Greatest Video Game Weapon ever?

[Markost]

The M60 from Battlefield Vietnam (in the early versions).

[MattyDienhoff]

With a strong basis in reality: The M21 in the first Operation Flashpoint.

A 7.62 battle rifle with a 20 round mag and adjustable scope that can and usually does kill with one shot to the torso? Hell yes. Since the game has proper ballistics you have to lead moving targets and adjust for drop over long distances, and there's nothing quite as satisfying as carefully lining up a shot on a moving target, firing, and watching the target drop like a sack of potatoes.

Fictional: Easily Half-Life's Gravity Gun (or "Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator"). It's just a multi-purpose ass-kicking tool that's a riot of fun to use.

[k9870]

OF2: Dragon rising was a dissappointment with "realistic ballaistics." Having to adjust or drop and leading targets was cool, but they still use the "round x will need tot hit enemy y times to drop them. Oh look, bad guy took 3 rounds to chest to die, hey look, the next one does too!"

And the fact online didn't work, at all.

[Bugabear]

OF2 took the patience of a saint to play. And the campaign never let you use half the features that the game has. Like driving a boat or flying a helicopter. What was also annoying was the stupid AI. A guy just pops up. Doesn't even shoot. Just stand there. And knifing him doesnt do anything. The game also had a pretty bad physics engine but the ballistic thing was pretty cool. And of course the multiplayer didnt work.

Real life: M14/21 (mk.14) EBR with silencer and thermal sight from MW2.

Fictional: The PAX from Crysis warhead. One shot brings down the extremely annoying flying alien jellyfishes. And of course the blue Gravity gun from HL2. The Gravity Hammer from Halo 3. And the silenced scoped ODST magnum from Halo 3 ODST.

[Excalibur]

I prefer the scoped handgun from Halo 1

[k9870]

I thought OF2R, had excellent gameplay. The taking time, staying at range, using tactics, etc, was cool. The game was very poorly polished though. One: Enemies all take the same number of hits to go down. Seriously, one bullet to the leg can down me but bad guys need 3 to the chest? Second, why are marine assault troops only carrying 4 mags? If I was going into a combat zone I'd try to have like 20. I just kept picking up the QBZ marksman, putting it in single shot and looting chicom troops for more ammo. I think this game had real potential but they failed to finish it correctly. The online flat out did not work.

[Spartan198]

Realistically-based: The M249E1 in GTA: VCS. That thing could down even helicopters with only two or three hits.

Fictional: I don't play many games with fictional weapons, so I don't know.

[ManiacallyChallenged]

It's probably worth mentioning how cool it was to use the S-14 Thunder(Groza) in STALKER. It was probably the only gun in the game I hadn't seen before.