Overpowered items are bittersweet.
Sometimes, that power boost provides an endless amount of fun, putting you, the player, in
a god like status.
Other times, overpowered items can spoil the fun, by making a game less challenging, or
the overall experience less fun, especially when interacting with other players online.
So today we’re taking a look at some of those items on the bitter side.
We’re talking items that ruined games, made games pointless, and just broke not only the
game’s ability to be challenging, but also broke our spirits.
So let’s jump into our list of the top 10 overpowered items that broke video games.
10 Invincibility Leaf Starting off this list, let’s look at an
item in Super Mario 3D Land.
If you’ve never encountered this item, or played the game, well, the Invincible Leaf
Basically does exactly what you think it does - it makes you invulnerable.
For the entire level, that is.
It appears after you’ve died five times in a single level, which is why it’s highly
criticized for watering down the game excessively; it removes the challenge.
Unless you’re really good at falling into pits.
In which case, get ready for a challenge.
9 The Bee Shield Borderland 2 A legendary amplify shield that you can acquire
randomly - or by following one of the various farming suggestions that you can find on youtube
- is has a crazy high amp shot damage with zero shield drain per shot, despite having
a long recharge delay and a low shield capacity.
Which makes the likelihood of defeating some high level bosses way more achievable.
Practically making your battles a walk in the park.
8 R8 Revolver from CS:GO From Counter Strike Global Offensive, the
R8 Revolver is a fan favourite - it’s got two modes, one that is quite accurate and
another that uses more of fanning technique.
It’s got extremely high damage for a hand gun.
It deals more damage than the Desert Eagle and can kill a player with two shots if they’re
armoured.
And an instant headshot kill at any range.
On the downside, it has low ammunition, 16 rounds with eight shots in the cylinder, 8
in reserve.
7 Slugthrower - Star Wars battlefront multiplayer The Slugthrower fires ballistic projectiles
rather than energy, which makes it a bit old skool in the context of this game - and the
Star Wars universe - but it still packs a punch, big time.
While at first it may just seem like an intense projectile shooter, players soon discovered
that if they combined it with a jump pack, it made the damage more severe, and also ruined
ground combat since they could just jump up into the air, fire away, and do some serious
damage.
6 The Tau Cannon from Half Life Also known as the XVL 1456, the Tau cannon
is introduced as an experimental energy weapon on the chapter Questionable Ethics.
Many feel it’s the best weapon in the game due it’s power and versatility, and it’s
beams are made up of tau particles.
It has two modes - it’s primary rapid fire attack capable of firing off 300 shots per
minute, and a secondary mode that charges it up, firing white hot beams that can hit
multiple targets or burst through walls.
While it’s awesome in the game, it makes deathmatchs very hard to endure since it’s
easy to blast other players away in no time.
5 Energy Sword from Halo There’s a few overpowered items from Halo
that we could talk about, but for the sake of keeping this list diverse, we chose to
just stick with the Energy Sword this time around.
This iconic weapon is mainly effective on close range maps, letting you kill with one
hit, making it a divesting melee weapon.
It can also penetrate through energy shield systems and some armour.
As long as it’s close combat, this weapon can make you invincible.
And also look like a bit of a bad ass while you’re at it.
4 Farsight XR-20 from Perfect Dark The Farsight is basically an invincible weapon
that’s incredibly over powered.
It’s a sniper rifle, can shoot through walls, auto lock on enemies, and kill with one hit.
Which, if you were on the receiving end, just felt as if you were dying out of nowhere.
3 Alchemy Exploit in Morrowind Once you get to Mournhold in the game, you’re
able to buy spells in the Royal Palace from a woman NPC named Laurina Maria.
Then, craft yourself a spell that fortifies your alchemy skill or fortifies intelligence,
which is the more commonly used option, that essentially gives you the intelligence increase
you need to vastly improve your enchanting and potion crafting.
You end up crafting potions that are exceptionally strong, and also come with a pretty price
tag on them.
Meaning you can sell them, make a ton of money, and buy whatever else you’d like to amp
up your abilities.
Even to the point of essentially achieving a god like status with an endless supply of
potions - when one wears off, just chug back another.
2 GTA Online Hydra Introduced in GTA V Online, the Hydra is a
military VTOL fighter jet that can be flown in hover mode similar to a helicopter, or
just as a regular plane.
Which is cool, but where it really shines is combat - reusing some of the weapons of
the P-996 Laser, it has two cannons that fire explosive rounds.
Unlike the P-996 laser missiles though, it has lock on and non lock on rockets with the
ability to switch between the two options, giving the rockets better range and a longer
flight time.
And it comes at a price steep price - $3 million.
So if you haven’t encountered it, it shouldn’t be too hard to imagine how it could make GTA
Online a little frustrating when someone owns it and is bombing the shit out of you in it.
1 Destiny - Gjallahorn This holy grail of over powered weapons originally
broke the game in year 1 and returned in year 3.
So let’s take a look at this over powered rocket launcher with was pretty hard to get
your hands on.
It’s super pretty, looks incredibly unique, and is super effective.
It’s great for distance because of it’s tracking feature, has upgrades like snapshot,
quickdraw and speed reload.
Which makes it incredibly useful when you’re using something this high powered.
But, most impressively, is the wolfpack rounds, which includes homing that can really fuck
up your enemies, and it attacks multiple enemies, too.
So you can kill enemies and bosses in next to no time.
It broke the game.
Alright, there we have it!
Now there’s quite a few game breaking items we didn’t include on this list - cause,
well, there’s only ten spots on a top ten list - so let us know in the comments below
if we should do a part two!
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