The shink ray from Duke Nukem 3D was a delight to use in deathmatches. Shrink your opponent and squish 'em!

  • supercargo@r.nfEnglish
    1·
    17 hours ago

    This bad boy from Dark Forces:

    Concussion Rifle. Sounded like a banshee’s scream when fired. Too bad it got neutered in the sequel though.

  • _lilith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Remote mines from Goldeneye for N64. Never felt more like a spy than when you bait someone into charging at you spraying bullets and you just press a button on your watch

  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    The remote charge from Red Faction, cant remember the exact name but it was great for embracing my want to dig around and cause chaos.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    The Sigil of the One God from Strife. Like, the fully completed gun.

    And also the Nuke from Shadow Warrior.

    Mechanically, I love the uh… The rifle from UT that had the orb for the alt fire you could shoot with the primary fire for an explosion (I forgot the name). I liked it for rewarding the combo play; even now you don’t see many guns like this.

  • BmeBenji@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    Favorite? Fuck if I know

    But the Gauss Cannon from DOOM 2016? Siege mode? *CHUNK* *GUNK*\ *beedleedeep* BOOOOSCHHHHHGGRRRRZZZLLLKK baron gibs everywhere The ballista from DOOM Eternal got nothing on it.

    Also, there were a ton of fun guns from Bulletstorm, the game about stupid but fun guns. The quad barrel shotgun stands out in my memory quite fondly.

    It’s hard to forget the amazing times to be had with the duel-wielding in Wolfenstein: The New Order. Carrying two of those semi-automatic shotguns in that game meant you could liberate nazis quite enthusiastically from their skin, blood, and organs very quickly, and very cathartically. I need to replay that game.

    On the subject of nazis, I can’t forget the Wunderwaffe DG-2 from Call of Duty. Yeah, I know it’s Call of Duty, but I got to watch a dozen or so nazis’ heads explode simultaneously while they were paralyzed. That was great.

    I also think there’s a very strong case to be made that the greatest gun in any FPS game is the one that drives what is arguably the greatest video game ever created: the portal gun.

    Thinking about multiplayer games is a slightly different beast though.

    I got so much mileage out of the Cold War in Titanfall 2 - a burst fire, energy impact-grenade launcher. It was so much fun. But moreso than that, I think I loved the Double Take - a projectile-based double-barrel DMR. It took skill to get hits and even more skill to maximize damage by getting a hit with both bullets at the same time, and while flying around the map either jumping off a wall or Spider-maning around with the best-implemented grapple hook in any multiplayer game there was nothing that felt the same.

      • BmeBenji@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Splitgate was fun. I played it for a while back when it came out and then when its popularity surged. Great concept, great execution, great arcade-style gameplay.

        • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Yeah pretty much the same here, nothing negative to say but don’t really play much. When I want to play a PvP shooter though thats what I’ll play, the guns feel fantastic and the speed is hectic.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Undeniable classic. Not much more satisfying than hucking a file cabinet at a group of people who don’t see you yet.

      Also, the trip mines were fun to use in smaller games (just like the Duke3d ones).

    • f314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      Aww man, Red Faction was an awesome game! Didn’t the rail gun also have an infrared scope that could see through walls?

    • PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Yesssss. I also loved the pistol in that game. It was one of the first games i came across where the pistol was just as deadly (in the right hands) as most anything else you could get.

      Side note, why the fuck don’t we have games with destructible environments anymore? I know BF4 has it, but the only other FPS I can think of that did it as well as red faction was ‘Black’ in 2006.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      3·
      3 days ago

      I used to play RF2 multiplayer on GameCube with my brother when we were kids. We’d go onto that space map and try to snipe each other from across the map with the railgun.

      The early RF games are really underrated.