The most pathetic weapon in gaming history

[noogai18]

The M9 from Ghost Recon. Bad range, bad damage, crappy aiming, and the AI would automatically switch to it if they had it, even if they had an SAW or MG3.

Not so much a WEAPON, but...
Mutalisks in StarCraft. They have crappy range, mediocre damage, light armor, and cost (theoretically) 5 times as much as a marine (100 minerals, 100 vespene, 50 for the extractor), and 5 marines with U-238 will shred 2-3 mutalisks.

 

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Mutalisks in StarCraft. They have crappy range, mediocre damage, light armor, and cost (theoretically) 5 times as much as a marine (100 minerals, 100 vespene, 50 for the extractor), and 5 marines with U-238 will shred 2-3 mutalisks.

Mutas are actually a huge part of every Zerg matchup. The most pathetic weapon in the Zerg army is the Queen.

 

[Mercernary]

Samus' pistol for her zero suit. The best it can do is temporarily stun an enemy when it's fully charged.

 

[The Black Adder]

I hope no one beat me too it, but that goddamn wet noodle that is supposed to be a sword in Lagoon for SNES.

 

[The Black Adder]

The 9mm pistol in Deus Ex.

Damn that thing is pathetic.

Are you kidding? I beat half the game with the silence 9mm pistol. Well, to each his own. Not as useless as the knife that sounded like plastic when you hit something with it. The crossbow was even worse, unless you just used to tranq rounds.

 

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

The Topspin from Mega Man 3. It has exactly two uses...Shadow Man (But real men go buster only anyway) and Dr. Wily's Castle. Other than that, it's probably the most useless weapon that Mega Man has ever had. You only use it in midair, and if you don't kill the enemy with it in one shot...you're probably gonna take damage.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

The weapon you get from Topman in Mega Man 3.

Acutally, Topman's power is the best weapon to use against Shadowman. You can take him down under 5 seconds with it.

A weapon that's good for exactly 5 seconds is still pathetic.

Wooden sword for Ninja Gaiden Xbox. Takes an exorbitant amount of hits to kill a basic demon and takes a true eternity to kill anything bigger than a basic demon. Then we have Wooden Sword School....
http://iberiansngrealm.com/Wooden_Sword.html

 

[WodashGSJ]

Oblivion - Shivering Isles Expansion - The Fork of Horripilation

I looked at it in my inventory and found that it wasn't under Misc but under Weapons, so naturally I had to see how it did. Zero damage. You think that even with a fork you could stab someone in the eye. But no matter how many times I attacked with it, not one speck of damage. Then again, it wasn't meant to be a proper weapon considering you give it to someone for a quest, but why allow you to wield it in the first place?

Because in Morrowind you actually had to kill a moderately hard enemy with it for a quest. In that game, it always did 1 point of damage, no matter how skilled you were. Oh, and it totally drained your mana so you couldn't just destroy the enemy magically while wielding it.

That makes me think it's a slightly better weapon in Oblivion even if it does no damage - at least you're never forced to use the thing!

 

[Jason Danger Keyes]

midievil was an underappreciated gem

If you played medievil why would you say the arm? The worst weapon was "good lighting" which healed your target by draining your health, the only use was in the very last boss fight where you heal your soldiers. But by the time you've won that damn lighting has cost several lives.

Also the very worst weapon ever put into any videogame EVAH! Was the gun the technicians used in command and conquer. See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_TdZMX_mzI
Funnily enough this also makes them the most useless RTS unit EVAH!

hey, i totally ganged a pack of them up on a nod tank, and since tank shells perplexingly do next to no damage to infantry, they won.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

lightsaber in SW TFU

how can anyone take more than one hit from that thing

ITS A LIGHTSABER!!!

I totally agree.

Also, Lightning from Mario Kart.


If you get it, your to far behind for it to honestly put you into a ranking position.

 

[Snotnarok]

Bubble gun in Earthworm Jim 2, it literally does nothing

 

[elilupe]

hmmm how about...

Sir Daniel Fortesque's Arm

KUDOS and Puppies to anyone who gets that reference and which game

Medievil?

 

[cantthinkofausername]

Fallout 3:BB Gun. Yes that's what I need for killing Super Mutants.

I just decided to challenge myself.

Kill a Super-Mutant Behemoth with a BBgun.

OT: I'd say a Magnum in Halo 3. It's horrible.

 

[MR.Spartacus]

Fallout 3:BB Gun. Yes that's what I need for killing Super Mutants.

This. Also, nailboard.

That and the Chinese pistol. The absolute worst is Warhawk's pistol. Allegedly it can be if you can get head shots but the mandatory aim assist makes that impossible to do on a moving target.

 

[Straitjacketeering]

Teddy Bear in Dead Rising. Awful.

I used it for the free lulz.

 

[zahr]

Thief DS's dagger.

In Thief 1 and 2, sure, you couldn't kill anyone with your sword, but you could still use it to kill undead and monsters.

Thief DS? Exact same effect as a blackjack (enemy put out of commission), but the enemy screams and leaves blood everywhere. No benefit at all because you can't even fight effectively with it.