10 ‘most wasteful’ weapons in video games

In the video game, there are many extremely powerful weapons. They carry tremendous destructive power but possess an extremely elegant appearance, holding these weapons is a unique experience.

However, in contrast to them, there were many weapons that were quite… harmless.

The following is a list of the most useless and inhibiting weapons in video games that we have compiled.

10. Greatsword of Artorias – Dark Souls

Artorias the Abysswalker is one of the most magical characters and one of the toughest bosses in the Dark Souls versions, this legendary wolf knight and his long sword are extremely impressively designed. However, players will quickly understand what is “better wood than paint” after spending thousands of souls crafting the Greatsword of Artorias in Dark Souls 1.

This is a sword that requires fairly high strength, dexterity, faith, and intelligence to wield. As a result, diehard Artorias fans will often need to spend a lot of time building a complete character of all stats to use this sword, only to realize it is a weapon with heavy blows. ) is the worst in the game.

Timing is one of the most important factors in the Dark Souls series, so slow heavy moves are often unreliable. Not to mention, due to the game’s somewhat weird damage calculation system, the combined physical/magic damage of this longsword does less damage than a similar weapon, but purely on object damage. physical.

However, for those who are passionate about beauty or are crazy fans of Artorias, this is still a very “quality” and cool sword.

9. Lethal Takedown – Deus Ex: Human Revolution

For a game that should allow you to choose between “eating meat” or “eating grass” with equal effectiveness to overcome challenges, the brute force options are often far more useless ( except for boss battles that must be fought).

When you choose to silently kill an enemy, you have 2 options: kill or just knock. However, killing is less effective in every way. Kills take longer to activate, give less experience, and are also noisy. You can knock out enemies with elaborate martial arts moves without attracting the attention of the guards, and when you cut an enemy soldier’s throat with a blade in his arm, it seems the whole world hears and starts. flock to you. Therefore, lethal takedown is a pretty useless tool in this game.

A plus point for lethal takedown is that when you do them, you will look very “playable”.

8. Shotgun – Mass Effect 1

In the later parts of this series, the shotgun is a very powerful weapon, especially when combined with Tactical Cloak (stealth) or Biotic Charge (biological control). However, the shotgun in the first Mass Effect shot hurt like… mosquito bites.

The shotgun in Mass Effect 1 carries with it the typical limitations of shotgun games: short range, low ammo, long reloading – ME1’s role-playing mechanics mean shotguns are pretty weak when used against against any type of enemy except Husk. It’s not until you raise your score on shotgun-related skills that it improves a bit. In addition, shotguns are also very quickly overheated in ME1 (similar to running out of ammo because guns don’t use bullets in ME1) and while waiting for the gun to cool down, you are completely vulnerable to the enemy.

Designing shotguns in the game is not too difficult, especially in a game with many types of zombies like this, but somehow Bioware still managed to break it.

7. Molten Blade – Hearthstone

Hearthstone is a game that is somewhat dependent on the element of chance. Surely every HS player has experienced a situation where they were cornered and suddenly flipped and won thanks to some random effect. However, with Molten Blade, a weapon card that transforms into a random weapon card each turn, it seems that randomness has gone a bit too far.

There are many powerful weapon cards like Doomhammer or Gorehowl, but there are many weapon cards that are only strong depending on the situation and there are “waste” cards like Light’s Justice. Therefore, using Molten Blade was too risky a gamble. Maybe this card will help you win in 1 out of 10 games, but in the remaining 9 games, it just takes up space.

6. Dual Berettas – Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Except in John Wu’s movies and in Halo 2, two-handed pistols usually don’t do much. As a testament to this, in Counter Strike, anyone who spends $500 on Dual Berettas will immediately realize how useless they are. Not only are they too expensive, they are also too weak, inaccurate, and take very long to reload.

If you like being a player, 2 hands 2 guns, I recommend you practice playing Devil May Cry.

5. Giant’s Knife – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Contrary to what your ex might think, size isn’t always the most important thing. Take the Giant’s Knife in Ocarina of Time as an example. Although it deals more damage than the Master Sword, this oversized sword has no more durability than a butter knife. It would break after just a few slashes into Dodongo’s skin.

Do you see? Small but mighty is better than big and harmless. Always tell yourself that.

4. Needler – Halo: Combat Evolved

However, when holding one, the Needler is very weak. Especially in the first Halo, the Needler was inaccurate, had a very limited range, and discharging a magazine wouldn’t kill anyone unless every bullet hit its target.

3. Kyne’s Peace Shout – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Among the Dragon Shouts across the vast land of Skyrim, there are a few that can be used depending on the situation (such as Throw Voice). However, Kyne’s Peace Shout is even worse as it is almost completely redundant.

This is a Dragon Shout that makes all animals around you become obedient. That sounds like it would be useful… but that’s in the case in Skyrim where there’s no Animal Allegiance, the ability to make surrounding animals fight for you.

I don’t dig deep enough into the plot to know who Kyne is, but I hope that Kyne is as frustrated with himself as I am at Kyne’s Peace Shout.

2. Board of Education – Fallout 3

In a game full of flaming and gasoline-powered swords, a nailing stick clearly feels a little “underdog”.

Even though the Board of Education is the best stick in the game, it’s still a nailed wooden stick after all. You can use this weapon to kill the bandits, but try using it against monsters.

However, it must be admitted that this is probably the weapon with the best name in the game (Board of Education roughly translated as Board of Education).

1. Green Shell – Mario Kart

Green Shell is a perfect example of the “double-edged sword” idiom: picking up a green shell in Mario Kart can make you a big winner, but it can also make you lose in an instant. While the red shell automatically chases any opponent running in front of you, the green shell only follows a straight line.

If the green shell misses, it will hit the wall and bounce back, at this point, heaven knows what will happen next. Maybe it just bounces harmlessly around the track, maybe it hits the leader, but that doesn’t rule out the case that it bounces back to you and knocks you back to the bottom.

In general, at that time, everything was just luck.

Honorable Mention: Bug-Catching Net (insect catching racket) – SoulCalibur II

Although this weapon did not make the official list because it was intentionally designed to be useless, and SoulCalibur is also known for many “comedy” weapons, we still pay tribute to this racket. Link in the Xbox version of SoulCalibur II, for the simple reason that it’s at least still more useful than Giant’s Knife.

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