Stupid weapons that never should have been....

[chstens]

The grenade launcher, period. Overpowered and easy to use its the bane of nearly all CoD/Modern warfare games

But NOT in Aliens vs. Predator 2.
That grenade launcher was great fun, not overpowered either.

On-topic, I'll go with the Gunblade.

Or the Instant Divide By Zero button.

In some high-level mathematics scenarios, dividing by zero is possible. But what IS impossible is explaning magnets to juggalos.

 

[Evilsanta]

I have to say the starter gun in every game, you know that weak little shitty gun that does zero damage and you never use later in the game.

 

[Custard_Angel]

The Klobb... No question... When a pistol is just as, if not, more powerful, why is it a machine gun?

 

[GreatVladmir]

This upcoming weapon for the L4D2 DLC: The Golf Club (or however the hell they spell it)

It's not the weapon that annoys me, it's the community.

Upon announcement every L4D2-related thread had to mention it at least once. It is a FREAKING GOLF CLUB.
Sure, the hype has died down a bit, but I can almost guarantee I'm going to lose my head at the first person who starts going on about it in-game while I'm present.

/boiling blood

I've never been this wound up about a piece of bloody sporting equipment in my life.

What type of golf club is it? Some cheapo make or a good brand?

Ok, what weapon should never have been put into a video game, why thats easy the fuckin' grav gun, the ammount of times on HL2M I've had a beautiful killing spree with a OSIPR (Pulse Rifle) ended by some lucky twat firing a sink at my general direction, it gets me so boiled up, even my piss boils.

 

[Ultress]

The Kasari-Gama, the little chain sythe that you pick up around chapter 5.It does little to stop the werewolves from Kicking your ass and it's basically a crappy version of the Vigorin Flail.


EDIT: FOrgot to mention I'm referring to Ninja Gaiden 2

HISSS!

You can pick almost any weapon that isn't the scythe or the dual swords and say that it is a waste of money and time.

...but some say the same about Ninja Gaiden 2.

I found most of the weapons fun as hell to use except the Kasari-Gama and the Tonfa, but I really didn't use the tonfa so I'm not going to rip on it.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

The Klobb... No question... When a pistol is just as, if not, more powerful, why is it a machine gun?

Yeah, beat me to it. Such a thoroughly useless weapon, does less damage than a pistol, spread of a shotgun, very slow firing speed, tiny magazine.

I always use it.

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

The Japanese used to give out gun-swords to officers. The pistol, however, aimed out through the cross guard, not the blade. The pistol was inaccurate and the pistol grip made the sword impossible to use without snapping you're wrist.

For me? Gattling Guns. As cool as they are, their impractical and its a stupid idea. Bring back the autocannon!

They were very effective during the american civil war when they were in use.

 

[ethaninja]

The HE grenades in CS. They arent overpowered. No, just the opposite. As bout as effective as throwing a water balloon. Matter of fact, I remember killing a dude by hitting him with a flashbang.

 

[ethaninja]

I have to say the starter gun in every game, you know that weak little shitty gun that does zero damage and you never use later in the game.

Aka: the gun of pointlessness. But I love those "starter" guns that still serve some purpose.

 

[Silent Eagle]

Have to say... The Gunblade.
/Flame Shield

Spoiler

"Hey, cool sword. Oh, it's a gun too? Well, can it shoot anything?

..
It can't? Then what's the point? "

It can to shoot,you just have to pull R1 as you make contact with it. Even with Seifer.
Hell even on Parasite Eve 2 you can load it with 12 gauge buckshot shotgun shells!

 

[Biosophilogical]

The RYNO4 and 4Ever, they both suck. I reckon they should have remade the RYNO2 with improvements than this gun, it is just totally spazzy and deserves to be melted down itno blades for my disc launcher.

 

[Silent Eagle]

I'm going to have to go with the gunblade too. It's stupid in every possible way, even if it could shoot the firing would weaken the blade and eventually break the damn thing. (people have actually tried to make gunblades and none have really worked) but more then that I hate unorthodox weapons. You know them, the kid in that RPG use uses a fucking toy as a weapon and somehow kills people with it. That always annoys me and should not exist.

the real gunblade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M9_bayonet

Nice i did not think of this.
Too busy being a FF8 defendant.lol

 

[Cid Silverwing]

*snip*

You realize it's not an actual gun, right? It uses shock rounds that cause severe vibrations in the blade when the trigger is pulled to maximize the carnage you deal unto your enemy.

 

[Timmaaaah]

All the Zero growth, zero materia slot weapons in FF7. By the time you get ahold them you always have more powerful weapons anyway that have materia slots. Like the Nailbat.

 

[Timmaaaah]

Wait up nvm i thought this was about game weapons

 

[TimeLord]

I don't understand the Gravity Hammer in Halo, every hammer uses gravity to help it along, does that mean all hammers in the world should be called Gravity Hammers?

I'm so starting this in my local JRDs

 

[Kilaknux]

If a gunblade is a massive sword with a gun shoved into the handle wouldn't a bayonet be a bladegun? But when I say people tried to make actual gunblades I mean more like the ones you do see in final fantasy, swords with pistols built into them.

http://replicagunsswords.com/weapons_gallery/images_backup/t_1101_02.jpg
There was also this thing. This is what the gunblade SHOULD have been, a sword that also shot bullets as opposed to a sword with the most awkward grip imaginable (That would probably break your hand if you tried to use it), that vibrated for massive damage when you pulled the trigger.

 

[WINDOWCLEAN2]

While not techiniclly a weapon i feel this still counts:

(INSERT POKeMON) uses Self Destruct.....Well done.

 

[TheRocketeer]

You realize it's not an actual gun, right? It uses shock rounds that cause severe vibrations in the blade when the trigger is pulled to maximize the carnage you deal unto your enemy.

Oh, I see. So it's just as dangerous to its user as it is to its target. That makes tons more sense than a sword that could actually shoot things.

I'll say the flamethrower from Dead Space. Even fully upgraded, it does such pathetic damage to even the most trivial enemies and eats up a ton of ammo. Between the amount of ammo you have to carry around for it and the prohibitive amount of time it takes to deal with any enemy with it, it will likely hamper you significantly in every situation.

Then again, Dead Space only needed three weapons: the Cutter, Rifle, and Contact Beam. The rifle is for small swarming enemies and anything with a big yellow weak point. The cutter is bad to the bone, and can handle everything else. The contact beam? Useless junk. But carrying it around will make you find ammo for it, and you can sell that stuff for big money.

And, on the overpowered side of things, I'd like to nominate QAAMs/All-Aspect missiles from Ace Combat/HAWX. They're fine in single player, but in no other game could a weapon that always hits, kills in one shot, and tracks its target for an entire minute ever, ever even be considered for multiplayer. It's odd how two games that otherwise have such divergent perspectives on gameplay style both have their multiplayer crippled by the exact same cheese weapon.