A random list of the worst and most useless weapons and power ups in video game history

Top Spin - Mega Man 3 (seriously took 8 year old me forever to figure out what it even did)

Butterfly Net - Legend of Zelda - Link to the Past

Any and all of Edward's Harps - Final Fantasy IV

The net in Animal Crossing

I thought that firey mario became pretty obsolete with super mario 3. Compared with the raccoon tail it was completely useless.

Deka nuts. Wtf.

Tanooki Suit Mario. The extra "turning to stone" power never helped.

The chemical sprayer in BioShock. I think I used it....once?

90% of the weapons in Hitman. Though all fun, anything unsilenced is totally useless if you want to beat the game with Silent Assassin status.

The crossbow in Perfect Dark. Yeah, with 30 futurist laser guns and rocket launchers to pick from with badass names like the Mauler and Reaper, I want to use a freaking crossbow.

@Twig: omg I remember the klobb now! We used to call it the "staple gun".

Cracked/inferior/splintered/etc weapons: esp. weapon classes you can't use - Diablo II

yah the bees are fucking useless, they don't even really have a "cool" factor

on the wow front: The One Ring

@fiz i was hoping the bees would be good for distracting, in case you didn't want to necessarily go into direct combat, but the enemies still come at you even when swarmed with bees

also in the late game you have so much case those situations never really arise

I got the bees just after I had saved. When I died so fast, I didn't even wait to respawn. I just re-loaded my saved game and saved my cash.

@toast faeries in a bottle are only useful for maybe the first quarter of the game, afterwards you should be carrying red medicine anyways

totally agree with frog suit mario and on the subject of mario 3 the FUCKING ANCHOR. Pain in the ass to get and all it did was keep the ariships from moving on the map, STUPID.

remote/timed mines are pretty ass

Aeris's Great Gospel limit break item, FFVII.

I had one friend who leveled her enough to be able to use it. He said it's a damn good thing she died halfway through the game (OMG SPOILERS), otherwise any and all boss battles from then on would have been beyond cake.

This thread has me thinking more of games I played as a kid which were either way too hard for anyone ever (I went back and tried to play Burger Time. Just as fucking hard now as it was then), or just generally incomprehensible (A Boy and his Blob, while interesting in concept, was fucktarded in execution).

Also for Contra:
The "R" powerup. It did fuckin' nothing.

I'd rather slap someone than have to use a Klobb.

The molotovs in GTAIV are pretty useless.

I used the Bubble Lead in Mega Man 2 exactly ONCE.

The piggy/mini/frog spells in FFIV were hilarious but NEVER FUCKING WORKED.

Only because the designers were, like, "Dudes, we forgot to make the Bubble Lead useful and the game is due, like, tomorrow."

"Ah, shit, I knew we were forgetting something."

"Alright, okay, we can fix this. Nerf all the weapons on the final battle except the bubble thing. That should do it."

the bananas in Mario Kart Wii. You KNOW nobody's gonna run over those things. . . .and they give them to you even if you're not in first place.

and the laser in Contra, of course.

yeah bananas are good imo, they shield from red shells if nothing else

even if no one hits them, a stratgically placed "wall of bananas" set through a race can force your opponents to take longer outside routers

Exactly. Shields is their primary use.

And spamming bananas really messes with everyone else.

@twigby - you are DEAD ON about the molotov cocktail. No matter how far away you are when you throw it, it's just not enough to avoid having to run around trying to put out the fire on yourself.

@FiZ: All those status spells piss me off something fierce. They always work for the enemy and ALWAYS whiff when I cast them.

So sleep, confuse, paralyze, all that shit, I never bother with them.

@FiZ- Or Nihopalaoa + phoenix down = 100% instant death to anything not immune to death.

About 80% of the abilities in Final Fantasy Tactics. Also, the entire lancer class. No way to preview when you land, so your options are do the math yourself, or limit it to enemies you have rooted.

apprently the klobb is making its return in Too Human!

@TWIGBy: Surely you jest.