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 :p ). 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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Getting ready...

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Ancient runes and the Rood Inverse!

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PSHING!

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.

Turok 1 & 2 had a great arsesnal or weapons to choose from, best being the Chrono Scepter, Fusion Gattling Gun(if memory serves me correctly), The Nuke, and Cerebral Bore. I also liked the alien pulse gun that not only hit your target, but exploded as well. Chrono Trigger had some pretty nice magic spells, but im tired at the moment and can't think of any. UT2004, not the original arsesnal, but the Weapons of EvIL, and Chaos UT mods packs; those were by far my favorite weapons. Who wouldn't like an upgradable turrent that could turn your opponent into swiss cheese, or a Gravity Vortex that could suck him/her into a small, but powerful miniture black hole? Ahh, good times indeed. =)

The Siege Tank from Starcraft was a particularly entertaining unit, no doubt.

As for the Ratchet and Clank series, yeah the RYNO variations were cool, but the Quantam Whip from the 3rd game was AWESOME. It starts as an orange Plasma Whip, but when it's upgraded to the Quantum Whip, it turns blue and kinda metallic. Sweeet.

While we're still on Ratchet and Clank, in Deadlocked there's a weapon called the Scorpion Flail which later upgrades to the Leviathan Flail. Just the way it shakes everything is cool and after some upgrades, it can decimate anything in a strike or two.

From Jak 2 and 3, Dark Jak was pretty fun. In Jak 2, I used to just find a crowded place and unleash the Dark Bomb just to watch troops and citizens alike get blown good size distances away. It was also pretty entertaining to unleash the Dark Bomb on a moving hovercar, watching it crash down while spreading the chaos in a napalm line.

In Fable, I was pretty enthralled with both the Enflame and Divine Fury spells. Enflame was great especially at higher levels and Divine Fury's spell preparation was also cool. Hmmm...what else is there?

Any of the techniques in Magna Carta: Tears of Blood were pretty cool, especially the techs from Calintz, Azel, and a few others.

My jaw still hurts from hitting the floor at the sight of Sephiroth's Meteor spell, all those years ago. It looks kinda dated nowadays, but oh the nostalgia...

When it comes to weapons and abilities, I usually dig those which turn the initial gameplay upside down, you know, like draining a big time boss in an RPG of all its magic (if feasible) or go huntin' with the Beavertooth chainsaw in Doom.

Ah yes, and of course, the Flak Cannon is still the hottest item in any shooter. ;)

I rather liked using a Calculator + Holy spell in FFTactics....totally decimated tons of enemies each turn...ahhh what fun.

Oo oo and I liked the last move you get for the fire guy form in Shadow Hearts 2. Forgot the exact name but I think its Inferno maybe? Anyway, anything that involved taking a huge fiery sword and doin an Omnislash-esque attack is great.

Calculator + Flare was cool, too. Not to mention the array of summons your Summoner could use. Bahamut, Cyclops, and Leviathan come to mind.

Of course there are the cool spells from Chrono Trigger, like Antipode 3 and Luminaire. In Grandia, DragonZap was always awesome, and in the various other Final Fantasies (but especially FFVI), Ultima was great.

Oh, and Earthbound. PSI Starstorm, yo.

Psychic Dominator from Yuris Revenge. Not only did it turn your opponents own people against him but also did a shockwave about as powerful as a nuke attack. That's pretty badass.

Also, Strider Hiryuu's Cypher sword beats a lightsaber any day.

I actually think the Desolators were pretty badass. They could kill infantry instantly and damage vehicles. I put a few around the uninhabitaed parts of my base and no spies or engineers ever got to my buildings :milk:

Yum. I was a fan of Tesla Tanks rank 3...pretty lame, but it did the job. I really didn't like playing Yuri's team, but man oh man....when he had a clone army coming at me and I sent a half dozen dogs...yeah.

That's because once you get past the mind control, Yuri is really weak. When properly deployed the V3 rockets are very hard to beat (provided they have some support). There are too many cheap tactics to use in RA2, which is why when I read Computer Gaming World magazine, it always had people submitting RA2 tricks.

Oh don't get me started:

Tera Flare (FF VII) - Nothing like nuking the earth multiple times with Bahamut ZERO

Grand Cross (FF VIII) - Ultimecia/Edea (I forget) friggin' links her hands to two planets in outer space with electricity, then smacks the planets right onto you! W00T!

Eden (FF VIII) - I don't know what the hell this is, and why Ultima Weapon has it, but 30000 damage initially is nothing to laugh at.

Ark (FF IX) - Regretfully, despite his transformer's fancy red outer spacelaser show, a single swipe from Stener will do just as much as this...

Southern Cross (FF IX) - Necron unleashes the cosmic energy of four planets onto you inflicing you with lots of negative status and mega damage.

Meteor Impact (Disgaea) - crash!

Meteor Shower (Chrono Cross) - only a level 4 spell, but you can see my cosmic-themed obsession. Two meteors crash right into the enemy. To think, you can use this multiple times if you have several equipped.


The rape:
Empress Massacre (Valkyrie Profile) - and what massacre has been unfolded here! Iseria Queen slice and dices you SO many times with her angel stick, then creates a tornado, lifts you up, freezes, then smacks you back the floor. The funny part is the fact that it goes on for a while, and the developers made sure that the character died if you didn't have guts or auto item, hence e name, Empress Massacre!

Ether Strike (Valkyrie Profile) - Freya's finisher reports of upwards of 1000000 damage....yes 1 million

Favorite Spell would probably be summoning Anima and using the overdrive in FFX.

I also found Neo Bahamut to the most kick ass summon in FFVII. While some went too over the top (KoTR, Bahamut Zero), Neo Bahamut showed us how a summon should look.
And then there's Beta, when I finally got the Enemy Skill from the Midgar Zolom, I couldn't stop using it. It was the first attack I had that could do over 1000 damage consistently. I was a Beta whore and coudn't still can't resist using the attack for the awesome sound it produces.

No, not really. Boomers are the best navy unit in the game (you can build them very early on, they are unaffected by squids, have very tough armour, and combine 2 subs and a dreadnaught for half the price), and Gattling guns are the best (non-mass) anti-air weapons. Magnetrons can juggle 3-4 other tanks on the hands of an expert (plus they have huge range). Lashers are good medium tanks for their price, and UFOs can depower the WHOLE BASE. For base defense you can put gattling and lasher tanks in Tank Bunkers, it will increase their range, power, defense, and makes them fire about 3 times as fast. Virus troops are good anti infantry and Initiates are absurdly overpowered inside buildings (they can take out an apocalypse tank before it can fire back). That and Yuri also has much better economy (slave miners), and an infinite source of money using the Genetic Mutator and the Grinder.

Of course without Mind Control its much easier to overpower a Yuri player just with numbers alone.

Best attack / spell EVER
 

Self-explainitory. Of all the games you have played,w hich attack / spell had the best freaking animation and damage possibilities (or one of the two)?

For me, it would be the Erde Kaiser attack for XenoSaga I. It basially killed everything except for two bosses (Sophie Pethos and Proto Dora and had a several minute animation. It first assembled from it's parts in a very transformers fashion, and then, in slow motion, raised it's sword with the moon as a background and slashed down. During the attack itself, you saw this:
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Crappy picture, but all I could find.

Magus' spell in Chrono Trigger entitled Dark Matter i thought had a really good animation. That was the first 3-Desque thing i saw on a SuperNES.

I also really liked Lynx's Forever Zero in Chrono Cross. That was by far the coolest looking spell. Everyother one paled in comparison.

I love Squall's Lionheart in FFXIII. Especially since the only time i upgraded his gunblade was from the revolver straight to Lionheart, so i get that move almost ever time i use Renzokuken.

Those are the ones that stick out in my memory right now.

Pretty:
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Cause RPGs ain't the only genre that gets impressive looking attacks.

I thought Giga Wing's attacks were kind of shitty actually.
Compared to Ibara

I could insert a million Disgaea attacks here, but there's only one which really stands out. Chrono Trigger, Antipode. I never used it because Magus' attacks are just so neat, but that was definitely one of the strongest attacks in the game. Too bad it required Marle, who is good for nothing.

Yeah Disgaea is enticing my brain too, since It's my current game. The flashier ones out of the many sexy attacks are:

Dimension Slash - roll, roll, roll, roll, freeze! SLICE THE BATTLEFIELD~!
Avalanche - lift, knock..TELEPORT! ...STA-STA-STA...STAB!~! Make a crater with the enemy's remains >=)
Terminus Omega - Crash into the wall...SCRAPE the enemy against the wall...throw down..energy fist!

Mages' Omega and Tera spells deserve honourable mention, more so for the fact that the mages giggle so playfully right before they wipe out the enemy with such an extravagant summon.


No, but for my current best attack ever:

Empress Massacre performed by the Iseria Queen in Valkyrie Profile.
You were meant to die from this pure angelic slice-em-up beatdown. Stabstabstabstabstabstabsbstab, sliceslicesliceslice, vortex, smackdown. So many hits <3...

I actually liked the Miracle Arts in Legend Of Legaia and the Miracle Arts in Legaia 2: Duel Saga (not sure if they are called Miracle in Legaia 2).

Anyways...those arts is just those things you watch and after its done you say "Damn...He just got his ass handed to him"

What a coincidence. I'm playing Legend of Legaia now.

I love the miracle arts too.

I also love the graphics of Shining Force 3 and Bolt spells.

Blaze 4 is my favorite graphical spell ever in SF3.

When you did the miracle art...did you say what i wrote...lol...or something in that matter?

Some of the best attacks that I saw, well.... I can't really remember.

I remeber Megaman X's Hadoken attack. I used it on Sigma and it was the funniest thing I ever saw.

I also remember Bahamuts Mega Flare in FFX. I really liked that too.

I didn't know he would be appearing in the next game :edgartpg:

My favorite: Ark and Eden from the Final Fantasy Series: Let's face it: Summoning a giant robot/mech, and ones that transform is awesome. If they could combine Ark's Transforming with Eden's over the top preperation, the summon would be a mini-movie of uber-awesome proportions, not to mention size :tpg:

To add to that: Sephiroth's "Supernova" - Come on, its a freakin attack that breaks planets! Too bad you didn't instakill from it.

Another very impressive attack comes from Xenosaga, some of Kos-Mos's attacks were just cool to watch, especially when she brought out the giant gun and pelted the enemy with bullets. The circles were a nice extra touch.

finally, in Tekken 4, there's this move where Steve Fox pulls back and then just slams you in slight slow motion. It was a very cool move that actually looked doable IRL.

wow........... yeah, i meant VIII. Terribly sorry.

I do also like this one spell in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, i think it's called comet. Well, yeah, it's so big, they don't even bother with the normal battle screen, it just happens on the map. It's pretty crazy.

The best attack/spell ever in my books is Geese's Raging/Raising Storm, from various games.

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When fighting games were new, he was the only character to come along and completely humble you. You knew right away that you weren't remotely in his league. The Raging Storm was only one of the reasons for that, but it was the most impressive looking as well.

I was always rather partial to Quan Chi's fatality in Mortal Kombat 4 where he rips off his opponents leg and beats him to death with it. I haven't seen it in ages, but in grade 5 I thought that was the coolest shit ever.

Although not as uber powerful, Shin Onimusha's Tenkai Nankobo had a move called "Enlightenment" where he whirls the spear around his body like a friggin' tornado, causing jagged and continuous damage. Perfect.

Vergil's Judgement Cut is slow but packs massive damage if used properly.

Too bad Quan Chi has to be one of the worst Mortal Kombat characters.

Actually disregard that, he isn't Sheeva.

FINAL ATOMIC BUSTER owns everything else, of course. Huge amount of damage and long enough animation for you to sneak a peek at your opponent's face. No other wimpy 720 move comes close.

It was also ridiculously hard to pull off in the middle of a match in the earlier games. That's partly what made it so cool.

Tizocs Big Ball Griffon comes close. He grabs the opponent and slams them to the ceiling of the screen, then does a very painful suplex into the ground with them. For 50% damage.
The only other throw move that has the opponent being slammed to the wall that I remember would be Jin Saotomes "Saotome Crush" from Marvel vs Capcom, in which Jin, this crazy madman who otherwise pilots a skyscraper sized mecha, grabs the opponent and in a clockwise motion slams them to the wall, the ceiling, the other side of the wall, the ground and to the original wall again.

Anyway, my favorite would be the Ion Cannon of tiberian sun. Does humongous damage and takes out all but the most powerful buildings/units in one shot, and also leaves a nice whole in the ground.

My answers can be found in this thread.

If going for the cheap-ass way, Igniz's Brutal God Project does justice.

I was playing Legaia while reading your post, thats all. Wasnt in a battle.

Why lie?
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:edgartpg: Arcanum's Polymorph!


Anyways, a lot of the attacks in Xenosaga were brilliant, namely that one attack where a shard of ice or something comes out of Kos-Mos' back. I obviously have not played this in a while...

The Delta Attack from FFX was also pretty neat. Long, but fun to watch. The colors are captivating!

Similar threads merged.

I was always a bit partial for Slayer's instant kill in Guilty Gear XX. Most of his moves were hilarious enough (waving your hand around to block, sitting down on your cape and blowing out smoke from your pipe for low block), but punching your opponent into space with an accompanying kanji poem is the best.

Well will you look at that, I guess I stated Empress Massacre twice.


Best Misleaders:

Garou: Mark of the Wolves - Hotaru Futaba's Ten-Shou Ran-Ki. Giant energy flip kick into an injection of pure energy. Don't tell me that groan at the end paired with Hotaru's position doen't mean anything!

Marvel Vs. Capcom - Morrigan's Eternal Slumber. Explicitly kinky! What are those silhouettes? Why is it a pink curtain? What's that naughty pose at the end for?Why is the startup a heart?

Darkstalkers - BBHood's Cool Hunting - Best trick. Ever. Little old BB Hood summons two giant hunters (from her basket!) to fire missiles while she pumps out her uzi rounds mercilessly.