Worst. Weapon. Ever.

[teqrevisited]

The Harpoon gun of Tomb Raider 2. Honestly, who the hell even used that damn thing?

While you shot with it you had to be sat still, as far as I can remember, which meant eating harpoons fired by the divers that you could have easily avoided by just swimming around them.

It was much easier to just lure them to a position that you could shoot them from on the surface.

 

[Mr_Universal]

Varmint Rifle in Fallout: New Vegas.

It felt as if I was playing Morrowind, missing all the time.

lol, one of my favourite weapons in that game, that is of course, when you buy the scope for it xD....at least against things like weaker enemies

 

[maninahat]

I'd say the Gunblade... mainly because I have no idea how that thing would realistically work...

A revolver with a really big bayonet. No mystery there. Although truth be told the design isn't completely realistic it's not hard to picture a beretta, glock or even a colt (since they're supposedly revolvers) with bayonets.

Rifles use them all the time, it's just a knife.

A knife 6 times the length of the pistol, without a proper handle to counter balance it, whilst being too heavy to aim straight. Not a great idea. There are some (very cool) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzgppGj0sww] pistol bayonets out there, but even they are of dubious practicality. A pistol grip does not make for a very good sword hand.

 

[ppsh41]

Outside of games: the SA80 rifle series

And to give a game reference, try using the piece of shit in STALKER. The thing will start to break down and misfire after the third bloody clip. The gun is useless, uses expensive ammo, and it is quickly outclassed once you order a Tunder from the order guy.

Wow, Stalker is SOOO inaccurate, the SA80 never had reliability that bad.

IT WAS WORSE!

In CQC trials an officer noted that for every soldiers the L85A1 would have a fault Every. Single. Magazine.

And the terrible position of the cocking handle and ejection port meant you had to be a contortionist to clear the weapon. It took as long to clear a fault as reloading a muzzle loading rifle and just about as awkward.

And this was in the "ideal" environment of temperate English climate. In Kuwait it sabotaged operations.

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Don't rage at me, but the SA 80 Was one of my favorite guns in that game, The most useless in STALKER was the shotgun you started with. That thing was horrid

EDIT for the outside of games, Im sorry but the AR-15 Rifle series at its inception. The rifle is garbage, the round is garbage and the reliability is garbage

 

[Sarcastic_Applause]

SA80 rifle series

I thought they became rather reliable after H&K fixed them? At least that's what the officials say.

Notice how almost all those points had nothing to do with reliability and still apply with the A2 variant (that is, post H&K modification).

The fundamental ergonomics are terrible. It is overpriced and under-performs.

H&K refit made the weapon even heavier, I actually forgot a lot of other contras (there are so many):
-terrible cocking handle position, especially hard to clear faults (compared to FAMAS/AUG)
-heavy has hell, over 5kg / 11-pounds it is the heaviest rifle British soldiers have ever had to heft yet the rearward centre of gravity means it is still a ***** to control on full auto
-H&K retooling cost a LOT of money and worse than that, 1/3 of the MoD's rifles had to be cannibalised for parts for the other two thirds.
-Refit left many rifles out of action for an inordinately long time
-Bayonet is a diabolically bad design
-SA80 was based on AR18 design yet when the designer of AR18 inspected the SA80 he found numerous flaws with the "adaptation" that you can't fix with retooling
-it is still too hard to clean and disassemble

Ultimately the SA80 is an example of how officially corrupt the entire establishment has been with such a lack of accountability.

All throughout the SA80's procurements and deployment there has been a catalogue of whitewashing, biased testing and dismissing. Especially when you consider how at the time of procurement the government was trying to sell off Royal Ordinance, it helped if they had just delivered a "successful" new military rifle so the government could sell the company for a high price.

It was a waste in the end, the people who bought Royal Ordinance liquidised its Enfield properties to sell the land to build expensive flats for rich Londoners.

SA-80 series =
"Never Forget That Your Weapon Was Made By The Lowest Bidder".

I'd have to say the Klobbs from Goldeneye were a pain in the ass in retrospect. My young self was amazed by the fact that you could hold two, so i remember spending so much time at the end of the radar level, shooting the infinitely spawning soldiers who used klobbs... So stupid

 

[Treblaine]

Hivehand from Half-Life. Fuck that thing.

It's terrible Damage-per-second (and capacity) can be compensated by exploiting how it can function like a sniper rifle with homing bullets. I used it to "bank shots" around corners at enemies and at extreme range where I didn't quite know where they were I could fire a steady stream (at same rate they recharged).

The problem is it seems like a close range weapon when really it is only good for long range.

 

[Bento Box]

The Boxing Gloves in Fallout: New Vegas. My hands were literally stronger

Like the handwraps and 12-gauge beanbag ammo, the boxing gloves deal a 'hidden' damage called fatigue, allowing you to knock-out opponents. This is good for if you'd rather not kill someone or, expanding on that, if you play a pacifist character.

 

[Riddle78]

T1 Light Assault Bots in Supreme Commander. By the time you have enough to effectively assault a base with them,or use them with a ghetto gunship team,your enemey is either T2 or has enough T1 tanks to obliterate the LAB's. Why they're in the game,I'll never know.

 

[SsilverR]

The survival knives from Resident Evil. If your life is in danger you're better off slitting your throat with it to avoid experiencing what it's like to be eaten.

Nah, not really ... It'll probably take about 30 or 40 slits to drain your hp to zero >.<

I'm genuinely astonished when i see people beat bosses with the combat knife on youtube though

 

[l3o2828]

Obviously the bubble blaster from Just Cause 2.

 

[crudus]

I am going to go with the knuckles of doom...in Doom.

Probably going to have to go with the assault rifle in Halo 3. Completely nerfed in both damage and clip size.

The assault rifle wasn't exactly the crème de la crème in Halo 1.

Buster Blade:
It's known to be Clouds best weapon ever, and is everyone favorite, except for the fact that you replace it literally as early as possible. The first weapon you find is better, the slums sell better weapons than the Buster blade

I am pretty sure people don't say it is his best weapon. They probably say it is the iconic weapon.

 

[GreenSscythe]

No question, the stupid weapon of all time aka the GUNBLADE!!!!! It makes no sense!!!

 

[Yellowbeard]

Hivehand from Half-Life. Fuck that thing.

It's terrible Damage-per-second (and capacity) can be compensated by exploiting how it can function like a sniper rifle with homing bullets. I used it to "bank shots" around corners at enemies and at extreme range where I didn't quite know where they were I could fire a steady stream (at same rate they recharged).

The problem is it seems like a close range weapon when really it is only good for long range.

I swear it got even worse when they ported it to Source. Before Steam (well, before I had Steam) I used to use it to kill the Xen Masters, in Source even the homing seems broken. The shots just dive into walls and stuff.

 

[BSCCollateral]

I sort of like the BB gun in Fallout 3. It works against the mutated bees.

My least favorite weapon is the grenade launcher from Mass Effect 2, because it fooled me into thinking it might be useful.

 

[reecenolan]

I would say the SMG from the halo games, Apart from ODST the gun was bloody useless it took about 2 clips to kill an elite. I thought it was great too when I heard that you could dual wield them but it didn't make on bit of a bloody difference

 

[northeast rower]

The Crowbar in Deus Ex... if your gonna be using melee why kill the person if you can knock them out at the same range silentley

I just carry one to bust up crates...

I fucking despise the Concussion Rifle from Halo: Reach. Literally does nothing other than push people around.

 

[Treblaine]

SA-80 series =
"Never Forget That Your Weapon Was Made By The Lowest Bidder".

Well there is something worse than a weapon being from the "lowest bidder"... if there was no bidding at all!

Royal Ordinance was chosen not because they could make a good rifle, nor even for the lowest price, but because IF they had a contract then the government could sell the company at a higher price.

They spend half a billion pounds, or $1 billion ($2 billion in today's money) for only 175'000 rifles. For a rifle barely fit for purpose.

Americans joke about the "lowest bidder" but politicians and public scrutinising every decision with taxpayer's money to get the most bang for their buck more often than not turns out better for them than back-room deals.

 

[Kaymish]

the .38 special in VTMB its so bad i just laugh at the NPC's that try and kill me with it pow pow pow buhahaha my regen is better than your DPS and trying to hit something with it is like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet while you are moving at 100 KpH on a metal road from 200 meters from the hip
and even fists do better damage

i reserved it for smashing windows cause its sale value was $7

 

[esperandote]

Katana, Iron wrench, etc. in silent hill origins, they all break.