Weapons too seldomly used

[Lem0nade Inlay]

"hmm, I don't think I have played another game where a whip was a weapon much less your primary weapon".

Obviously you've never played Runescape!....and neither have I...>_>

Uh, maybe a Jack Hammer? Or a flail?


By the way people wanting more Spears and Halberds, play Baldur's Gate. It has pretty much everything, including a sling. Who the hell uses a sling?

 

[Taldeer]

The arms of the recently deceased. They're great clubbing weapons, or so I've heard from very reliable sources. Seems like they're unrepresented in most pieces of fiction.

Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines... One could bludgeon enemies into submission with the severed arm of a prosthetics maker psycho.

 

[Ewyx]

A yo-yo. Like in Terry's Big Adventure[footnote]Amiga[/footnote]

there's always bridget from guilty gear

 

[Taldeer]

I'd go for any sort of ordinary gardening equipment and/or powertools. These things can be truly fearsome - think of the mighty hedge-cutter scissors. Or the lawnmower blade. Or the angle-grinder.

 

[TheJayke]

I have never seen a mace and chain done, but someone mentioned that it might be difficult to animate? Idk it's obviously not as simple as a single solid weapon, it has many parts and if you take shortcuts it may just look like a solid weapon but i really have no idea.

Zelda did it.

 

[Chaos-Spider]

Ring blades (AKA Chakram), I think I never saw that weapon outside the world of three kingdom (Dynasty Warriors and such), I really like this weapon (dont ask why) and would really like to see it in a RPG

If you can, check oyt Tales of Symphonia for the gamecube, the character colette uses chakrams as a weapon.

It's also a pretty good JRPG anyway.

 

[binvjoh]

Fists. Seriously, give me more hand-to-hand fighting in games!

This is a joke, right?

Why would it be?

10 of the top of my head:

Virtua Fighter
Blaz Blue
King of Fighters
WWF games (If I actually named all of them, I'd be here all day)
UFC games
EA's MMA
STREET FIGHTER
Teken
All of the DragonBall Games
Kung Fu

It is not seldom used at all; in fact, it is quite popular.

I wasn't counting fighting-games, but point taken.

I'm just tired of hand-to-hand becoming completely useless in most action games after you get your first gun.

 

[CrazyMedic]

pikes and knives that aren't just your close up instant kill doom attack in a fps. Also I want a shield and _____ combo to be more then oh you get a defense bonus yay you should have to use it like a normal shield not like armor.

 

[ChupathingyX]

A yo-yo. Like in Terry's Big Adventure[/footnote]

In the upcoming Dynasty Warriors 7 there will be a character who uses a bladed yo-yo.

I have never seen a mace and chain done, but someone mentioned that it might be difficult to animate? Idk it's obviously not as simple as a single solid weapon, it has many parts and if you take shortcuts it may just look like a solid weapon but i really have no idea.

Zelda did it.

Dynasty Warriors 7 there will be a chain and flail. Dynasty warriors 6 had a massive version of one. Also Rathcet: Deadlocked (Gladiator) had a futuristic version of a flail.

Sansetsukon.(A 3 section staff) Kama. A rake. Combat claws.

Dynasty warriors 6: Special and Empires had a sansetsukon and combat claws. Actually the DW series has had combat claws for a while.

Chairs! There are so many chairs lying around everywhere in games yet none where you can pick them up and slam over an enemies head, even though it could be very staggering!

In Call of Juerez: Bound in Blood you can pick up chairs and smash them on people's heads.

well its not a weapon but nothing has me using a sheild like i would.... seriously ever get smacked by one let me tell you it hurts like a *****

In Dynasty warriors 4 and 5 there is a character who uses a shield with a blade as his weapon. Although sometimes he does just bash people with it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBbOYRGB6xo

Meteor Hammers

In Dynasty Warriors 7 there will be meteor hammers.

 

[MulticolorCharizard]

Meteor Hammers

Blowguns

Chu-Ko-Nu (Basically rapid fire crossbows)

 

[blind_dead_mcjones]

games need more of the following as useable weapons:

claw hammers
screwdrivers
bakelite phones
wheel braces
bricks
bricks in socks
blackjacks
fountain pens
chisels
bootknives (as in the flick out blades concealed in shoes, not a knife tucked inside your shoe)
and straight razors

A vulcan cannon that actually acts like a vulcan cannon. Most in games spit out a pathetically slow stream of fire (sure, it's the highest in the game, but pathetically slow for a real vulcan or minigun). Descent is the only game that got it right; ammo for the bastard came in packs of 10,000 and you could burn through that in about 3 seconds. THAT is a fucking vulcan cannon.

Also, grenades that kill like a grenade should, instead of slightly irritating everything in a 5 foot radius and doing not a goddamn thing else. Exception is launched grenades with an impact trigger; those usually turn out pretty good in games.

try playing lock on: modern air combat, the plane mounted guns work exactly how you wish (believe it or not trying to strafe a enemy convoy with the A-10's GAU-8 is much much harder than it looks)

i hear you on the granades thing, though considering the real things kill anying within 5 meters and motrally wound within 30 meters levels would have to be much bigger to compensate otherwise the games would become insanely hard

 

[Numb1lp]

Spoiler: These bad boys

More games should have these.

To be perfectly honest, I loved the Riddick games. My only problem was that you don't get the Ulaks (or w/e they're called) until Assault on Dark Athena. Butcher Bay was a mutch better game anyway.

 

[VaderMan92]

the gyro-jet pistol i don't think its ever been in a video game. saw one at a gunshow a while back and thought to myself "wow a rocket launcher you can hold in your hand, AWESOME"

 

[concrete89]

Spear. It is simple, powerful, and the perfect match of primitive and sophisticated.

 

[TheDarkestDerp]

The power of positive thinking, a Spam sandwich, or a yo-yo made out of taping a smurf to a pull chain from an old-style flushing toilet.

Any of those failing, I've always liked Rygar's diskarmor. Maybe not so much as it was portrayed in the PS2 update of the classic, but it just always seemed to me that it had so much potential as a weapon.

 

[DanDeFool]

Spoiler: The Bo Staff is a tad underused.

Also:

A shovel. You never get to kill things with shovels. I mean, I would expect at least 1 zombie game to let me kill things with shovels, but NO.

[HEADING=2]Why doesn't he count?[/HEADING]

You know, I seem to remember hearing that the majority of hand-to-hand kills in WWI (might have been II, but probably I) were made with shovels.

OT: Brass Knuckles.

Seriously, you never see them in games, movies, anywhere! It's always either bare fists or boxing gloves. Occasionally a full gauntlet. Never brass knuckles.

 

[Magnesium360]

A nuclear _____. I would have fits if there were more nuke weapons in games. No matter how impractical they may be.
EDIT:
Jedoro's Ulaks would also be acceptable.

Ever played Fallout 3 or New Vegas? If it's nuclear weaponry you want those are the games for it. The Experimental MIRV in Fallout 3 is epic.

OT: A frying pan. Often underestimated is the power of a good frying pan.

 

[Byere]

A shovel. You never get to kill things with shovels. I mean, I would expect at least 1 zombie game to let me kill things with shovels, but NO.

Fallout/2/3/NV :3

OT:
I'd love to see more multi-headed flails. Oh sure, you got to use them in the Baldur's Gate-style games and Diablo 2... but they're like the ultimate multi-targetting weapon. You have 3 enemies right infront of you, club them all at once

 

[Byere]

The Experimental MIRV in Fallout 3 is epic.

Oh dude... first time I got it, I was like "WOOOOOAHHHHHH, I wonder what it does!?!?!". I'd seen a Fatman before, but I thought it would fire mini-nukes like rockets or something (much further range, more damage, etc)... So I got back to a long tunnel on the way out and let rip... boy was I wrong >.<