Video game weapons you found most useless!

[guardian001]

Not sure if they count as "Weapons," but every plasmid from Bioshock other than the Electric Shock one. Shock enemy to stun, shoot in face. No need to ever equip anything else.

Even the developer seemed to realize this. As you get into the later parts of the game, Thuggish Splicers (the melee ones) gain immunity to being stunned by it. Luckily they never gain immunity to a crossbow bolt to the face.

 

[kommando367]

Flamethrower from Dead Space. fastest ammo consumption except for PR secondary fire, crap damage, and made the game lag.

 

[chif-ii]

The poison mushroom from Super Mario: the lost worlds, what can be worse than a weapon that hurts you?

Well as long as we're going to mention Mario, I found the Bee powerup to be the most useless piece of s*** ever in Galaxy 2. The boo could turn invisible and fly indefinitely, what can the Bee do? Climb on honey?

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

Most uzi-small-style smg weapons

 

[MoNKeyYy]

Half of the Melee weapons in Left 4 Dead 2... why would you take a Frying Pan or a Police Baton when you can have a Katana?

Because if beating a zombiefied head off a fat southerner in a theme park with a guitar was not in the top 10 most satisfying experiences in your video game life you need to step back and re-evaluate how you think.

 

[Nanissimov]

The game is called hitman, am i the only one under the influence that you should, ohh say play like a hitman in a game called hitman? I'm sure your not supposed to storm the place guns blazing, i under stand they put the weapons in there to cater to people who like shooty shooty bang bang but if you do you certainly shouldn't have picked up hitman

A hitman just kills people for money which is what you do in Hitman: Blood Money. It really is up to the hitman how it gets done. You will not find a definition of hitman that includes the word "subtle".

Good point but still don't you think shooting up a hotel is a better idea then sneaking in and poisoning one man?

 

[Vigormortis]

Not sure if anyone else has picked this one yet, but if not I've got all the others beat.

The Klobb from Goldeneye. (N64 era) That thing was the biggest (smallest?) piece of crap I've ever had the misfortune of using. It made any other crap weapon in any game seem like a BFG. A full clip from that thing would deal less damage than a 1/2 of a clip from the basic PP7. Plus, beyond 2 inches you'd not even want to bother aiming as you'd be just as likely to hit the target regardless.

[/edit] Oop, never mind. Apparently I was beaten to the punch. Good show Drakmeire.

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Half of the Melee weapons in Left 4 Dead 2... why would you take a Frying Pan or a Police Baton when you can have a Katana?

Because the Katana has TERRIBLE hit detection and the Baton is a beast of a Tank killer. You can get at least 4 or 5 swings in on a Tank as he's going through the animation of throwing a rock. And, since all melee weapons essentially deal the same damage per hit on a Tank, it'll kill the Tank faster than a Katana could EVER hope to. Not to mention you can quick switch to and from the Baton or Crowbar faster than most of the other melee weapons.

However, you're absolutely right. For style points the Katana wins out-right. (though, personally I'd go with the Crowbar or Ax. less style, but they have that utilitarian-like coolness.)

 

[crudus]

Good point but still don't you think shooting up a hotel is a better idea then sneaking in and poisoning one man?

It depends on my mood. Sometimes I do want to be patient and clever. Other times I just want things to die. I would have gotten bored with this game very quickly if it forced you to be subtle.

 

[luckshotpro]

anything found in the toy store in Dead Rising

I wouldn't say the toy helicopter-machete combo is useless. Slicey death that is.
i haven't played Dead Rising 2 yet, so when i do, i'll be sure to combine the toy helicopter and machete, thanks

 

[Geekosaurus]

At first I thought that the garrotte wire in Hitman Blood Money was simply inferior to the poison syringes because it was harder to use. Then I realised it was awesome.

 

[Nanissimov]

Good point but still don't you think shooting up a hotel is a better idea then sneaking in and poisoning one man?

It depends on my mood. Sometimes I do want to be patient and clever. Other times I just want things to die. I would have gotten bored with this game very quickly if it forced you to be subtle.

Yeah but isn't that the point? If you wanted a shooting game go rent, i unno splinter cell or Call of duty?

 

[Squidden]

That damn portal gun. Got through the entire game without it.

 

[Nanissimov]

At first I thought that the garrotte wire in Hitman Blood Money was simply inferior to the poison syringes because it was harder to use. Then I realised it was awesome.

I preferred the Syringes due to the fact they were quicker that garrote wire (Unless you did the glitch where he quickly moved his arms with the wire and the guy died) and it didn't make a difference in the rating as long as the guy was killed silently, and isn't always fun to play mystery doctor with the syringe? Or is that just me?

 

[Nanissimov]

#4) Poison stab (Assassins Creed 2) This had no purpose for anything other than giggles (or ad least i could not find one) it made enemies take out there swords and start waving them around.

Anyways thats what i could think of. What about you?

You are wrong. There's a clear intention to the poison stab and i frequently used it... Although you may have miss the point. It's a stealth tool. Your mission as a assassin is to kill without being seen and that's where it shine. First off, you can kill your mark without being near (not the story one otherwise you are teleported back to him) but you can also make that a diversion to enter place without notice. When you have a moderate to low wanted level, you can actually poison's a neighboring guard and while everyone look at him, you can slip in to (for example) steal a codex page. It's very useful but you got to know how to use it. On the other hand, the money throwing trick is worse and it doesn't really affect guard.

Back on track: The Pistol in any Medal of Honor game. You always meet people with different gun and the very first one you kill, you'll always gonna steal his gun in throw your pistol aways.

Dude, i don't know about you though i got by just fine without it and using it would've probably made the game even more easier, nobody really posed a threat and when i received the gun the missions became absolutely trivial because the thing had PERFECT accuracy (When aimed for a second, though there was never a reason not to due to the fact of that nobody saw the gun when it was being aimed), true people did see you but then you just sit on a bench and scowl for a couple seconds until they go away.

 

[Geekosaurus]

At first I thought that the garrotte wire in Hitman Blood Money was simply inferior to the poison syringes because it was harder to use. Then I realised it was awesome.

I preferred the Syringes due to the fact they were quicker that garrote wire (Unless you did the glitch where he quickly moved his arms with the wire and the guy died) and it didn't make a difference in the rating as long as the guy was killed silently, and isn't always fun to play mystery doctor with the syringe? Or is that just me?

That's exactly what I thought. The syringes are way more practical, but taking away 47's garrotte wire would be like taking away his trademark suit. I learnt to live with them.

 

[Nanissimov]

At first I thought that the garrotte wire in Hitman Blood Money was simply inferior to the poison syringes because it was harder to use. Then I realised it was awesome.

I preferred the Syringes due to the fact they were quicker that garrote wire (Unless you did the glitch where he quickly moved his arms with the wire and the guy died) and it didn't make a difference in the rating as long as the guy was killed silently, and isn't always fun to play mystery doctor with the syringe? Or is that just me?

That's exactly what I thought. The syringes are way more practical, but taking away 47's garrotte wire would be like taking away his trademark suit. I learnt to live with them.

Yeah i guess, but it did look a bit silly when he was strangling people.

 

[moment_fast]

i would have to say the big sword from legend of zelda ocarina of time. one hit then it breaks...BULLSH*T! also the letter in every space shooter that brings your weapon back to normal, and finally the poison mushroom from mario... no more need be said

 

[crudus]

Good point but still don't you think shooting up a hotel is a better idea then sneaking in and poisoning one man?

It depends on my mood. Sometimes I do want to be patient and clever. Other times I just want things to die. I would have gotten bored with this game very quickly if it forced you to be subtle.

Yeah but isn't that the point? If you wanted a shooting game go rent, i unno splinter cell or Call of duty?

Call of duty punishes you for the catharsis of going in guns blazing. Splinter Cell punished you for shooting people, period. Now it is true you got more points for being stylish and sneaky, but the point of the game was to kill people and get paid for it. You can progress and beat the game if you just shoot everyone.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Honestly I thought the gravity gun in half life 2 was useless.

There were only so many situations where it was worth pulling out and using, aside from the game forcing you to use it. Which is another point: I absolutely hated how it was the "ooh look! We need to have the player use this thing as much as possible" item out of half life 2.

The Gravity Gun.

I'll take a bullet fired at the speed of sound over that, thank you.

Not at all, you just have to know what you're doing. There are situations where the Gravity Gun is useless, but there are many more where it's either the ideal weapon (i.e, Hunter fights in Episode 2) or just more fun to use (Ravenholm, most of Episode 1). My first playthroughs of the various HL games, I never used the Grav Gun unless I had to. Second playthroughs, I went for the Zombie Chopper and The One Free Bullet achievements and realized how fun the thing can be.

The crowbar from Half-Life 2. I realized it's pretty much replaced by the grvity gun, but after Ravenholm, you won't even consider whipping out the crowbar. Same thing with the pistol.

Crowbar is useful for quickly taking out headcrabs (especially the poison ones, the motherfuckers) when you don't want to waste ammo. Overall though, you're pretty much right.

 

[crono738]

#4) Poison stab (Assassins Creed 2) This had no purpose for anything other than giggles (or ad least i could not find one) it made enemies take out there swords and start waving them around.

Anyways thats what i could think of. What about you?

Doesn't cause you to be detected when you kill someone with it. It also draws attention to the poisoned guard, which makes it easier to stay undetected.