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Post by BakFu on Dec 29, 2019 4:54:22 GMT
What are your favourite implements of video game bad guy genocide? What have been your favourite ways to clear the room/level/screen and leave heaps of severed limbs, flesh chunks, a red mist, or perhaps ash or nothing at all? What implement left you feeling like virtual hulk hogan, no-selling your opponents’ best offence and putting yourself over while shattering their bad guy credibility forever?
Wolfenstein 2’s Lasergewehr: just found this beast, it’s a portable incineration machine/nazi nightmare, and it feels like you’re pouring the power of the sun straight into your opponents faces in a focused beam. Great stuff here!
God of War 2018’s Leviathan Axe: wow, how can a video game axe make you feel like such a bad ass? The PS4 controller’s speaker and haptic feedback help as the axe comes howling back into Kratos’ hand after slicing through his enemies. I don’t know if any game weapon will ever feel as empowering and bad ass as the Leviathan Axe!
Bioshock’s insect swarm plasmid: what says bad ass more than introducing a ring of exogenous DNA into your own genome that allows you to shoot swarms of angry, weaponized killer bees into your opponents’ faces , then watching them scream in agony as they are stung mercilessly, usually while being shot at or pummeled with a rusty pipe wrench? The answer to that long ass question is NOTHING.
DOOM 2016’s chainsaw: the baseball bat of the bunch, simple, but effective. This thing feels like an industrial deforestation implement that could turn the noblest of redwoods into sawdust, but instead turns demons and zombies into twisted sculptures of mangled and torn flesh. Nice.
Perfect Dark’s FarSight XR-20: throwback time, the best N64 railgun EVER, it even puts goldeneye’s golden gun to shame, who needs to only shoot through a door for a one shot kill when you can use X-ray to aim at opponents through WALLS?!? I loved this thing back in the day, take that you big headed grey bastards!
Gears of war Hammer of Dawn: a satellite laser you can use to incinerate foot soldiers almost as up close and personal as the Lancer allows you to get while chainsawing the Locust? What else needs to be said here?
There are piles more, please add to the arsenal! This topic isn’t limited to guns or weapons, it could be melee attacks, overpowered hoss wrestlers in games like fire pro, anything! 🙂
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2019 8:57:23 GMT
I always liked the DING! of hitting someone with a ring bell in No Mercy.
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Post by Nth on Dec 29, 2019 9:08:31 GMT
Pump Action Shotgun. DOOM, Duke Nukem 3D and Turok made me fall in love with this weapon. Not just a powerful rewarding discharge (shut up), but if the devs took the time to put in that rewarding pump animation to load the next shell with the sweet click sound, it's a weapon I always look for in games.
Dual Pistols. Basically being able to re-enact the Better Tomorrow movies in games like the Max Payne series and Devil May Cry.
Katana's/Odachi's. 2D, 3D, strategy, FPS, RPG's, doesn't matter the type of game, always a favorite weapon of mine. I think one of the main reasons I fell in love with Shadowrun is because Street Samurai always carry them around in a post-Awakened world. Even in a world of full of high powered guns they still serve a purpose and can support some sweet augmentations (monofilament). Also a special nod to broadswords, bastard swords and zweihanders. I'll always choose swords or sword wielders over any other type of weapon or character in games that let me have them. I also fully appreciate games that require sword maintenance and upkeep.
Assault Rifle. From the Aliens M41A pulse rifle, Rising Storm's 1967 M16 to MAG's M4A1 Carbine. The no frills bread and butter, functional, utilitarian reliable at multiple ranges assault rifle. I don't need plasma cannons or flame throwers. Just give me a good assault rifle with a firing selector, tactical reloading and plenty of magazines.
Aerosol Mine. I think Resistance Fall of Man is the only game that has this, but the first time I ever used it in the game the results were so amazing that it instantly became a favorite of mine and still remains a reason I will go back and hook up the PS3 just to play it again. The simple premise is that it's a proximity mine that when triggered emits a highly combustive aerosol spray, ideally into an enclosed area that flash fires anything around it when the mine explodes and ignites the spray. I'll also give a nod to the Bouncing Betty spike mine in Resistance as well. I've seen some impressive impalings with that.
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Post by IamAres on Dec 29, 2019 9:18:36 GMT
All-time favorite HAS to be the shotgun from the original Doom. The feel of it, the massive damage it does up close, and mastering the rhythm of that BOOM-chk-chk-BOOM-chk-chk-BOOM, timing it like a dance so you're always pointed the right way on "BOOM." You can pretty much take any enemy like this once you learn to weave like a boxer around their attacks, and that enforced rhythm is super satisfying and oddly hypnotic at the same time.
Since you mentioned melee attacks, honorable mention to the Batclaw Slam from Arkham. Whip a thug towards yourself and chokeslam him right outta the air - always immensely satisfying.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Dec 29, 2019 9:47:35 GMT
- Final Fantasy VI's ATMA Weapon plus Genji Glove plus Offering basically caused a monster genocide. Any time you beat the final boss with one attack command, you know NPC's write hymns about you 😁 - Fire Pro fluorescent light tubes! *PSJSH!*- Red Dead Redemption lasso! For draggin, holdin, and danglin above a ravine! - Sleeping Dogs - every limb on Wei's Shen's body! The guy was literally a deadly weapon. - Grand Theft Auto 5 - sticky TNT. Loved these things! Planned fun spots on the road. I'll always choose swords or sword wielders over any other type of weapon or character in games that let me have them. I also fully appreciate games that require sword maintenance and upkeep. Me too!! Even if they put me at a disadvantage in a game where projectile weapons are favored, I'll always choose the sword or sharp melee weapon. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2019 11:55:40 GMT
Oh yeah, and I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up the remote mines from Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. Especially with the A+B detonation trick. Like tossing a grenade you can detonate yourself.
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Post by BakFu on Dec 29, 2019 14:13:38 GMT
I always liked the DING! of hitting someone with a ring bell in No Mercy. YES! That was an incredibly gratifying sound! I’d also line guys up for head drops on that thing! Awesome pick! |
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Post by Charged on Dec 29, 2019 14:48:02 GMT
I've always liked the sounds of the shotgun and colt python in the Resident Evil game. The Kitana in Dead Rising felt pretty satisfying as you shredded zombies with ease.
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Post by kokushishin on Dec 29, 2019 18:14:01 GMT
Fish (Sleeping Dogs, Dark Cloud 2, IIRC one of the old Monster Hunters has Frozen Tuna)
Dubstep Gun (Saints Row 3)
Pie (Krusty's Super Fun House, Castlevania POR)
Hurly Gloves (SMRPG)
Peking Pop (MadWorld)
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Post by BakFu on Dec 29, 2019 22:39:02 GMT
Fish (Sleeping Dogs, Dark Cloud 2, IIRC one of the old Monster Hunters has Frozen Tuna) Dubstep Gun (Saints Row 3) Pie (Krusty's Super Fun House, Castlevania POR) Hurly Gloves (SMRPG) Peking Pop (MadWorld) I was thinking about a) Wei Shen in general as a weapon, glad OG brought it up, but also the environmental stuff like the table saw and the FISH! The dubstep gun is fun, too, but did you ever try the tough to unlock FIAJ from Saints Row 2? More of a comedy weapon but the effects are great! DOOM really planted the seeds for shotguns being a mainstay in FPSs, but they still do it better than all that showed up after! 😈 |
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Post by Zealot on Dec 29, 2019 23:14:38 GMT
My personal favorites:
- Cloud's Buster Sword and Sephiroth's Masamune (Final Fantasy VII) just for the pure ridiculousness
- Golden Gun (Goldeneye 007) Pwning n00bs in multiplayer since the late 90s
- Master Sword (The Legend of Zelda) Particularly the one from A Link To The Past purely for the buildup to acquiring it.
- Crowbar (Half-Life) Ol' Reliable
- Mini Nuke Gun (Fallout) The most epic way to crash your game
- Wabbajack (The Elder Scrolls) randomness is fun
- Winchester Repeater (Red Dead Redemption) Another ol' reliable. Was always a good sight in the game.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Dec 30, 2019 0:18:01 GMT
\ I was thinking about a) Wei Shen in general as a weapon, glad OG brought it up, but also the environmental stuff like the table saw and the FISH! By the time I was like 75% through the story, my Wei Shen was practically unbeatable. Aside from the bosses no-selling just about anything unless you countered, I was running roughshod over everyone. He was basically like Kenshiro at this point. I was tossing people through windows and into traffic, winning 1 on 10 melees, and hopping from car to car assert my will. I always felt like a badass walking into a town as John Marston and Arthur Morgan in Red Dead but as Wei Shen I felt like an angel of judgement. I miss that game. And the environmental hazards/weapons were incredible. The entire "grapple + push" mechanic was my favorite way to interact with NPC's in an open world game ever, with the Red Dead lasso as a close second. Being able to grab someone, run with them, and toss them into incoming traffic was amazing. It made basically everything a weapon or hazard. I also liked the sweet katana blade in one of the DLC's 😁 |
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Post by El Marsh on Dec 31, 2019 19:45:16 GMT
Awesome thread!
In general, I prefer melee combat in games and my favorite class of melee weapon is anything chainsaw. Sure, not all video game chainsaws are created equally but if there's one to be found in the game, I WILL go out of my way to try to acquire it.
As for specific weapons, Mehrune's Razor (a dagger with insta-kill chance) and the aforementioned Wabbajack (a staff that transforms the target into.....all sorts of things, including cheese) from the Elder Scrolls games are pretty awesome.
The katana in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was pretty awesome (though, surprise; I used the chainsaw a bit more frequently)
Hades' Bow in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is a ton of fun. It makes ALL of your arrows into fire arrows (thus, negating the need for you to make the special arrow yourself) and if you've upped your fire damage modifiers, it's instant slaughter on many opponents, including fort captains and nation leaders.
"This Machine" from Fallout: New Vegas is probably my favorite gun (that I can think of at the moment, anyway). It was so ridiculously lethal from mid-range and the sucker could shoot all day since its condition degraded very slowly. Maybe not the deadliest weapon in the game but one that I always sought out, even if I was using a melee-oriented character (because sometimes, you just want a good gun for the hell of it in Fallout lol).
And last but definitely not least, Soul Calubur. No, not the sword from that series but the entire series itself. I friggin love ALL of the weapon styles in that series (well, except Dampierre because screw that clown) and struggle to choose a singular favorite weapon. Even if Xianghua, Astaroth, and Setsuka are my favorites, I still love the weapon styles of Ivy, Mitsurugi, Nightmare, Voldo, etc. Outside of the gameplay itself, perhaps my favorite thing about the series is that each weapon feels unique (now more than ever since SCVI did an outstanding job of making former clone movesets into unique ones). Astaroth's axe feels sluggish because it's so huge but connecting with it is so satisfying because of the ridiculous damage that it does while Taki's single blows may do piss for damage but have so many variants (i.e. mixups) and unique, rolls, dives, and somersaults that when comboed into and countering, they hurt a LOT. But I guess that's as much about character abilities as much as it is about the unique weapons.
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Post by eskiman on Jan 1, 2020 0:50:21 GMT
Im going to give some love to the lancer assault rifle from gears of war, because who doesn’t love to chainsaw locust for hours on end
Final Fantasy X also had the Aeons.. Yojimbo was just the best! Think he was a secret aeon though. I remember I beat Sin just by bribing Yojimbo with everything I had, and he sliced him in half first turn.
Resident evil 3’s western shotgun was just like a cheat code - I used to love that gun so much!
Lastly massive shoutout to the apple launcher from crash bandicoot 3... because that was just fun as hell as a kid - endless entertainment
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Post by AP_Epikyur on Jan 1, 2020 3:15:34 GMT
Tournesol (Final Fantasy XII) (The means to acquire it are long, but worth it in the end.)
Harbinger/SuperNova (Ratchet: Deadlocked) (A gun that fires kill-sat-like lasers? Yes, please!)
Armads (Fire Emblem 6/7) (This thing tears dragons apart. Seriously.)
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