History AwesomeButImpractical / VideoGames

* In ''[[VideoGame/WackyRacesStarringDickDastardlyAndMuttley Wacky Races Starring Dick Dastardly & Muttley]]'', there is The Crimson Haybailer, which it possess the ability to fly without a power-up, however, it also possess NO Grip, which forces you to use a power-up to stand on the ground so you could make a turn without having to stop your car/plane, The Crimson Haybailer, however, is specially useful in tracks that have water sections (One of them have a really large shortcut, which no other car, except for The Crimson Haybailer can take).

** In V3, the culprit's attempt to frame Himiko for Rantaro's murder by creating a zipline from the murder scene and into the gym (where Himiko was setting up her magic act) is a clever idea, but it ultimately results in some evidence falling where the culprit couldn't retrieve them. Had the culprit merely left the body where the murder (which was itself simple- bonk victim over the head, handcuff victim to prevent him struggling, drown victim in sink) took place, they probably wouldn't have been caught.
** The third chapter murder in v3 involves a seesaw trap set up in three different rooms to kill the victim without the culprit's direct input, but like the above, the elaborate setup leaves a a ''lot'' of clues behind once the investigation begins. In fact, the culprit had committed ''another'' murder on the spur of the moment (somebody walked in on them setting up their trap) that left very little evidence, but the culprit decided to go ahead with the plan because they ''didn't want to waste the trap''- and in the end, it was the evidence found during the investigation of the second, planned, crime that allowed the heroes to pin the culprit for the first, unplanned crime.

** Though some of the Program Advances in the ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' series are quite useful/balanced, and worth including in an appropriate deck, others are nearly impossible to use, requiring that three or four chips each of which can only show up once in a 30 chip deck all come up on the same turn. Even for the useful ones, attempting to include more than one or two will stretch your deck too thin.
*** A popular combo for a while in the third game was "Disco Inferno". Without going too far into details, it causes the entire field to explode in a giant blaze (awesome) and deal amazing damage. The combo also required five chips in the correct order and could be circumvented by using any of the staple defensive chips, raising one's shield, or simply ''stepping back and firing the buster''.
*** Some individual ''chips'' can also be classified this way: They offer great attack power or range, but are addled with a very situational activation condition or are available in unwieldy codes.
** The Rogue forms in ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce 2'' are based on the power of the Void and give you a nifty black-armoured version of your SuperMode, as well as a regenerating protective barrier and a bonus to all sword cards. These transformations are also neutral, meaning you don't have an elemental weakness that would cancel it. Sadly, the sword power bonus isn't particularly useful because a lot of enemies are very nimble and hard to hit even with lock-on, nor are the available sword cards all that impressive as a theme, especially since they only cover three of the four elements. It prevents you from using Mega Cards, so you lose out on some of your biggest damage sources. Since the Indie Proofs that fuel it take up all six slots of your Real Brothers list when in use, it reduces your budget for equipped abilities, too, and shuts down the abilities that automatically put you into tribe form, should you have them equipped. To drive the nail in the coffin, the Rogue transformations' LimitBreak can only be used in multiplayer, and doing so cancels the Rogue form for the rest of the battle. Ultimately, you're giving up too many perks for a few situational skills.

* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline'' has a long list of weapons that requires ultra specific circumstances to obtain weapons that are no better then most other commonly dropped weapons. These weapons have underwhelmingly weak attacks coupled with special effects and animations found in no other weapons.There are however a few weapons that have insane stats nearly maxing out several stat categories, but by the time you can use them you're more than 70% to the max level cap and can easily solo most the dungeons, or they require you to be a specific raise and class. [[spoiler:Great example of this is the Olga Flow weapons. There is one for each class, they require a maxed stat for the class's specialized stat you're using, but they deal insane damage and the effects are only triggered at 10%> HP. Reverse to this is the insanely rare weapon Sealed J-Sword, dropped by a Gi Gue on 1 specific player ID color with a drop chance very similar to that of winning the powerball. The sword you put the work in to get is completely disappointing, even unsealed it is barely a step above the market trash you can purchase from merchants.]]

* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline'' has a long list of weapons that requires ultra specific circumstances to obtain weapons that are no better then most other commonly dropped weapons. These weapons have underwhelmingly weak attacks coupled with special effects and animations found in no other weapons.There are however a few weapons that have insane stats nearly maxing out several stat categories, but by the time you can use them you're more than 70% to the max level cap and can easily solo most the dungeons, or they require you to be a specific raise and class. [[spoiler:Great example of this is the Olga Flow weapons one there are one for each class they require a maxed stat for the class's specialized stat you're using but they deal insane damage and the effects are only triggered at 10%> HP. Reverse to this is the insanely rare weapon Sealed J Sword, dropped by a Gi Gu on 2-3 specific player ID colors with a drop chance very similar to that of winning the powerball. The sword for the work you put into is completely disappointing, even unsealed it is barely a step above the market trash you can purchase from merchants.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheGrinch2000'': A [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] example with the Grinch Copter, which lets the Grinch fly, but, to quote the narrator, "needs so many eggs it's almost absurd". A well used case of this, as it keeps the gadget from being a GameBreaker and provides an in-story reason for why the Grinch made the rocket spring to enhance his jumps and the octopus climbing device to scale walls when he has a gadget to fly.

*** ''VideoGame/MegaManX3'' has the basic version of the buster upgrade, but ''only'' the basic version. At full power, you can fire two charge shots that, with the right timing, could overlap into a five-shot barrage that could hit nearly anything on screen. The problem is that you ''have'' to get to full power, which was two levels higher than the basic charge shot, otherwise you're shooting a full charge and a half-charged shot that won't do anything. You can get one of two enhancement chips, though you'd want the GameBreaker version, that gives a reserve of charge shots to get around this, but the energy consumption is huge, and you can only recharge it by taking damage, but the amount of damage needed to recharge a single unit is absurd. If you get Zero's beam saber though, charging to full power creates a new shot combo that will include a wave of energy flung from the saber after the cross shot that can take off over half a boss's energy meter. The saber won't add to your charge time, and is included in the shot reserve upgrade. Add on top of that the fact that the screen wide shot is slow, making it possible for opponents to dodge it.
*** The basic version of the ''X3'' armor ''is'' this trope. The completed ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'' armor had ''three'' useful attacks, but you could only use the X3 scanning feature when you first enter a stage. Granted, after adding both of the {{Game Breaker}}s to it, it was the best armor of the SNES games, but again, you need ''both'' of them.

*** The Shining Laser and Active Buster deserve special mention, though upon final upgrade they become {{Game Breaker}}s and beyond. The Shining Laser has extremely low capacity (it more or less uses one ammo per frame), but can kill the final boss, notorious for his defense, in about four seconds with its final attack upgrade. The Active Buster fires rapid-fire homing missiles and costs more than every other Special Weapon in the game barring the Shining Laser ''combined''. You can aim with the Shining Laser and you are completely immobile with the Active Buster but with a maximum homing rating it will seek enemies behind you. The breaking point? Both weapons gain unlimited ammo upon the final energy upgrade and when fully upgraded are the strongest and third-strongest weapons, with Active Buster being at the limits of every stat besides attack, in the game when everything is said and done.

** It compares interestingly to the Blaster Launcher from the original ''VideoGame/XCom: UFO Defense'', a remote-controlled missile-launcher capable of destroying enemies from around corners and the other side of the map. Most likely, the refusal to include such a weapon in ''VideoGame/{{Xenonauts}}'' was a deliberate choice on the part of the designers, since it was kind of a GameBreaker in the original...

** Medea's Rule Breaker is her main Noble Phantasm, a wicked-looking knife with the power to sever magical bonds and contracts. While it is a pretty nasty bit of equipment, Medea is a SquishyWizard without much in the way of melee prowess, so if she actually ever tried to use Rule Breaker in a direct fight with another Servant, she'd get her ass kicked. Of course, being a SquishyWizard, she doesn't ''need'' a knife to be pretty dangerous in combat, so she tends to only utilize it against enemies who are already disabled.

** Golden Armour and tools. The tools are the fastest in the game, gold armor can hold better enchantments than anything else, and they all look really cool, until SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs and we find out that Notch opted for the realistic structural density of gold, rather than the JRPG version, leaving you with what amounts to some [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation "slightly tasteless evening wear."]] In addition to the pathetic durability, gold armor is less defensive than ''leather'', gold swords deal about the same damage as ''wood'' swords, and gold pickaxes can't harvest anything beyond coal and regular stone (and its variants).

** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', at one point Sigint will discuss the possibility of a [[WalkingTank bipedal tank]]. He mentions an American ([[spoiler:Huey Emmerich, Otacon's father]]) proposed the idea, and he himself considers the idea ridiculous, as tanks already have treads to cross difficult terrain -- [[SelfDeprecation as far as he is considered anyone who takes the idea seriously is a nutjob]] ([[spoiler:adding to the joke, the fourth game reveals Sigint is Donald Anderson, the man who funded Metal Gear REX in the first game in the series]]. Also, the M63 and the RPG will probably only see much use during [[spoiler:the Shagohod chase sequence, when you have infinite ammo]]. The M63's firepower is impressive but it chews through ammo very fast, and a heavy, cumbersome rocket launcher that can destroy a small area isn't much use to a one-man sneaking mission.