Overrated weapons/characters/specials in gameplay terms

[ReloadPsi]

Yeah, you heard me, overrated weapons/characters/specials in gameplay terms: Basically name all the crappy, useless things in video games that everyone seems to love for some unknown reason.

Freezethrower - Weapon in Duke Nukem 3D (Various)
This weapon sucks. If you miss, the shots bounce around and hurt you and if you're fighting more than one enemy at a time it's pretty much worthless as you have to run around trying to get Duke to automatically kick them. It's a nice novelty for taking out a single enemy standing in front of you when you have a clear shot, and it also serves as a decent enough rapid fire weapon for use on bosses when your other decent guns run out (I killed The Queen with it ), but other than that I just don't bother.

D5K Deutsche - Weapon in GoldenEye 007 (N64)
A subpar machine gun that makes too much noise, does the same damage as all the other normal assault rifles (in other words, not the P90 or the AR33) and doesn't even have a zoom function. At least the ZMG has a faster firing rate. Skip this piece of crap. (The Klobb is obviously worse, but everyone knows that thing fires drawing pins so it's irrelevant to the topic)

Black Mage - Class in FF games in general
Yeah, you knew this was coming. They were good in FFT (maybe FFTA too but I don't play it) but that's it. Moving swiftly along...

Yang - Character in Final Fantasy IV - FFII on the SN- wait, bugger it. If you're still not using the Japanese numbers, which have been in official use in the US for the last eight years then you shouldn't be breathing... in Europe they've never NOT been the Japanese numbers, how about that?)
He takes hits like a schoolgirl, takes forever to act when you give him a command (a character issued with a command after he is will often go first) and doesn't really seem to do exceptional damage at all.

Chaingun - Weapon in DOOM and DOOM II
Inaccurate, doesn't do much damage, the only saving grace is that it's a bullet weapon so it won't be dodged like the Plasma Rifle. DOOM3 seemed to upgrade it, but now it just runs out of ammo fast and needs constant reloading.

Dias Flac - Character in Star Ocean 2
Is it just me or does his basic physical attack miss all the time? At least his Air Slash is faster than Claude's, but Claude has Dragon Howl and Mirror Slice later on, plus he's meant to be a melee character.

Mario - Character in Super Mario Bros 2 (Super Mario USA in Japan)
He's a bit slower than Toad, doesn't jump as high as Luigi, and can't float like the Princess.

Luigi - Character in Super Mario Bros Lost Levels (SMB2 in Japan)
He jumps higher but when he lands he'll just slide off the platform. Even though he seems like the obvious choice, the game's easier with Mario.

I'll post some more as I think of them, but for now does anyone have any to share?

[Roto13]

Black mages are awesome once you set them up with nifty skills like doublecast or MP Turbo. Now I want to nuke you in FFTA with my clan with two black mages. :P

Cloud in FFT. He starts off, like, 40 levels lower than the rest of your party and his overlimits are way too hard to get/use.

[ReloadPsi]

Black mages are awesome once you set them up with nifty skills like doublecast or MP Turbo. Now I want to nuke you in FFTA with my clan with two black mages. :P

Cloud in FFT. He starts off, like, 40 levels lower than the rest of your party and his overlimits are way too hard to get/use.

FFT and its spinoffs are where Black Mages genuinely shine. (Goes back and edits post to reflect this.)

[Discord]

Guild Wars: Necromancers with 20 minions in PvP.
Deus Ex 2: Sniper-rifle with silencer.
Minesweeper: Ability to restart.

[Big D]

NIKITA remote-controlled missiles in Metal Gear Solid and MGS2.

These gadgets are a hell of a lot of fun. They're an absolute blast, especially since they can be flown around in first-person view, but they're exceptionally impractical as actual weapons. The projectile is very slow, and there's no pitch control, so avoiding the terrain can be a problem. They're only essential to solving one puzzle, and due to creative laziness the reality-bending parallels and illusions in MGS2, it's exactly the same puzzle in both games.

Really, I find these weapons handy for just two things:

1) Beating Sniper Wolf the cheap, easy and safe way in MGS

2) Using the launcher as a melee weapon for one-hit KOs in MGS2.

[Heath]

I always liked the D5K Deutsche. Not because it was a good weapon or anything, just liked how it looked and the sound it made. Proper threatening weapon and the silenced version is alright too. The Klobb was, naturally, brilliant though.

I always found Matthew from Fire Emblem to be slightly overrated. He's a decent enough character, but I much prefer using Legault myself.

[blackmage_nuke]

1) Beating Sniper Wolf the cheap, easy and safe way in MGS

And even then the Stinger missiles work better.

[Evastio]

Well there's Link, Zelda, Ganondorf, the Master Sword, the Triforce, Vaati, and anything that's Legend of Zelda related.

Honestly, all Nintendo game series have way more people hating them than liking them except for the Zelda series. Even if people think that they're much better than all the other Nintendo game series that doesn't make it okay for them to adore the Zelda series and abhor all other Nintendo related games. That's why I hate the Zelda series so much. I abhor it more for its overratedness than for the actual game itself. Yeah, I know Mario and Pokemon are also overrated but there's way more people hating them than Zelda.

[Rengori]

I found Flonne to be a useless character in battle in Disgaea. She can heal and stuff, but healers are much better for that.

[Spammerman]

Auron- Hes a dead drunk. So what. Whats worse, is that he can be knocked out, and hes already dead.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I found Flonne to be a useless character in battle in Disgaea. She can heal and stuff, but healers are much better for that.

Not to mention (SPOILER)she can't fight in the last battle.

Ideally, you'll have Flonne tutor a caster and learn every spell in the game. I think her base statlines are higher so she'll overall be better than a normal caster at that kind of hting.

[Mr Cactuar]

Well there's Link, Zelda, Ganondorf, the Master Sword, the Triforce, Vaati, and anything that's Legend of Zelda related.

Honestly, all Nintendo game series have way more people hating them than liking them except for the Zelda series. Even if people think that they're much better than all the other Nintendo game series that doesn't make it okay for them to adore the Zelda series and abhor all other Nintendo related games. That's why I hate the Zelda series so much. I abhor it more for its overratedness than for the actual game itself. Yeah, I know Mario and Pokemon are also overrated but there's way more people hating them than Zelda.

What are you talking about? There's way more people that like Mario and Pokemon then there is Zelda and waaaaay more people that like it then there are that 'hate' it. That's just silly.

The ray-gun-thing in F.E.A.R, you know the one that skeletises them. The shotgun is so much more cooler.

[Markus. D]

Guild Wars: Thinking it's trendy to hate on Touch Rangers~

[Vincent, Thunder God]

The Brute Shot in Halo 2, or the "Grape Shooter" as me and my friends have come to call it. Incredibly powerful in single player (literally a 1-2 shot KO) it is severely downgraded in multiplayer, for pointless reasons only known to Bungie. I've literally expended about 20 grenades trying to take out a friend, while he just shoots me down with rapid-fire or whips out a shotgun to be done with it. Why Bungie, why?

[Shoeberto]

The AWP in CS. Any good CS player knows what I'm talking about. Anyone who tries to defend it is a noob.