? Yeah, that was ridiculous.

 

[namewon'tfitin]

Citadel in half life 2 after getting the physgun. everything is a 1 hit kill , your suit charges up to 200 and you can also kill a FUCKIN STRIDER WHIT IT !

 

[WorthlessSix]

Having chosen the Jedi Guardian (and subsequently Weapon Master), the final hours of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II showed me how pitiful Sith Lords really were.

Indeed. On the other hand, with the other combination, Jedi Councilor, the Malak fight got down to me eating those stimpacks and health kits for more than half an hour while slowly chipping away at him. More challenging, less safe and less fun.

Emphasis on the 'less fun'. TT_TT

 

[Punisher A.J.]

Dynasty warriors 6 empires as sun shang xiang - 700 kills in 5 seconds.
"who says a woman has to be"... SHUT UP!

Halo 3 - Killing 2 scarabs with one Mongoose.

Splinter cell convition - mark and execute.

Whenever I suicide heal - thats when you run across the entire map dodging bullets, melee attacks, and giant monsters sprinting a B-line right to the person you heal.... but once they get up, you go down. "OK your fine save me." Perfect game for this is Gears of War....horde mode.

 

[Icecoldcynic]

Fallout 3 once you get the chinese stealth suit. They can't hit what they can't see.

 

[camaille]

The bit in the Citadel at the end of Half Life 2. You know which bit I mean.

You mean when your enemies become your ammo

 

[Ralen-Sharr]

Kotor: Jedi Guardian... first encounter with Malak was me ripping him to shreds every time he showed his half-face. I was pissed that they made me leave... I was winning... :|

Oblivion: Built a full Daedric suit with +STR mods so I could carry it. Consequently, when using Umbra you can break almost ANY shield in 1 or 2 hits, assuming the second hit didn't kill the wearer.

Fallout 3: Max stealth and small arms makes a lever action .30 rifle behave like a .50 BMG, a shotgun is a cannon, and Deathclaw gloves are the scythe of the grim reaper himself with some hand-to-hand.

Mass Effect 1: second playthrough, especially with Wrex around. Nothing stands up the a lvl 10 Spectre assault rifle with pinpoint full-auto accuracy very long.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

For me, the first playthrough of Borderlands going through the Crimson Lance place. I had a shotgun that only had 2 shots, but had x4 lightning and a ton of damage. I walked through the whole place shooting everything once and walking off as they seized up and their heads exploded.

I eventually got rid of that shotgun though. Now I have shotgun that is overpowered but in a different way. It does more damage than the shotgun I mentioned before and because of my class mod it holds 27 rounds in one clip. With the fire rate it has (a steady 3 shots per second or so) you can plow through anything with no trouble.

So pretty much the ending of the first playthrough and my entire second playthrough.

 

[ultimateownage]

I've probably been ninja'd, but the tank in l4d.

 

[Flour]

For a while I was unstoppable in Disgaea 3. There's not much enemies can do against a level 800+ mage until you reach the endgame.(the final boss was level 170) I did abuse a level map, but it was worth it just to one-shot the final boss.(saved before and did it properly after that though)

 

[RandomShellz]

Fallout 1. My bartering was high enough that I could, say, sell a stimpack for 100 caps and buy that same stimpack back for only 42 caps.

Then I got the Hardened Power Armor and the Turbo Plasma Rifle. Thus the game became a cakewalk down easy street.