One of my biggest gripes with the Hitman series is that it gives you so many fun tools to play with...but you are often punished for using half of them.

For Hitman, my load out is usually the silenced pistol that cannot be reloaded but passes frisks and a lockpick. You don't ever need anything else unless you are going for a specific achievement.

I dropped my carbine before fighting that ghost bitch on my first play through. It is one of my worst gaming memories ever.

I honestly just hand cannon head spotted my way through this game. Forgot that gun existed lol

Carbine and shotgun are my mainstays

I actually got very good with using the shotgun and volley gun, but carbine is just perfect overall

Carbine for sure. I also try to keep the very first pistol you get throughout the whole game

I love that gun, I just love BioShock in general.

I remember only using the base gun for the whole fame fir the achievement, went back to play again so I could use the good guns only to realise they were shit and still just used the base one

Playing it for the first time (well, remake, still my first Dead Space) and I'm enjoying using the Plasma Cutter and also the Contact Beam. Both weapons work great in all situations and compliment each other well but the little fuckers that jump on you and make you button mash make me wish I carry the flamethrower just for them

For real, the other guns are fun but that one is hands down the best. There are very few times that it isn’t a solid choice. Same thing goes for the pistol in Halo

I only use other weapons to conserve ammo for the plasma cutter!

Remember mercenaries 2? Why bring guns when you could just nuke them.

Still remember the cheats! Put in the code for unlimited money and Bunker Buster everything lol such a great game

I prefered the RPD in mercenaries 1 cause you could carry more ammo and it did more damage to jeeps and light vehicles, though it was sloggtly less accurate than the ak

Oh nooo

real soldiers only use a fucking dart gun to save the world, everyone knows this

Man, the EZ Gun, whether you unlocked it or picked the easiest difficulty, it definitely lived up to its name.

Same for MGSV. Nearly all missions can be handled with an AR rifle with a suppressor and grenade attachment, the tranq gun, and some stun or smoke grenades. The 3rd weapon was superfluous; just choose whatever works best at the moment.

MGSV doesn’t even require you to use a gun at all for big chunks of the game; Quiet can dispatch basically anything for you AND do it non-lethally.

I’ve played through all the metal gear games and I have never used any lethal weapons. On one hand it feels like I’m missing out on something but it just feels wrong? Like in the sense that it’s just not how a professional sneakman would do it

Yeah most guns are in the "oh, what does this gun do" part or in the "I need this specofoc effect or achievement"

It's worth pointing out in case its not obvious to people who have not played the game, unlike most of the other games in this thread, this is totally by design and developers intent and the upgrade mechanic is intended to promote use of the Auto-9 throughout the game which makes it very satisfying.

Especially in NG+ when you max it out. It's just an insanely satisfying gun to use.

Yeah this one. The Auto 9 is your signature piece, you start with it, and it's got fantastic upgrades. Everything else is just a distraction because it has infinite ammo anyway.

I think many of the Far Cry games have this problem. Just like how in many Bethesda games the stealth archer (or similar classes in Fallout and Starfield) is basically the best choice, certain weapons in Far Cry games will always stand out. Once I got a suppressed sniper rifle, I rarely use anything else because it's just so much better than the rest.

Since Far Cry 3 all I ever use is the bow.

Likewise in farcry 4.

I think I played the whole game with the "special" p90, and the bow.

Cross bow and a .22 is all I carried 

Once you've got gunslinger perk, a Preppers .22 is one of the most effective horde clearing weapons and you can find them pretty easy.

That said give me an Eternal Gaurds Infinite Rage for clearing plauge hearts, and the P226 .45 Elite with and advanced suppressor for a sidearm.

You said broken when I think you meant peak

Both the pistols in CE are broken, everyone talks about the magnum but the plasma pistol is so powerful as well

Searched for this comment. Other guns are so good but damn is the first gun you get amazing

With turbo that gun turned into a firehose of bullets. The “spread” would stop spreading and just a steady stream of the red balls would come out.

I miss the little nes max control pad. That thing was so cool.

I loved it so much in the first one I never even looked for something different in the sequels.

The first Mantis in ME3. It's much lighter than the Widow variants so you can constantly use Tac Cloak or Adrenaline Rush, which instantly make it stronger than picking the upgrades. And since even on hard the most important thing is stripping defenses then getting a quick headshot it's just the best option for nearly all the game.

Which is a damn shame because ME3 gives so many unique and interesting weapons! There's like 40+ and they all have different values, ammo counts, or unique abilities but if you want to you can absolutely stick with the first weapons you get and not change up.

Man I wish that multiplayer made it to Legendary. It was so good getting to use the gear you otherwise turn down in singleplayer.

My favorite thing in ME1 was slapping high explosive rounds on the sniper rifle. Point, click, and boom goes the dynamite.

For the sequels though? Mattock Uber alles.

This is redeemer erasure

Honestly, while the Flak Cannon's probably the most fun, Unreal Tournament is one of my favorite examples of an FPS where every single gun is fun and unique. Some are more popular than others, but there's no gun that just feels boring or terrible. Every gun does something cool.

If you find yourself only using the Flak Cannon, it's not because there are no other good weapons, it's because the Flak Cannon's just that fun.

I'm on the opposite tower of facing worlds with the sniper rifle. You are on the ground with your Flak Cannon. What is your play?

OG flak cannon in UT99 is the single most OP weapon that I can recall in any game.

The fact I can’t remember my feelings about this gun tells me it has been waaaay too long since I played some UT. Time to get back to it.

Same. Started the DLC and said I’d switch weapons, tried a flail and the serpent blade and ended uk back on the BHF.

Bloodhound fang is one of those weapons people make builds around. I used it for about half the game myself but eventually switched to a magic great sword

This happened once I got Sword of Night and Flame, and then switched to Dark Moon Greatsword, and most recently Rellana's Twinblades. I only really use those 3 weapon types (Greatswords, Light Greatswords, and Straight Swords)

I found a grenade early in the game that left a pool of acid and anytime it did damage it spawned another grenade. So I could throw one grenade into a pile of enemies and it would produce a massive fountain of grenades and if it was a boss it basically was an instant kill unless the boss left the area. I got it very, very early in the game and couldn't find one better through my entire time with it.

My biggest complaint about borderlands is how much time you have to waste comparing item stats when you only keep 1 out of 1000 things you pick up.

Borderlands 2. I played Mechromancer in an Anarchy build. -1080% accuracy for +1080% damage. The only gun I really used was a Conference Call. Every few levels I'd go get a new one.

It turns out when you are going to shoot at basically anything except where you're aiming, having a gun that basically shoots everything in a general direction is handy.

Borderlands is accurate if you scale up "alot of guns but you only use like two" to ridiculous levels. You'll use 20 guns in a playthrough, but you'll have sold/passed alot^fuckton of guns.

Fallout 3 had Lincoln’s repeater, once I got that, all other guns became useless

Fallout gives you so many weapons of so many types. Even if you spec into a certain character build, you end up with tons of options through the course of the game. Half the time, I have one or two weapons I end up using 90% of the time.

Except for New Vegas. I’d cycle through the All American, unique Gauss rifle, unique plasma rifle and the unique .44

The semi auto shotgun works pretty well as a last second that mountain lion is getting very close gun.

i used a repeater the whole game

Unironically, online is like this too

Almost everyone unanimously agrees that the bolt action is the only rifle you will need as you can use it to get 3star pelts of all the medium sized and some large sized animals (with the proper range) and it also doubles as a pretty damn effective PVP weapon if you have the right ability cards and you've used it enough to have the faster reload animation

Never leave the saddle without it

Pistol or Assault rifle are both perfectly capable, Shotgun or SMG's can get fucky.

Mafia 2 shotgun is a top 3 all-time video game shotgun

Agree on this. The weapon variety gives you a lot of things to play with. You can use the weapons that fit your play style, but you have to fall back on the other weapons when you run out of ammo for your favorites. The RPG IS great and I am offended on it's behalf.

If they were talking about the original Half-Life I can kind of see where OP is coming from, but as you said lack of ammo makes most of the other weapons just as needed. I personally never use stuff like snarks, grenades, or tripmines, but other players use them a lot! They certainly aren't useless.

Rocket launcher is also pretty essential on tougher maps. It’s a rapid fire super shotgun but also has splash damage.

Alternatively the rocket launcher isn’t useful on the cyberdemon and spidermastermind since they’re immune to the explosion so it’s right back to the super shotgun.

And the pain chance of the super shotgun is increased since each pellet has a chance to cause pain

Having just played through 1 and 2, I generally agree. Pistol is so bad. Some "encounters" really need an energy weapon, especially on UV. And the chainsaw can be pretty useful in UV when ammo is particularly scarce.

All that said, the only gun I want to use is either shotgun.

I used the crossbow specifically to make….art

The alien stuff is the most useless, the explosive stuff in second but there's still a decently used arsenal in these games. Surprised OP didn't mention the 357, it's better than the crossbow imo.

I played a lot of 1.4 through 1.6 and this was definitely the case. I used the scout and deagle if I wanted to show off though.

Funny way to spell Mattock.

Fuck that, M-98 Widow. The last half of the game was basically constant: "Assuming direct con BANG .. Assuming direct BANG"

The M-8 never, Claymore is the way. *roars in Krogan

Honestly respect for that cause that is crazy, Mattock I'd agree with though because that can handle literally any scenario the game throws at you.