7 Worst Guns in Videogames We Wouldn't Shoot Our Worst Enemy With 

The best thing about the Anti-Gadoid gun is that you can give it to a survivor that asks you to bring him a pistol to protect him and his son. You find out later (SPOILERS) that he instead uses the gun to shoot and kill another survivor in the tower which either means A: The devs overlooked that the Anti-Gadoid gun counted as a functional pistol that should be able to be used for that mission, or B: he happened to find the ONLY Gadoid in all of Harran and eliminate them with the righteous power of the Anti-Gadoid gun.

Andy sassing the audience and Jane trying to instill order made me laugh out loud 😂

5:00 you forgot to mention, even if you mute the in game sounds, that gun will STILL scream at you.

Let's not forget the Chinese Pistol from Fallout 3 and its Unique variant the Zhu-Rong v418. They use the same ammo as the 10mm Pistol but do less damage, which is crazy because you get a 10mm Pistol before you leave the Vault.

I didn't know Andy could get even sassier, but he is proving me he can and I'm all for it.

There's a gun in Borderlands called "Morningstar" which is a reference to a comic called xkcd. It's apparently a really good gun, but it keeps guilt tripping you every time you kill someone with it.

I know he’s joking but I love how weirdly hostile Andy has been lately lol

Fun fact about the Liberator pistol: It actually less time to assemble a new one than to reload it.

The first thing I did when I got Plan B was shoot Dex’s body a few times. Imagine my surprise when I learned it shoots money instead of bullets. It was like Dex was spitting on my face one last time.

Growing up, we named the most humiliating defeat in Goldeneye 007 as "being klobbered." Of course the most humiliating defeat was being killed by the klobb. :)

I love how Enter the Gungeon has its own version of the Klobb (the Moonraker and Golden Gun are also there) and its description is "Gungeonologists have long debated what is truly the worst gun in the Gungeon."

Andy sneakily educating us by disguising history lessons as video game trivia. And here I thought I'd escaped the clutches of education

If I remember correctly, Plan B does the least headshot damage of all guns in game. Quite fitting considering that Dex shot you in the head with it...

The liberator did one good thing: it inspired the EZ gun in MGS3, which is undoubtedly the best gun in the game

Salvation's Grip from Destiny 2. It does 2 things: 1: It destroys certain quest items 2: Sits in your vault and collects dust It's not actually even required for the first item anymore and can only freeze the lowest level of enemies. In fact, it does so little damage that when a raid team used only it to defeat a boss, it took them over an hour and a half to do it.

The Red Ryder BB Gun in Fallout deals 1-3 damage. The starting 10mm pistol deals 5-10 damage. Oh, and it doesn't help that it requires BBs, which are a fairly obscure kind of ammo in the game.

Me and some friends did some testing in Goldeneye back in the day... It is very slightly quicker to use the melee slap to takedown someone in multiplayer than it is to use a klobb.

1. The anti gadoid gun in dying light is capable of 1 hit killing zombies I believe, of course you need to find the ammo and craft it in "the following" dlc 2. The euclic c finder in fallout New Vegas is amazingly overpowered and a joke, if you Dont activate the satellite to divert power to the gun, it does nothing, but if you do it launches a ray of death onto whoever you point at, granted you get 1 ammo a day

Fallout 4, Nuka-World DLC, Acid Soaker. It is a water gun that does 0 damage and even with the acid upgrade it isn’t good late game. And by the time you are powerful enough to take on Nuka-World every gun in your inventory is better.

The Bane was a great gun to whip out in co-op play. Especially if more than one player had it and at least one player had no idea what they were about to be subjected to. I've seen a lot of controllers and headsets thrown across rooms in surprise and horror; and it never got old to watch.

The Bane was so disappointing. It would've been cool to make it actually usable, so that you were tempted to endure all that screaming. But slowing your movement an insane amount was just unnecessary and felt tacked on.

In Pillars of Eternity, there is a gun that you can find really early on. You might be excited, until you realise that this is The Disappointer, and it has that name for a reason.

The Liberator was meant to be hidden, shot point blank, then you take the enemy soldier's gun, while the user was masquerading as a civilian.

I loved the bane! I played BL2 with a friend online who had already beaten the game so he knew what it was and thought it’d be funny if I got it… unlucky for him I used it for nearly the rest of the campaign and we actually haven’t played another game together… no regrets!

Honestly for me it's the most abundant sidearm in Fallout 3, the .32 Pistol. With its astonishingly low damage, its only saving grace is that all the enemies who carry one aren't much threat to you.

In my most recent playthrough of Borderlands 2, the Bane glitched two of us so we'd get bane noises regardless of whether we even had it equipped.

The Pea Shooter from Enter The Gungeon proves that pelting enemies with soft green seeds is about as deadly as it sounds. Yeah, it's set up in the tutorial as a crap jokey weapon, but I guarantee the disappointment you feel when it appears during a proper run is palpable. Absolute peas-take.

I'd argue for The Morningstar from Borderlands 2. Imagine the bane grew a conscience. Now imagine that it wants you to grow one too. Instead of screaming at you, it makes you feel bad about how "Some people can't afford ammo", about how "Someone is now an orphan and doesn't know it yet", and when you switch from it, it says "Just wait till I tell your father!" Great. I now have a gun that both makes me feel bad about what I'm killing, but threatens to tell on me to my parents. Thanks Hyperion.

The Bane sounds like a furious hoard of rubber chickens, charging into battle

Gallows Dodger from Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell is what the bane should have been, it gradually builds up to a stronger overkill mode with each kill while complimenting the player in the process.

I knew the Klobb was going to be on here. It took a whole clip to put down an enemy

To be fair to the Liberator, it was chambered in .45 ACP, so if a Resistance member got the shot off, it would probably work.

Fallout 4's syringer rifle: A dart gun that can fire projectiles with different effects like paralyzing the enemy or making them turn and attack other enemies. It sounds extremely cool until you discover that you can only craft the gun's ammunition and the items needed for the best darts are quite rare. They frequently involve fighting some pretty dangerous enemies and then only getting enough components for a single dart anyway. On top of that, the game lacks a basic mechanic for using different ammo types in a gun, most regular weapons having just one type. To load the syringer rifle, you have to access your character's pipboy and go into the inventory's "consumables" section. The darts aren't even listed in a way that makes them easy to find or puts them next to each other in the inventory. The whole process is incredibly clunky. The kicker is that once you've done all of that the darts frequently don't work anyway! Enemies can "resist" them even if the player uses a critical hit to ensure the dart doesn't miss. There's no in-game way to figure out when the darts are or aren't likely to work.

When talking about the Bane, Jane says if a gun could talk it might say something about being an implement of death, made only to kill, which is funny because that's exactly what the morning star does, a sniper also from Borderlands 2

honestly this list could of been full of borderlands guns like the sniper (i think) that flirts with you or the one that judges you when you miss or reload

I haven't played the game, but I sure hope there is a liberator only game mode. That would be so much fun!

The one thing worse then a bad gun is being a bad player. (Not a player that gets upset and yells because of “lag”.) As a kid I was so bad at Goldeneye 64 that when I was at a friends house and they had Goldeneye, they gave me the Gold, 1 hit kill, gun. Just to make thing fair. I still was pretty bad then.

Micah's Revolver in Red Dead Redemption 2 has to count. It's a handy wee sidearm, don't get me wrong, but from the moment you pick it up (as early as Chapter Two) until you get bored of pottering around Beecher's Hope, either you or your horse will be carrying a silver, black and red memento of Micah Freakin' Bell.

The Flintlock Pistol in Terraria. By the time you unlock it, you always have something better, Either you have the musket, which can oneshot weaker enemies from a distance, the undertaker, which is literally a direct upgrade, or the boomstick, which is a shotgun.

"Instead of shooting bullets, it shoots money. Every single round fired from the Plan B sucks 2€ from your wallet." Oh, so it's chambered in .223.

How about Turok 2's Tranq Rifle? Low fire rate, low ammo count, ammo is relatively rare, does no damage, doesn't even work on half or more of the enemies, and on the ones it does work it usually takes multiple shots.

For Cyberpunk I'd also recommend the Slaught-o-matic, a 1 time use non reloadable plastic smg you can buy from vending machines around Night City

You can actually upgrade the anti-gadiod gun in The Following after a long and length process and it pretty much one shots stuff

Oh dang, I didn't know the Bane came with random effect, I got a corrosive one and it's my favorite last ditch gun. I love its noises, and despite its wild flailing, it's perfect for being surrounded or being on FFYL and has saved my life on countless occasions

Having watched so many of your lists, I knew The Bane would be on here the moment I saw Borderlands being involved. The thing is though. I never personally used the gun, but every time you guys are using it on screen, it makes me smile. I can't help but picture it being hilarious to use rather than annoying. Also, that snowball gun looks pretty fun.

I unironically love the Klobb. When we were kids my brother and I would play Licensed to kill mode on Goldeneye (one-hit kills) with pistols only as our primary game mode. The Klobb is indeed a pistol and the only automatic one at that and was a monster!

That ending telling us to make our own channel was hilarious.

I think a gun that fits here is the Kolibri from battlefield 1, a comically small gun that is only useful for shooting people in the head and yes, it was a real gun made by a clockmaker

The Torgue Girth Blaster from Borderlands 3. It does less damage than white rarity pistols, can't roll with splash damage, and probably worst of all it was a pre order bonus so you had to pay real money to be LESS lethal.

Some other fun quirks about the FP-45 Liberator are the beautiful things it does to your wrist whenever you fire it

In the liberators defense, it was supposed to be used more like a stealthy dagger than a gun. But then, why not just use the dagger?

The original Earthworm Jim - or maybe its sequel? - had a terrible bubble gun too. If I remember right, it caused zero damage, and Jim couldn't move while firing. The only way to get rid of the thing was to completely expend its 'ammunition', making it a real liability - especially during a chase, or anything else with a time constraint.

The Reaper Blackstar from Mass Effect 3. It's long charge up time, and slow blast speed means whatever you're shooting will have moved out of the way well before it hits. And you can't even keep it after, to use at a later mission

I actually liked the Plan B in CP2077 in my gunslinger playthrough, it's convenient if you're about to run out of ammo. Also, at some point money becomes available as sand.

Destiny’s “No Land Beyond.” A potential SECOND sniper rifle in your loadout, NLB is a uniquely bolt-action sniper with misleading iron sights. All other snipers are semiauto and have dot sights. You literally have to use a special sprint technique to cancel the bolting animation, in order for it to be viable. Oh AND, it has the sight glint thing that snipers have, despite it having NO GLASS.

Y'know, I never actually knew the Plan B from CP2077 did that. I always wondered why the ammo counter went up so high when I equipped it.

7. Plan B isn't that bad. It literally gives you Bang for your Buck!

While I can't speak for Dex, in real life, plan A involves _not_ shooting people, e.g. negotiating rather than using force. At least that's the case in most ultra-cynical Cyberpunk milieus, including the tabletop game _Cyberpunk_ itself. The store-bought modules (at least the ones I've played) were created so that combat was _always_ a risky endeavor likely to get half the party killed.

The Cryolator in Fallout 4 is big, heavy, and its ammunition is unique and extremely hard to find. On top of that, its damage is only useful at the very beginning of the game, and, while it is located in the starting area, it is in a master locked case which is impossible to open unless you return for it several levels later, when its damage too low.

Always loved getting a Ghoul Slaying Gamma Gun in Fallout 4. Of course, the Gamma Gun heals ghouls for the damage it would do to any other enemy. Adding the Ghoul Slayer mod heals them HARDER!

Even worse from Borderlands 2 is that SMG that randomly falls out of your hands. Also, any given gun from Daikatana since they all have a chance of hurting you.

7:25 There's a game called Leaf Blower Revolution that has a Moon level, and there are indeed leaves there.

The Liberator is less of a handgun, and more of a hand-to-hand gun. As in, you need to be within grappling range of your target to reliably hit them. It is in fact _very_ effective for its intended purpose... but practically useless for anything else. I'm glad to see the Bane on this list, I would have been disappointed if it wasn't. I'm less glad to _hear_ it on this list. The real world Klobb, i.e. the Skorpion, is a machine pistol developed as a PDW, or Personal Defense Weapon, intended for vehicle crews and other troops who could not carry a full size rifle. It is as far as I know considered one of the best such weapons of its generation, which makes the in-game counterpart almost insulting.

Andy’s sass is really accelerating, he’s building up to something

The Disk Launcher in Vanquished. It fires buzzsaws which SOUNDS good, but you're fighting robots and tanks, so even fully upgraded it just sort of bounces around the field. Its real purpose is to be used as a melee weapon which… is not really what you're aiming for in a gun.

"Why would you need to rake the moon?" With one simple question, Mike has now made my bucket list a single entry: Make a zen garden on the moon.

"Well testicles, we had a good run." I almost sprayed milk out of my nose when I heard that. Thank you, Mike 🤣

Pair up Zer0 from BL2 with The Bane and the B0re skill in his sniper tree against The Bnk3r it will shred instantly especially if you have the corrosive Bane and you are using Zer0's Invisibility. You may need to do it when Bnk3r is hovering in one spot for the most amount of damage.

Another thing about the BL2 Bane is that, if you lower or disable the overall sound, the weapon still be as loud as it was at full sound. Also from Borderlands 2 is the entirety of Captain Blade's weapons from the Captain Scarlett DLC. Each of these weapons/items are obtained by completing the "Message in a Bottle" sidequests, and they screw you in different ways. The Otto Idol relic makes you gain health by killing enemies but reduces your Fight For Your Life time, making you more respawn vulnerable. The Orphan Maker Shotgun has increased damage and pellet count but hurts you a bit every time it hits an enemy. And so on. EDIT: Another thing about the Bane: it's manufactured by Hyperion (the villain corporation of the game) and it's found on a bandit-infested area that's also home to one of Jack's acquaintances, namely his girlfriend, the Sheriff of Lynchwood (Nisha in "The Pre-Sequel!")

"So what prompted you to start up your start up your own channel?" "Funny story, I was watching a video about the 7 worst guns in video games..."

The 2mm Kolibri from Battlefield 1. You would think that it's some sort of a joke weapon but its actually a real gun made by an Austrian watchmaker back in 1914

The liberator was meant to be a very close quarters weapon such as when reaching for the wet celery and flying helmet. You'd rake the moon to get rid of those annoying footprints and make circles around the rocks.

Jane's hair is always goals!

Projectile weapons in Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord can be tricky. This is especially true for Bows and Crossbows - seems that throwing Knives and Javelins is easier to do, as using the Standard Bow and Crossbow requires a certain amount of skill just to equip, let alone use, unless your Character's background is such that they are already good with the weapon. Thankfully, there's the Hunting Bow and Hunting Crossbow, as well as Tournaments, that can be used to help you level up your skills. Going after Looter parties also helps. After all, part of your forces will be Archer sorts, unless you hire a Companion with such Bow/Xbow skills to turn them into that group's Troop Captain. As for guns, the Old Realms mod has those weapons. While it's easy to get gun-tooting troops in the form of Empire units, especially the Noble units, to get guns yourself, you must either take them off of a Witch Hunter companion (do so from their Civilian Outfit, so that they still have one in their Military Outfit - an easy money exploit in the mod is to hire the Companions for 2K gold, then strip them of both their Military and Civilian outfits, boot them, and then sell the gear for 15+K gold), or you must do The Engineer's Quest, which can only start if the Character has at minimum 50 Engineering, which is only raised through sieges. Thankfully, going to a Magister of Magic (any sort) allows access to Experience Books - a few deal with Engineering. Read those, and you'll easily get the level you need - in fact, if you got the money, buy and read all the books, as this will get you to over 100 in most abilities. Now, The Engineer's Quest - Runaway Parts. You must hunt down two groups - one stole this guy's blueprints, and the other stole the parts needed to make the weapons. Both groups have 30+ men, so the player will need the forces to take them on - a Vampire Count/Necromancer should have 40 man space, that can be used to fill with say Vampires, or Empire troops, or skeletons. Take out one group, see the Chief Engineer, then take out the other, see the fella again, and now you'll have access to Cannons and Mortors, but you need Engineers for using those, but the CE has access to those. Likewise, they have access to firearms, including the Repeating Long gun (or whatever), which can fire 7 shots before it needs to be reloaded. Not bad for a Medieval Fantasy firearm.

I actually used Bane 'till the very end of of BL2 playthrough given how powerful it was for an SMG, and the fact that its element was slag. It kinda became a bit weak going into True Vault Hunter. Weirdly enough, it had rolled a damage value of 497... what kinda fecked RNG did this guy have?

The Syringer from Fallout 4. Guess we finally found out what John Kramer did with all those spare needles from Saw 2.

In "West of Loathing" DLC "Reckonin' at Gun Manor" there is a gun you can get LITERALLY called The Worst Gun

The Bane in Borderlands 2 might be annoying to use, but if you dual wield 2 of them with a proper Gunzerker build, you can tear pretty much every enemy you encounter apart like paper

Pretty sure behind the scenes cuts would all be Jane yelling "Andy!" or "Mike!" in the background.

When I last played borderlands 2 the bane was truly cursed, there was a bug where it's voice effects would persist to other weapons, so just having it in your inventory was a determent.

Fun fact, the klobbe is so notoriously terrible that it earned a spot on the roster of the many guns in enter the gungeon, in which it’s hard to kill anything with it, is super inaccurate, eats through ammo faster than you can say “this gun sucks” and is widely considered one of the worst guns in the game. In contrast, the golden gun, funnily enough, one shots pretty much anything besides bosses until late into a run (although it does have somewhat poor ammo capacity) Edit: spelling

As far as trash guns go, the E-11 Blaster Rifle in Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 serves as an in-universe explanation for why Stormtroopers can't hit anything ever. Additionally the Varmint Rifle in Fallout: New Vegas not only is just as low-powered as the name implies, but will also eat up precious 5.56mm ammo that could have instead been used in the infinitely cooler Blade Runner inspired That Gun, or a powerful and long-range assault rifle.

There is an exotic weapon in Destiny 2 where it’s description says you are firing bullets that are sentient. It’s an SMG so you literally fire like 30 of those buggers in 3 seconds. Congrats Guardian, you just ended the existence of 300 sentient beings because you wanted to test out your new gun.

A lot of the weapons in Splatoon are incredibly frustrating to use. When the objective is to cover the level in paint, it feels like a weird choice that a lot of the weapons (without special charge shot options) don't let you just hold down the fire button to keep shooting.

I find the bane incredibly funny and effective against spiders. As long as you turn the volume down, or off. On the other hand the wave based shotguns in the games drive me nuts and do nothing.

I havent found Plan B yet, and now will totally go for it. Having an iconic liberty pistol with a suppressor should carry me through stealth sections safer than the throwing knife... and with 200k+ in my bank, it would take A LOT of shooting to make a dent...

The Plan B (personal trauma aside) is actually fairly damn solid, 2 eddies is genuinely a negligible ammount, especially in the late game when you have millions of eddies and nothing to do with them. It's basically equally as good as any given good rarity Liberty pistol, and Liberty pistols are pretty nice. I still prefer the Kongou overall as my favorite Liberty variant, but don't sleep on the Plan B.

Another gun from Cyberpunk that I'd put on this list is the "Problem Solver" It's an SMG with very low damage, a large magazine, an incredible ROF and very high recoil. It used to be great, but due to damage mods now giving %-boosts instead of flat damage per shot, the weapon became trash.

It's comforting to know you wouldn't shoot your worst enemies with these video games.

It’s worth pointing out the Klobb is actually based on the original VZ-61 Skorpion. The original VZ-61 was chambered in .32 ACP so it was already underpowered. The gun was intended to be carried in a holster and was issued to tankers and vehicle crewmen who couldn’t use a full size rifle. It was also issued to special ops units but it was not supposed to be a frontline weapon

the. 38 revolver from fallout 3. terrible damage and range. and the ammo is hard to find so it's not possible to horde tons use

The Dragon, in Fallout 76, it sounds like a dope gun until you realise its just 4 muskets strapped together and as such takes about a minute of real time to reload it doesn't even do much damage and cost like 4000 caps

Honestly I thought the Bane was funny. I used to use it when I was backed against walls so the speed penalty was rendered pretty much moot, and it took down enemies quickly enough that the screaming didn't have time to get annoying.

Fun fact The Bane's yells are that of bandits being melted by acid from Borderlands 1, the more you know

For me, it has to be the Tiny Pistol from Saints Row IV. I know it's supposed to be a reference to Men In Black's Noisy Cricket. But for an RPG-like weapon that's hidden beneath Let's Pretend and you need a heavy weapon to blast open to the door to get it; the Tiny Pistol is rubbish, even when fully upgraded. The recoil sends you flying backwards for a few seconds leaving The Boss vulnerable and barely damages anything you aim at because the accuracy is sent out the window due to the recoil.

In cyberpunk, there's another gun that you can get in vending machines that can only be used once, and it's also really buggy.

The hand gun from castlevania aria of sorrow. It does some of the worst damage in the game and halves your attack further reducing the damage. And it can only be found near the end of the game so you’ll already have better weapons by that point

To be fair, the Liberator worked exactly as advertised. It was meant as a holdout gun to arm yourself better by... liberating... equipment in use by someone else, via the handy-dandy insertion of *hot lead* into the body. It wasn't meant to be a continious use gun, although IRL it *can* be reloaded, it even comes with a few spare rounds held within the grip of the gun (not as a magazine, but as a pocket of sorts). The reload time, though, is accurate, as is the gun's actual lack of accuracy when fired... but again, it was meant to be hidden until being up close and personal with the unlucky recipient of the .45 caliber round...

Jane with the Wishmaster reference, love it. Such a goofy film but great performance by Divoff. “make…your…wiiiiiiiiiiiiissh”

I always liked the invention of arrows/spears joke.. "I wanna stab that guy, but he's way over there!"