To put into perspective just how OP the Smart Pistol is in Titanfall 2, the lore of the game says that it cannot be mass manufactured because of how bonkers expensive it is. During the home stretch of the campaign, you're literally firing BILLIONS of dollars worth of shots.

Ellen's pleased smile while she holding the trophy is so funny 😂💛

In some of the Devil May Cry games, Dante's starting sword is called Rebellion. While Dante gets more weapons over the course of his adventures, Rebellion can be used for pretty much the entirety of the game and is very versatile.

Plasma Cutter in Dead Space 1 & 2. There's even an achievement for it in each game!

Pokemon starters are the epitome of giving the player the best tools at the start. Since little kids wont get the strategy part and will just overlevel their starter. Because of that the Pokemon Company typically makes those mons significantly stronger than the vast majority of the others.

That smooth transition from Luke got me 😂

Ellen always gives 110% to her parts in these videos and it’s honestly some of the most relatable fun you guys share with us

In hunter the reckoning, the judge's crossbow is a 1hit kill on vampires. Since you are fighting a vampire coven, it's kinda mandatory

The silverballer is the best weapen in pretty much every Hitman game. 47 almost always gets the silverballer right away and can usually upgrade it. In the most recent game, you unlock it in the first real map, so you basically start with it.

The taser in Syphon Filter. It has unlimited range, drops any enemy silently, and if you’re a particularly sick puppy, sets enemies on fire if you zap them too long.

Honestly, in so many games with optional stealth mechanics or melee insta-kills the starter knife (or equivalent thereof) is ludicrously powerful. Like in Far Cry 3 it’s fairly easy to chain melee kills and get rid of loads of enemies without ever needing to pull out a gun. It helps that melee kill animations usually give you invincibility frames.

I don't know if any weapon in Doom Eternal could be considered best, but the starting shotgun remains useful through the whole game. Pick up the grenade launcher mod for it ASAP and it's an excellent and easy way to target demon weak points.

_Hexen_ mage starter weapon is a railgun with infinite ammunition. You don't even have to reload it. It just keeps on shooting. It may not hit hard as hard or as often as the turret gun on a _Halo_ Warthog, but it will eventually wreck enemies for you, no matter how tough they are.

Can we get a commenter edition of our favorite taverns? Because Pyloon’s Saloon is already my favorite cantina in all of Star Wars.

Ah, the saw cleaver. Bloodborne combat given form. Simple, and visceral, yet with a few tricks that turn from dangerous to lethal. Also, use bolt paper!

Not sure if it counts because it's all the same weapon, but Cal's single saber mode in Jedi Survivor remains incredibly useful throughout the entire game.

Not a weapon, but the best starting armor in a video game was the Stalker Suit from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. You could find it in the starting area of the Cordon, but you had to know where to look. It was tucked away in an attic but the only way to access it was to make a rather hard jump from the roof of one building to another. Then, once you’re on the second roof, you have to go to the other side, find where part of the roof is missing, then crouch down right on the edge of the roof, and break the crate hidden there concealing the Stalker Suit. This armor was so good to have at the start of the game in fact, that the developers actually replaced it with the far less good (but better than nearly any other armor at the start of the game) Merc Suit in an early patch of the game.

Could also add "Grip" from Control. It's solid regardless, but becomes best when you get the mod that refunds ammo on hit. Add some fire rate and/or damage mods and grip can just endless send bullets into you enemies when you're not otherwise engaged flinging forklifts at them. Yes, technically all you weapons are alternate forms for "The service weapon" but that's plot, functionally they're different weapons.

Still surprised Polar Star from Cave Story wasn't a mentioned. It can fire about as fast as you can hit the attack button and doesn't have ammo to worry about, unlike a lot of your other weapons. Plus, if you hold onto it the whole game, you can swap it for the Spur, arguably the best gun in the entire game.

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The pistol you get at the start of The Last of Us Part II is great for the same reasons the silverballer is: You can use silencers, and it kills quickly if you land a good shot. It also helps in shooting legs out for easy kills with how much ammo they have

Don’t know if this was ever mentioned, but the starting knife in Silent Hill Homecoming was easily the best weapon until you get the story mandated knife upgrade. It’s so counterintuitive that a buck knife beats a fire axe or shotgun, but there it is.

0:40: Ellen's happy happy face when she has her trophy is going to be my new screensaver. :)

Seriously, the E-11 Blaster Rifle from Star Wars Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight is absolutely brilliant. You don't start-start with it, but you get it from your second enemy, and it's your best friend from then on. You'll get Thermal Detonators but they're not great in a pitched battle, you'll get the crossbow which is finicky and the repeater whose damage output is fine but uses a ton of ammo. And there's a lot of slow and/or explosive weaponry which are situational. The Lightsaber should be your best friend but they hadn't got the lightsaber combat down yet, so really you're just tanking a bunch of shots to do what a gun could do from a distance. They're just useful against dark jedi. Give me an E-11 Blaster Rifle (aka Stormtrooper Rifle) and I'll take care of 95% of enemies in the game, the missile launcher and lightsaber are just for the walkers and dark jedi.

After looking away to grab a dropped apple pencil and looking back to see Ellen's very pleased/smug smile holing the trophy in the intro made me laugh so much harder than I feel I should

I think the thing with weapons in Bloodborne is that each weapon offers something unique, like a different swing or reach or damage type. So there are very few (if any?) examples of a weapon just being a straight upgrade - they're pretty much all viable. The thing that's a pain is if you want to play with a particular weapon for its unqiue moveset but you can't get it until late in the game.

The Armoured Fans in the brilliant SteelRising is the default weapon for the Dancer class and it was awesome. It's alt ability was a shield with about 100% block and the components to level it up are easy to get. I only ditched them about 95% of the way through the game because I found the Labrys and Francisca that had the same abilities but was slightly more powerful (but not by much!).

If you havent put it in a video yet, the Predator bow from Crysis 3 is easily the best weapon in that game. Only weapon you can shoot and stay invisible, comes with tons of customizablity include different arrowheads, and you get it in the first mission. It is easily one of my favorite weapon in gaming.

The silenced pistol in The Rogue Warrior needs to get mentioned in at least one of these as it is absolutely broken due to how hilariously bad the enemy AI is in that game.

Stonekeep finally a game about keeping stones, the geologist in me is thrilled 👍 Oh wait it's a dungeon crawler, nevermind maybe one day I'll get a Sherlock Holmes inspired game about stones. It shall be called "SEDIMENTARY MY DEAR WATSON!" What an IGNEOUS idea. It will truly METAMORPHICISE the gaming space.

The first one I think of for this is Dragon's Dogma. Sort of. Stat-wise, the Rusted Weapons you start with are, and always will be, terrible. However, if you manage to scrape together the materials to upgrade them, or better yet kill a dragon and get them Dragonforged, then they become incredible support weapons as some of the only weapons in the game to innately apply Torpor to enemies, significantly slowing down even gigantic monsters, as well as poisoning them leaving them open for a righteous pummelling from your hardest hitting teammates. You can also put these upgraded rusted weapons in the hands of your pawn to allow them to take the supporting role instead. So while they're not powerful by themselves, they can make everything else so much stronger and easily earn themselves a place in even the game's hardest content.

Before I forget - Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, both Eirika and Ephraim have amazing starting weapons

I'm suprised no one mentioned the wrentch from Bioshock, its a good weapon before you have a lot of ammo and once you get the health steal and freeze abilities (both early) you can one v one a Bid Daddy. There is a reason they removed it for the second game.

Actually never played with the saw cleaver in BB. I chose the axe, and it excelled magnificently in both crowd control and stunning power. The windup attack could even stun the old hunter Maria.

I found the Dispersion Pistol from the original Unreal to be pretty good throughout the game, in part as you get upgrades for it that increase its damage and its charge shot capacity.

Virtuous contract from Nier automata and its great sword partner are fully viable from start to finish and pretty iconic.

I believe it's called the hellfire saber for Lightning from final fantasy 13. I'm sure that people would argue a different weapon but it's perfect for a standard playthrough. Lightning is proficient at magic and physical attacks so her balanced starter weapon is fantastic

Did someone already mention the M6D magnum from Halo: Combat Evolved? It’s got range, zoom, is fast shooting and actually pretty powerful (I surprised myself by dropping a couple of Hunters with it).

I mean you could argue that red pikmin are a weapon, and their 1.5x damage modifier is incredibly useful not to mention their fire resistance. In the first game they’re easily the best. Even in 2 and 3 they’re still incredibly useful and arguably the best. Although purples and rocks are also incredibly good

I work in a tranq dart factory, we regularly need to test them on workmates. Luke's impression of being tranq'd was spot on. Excellent work.

Only the saw cleaver and hunter axe??? The threaded cane can absolutely carry you through the game on its own (and not only one playthrough); pretty much only used it, and only used a few other weapons to change things up a bit from time to time, even though it wasn't necessary. Stylish and deadly.

I thought I'd see Jango Fett's blaster pistols from Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, their fast easy to use, if you press the fire button quickly it's like a blaster rifle and you can hit 2 enemies at the same time, in my mind their super over powered

Maybe not the most powerful weapon in the game but the Varmint Rifle in Fallout New Vegas will probably let you one shot about 60% of the enemies in the game if you can pull off a sneak attack head shot. Upgraded with a silencer and scope mod it really is a killer.

When i got the Smart Pistol in Titanfall 2 last mission, my roommate thought it was a cutscene how i was just gliding off of the walls so smoothly and eliminating everything without effort. While myself on the other hand was just stupidly happyto see the smart pistol in campaign

I have a rather obscure reference: the bazooka from Secret of Evermore. It's a shame it breaks after you crash land on the planet from the space station

Fun fact about the mk22, not only does it do all the things above, it can also be used as a sniper rifle if quickly and properly swapped from the binoculars into the first person view

It’s not a “Starter Weapon”, but in The Surge I always thought the best weapon is the one you get from beating the game’s first boss, the P.A.X. Imperator V2.0. Each time I’ve played the game, I’ve never felt compelled to use a different weapon after unlocking that one early on.

Fire Emblem Engage's Liberation is easily the only weapon that Alear needs throughout the entire game.

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And FromSoft continues the tradition in Elden Ring; the Uchigatana. It can be obtained in an early game dungeon, has innate Bleed effect, and can be customized to work with another element like ice or fire. And if you start the game as a Samurai, it just became twice as deadly, now that you can power stance them.

The red faction games were great loved the hammer in the first one and especially loved the 🦄 gun in Armageddon, I mean it's face alone when you shoot it just priceless 🤣

Random stuff constantly exploding to the bouncing saws is hilarious, definitely worth using for the whole game

I am pretty sure the bioshock wrench is in the first part, but it still is one of the most effective weapons. coupled with the 1-2 with the shock hand

ellens jokes are always perfect.

The saw cleaver is hilariously strong, like the twin blade in DS3.

Props to Luke for perfectly nailing the sound of someone falling unconscious from a blowdart. Amazing voice acting/Foley work!

The regular mega buster is the Megaman X games always felt better than the special weapons from bosses, purely because you can charge up your shots and do so much more damage as a result.

Weirdly watching the saw cleaver part reminded me of an important discussion: Top items that are insanely useful yet you always hoard. The fire and bolt papers immediately come to mind

Omg the Stonekeep one...haven't played for years. Still got the original disk - probably should play it again some time. But as I had the strategy guide I would always get the Dagger of Penetration at the start since the guide told me where it was. And then use it for the entirety of the game :D. Incidentally those little green guys aren't orcs, they're shargas, although they are basically this setting's goblin-equivalent, with the taller, more menacing throgs being the orc-equivalent. At one point you meet a frienldy sharga called Skuz, who joins the party (if you've got space) :).

I love how, despite being physically impossible, all video games pretty much agree that sawdisk projectiles both pierce through enemies, and ricochet like crazy Like, by now it's tradition

The crossbow from Enter the gungeon. It’s just great to one hit kill those little guys from the start. I have also had to deal with the first boss with my starter guns as the hunter some times.

My favorite is the rusted weapons at the start of dragons dogma, face value they suck but upgraded they cause poison and topr so everything is hurt and slow, it's especially useful for the bow vocations

Aww I just love Ellen and Luke so much, their playfulness is just too perfect

While it doesn’t apply because it does fall off, I would like to give props to Ise-no-Kami from Bravely Default and Bravely Second. Edea’s starting blade in both and your only katana until after the first chapter (not counting the tutorial); to make up for that second bit, it’s probably the strongest weapon you’re getting for those first two sections of the games. Aside from these “first weapon is best weapon” cases, Ise-no-Kami is possibly the strongest piece of starting gear I’ve ever seen. Part of why I made it my screen name. Side note: Bravely Second gives you the Wizard as your first real job, and that could maybe count, for sure the best job in the game.

How about a Commentor Edition of the Wost End-Game Weapons, ones that you get very late in the game but aren't worth the hype/effort unless you saved up all your upgrades until the end.

Saw cleaver was good but the axe is the real carryweapon of the game. Made my 1st playthrough a breeze. (This was my 1st soulslike ever) the axe 2 handed charge spin attack is just toooooooo gooooooood

Ellen’s smug smile that says both “I love my accomplishment trophy” and “I’m so proud of my silly joke; your groans only make me more powerful” at the beginning is like an OP starter for this video.

Have to love that commitment to the gag. Would make for a fun video series if you guys played physical games with each other. Suction cup dart guns make for "safe" fun.

Red Faction Guerilla was such a good game! I loved trying to find the minimum amount of damage I needed to do until I could just use remote charges to take down a whole building. Why does the AAA gaming world just lose features over time?

IMO the best Dark Souls answer is the black firebombs as a starting gift in DS1. They are hilariously OP in the early game, even if you only get 5

The Stick from Undertale sort of counts because of Undertale's mechanic of using non-equipped weapons as items. The Stick allows you to spare several dog-based enemies and a wizard

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While the remote charges are fun to use against EDF goons, try using the sledgehammer against the non melee units and get used to seeing Alex Mason ragdolling into the game over screen.

Saw launchers show up in a few games & I never tire of using them. The original Unreal comes to mind but wasn't a starter weapon so can't make this list. HL2 kinda had it with the gravity gun in Ravenholm.

8:04 FYI, in Star Trek Online, Klingon (err K.D.F.) characters can, in fact, dual wield Disruptor Sniper Rifles. It was originally a mistake early in the game (was supposed to be dual pistols and someone shipped the wrong mesh accidentally) but they made it official later on. Humorously, if you give them to one of your Away Team members, every so often while idling they will look at the pair of sniper rifles in their hands and give a quizzical look towards the captain.

Starbound kinda-sorta has one too. At the very start you're given the Broken Broadsword, which is only good enough to help you survive the first planet and get some better equipment. But if you hold onto it until endgame, you'll be given the chance to repair it, after which it becomes the Protector's Broadsword, which is the strongest melee weapon in the game, and one of only two Tier 7 weapons in the entire game (excluding ones requiring cheats and unobtainable through normal gameplay).

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I can't remember if it was mentioned in the other parts, but it would be a shame to not mention Symphony of the Night. Yout starting gear is literally so strong that it gets stripped away from you to make the game fair.

The revolver from ultrakill not only packs a nice punch, but with coins, it is arguably the best one in the game.

Saw Cleaver is the best all around weapon in Bloodborne, really. I used a handful of weapons, but I always would default back to the saw cleaver. Lady Maria was the boss who made me switch to the threaded cane for better parries (she also taught me to parry, lol). I used the threaded cane for the Orphan's first phase, but I immediately switched back to the saw cleaver (untransformed) for phase 2 and it was brilliant. Tonitrus is one of my favorite non-starting weapons, because that free bolt damage is sweet and it's what helped me killed Amydala. I love seeing just how far Luke is in his NG+ run of Bloodborne. I guess it's because of when I started the Hitman games, but I usually pick the Black Lily for whatever reason. Not that I ended up using whatever silenced pistol I pick. I usually end up having to ditch it to get frisked or I end up using a screwdriver or scissors or something instead. It's mainly my shoot the cameras and the security equipment tool at this point.

I’m not sure if it counts, but the marine and zerglling in starcraft are always good, to the point where some people have won matches/beat the whole campaigns by building literally only the first combat unit they unlock

You forgot to mention the plasma cutter from Dead Space. Most of the game could be completed with that weapon only. Only a few specific combat scenes required a different specialized weapon.

Ancestral weapons from d&d heroes. They level up every 5 soul shards you find, and if you find all 20 they are by far the best weapons in the game.

If we're talking tranquilisers, it's hard to go past the crossbow from Deus Ex. It's silent (in a game that rewards stealth), non-lethal (in a game that often punishes killing), and can take down a basic enemy in one or two shots. Also, your brother praises you for asking for it, and obviously we're all looking for that kind of approval!

How about the Plasma Cutter from Dead Space Remake? That’s like the bread and butter weapon

There's still going to need to be another four of these vids

Kind of cheating with this one, but in Anthem, there was a bug (surprise surprise) that made the Ranger class's default weapon the single strongest thing in the entire game. Devs patched the bug, but it was funky seeing the OG gun outpace legendary weapons people spent hours grinding for.

I like that the saw blades you shoot out of the saw launcher in far cry have smileys on them.

Technically, the nail from Hollow Knight. Even though it's the only weapon you can get, it eventually becomes the strongest weapon in Hallownest.

It probably doesn't count on this list but to throw my own recommendation, the Grenade Launchers from MW2009. My goodness were those things broken beyond belief. If you know, you know.

Not sure if you've already done it, but in Morrowind you could get an end game Daedric weapon within 10 minutes of starting by doing an unmarked quest. No combat involved, just finding a mine outside Balmora and reporting its location to someone in Vivec, who gives you a Daedric weapon of your choice. The game never informs you about any of it, so most people miss it. First thing I do every time I boot up the game.

The gold pistol from Duken Nukem Forever. If you take a moment to go for headshots(x4 damage) and the melee attack is twice as fast as other guns, it just destroys enemies pretty much relegating the other weapons for bosses and mass groups.

What about the deku club from ocarina of time? A glitched version of the deku stick that you can technically get before your first sword, it does at least as much damage as the master sword, and doesn't require you to complete the longest fetch quest in the game

The Broken Broadsword from Starbound goes from being the worst weapon in the game at the start to the best weapon in the game if you keep it to the end, being upgradeable to the Protector's Broadsword by The Baron once you finish the glitch mission

The tether from the Just Cause series. It's not quite a weapon, but you know it's destructive potential with the grapnel's total defiance of physics!

In Diakatana, each new zone has a projectile weapon you encounter more-or-less first, and it's the only useful one in the zone--the remainder will inevitably be horrid. That doesn't count, though.

it doesn't really count, but in the old game Dungeon Siege, there's an obscure secret area that can only be accessed by dropping 3 specific items on 3 pedestals... and one of the items is your Starter weapon, a dagger. i forget the rest, look up "the chicken dungeon"...

A huge part of the Saw Cleaver's appeal is how wildly powerful the transform attack (R1>L1) was and how much stagger it built too, meaning it was literally one of the most optimised weapons, farming for a special one from Rune Dungeons was a lot of fun!

The saw cleaver is even good for arcane builds with blood gems, thanks it's solid moveset. Although I personally I like the saw spear more!

What about a commenter's list for ridiculously overpowered weapons from video games? I can think of a few, a couple of them being from Fallout 4. The first one that comes to mind is The Harvester from the Far Harbor DLC. It's a unique variant of the Ripper hand chainsaw with the Staggering Legendary effect. The staggering effect grants a small chance to stagger an enemy each time you hit them. But with how the Ripper works is it basically counts as hitting 8-10 times in rapid succession every second. Basically, The Harvester allows you to more or less stun-lock most any enemy in the game. I've seen it even work on some of the late-game Deathclaws. All you do is basically walk up to them and hold the Harvester against them and you more or less stagger/cripple them to death with very little chance for them to be able to get a hit in on you. Another from Fallout 4 is Aeternus from the Nuka World DLC. This is a unique Gatlin Laser with the Never Ending Legendary effect. How the Never Ending effect works is it takes every round you have for that weapon and puts it into 1 magazine so you can essentially fire every shot you have for that weapon without ever once needing to reload. But there is a bit of a bug when it comes to having the Never Ending effect on a Gatling Laser. Since they use fusion cores like a battery to fire instead of actual ammo, it makes it so you literally never run out of ammo for them. No matter how long you hold down the trigger, you will continue to fire endlessly as long as you have at least 1 fusion core in your inventory to use. And since Gatling lasers are pretty strong weapons even before you start upgrading and customizing them, getting one that will literally never run out of ammo makes it pretty overpowered.