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Strangest RPG weapon

Postby rocklobster » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:12 am

Why do RPG's always have characters with strange weapons? What's the strangest one you've seen? Here are some of mine:
  • Drum (Janice in Chrono Cross)
  • Brush (Relm in Final Fantasy 6)
  • Megaphone (Cait Sith in Final Fantasy VII
  • Gunsword (Squall in Final Fantasy 8)
  • Blitzball (Wakka in FF10)
  • Keyblade (Sora in Kingdom Hearts)
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Postby Zilch » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:54 am

Well, there's Princess Peach's frying pan in Super Mario RPG, and whatshisface from Tales of Symphonia(that DOES IT! I'm playing it again so I can find out his name!) had handcuffs...but he fought with his feet, but that's beside the point. Sorta. Kinda.
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Postby Tommy » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:14 pm

rocklobster wrote:Why do RPG's always have characters with strange weapons? What's the strangest one you've seen? Here are some of mine:
  • Drum (Janice in Chrono Cross)
  • Brush (Relm in Final Fantasy 6)
  • Megaphone (Cait Sith in Final Fantasy VII
  • Gunsword (Squall in Final Fantasy 8)
  • Blitzball (Wakka in FF10)
  • Keyblade (Sora in Kingdom Hearts)

GUNBLADE!

And Lilka in Wild Arms 2 has an umbrella.
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Postby Godly Paladin » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:34 pm

This is totally off topic, but I'd like to say at this point that the Drill Gun from Turok is the coolest weapon in any video game ever. Word.
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Postby Kaligraphic » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:04 pm

RPG - Rocket Propelled Grenadier.
It launches a guy who's carrying a bag of grenades, and he drops 1d4 grenades on the enemy.

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Postby Kanerou » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:10 pm

._. Oy. I haven't played enough to know much, but that one's pretty cool. I take it oversized swords are the norm.
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Postby Debitt » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:15 pm

Quina from FF9. Forks = t3h coolz.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:34 pm

I recall Colette has a joke weapon that are tambourines.
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Postby Debitt » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:47 pm

Aw man, and I nearly forgot my favorite one! In Star Ocean 3, Fayt's default weapon is a metal pipe. XD
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Postby Sync » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:01 pm

Zilch wrote:Well, there's Princess Peach's frying pan in Super Mario RPG,

Paula in EarthBound also used a frying pan.
In Morrowind's Bloodmoon expansion, Vampire - Bloodlines, and Arx Fatalis you can use a severed limb.
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Postby Myoti » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:13 pm

The Gunblade was AWESOME.

How about Mario and Luigi hopping on enemies as their main attack? :p
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Postby CookinLikeSanji » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:17 pm

Aerith + MOP = Strangest
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Postby Tommy » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:17 pm

Sync wrote:Paula in EarthBound also used a frying pan.
In Morrowind's Bloodmoon expansion, Vampire - Bloodlines, and Arx Fatalis you can use a severed limb.


Serge`s girlfriend in Chrono Cross had one too.
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Postby Link Antilles » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:44 pm

I always thought the dictionary Calculators and Oracles used in Tactics to be a little misplaced among the loads of deadly weapons found in the game. Well, I guess math can kill. Heck, I've gotten a migraine during a math test.

Anyways, you can also never forget strange enjoy from beating up Retro Hippe's with cracked baseball bats and yo-yos in Earthbound.
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Postby Tommy » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:47 pm

CookinLikeSanji wrote:Aerith + MOP = Strangest


That was Cid. Aeris had the Staff.
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Postby CookinLikeSanji » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:03 pm

Ah thats right. I don't know why but for years I've always thought Aerith had the mop, even after playing through the game several times and having Cid use it...

Aerith DID have the Umbrella though! Although not quite as strange as the Mop, still odd.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:22 pm

Not really an RPG, but most characters in Soul Calibar II has their own joke weapon. Xianghua with a caligraphy brush, Talim with those weird weights, etc
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Postby Nate » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:34 pm

Setzer used playing cards in FF6. Most of the ones I would've mentioned everyone else has already said.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:49 pm

kaemmerite wrote:Setzer used playing cards in FF6. Most of the ones I would've mentioned everyone else has already said.


And darts and dice, can't forget those.
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Postby meboeck » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:54 pm

In Skies of Arcadia, Fina has a fierd alien creature that morphs into various weapons. That's the wierdest "weapon" I've ever seen.
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Postby MasterDias » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:07 pm

Most of the weird ones have already been said.

Chrono Cross had some strange ones. Nikki breaking his guitar over his opponent's head...

Then, it wasn't always the equippable weapon that was strange. Marcy's techniques involved attacking the enemy with string tricks.
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Postby everdred12a » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:42 am

There was a weapon in Mario RPG for Bowser that made him throw Mario at his enemies...

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Postby Kanerou » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:02 am

Myoti wrote:How about Mario and Luigi hopping on enemies as their main attack? :p


And don't forget about Yoshi swallowing his enemies, passing an egg, then using it as ammo. ^_^ Or his simply holding one in his mouth and stomping sand/breathing fire/(don't remember the others), etc.
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Postby Stephen » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:18 am

In FF7 Cloud could get a nasty old baseball bat. That was hardcore.
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Postby Tommy » Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:19 pm

When did this happen Ark?
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Postby CookinLikeSanji » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:50 pm

...My goodness, how could I forget to mention...

Earthbound.

Baseball Bats, Yo-Yo's, Frying Pans, Pop Guns, and more.
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Postby Sync » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:58 pm

NAIL BAT!

in the Temple of the Ancients clock room you get knocked down by the seconds hand and fight two dragons.

CookinLikeSanji wrote:...My goodness, how could I forget to mention...
Earthbound.
Baseball Bats, Yo-Yo's, Frying Pans, Pop Guns, and more.


namely, Brick Road the dungeon man.
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Postby Locke » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:58 pm

PSO had you using a frying pan too.. Oh and the Boomas arm too, those where cool.
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Postby Monkey J. Luffy » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:19 pm

In the super princess peach for the DS game coming out I think I should mention her umbrella with a taste for flesh. Yes it can eat enemies.
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Postby Tarnish » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:00 pm

Zell, FF8 - FISTS.
Who uses fists in an RPG? Pff.
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