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Author: OHakubi

Jan 11th 2010 at 8:19:47 PM

Third or fourth vote for Scrappy Weapon, here.

While I'm thinking of it, some addendum should be added regarding how this is different from that other trope about weapons that you start with or get early and use for a bit, only to have them become obsolete when you get a better one.  The weapon in that instance isn't *bad*, it's just... not as good.  At least I think it's different...

Oh wait, I remember what I was talking about now.  Have a little note at the end of the write-up regarding how this differs from {{So Last Season}} in that SLS is more along the lines of "good to better" (AKA "oh hey, a stronger pistol!") whereas this is "total shit to anything" (AKA "a gun that doesn't suck!  Fucking *finally!").  Something tells me I'm being unintentionally redundant, though.

* The Insect-a-cutioner/bug spray from Blood II.  While superficially another version of the aerosol can from the first game, it was generally useless due to the short range, low primary fire damage, long secondary fire prep time and the fact that its ammo was also shared with the assault rifle's underslung grenade launcher, a more damaging and altogether more useful weapon.
** The death ray also deserves mention for effectively being a battery-powered assault rifle whose shots reflected off walls and could hit you as well.  Any batteries you found were better off being used with the singularity cannon.

* The Prankster Bit from Tron 2.0 is the game's BFG and looks pretty cool, but the energy usage is obscene, the damage is overkill against everything you fight, and you get it so late in the game that you're literally unable to fully upgrade it.  It's not even worth using against the final boss due to how the game handles damage dealt to it.