I've been trying to think of some way to make posts more regularly and came up with this: other sites have their own Top 10 lists or Top 7 or whatever where they just list their OWN favorites, but we could make it so one person each week comes up with the topic and everyone makes their own list. We've done this before, like with the "Best of this Generation", "Most Disappointing" etc. I just thought it would be cool to do one each week.
So here's my first one and it's pretty simple. List your Top 3 Favorite Guns of all time. First-person shooter or third-person shooter, either one. Go.
Here are mine (in no particular order):
1. Flak Cannon - Unreal series - basically a shotgun made even more devastating due to the secondary fire, which is essentially an exploding cannonball. Very satisfying to hit someone with one of these and just watch them explode into giblets.
2. Ripper - Dead Space/Dead Space 2 - a spinning sawblade that somehow remains attached to the handle of the weapon, great for carving up necromorphs. Also has a secondary fire that shoots a sawblade out at high speed for long distance slice 'n' dice. It pretty much got me through the first game on the hardest difficulty.
3. M6D Pistol - Halo - does this really even need a description? Great from any distance, high-powered, no recoil. Some people call it unbalanced. I just call it awesome.
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I like this idea!
ReplyDelete1. the spread/shotgun from the Contra series. May not be as powerful as the laser or as fast as the machine gun, but man... its everywhere!
2. The shock rifle from the Unreal series. I think the innovative secondary fire on this one makes it on my list. love being able to detonate the blast with a primary shot. A spiritual precursor to halo's plasma overcharge headset combo in some ways.
3. Half-life 2's gravity gun. This gun turned combat into a puzzle, and opened up a lot of doors for thinking outside the box with weaponry. This was also the weapon that spawned a close runner up on this list, the portal gun.
Amateria, i thought for sure you would have chosen the Longshot from Gears.
ReplyDeleteAlso, thanks for not choosing the Portal Gun. I truly am sorry if this killed anyone's pick, but seriously, let's think fresh.
That's a great idea. I highly approve of your decision of the Halo Pistol but for the sake of originality and not wanting to be a copy cat i came up with this list (also in no order):
ReplyDelete1. Boltok Revolver - Gears of War- this sucker has some serious stopping power for a small arm and a couple of clean active reload shots makes it a good finisher (preferably in the form of a head shot). I find myself always picking it up when it's available which is why it is in the top 3.
2. Battle Rifle - Halo 2/3 - I've had a lot of memorable moments with this iconic weapon. In general, it's one of the best additions to Halo through the games evolution
3. FAL - Call of Duty: MW2 - I use this one all the time for any gamemode. Over half of my classes are mere variations of this deadly accurate weapon. Although, I seem to fading away from CoD, the FAL will always have a place in my heart. Plus, it's a real gun in real life, how cool.
Honorable mentions include the Harpoon Gun from Crack Down, and various guns in Borderlands.
1. Shotgun from Doom/Any of Them - There's something to be said about the original shotgun, and all other iterations, that made shotguns in video games fun. Blowing demons to bits is never not fun.
ReplyDelete2. Chicago Typewriter from Resident Evil 4 - You had to do a lot of work to earn it, but it was a Thompson Machine Gun with unlimited ammo and it was spectacular fun to use!
3. Railgun from F.E.A.R. - Nailing dudes with large spikes and pinning them to walls with headshots in beautiful slow-mo is some of the greatest shooting around.
Note: Was anyone surprised that Amateria put in something Valve related? New rule: Amateria can't talk about Valve until he finishes Episodes 1 and 2 of Half Life 2 and joins everyone else in waiting for 3.
1. Fat Man from Fallout 3 - Something about firing a nuke and watching a giant super mutant behemoth burn...The Experimental MIRV was fun, delivering eight mini nukes at once. But it was difficult to fire and live - and the Fat Man was just my first love.
ReplyDelete2. M12 mounted gun from Halo - Loved firing from the back of a (well-driven) death mobile. Good, clean, fun.
3. Dual-wield Klobbs from 007 Golden Eye - Only because I enjoyed killing friends with the most annoying weapon in the game.
Klobbs? You mean, high powered staplers?
ReplyDelete1. AUG HBAR from MW2 - Seriously, this is the epitome of over-powered guns and it is by far one of my all-time favorites. Wrongly classed as an LMG, it has the power of others in its class with the range, weight, and rate of fire of an assult riffle. On top of it all it had a perfect iron sight and with stopping power was just insane.
ReplyDelete2. Torque Bow from GOW series - I can't think of a better concept for a gun. A gun that has one shot kills, explosion splash damage, capable of scoring headshots, and all while only having a limited time to aim. It's a skilled weapon that is just pure enjoyment to fire. I want one.
3. M1 Garand from COD2 - Great gun, with great power and range that is just a blast to use. It took a bit of a skill to use it, so it wasn't the easiest to grasp. I still remember running the streets of Burgandy rapping through the remainder of the clip just to get a full one before I found my next target.
Honorable Mentions: Holy Hand Grenade - Worms, "When I get that feeling I gotta sing" gun - South Park, Hammer of Dawn - GOW,
I know there is one gun that I cannot remember right now but I've always said it is one of my favorites. Son of a...
1. Half Life - Gravity Gun..endless simple fun in both combat and completing puzzles.
ReplyDelete2. Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device arguably not a "weapon" but in the right hands i've killed plenty of sentry bots to classify it as a weapon. By far the most technically impressive weapon i've used in any game.
3. MW2 - SCAR. solid, reliable, powerful. With extended mags this gun seriously takes the piss in MW2 imo.
1. M16 from MW2. I actually hated this gun when I first tried using it due to necessity of being so accurate (which I am not always the best at), but now I can hardly play a FPS unless Im using some type of burst mode gun.
ReplyDelete2. Battle Rifle from Halo 3. Well...I just really liked it once I finally learned to use it, and found myself almost unable to play without it.
3. Cerebral Bore from Turok 2. I didnt play a lot of this game, but it was a truly inventive and gory weapon for its time, and always stands out to me when Im thinking of cool weapons.
The gravity gun was great so I won't take that... and how can anyone not have finished Episode 1 and 2 if they have touched HL 2!?!? Seriously? That's like watching Star Wars and then never watching TESB or ROTJ... :P
ReplyDelete1. H&K G36C - Battlefield 2, for the Medic class, this gun PWNed with a 3 rnd burst. It pretty much fired as fast as you could click the mouse. At long range it wasn't so hot but at medium to short range, it was insanely powerful. Combined with the kit that could revive and heal, it pretty much made the Medic class the dominating class in BF2. This is my all-time favorite gun of any video game ever.
2. Krylov FA-37 Assault Rifle - Battlefield 2142, this was a stock weapon and it was pretty much the best weapon in the game. For the medic/assault class, it had decent damage and great accuracy. It was for only one army though so whenever you were on that side, and you were competing, this was what you picked.
3. Railgun from F.E.A.R. - I tried to find something else but once I read Nate's top 3, I couldn't tear myself away from the railgun from F.E.A.R. unless I went in some weird direction and found some whacky gun from one of the Ratchet and Clank games, haha. This is the only gun I've found that has ever come close to playing with physics and the environment like the gravity gun.
Honorable mention - every gun from Ratchet & Clank.
Brjahu, great choice with Torque Bow. I think the best thing about that gun is the balance between a successful shot and difficulty of use. Challenging to use, and awesome to master.
ReplyDeleteAfter ignoring the abuse, I have to speak up. I'll concede that I should have them done. I've finished Ep. 1, but am not as far into Ep. 2. However, there is no way these things are on par with the Star Wars analogy. They aren't even close to complete, well thought out, well told experiences like HL2 was. I like HL2 as a complete game...
Although, that point really only hurts me more, as I should find the time to finish it.
That being said, my answer still stands, and gravity gun is an awesome choice.
Torque Bow is a great shout Brjahu...i file that gun under the same category as the Sparton laser from Halo, same balance as Amateria was talking about although slighty more deadly with the ability to get multikills. Torque Bow certainly more satisfying though.
ReplyDeleteWith Gears of War on topic, the Digger from the GoW3 beta is worthy of a nod too. Great fun to use, well balanced and very innovative.
I agree and disagree about the Digger. It IS fun to use for sure, but I think it needs a little bit of tweaking. It should have a "minimum travel distance" before it will pop up and explode. There were a number of times in the beta where someone used one of those in the midst of a close-quarters frenzy (almost as if they shot it from the hip) and it worked a little too well. I just think players should be forced to use it a little more strategically, that's all.
ReplyDeleteToo early to tell about the Digger. I really enjoyed it and loved that fact that you could get a headshot with a gun that was meant to travel through the ground. It is a gun that has a lot of potential and is a great gun to encourage team play. If you have a guy hiding under cover from a distance this gun makes him move out into the open which, if you are playing as a team, allows your teammates a chance to take him out. Wow, what a concept: a gun that encourages team play. Who would have thought.
ReplyDeleteDid you guys know that Gears 3 is coming?
ReplyDeleteAnyone wanna get Rage with me? There's bound to be some good guns in there! No? Nobody?
Not surprised.
I've watched some gameplay vids of Rage and it looks like it has a pretty boner-tastic shotgun, keeping that "Doom" tradition alive.
ReplyDeleteDoes Rage have multi or a coop mode or what?
Its not too late to trade in all your stuff again for a 360 so you can take part in our excitement. I mean, at least u could talk with the rest of us playing GOW3 while you play Rage.
ReplyDeletebrjahu: Touche.
ReplyDeleteSalad: I think that there's coop, but I don't know to what extent. I don't think it's the entire SP mode that you can play with a friend. For DOOM 3 they took the SP campaign and tweaked it so that it was kind of its own awesome entity maximizing the coop aspects of it.
As far as MP I'm not holding out for a Battlefield killer.
I just thought that you guys might try a new series is all.
Nothing wrong with having some gaming bread and butter. halo and cod are consistent, albeit, safe choices. If I had more money I would take a calculated risk on Rage. I look forward to seeing your review.
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