My fave was the nobel sword or something from the Oracle Zelda games which could shoot a really satisfying beam of light to damage enemies from further away
Reminded me of mini Hyper Beams from Pokemon except you didnt have to recover or charge
Also love the triple Lyonel bow from BOTW. That thing fucking slappz
The rope grappling hook weapon from Just Cause 2. You can move with it. You can attach things to enemies with it. Just play the game if you haven’t - so good!
Later games made you able to make more connections etc so you could haul bigger stuff. So it got even better in a way. But JC2 was the best game of them
The Wabbajack from Oblivion.
The Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2. IIRC you could pick up objects and hurl them at enemies.
You could pick up buzz saws and cut zombies in half! Very fun weapon
There was something satisfying about yeeting a toilet at an enemy. Have that.
The double-barrelled shotgun from Doom II. The power, spread, and generally plentiful ammo allows you to say “fuck you” in a loud, brash way every time the trigger is pulled.
Controversial opinion, the Doom 64 sound is far meatier.
The Groovitron from Ratchet and Clank. It interacts with every enemy and boss, is pretty powerful under the right conditions, and is the right kind of silly.
Oh man, Ratchet and Clank had some awesome weapons. I remember the first time using the mini-nuke after upgrading it from one of the early game weapons putting a huge smile on my face
Obviously the gravity gun, a more obscure one was the Cerebral bore from Turok 2
OG pistol from Halo CE.
Never has there been anything close since.
Lightsaber from Jedi Knight 3 :)
The medic’s crossbow from Team Fortress 2. Also the super-nailgun from Quake.
Gravity gun at Half Life 2. Flack cannon at Unreal Tournament. Ripper on Duke Nukem 3D. There’s plenty to choose from, but they’re often only favourites on the type of game they’re in (or spesifically for that game).
Oh man, the flak cannon was a shotty by a different name!
I’m surprised you didn’t go for the Redeemer. Ramming that into someone’s boat race was satisfying as fuck.
Redeemer is absolutely fun, but it has limited use cases. There’s just something rewarding to blow up your enemies into mist at close range.
The polymorph wand from Realmz.
You could polymorph just about anyone or anything. I polymorphed one of my party members into a red dragon with a misclick and the dragon proceeded to kill the entire party.
I don’t know if I’d call it my favorite out of any game, but I was always kind of partial to the Dubstep Gun from Saints Row 3/4. Something about it just hits right for me.
That “something” might be everyone in draw distance who you aren’t firing the gun at suddenly dropping everything they’re doing to hit a dance in the middle of the street.
Gravity Gun
M-920 Cain Mass Effect. also the black widow sniper rifle.
I’ll pick one not listed yet, I think all of Quake’s weapons rank pretty high for me, but the Quad Nailgun had this satisfying punchy sound that was always fun.
