Best Weapons/Spells/Techniques

Twin Blasters. Super Shoes. Knights of the Round. The BFG 3000. We all remember how games we've played throughout the years had those weapons, spells or techniques that we all thought kicked so much butt because of how they inflicted massive damage, obliterated the enemy, or just looked awesome, etc. In some cases whether or not you had these things is what would make or break your game. What are some of the ones you remember most? Dont just give a one-line answer, tell us why you thought it was so awesome, or the first time you experienced it.

For starters: spread, spread, spread in Contra and Super C. Whether or not you had that weapon made quite a difference throughout either of those games. And though it made those games significantly easier, they were still fun to play nonetheless.

Another example that comes to mind is some of the bigger spells in Grandia 2, particularly Meteor Strike, BA-BOOM!!, White Apocalypse and Fallen Wings. All of which had awesome cinematics that showed how badly you were pummeling the enemy (or in some cases the other way around ). I suppose you would have to have played or seen it yourself to fully grasp what I mean.

So, what did you like to own with?

Off the top of my head, Extreme Void in Valkyrie Profile was insanely cool to me. Maybe it was the voice actor's fault.

Force Ring from Arc the Lad 3 was always a cool move to watch ^__^ But that's me. I always found it rather sweet.

By far my favorite move of everything I had was Din's fire (Zelda), I thought it was amazing after the first time I saw it....I especially liked his setup for the move, as it was quite dramatic (the whole matrix camera work when setting it up)...it also was amazing in my book because it helped so much for me defeating shadow link!

...and the biggoron's sword...unbelievable...although you were really slow and turned 20 degrees every time you swung the sword, what isn't cool about having a sword twice the size of your body!??

I'll throw in another: the shotgun from any of the Metal Slug games. The blast from that thing was huge. It felt great to get right in some baddie's face before unleashing that thing on them.

On the top of my head, some were absolute cheapshots.

- Flak Cannon due to its glorious spreadfire damage, Insta-gib rifle for a one-shot kill and the Ion Painter because of a fucking satellite-with-2-terawatts gun (which I like) in UT.. and 2004.

- Chicago Typewriter in RE4. The thing's just amazing. I mean, without being a total cheapshot like the infinite rocket launcher, this thing rocks.

- I'd also vouch for the following SO3 movelists: Ethereal Blast (Fayt), Blazing Cannon (Mirage), Acrobat Locus (Cliff and Mirage), Fists of Fury (Cliff), Infinity Kick (Mirage), Aerial Assault (Cliff and Mirage), Air Raid (Fayt), Energy Burst (Maria) and Mirror Slice (Nel) are among some of the best movelists.

- Vergil's Judgement Cut. Absolutely slow yet quite damaging. Also Lunar Phase and his boss moves' Rapid helmbreakers and rapid judgement cuts are awesome. Dante? Million Slash from Agni and Rudra (Whew!) and Macabre Dance are some good ones.

And.. I could quote Llewelyn's Layer Storm and Jun's Senko Jin from Valkyrie Profile but I'm afraid that most of them are the best.

So many final fantasy summons come to mind. Particulary Knights of the Round and the Bahamuts from FFVII and a few others. Also liked many of the moves from Disgaea..ones that totally kicked the crap out of enemies though I forget the specific names, there were tons (late fighter and gunner moves stand out). I loved Omnislash too...ahh such great moments

I loved almost any of the guns in Metal Slug 5 and X, esspecialy when you were fat. The effect of the gun would double. The Heavy Machine Gun would fire giant bullets and they would spread more. The enemy chasers were bulbous and had insanly tight turns. Not to mention the vehicles in those games. Like the huge sphere suspended by cords on the 4 corners of the screen, I think it shot a harpoon out the bottom when the dual vulcans werent enough.

Here is a list of some memorable stuff that I can remember:

Duke Nukem 3d: Shrink Ray! Hilarious weapon where you shrunk an enemy and then stepped on him.

Command & Conquer: Ion Cannon. Instantly memorable at the time, an awesome weapon to use.

C&C Red Alert: Tesla Coil. The pinnacle of defensive structures in RTS games. It made this overexaggerated zapping sound that just kicked ass.

Heroes of Might & Magic 2: Chain Lightning. It was the first time I had seen the spell reinacted so perfectly, and it has been imitated countless times now.

StarCraft: Siege Tank. Infamous unit that truly solidified SC as an innovator of the RTS genre. The fact that C&C Tiberian Sun's Artillery unit was a blatant ripoff only helps emphasize this point.

Ratchet & Clank: RYNO. Outrageous, and overglorified destructive power tucked into one weapon.

Diablo 2: Auras. The idea seems second nature in many games now, but I cannot recall any game ever using them before Diablo 2.

Diablo 2: Corpse explosion. The coolest looking spell in the game. Get a powerful necro, hop into the cow level and this baby becomes your best friend.

X-men V SF: Royal Flush, Gambit's hypercombo. Overexaggerated and fun to watch, exactly what a "super" should be.

Twisted Metal 2: Mr. Slam's special. His crane grabs your car, and tosses it like a ragdoll.

Here is some of mine:

-ak-47 from any game it's ever been in
-k98 from Day of Defeat Source
-G36c and g3a3 in BF2, LOVE all Heckler and Koch guns, the g3a3 is awesome, but no one ever puts it in games, thank god for BF2.
-10mm pistol from Deus Ex, this pistol packed a punch, and with the Laser Aimer attachment was 100% accurate, cheap, but awesome, and ammo was everywhere.
-The dual enforcers in the original UT were amazing, I loved the sideways "gangsta" firing mode, was so great for upclose killing!
-the K-SMG in Time Splitters: Future Perfect was an awesome gun, if you could get your hands on two of them you were just UNSTOPPABLE! Love the game and that gun made it awesometasticular!

That's all for now, don't want to post too many guns

Perfect Dark: Farsight.

The development team choked on ice cream to think that up. Cheapest weapon ever created.

Although not in a game, Deathblossom Is probably the single best weapon known to exist. And if you don't know what that is...

Oh, and the almighty Boomstick.

The squeezetoy in Shogo. Awesome.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ARC): Two words. THE WORLD!

Nothing beats the Redeemer for sheer coolness.

As for spells, my favorite spell is actually a non-player spell. My favorite spell is Guildenstern's "Bloody Sin" spell. It's just so damn cool to watch.


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Ancient runes and the Rood Inverse!


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The Sniper Rifle from Unreal Tournament (1999). It has the best zoom out of any sniper rifile I've ever used and is EASILY the best sniper rifle for going on the offensive (case in point, I've got several monster kills by sniping enimies no more than 10 yards away from me).

My two personal favorites are the Superdragon from Perfect Dark (grenades AND bullets?! Sweet!) and Iron Man's Photon Cannon from the Marvel fighting games.

The knife from counterstrike. Nothing brings more aww inspiring awesomeness then ganking some nigga from behind in a firefight.

Favorite Weapons

• Spread Needle (PSO) - you could hit more than one target in one shot, duh
• Lavis Cannon (PSO) - you could swing this and a beam would shoot out
• Asura (SaGa Frontier) - the weapon was awesome by itself because when you hit, it did decent damage; however, if you got killed before you used its normal attack, the attack would powerup to Asura's Revenge
• Eternal Sphere (Star Ocean 2) - shot out stars with each swing for extra damage and it looked cool

Favorite Spells and Techniques:

• Explode (Star Ocean 2) - makes the screen and everything on it a big fiery hell of a mess
• Southern Cross (Star Ocean 2) - the five stars falling from the sky did quite a bit a damage and it looked cool too
• Tower (SaGa Frontier) - when the character was at a decent level and cast this, it did just about as much damage as the DSC

The Cerebral Bore from Turok 2 has always been a favorite of mine. How can you beat a weapon that simply drills into your opponent's skull?

The powered up Gravity Gun in Half-Life 2 is pretty insane. When you're lifting thousand pound pieces of computer equipment over your head and hurling them at enemies, you get a pretty cool feeling of power, to be sure.

Of course, I'm still a huge fan of the lightsaber. I don't think any weapon ever will beat a lightsaber in sheer coolness factor.