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.

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

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

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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!??

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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Perfect Dark: Farsight.

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

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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.

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The squeezetoy in Shogo. Awesome.

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

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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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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).

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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.

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

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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

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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.

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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. =)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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