Besides the RPG, I love the bow & arrow, but there's not many games that use it.
Some of my best memories of Morrowind were nothing other than bow hunting animals. Something satisfying about leading a target from far off and watching it run right into the path of the arrow. With Skyrim you get the tall grass mod so that it's about up to your shoulders and the mod that removes the reticle and go elk hunting.
Other than that, it's not a weapon so much as a combo, but the electro-bolt plasmid and an elephant gun in Bioshock 2 multiplayer. Loved that Freeze! *headshot*
Besides the RPG, I love the bow & arrow, but there's not many games that use it.
Some of my best memories of Morrowind were nothing other than bow hunting animals. Something satisfying about leading a target from far off and watching it run right into the path of the arrow. With Skyrim you get the tall grass mod so that it's about up to your shoulders and the mod that removes the reticle and go elk hunting.
Other than that, it's not a weapon so much as a combo, but the electro-bolt plasmid and an elephant gun in Bioshock 2 multiplayer. Loved that Freeze! *headshot*
The bow & arrow is pretty much the ancestor of the firearm. Archers were like the sharp-shooters of the Middle Ages. Most of the Medieval-themed games & movies always seem to revolve around swords, when it was in fact the bow & arrow which dominated that era.
Besides the RPG, I love the bow & arrow, but there's not many games that use it.
Some of my best memories of Morrowind were nothing other than bow hunting animals. Something satisfying about leading a target from far off and watching it run right into the path of the arrow. With Skyrim you get the tall grass mod so that it's about up to your shoulders and the mod that removes the reticle and go elk hunting.
Other than that, it's not a weapon so much as a combo, but the electro-bolt plasmid and an elephant gun in Bioshock 2 multiplayer. Loved that Freeze! *headshot*
The bow & arrow is pretty much the ancestor of the firearm. Archers were like the sharp-shooters of the Middle Ages. Most of the Medieval-themed games & movies always seem to revolve around swords, when it was in fact the bow & arrow which dominated that era.
By the way, what do you mean by combo?
don't know if you played Bioshock 2 multiplayer, but it was a common combination...you'd use the electro-jolt plasmid for the momentary stun, then use the elephant gun for a one-shot kill to the face. it was just fun.
Anyway, the Hundred Years War was the big coming out party for the longbow. Agincourt is probably the most famous battle, where 7,000 of the 8,500 men in the English deployment were bowmen - they absolutely slaughtered the French, though the French had them greatly outnumbered. It's a shame that the bow classes in most RPGs suck, considering how powerful a bow actually is. Meanwhile dual-wielding does double damage, even though it's probably the most useless fighting technique against an armored opponent in the history of man.
Besides the RPG, I love the bow & arrow, but there's not many games that use it.
Some of my best memories of Morrowind were nothing other than bow hunting animals. Something satisfying about leading a target from far off and watching it run right into the path of the arrow. With Skyrim you get the tall grass mod so that it's about up to your shoulders and the mod that removes the reticle and go elk hunting.
Other than that, it's not a weapon so much as a combo, but the electro-bolt plasmid and an elephant gun in Bioshock 2 multiplayer. Loved that Freeze! *headshot*
The bow & arrow is pretty much the ancestor of the firearm. Archers were like the sharp-shooters of the Middle Ages. Most of the Medieval-themed games & movies always seem to revolve around swords, when it was in fact the bow & arrow which dominated that era.
By the way, what do you mean by combo?
don't know if you played Bioshock 2 multiplayer, but it was a common combination...you'd use the electro-jolt plasmid for the momentary stun, then use the elephant gun for a one-shot kill to the face. it was just fun.
Anyway, the Hundred Years War was the big coming out party for the longbow. Agincourt is probably the most famous battle, where 7,000 of the 8,500 men in the English deployment were bowmen - they absolutely slaughtered the French, though the French had them greatly outnumbered. It's a shame that the bow classes in most RPGs suck, considering how powerful a bow actually is. Meanwhile dual-wielding does double damage, even though it's probably the most useless fighting technique against an armored opponent in the history of man.
I haven't played BioShock 2. I only played the first one and Infinite, though I didn't get very far in either of them. Sounds like a pretty cool weapon though.
And yeah, the Hundred Years War was one of the examples I was thinking of. The French knights were heavily armoured to boot, yet the English longbowmen destroyed them. Another obvious example I was thinking of was the Mongol Empire, the largest land-based empire in history, created by relying mostly on mounted archers who destroyed most of the armies that crossed their path. It's a shame how modern popular culture sidelines the most effective weapon of the Middle Ages in favour of swords, I suppose probably because swords seem cooler to modern audiences?
The Darkness!! Nothing is more satisfying than splitting a man in half with this thing.
Those darkness arms are pretty brilliant. Just played through Darkness 2 for the first time last week. Oh and...erm..."assecution?" Somebody over at Digital Extremes is watching too much hentai.
The Darkness!! Nothing is more satisfying than splitting a man in half with this thing.
Those darkness arms are pretty brilliant. Just played through Darkness 2 for the first time last week. Oh and...erm..."assecution?" Somebody over at Digital Extremes is watching too much hentai.
ha! it's awesome right? Darkness 2 is one of my favorite shooters of all time.
@dethtrain: Soul Reaver from the first Legacy of Kain game (corpse 'splosions everywhere from what I remember)
Yeah, but it drained magic to do that and it drained magic quick, making it useless quick. The only thing was it subtracted the magic all at once, so if you simultaneously hit multiple targets, you could get them all to explode, even though technically you didn't have enough magic. Very cool for bottlenecks, but mostly useless, like most of the weapons in Blood Omen. Which is a shame, because the weapon designs are very cool in that game...Havoc and Malice...would have loved to use them more.
But your remind me, Flay isn't a weapon but it's a very cool spell/consumable. Hit a guy with flay and it instantly strips all his flesh off. That game was full of wicked spells - Inspire Hate, Blood Gout, Spirit Wrack...that maggot thing that devoured enemies...shame it never got a sequel that lived up to the original.
The chain whip from the Castlevania series. Always living the fantasy I could use one IRL
The Wunderwaffe DG-2. Electrocute tons of zombies at once. Great weapon. COD: WaW
The Ray Gun. Weapon of choice for most zombie killers. WaW & Black-Ops
Double Penetrating Unkempt Harold. Shoots a wave of explosive shots making it the deadliest pistol in Borderlands 2 IMO.
Last but not least the Battle Rifle. Has been my weapon of choice halo 2 and up ( Apart from Reach because there was no BR, just a DMR)
From Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4 I have at least 100k kills with this bad boy. Most of them headshots making it my favorite video game weapon of all time.
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