Which video game weapon made you feel like a god?

Which video game weapon made you feel like a god?

the BFG, baby!

the BFG 9000, that is 🧐

BFG for sure. and that moment in GTA V when you rob the bank in full body armor with a gatling gun with unlimited ammo and you just...destroy everything. or the gravity gun moment in Half Life 2...

oh! the sword in Metal Gear Solid 2 ❤ at the end, when you're just fighting off hordes of clone-soldiers...

For me I'd go with Wraithverge from Hexan. As a cleric you have this medieval gun that looks like a cross. When you fire it, a horde of ghosts fly out and rip everything in sight to shreds.

oh man, I forgot about that game.. I always mix it up with heretic

Dane never played that one, but it sounds incredible

richard-kubina i think they were made by the same dev team

half-life has had some great weapons.. gluon gun
and tau cannon in the first one too. gauss jumping up and over everyone, raining down tau particles on unsuspecting foes was fun..

The grenade launcher in Golden Eye was also pretty insane. Every time you play deathmatch, there is a mad rush to the grenade launcher.

Dane oh man, goldeneye...i'm pretty sure that game has ended friendships. 😂

richard-kubina i think i have to go back and actually beat the first half life now...never got to that part

I felt like the rocket launcher was a bit more deadly! straight to the point and click splash damage action!

i forget if the grenades blew up on contact though? or were they always on a timer

the tau cannon also auto targeted foes when shot through a wall 🤔 was pretty over powered on some levels

This example pales in comparison to modern games but I remember the invincible feeling of getting the fire flower for the first time in Mario Bros.

the redeemer from unreal was a god weapon.. first person view of a nuke you controlled.. huge radius and damage when it exploded

The Lightblade in Halo was pretty insane.

crash bandicoot, getting the three masks and becoming literally invincible for a short time, was absolutely awesome. it was also my first playstation game, my first 3d game, so i may be looking at it through nostalgia goggles. but i think it was still objectively cool.

omg the lightblade

The Thunder Beam in Mega Man was crazy. Too bad it used up so much energy.

ahhh mega man...such a great series. my personal favorite was mega man 2, with the saw blades

we used to play toejam and earl with a game genie using a code that allowed you to use presents without consuming them.

we used to love getting to the elevator before the other player and spawning hella Earthlings to guard it from the other player.. this is a true god weapon, wielding the power of creation! 😂

game genie in general was godly like that.. poking the game's code and what not

Oh yeah, the saw blades were great. I also liked the power you got from guts man where you could pick up and throw giant blocks of rock.

richard-kubina ah the game genie, such a magical little device ✨ nothing like PEEKing and POKEing the game's raw memory...

Dane i forgot about that one! man, i need to play mega man 2 later...

I was 100% against game genie back in the day. My little brother loved game cheats and I persuaded him not to get it.

oh yeah, i refused to play any of the GTA games with cheats. i was all about the missions, and cheat codes were...cheating! but i eventually got a gameshark disc so i could find the hidden areas in san andreas 👀

naw, it added soo much replay value to games. in golden eye we used game shark to open up the entire facility level because I found a code that you could bind a button on the d-pad to fire a gun that could destroy anything.. even that locked door :challenge-accepted:

i think it made games boring, if you overused it. like once you're invincible and you can do anything...omnipotence gets old fast

ah i'm thinking multiplayer games. games you'd play with friends, sitting around a single television 🙂

I can see using tools like that for replayability. I was just against using those tools to beat the game the first time. That was a major ethical stance I was somehow very strict about.

it was like having mods on the console! at least before consoles connected to the internet

What we used to do for replayability is come up with random restrictions and see if we could still beat the game.
•We tried to beat Mario Bros by using our toes instead of fingers. •In various football games, we'd say touchdowns weren't allowed and we had to kick field goals. •In Final Fantasy I, we decided we wanted to beat the game by playing through with every character being a single class. I think we made it through with priests and fighters.

hahaha.. how'd you do with your toes on mario bros. ?

I believe we made it to level 8-1. You can warp there relatively easy but those levels just require too much dexterity.

I recall some codes to change joe montana's football scoring rules, so you could have enforced touchdowns being zero points 😄

I tried to play the first final fantasy on the NES.. it was already hard enough for me. I was awful ☹

8-1 with just your toes is very impressive... 👏

Oh yeah. We were pretty dedicated to learning to play with our toes. I think we wanted to join some kind of circus act or something. Kids have strange ideas...

Oh, another "weapon" that made me feel like a god would have to be the crafting bench in Minecraft. That game in general gives you so much creative freedom. Being able to carve out and build your own world is very god-like.

most definitely! in minecraft, the first time i got diamond weapons and armor, i felt invincible. of course, it wears down...but still

Absolutely. minecraft is so good for that ability to make the world what you want it to be..

Join us next time when we discuss the best 'god games' 😁

Minecraft also had the opposite of a god-like experience. Those fucking creepers that come along and blow up your shit kind of make you feel helpless.

speaking of godlike feelings...what about the sims 👀

hahah right.. at least there's creative mode 😌

The original Sim City was fantastic. I can't say I felt a sense of power in any of the others though.

sims, right.. i was thinking of sim city. i never played spore but that seemed like a neat idea, guiding evolution of life forms

Oh, I was so excited when they were developing Spore. I never played it though.

oh man, i wanted to play spore soooo bad when i first heard of it...then i promptly forgot about it when the next issue of GamePro magazine came out 😅

i bet you can get it for like $2 now

That was a PC game right? I doubt it would even run on modern systems. Computers would likely reject it out of pure disgust.

dosbox ftw 😄 or use docker or virtualbox to run windows 2000/xp haha

Nice!

Seeing your icon makes me a little sad nobody (to my knowledge) ever tried to create a Bob Ross game. Phthalo green would have been a god-like weapon.

whoa....sounds like a job for VR 👀 i'd play that

I would buy my first VR headset just to paint in a setting like Bob Ross.

lol but would you have to use cheat codes to match bob's brush beating?

lol at the idea of using those hand trackers to do that

Beating the devil out of your brush should trigger the cheat codes.

it feels like so many games are in a rut, trying to be ultra-realistic and all that, copying the blockbuster bestsellers...it would be so nice to see something different like this

lmaooo

seriously! something creative for a change

like i don't wanna play Call of Duty 28 or whatever. i want Happy Little Trees with Bob Ross

I'd want an antagonistic Bob Ross mode. "That doesn't look like a happy little tree to me".

angry bob ross like that parody character in The Boondocks cartoon... 😂

"When I said anyone could do this, I had no idea someone would come along as bad as you..."

lol

ok dane's writing dialogue, that settles it. we need to get bob ross's estate to sign off on this, it needs to happen

No way they'd agree to a game with an angry Bob Ross.

nah. but the original idea might fly

maybe his angry cousin Rob Boss comes in

Oh yeah, it could be like that version of Madden without real NFL teams. "Bobby Ross Paints"

oh yeah!! NFL Blitz, was that it? such a great game

but yeah, could totally do a "fair use" parody sorta thing