The Shield in Ghosts 'n Goblins was originally a Cross in the Japanese version. Hence why you need it to kill Satan, Lucifer or "Rushifell" Whatever he's called...
The stats on Soul Edge vary per game, and what's worse, per fighter. Some fighters end up with a high-damage, unblockable and vampiric weapon, others get a middling-damage weapon that sucks their life instead. In fairness, the first ever wielder in the series is a zombie-pirate who rips off his own face in the very intro of the game, so it's not like you weren't warned before you picked the damned thing up. Soul Edge's biggest curse isn't even in-game. Tim Langdell, the owner of Edge Magazine, had a dirty habit of siccing his lawyers at everything even remotely game-related that had "Edge" in the title, so the the first "Soul Edge"-game had to be relabeled "Soul Blade", and all subsequent sequels, "Soul Calibur". That's right, Langdell, I just called you a curse upon everything related to gaming, you goblin. Sue me.
What’s funny is your not wrong and I’m glad you brought Cervantes into picture because he was so busted in all the games especially in 4 if you gave him all Soul Edge build and perks he was a monster
The Casey Bat has the HIGHEST Physical attack stats in the game but like the story its named after it ONLY has like a 20% HIT rate of actually landing any attacks in the SNES Earthbound game which is why as a ULTIMATE weapon in that game it SUCKS if you can't actually HIT anything with it.
That's why I loved Cassandra's Soul Calibur IV ending , She's like "Your supposed to be the Good Sword but you made my sister's life miserable" and she destroys it
for me it's definitely the Rocket Pistol from Resident Evil Village, for all the bullshit you have to go through to get it(including beating the game on the hardest difficulty) it's rather underwhelming and the weapons you've fully upgraded by that point are much more powerful and it doesn't even have infinite ammo to boot, you have to craft it and it takes more resources then any other ammo type so there's really a situation where it's useful.
You kinda get to wield Sohayamaru in Nioh 2, actually, but not as a weapon per se, but as two active skills compatible with any weapon moveset. Those being sacred bird cry and sacred bird flight. But the point still stands: they're not as effective as you'd expect.
I'm more of a bird cry guy myself for some reason that technique fills up your amrita gauge ludicrously fast. But yeah not really the sword of legends per se.
I enjoy both of them honestly. One has great mobility, while the other can charge your amrita gauge pretty quickly. And they both have style points which is a big win in my book.
Also with EarthBound Ness's other best weapon (the Gutsy Bat) can only be found as a 1/128 item drop from a Bionic Kraken in the Cave of the Past, but at that point you just got the Ultimate Bat in the same dungeon and you're literally outside the room to the final boss.
Actually the harbinger in fable is good if you plan your play through around getting it, because there were 2 methods of getting it, one of which was meeting a high enough physique threshold, and the other way was putting in enough physique points (can’t remember exactly how many) after your first attempt at pulling it out. So if you put 0 points into physique before you made the first pull attempt, you could get it fairly early and it was a beast of a weapon for a long time.
I don't know if it was just just too obvious to need mentioning, but I would have thought they would have pointed out that the Casey Bat was an obvious reference to the poem "Casey at the Bat". Explaining the great strength and terrible accuracy. Particularly against a weak and easily beatable enemy.
The Fusion Rifle from Remnant: From the Ashes. It’s fire rate literally depends on how much Mod power you have stored up on top of low damage per shot, even at max level. Not to mention, you only get it from the DLC final boss.
Tifa's Premium Heart in the original Final Fantasy VII. Due to a flaw in the damage calculation, which may or may not have been intentional, this weapon actually starts out weaker than Tifa's other options until she has sufficiently built up her limit break, but then it resets once she uses her limit. Had it not been for an extra set of brackets in the damage calculation formula, this would have been the definition of an ultimate weapon.
It wasn't a flaw. All the Ultimate weapons in FF7 had stipulations to them, Like Premium Heart doing more damage the higher her limit gauge was. Clouds Ultima Weapon Damage was based on his current HP. Cids Venus Gospel was based on his current MP. Barrets Missing Score was based on the amount of AP the Materia that was equipped to it had. Vincents Death Penalty was based on how many enemies he has personally killed. Etc, etc.
@@cphtfluke7565 No, these are not flaws, intentional or otherwise. The weapons have damage multipliers based on other factors that, far more often than not, are positive. They do start at a damage penalty, but very quickly get above 100% damage, and for most cases are a non-issue. Cloud's/Cait Sith's weapons are only below 100% damage if you're in yellow HP, which you should only be in for brief periods of time, and that turn is likely better spent healing anyway. Cid's/Red XIII's weapons, again, are only below 100% damage if you're in yellow MP, which usually means you haven't been using the weapon anyway. Tifa's weapon is tied to both limit level and limit gauge fill percentage, and is at 100% at 1/4 full at limit level 4. The limit gauge mechanics are a little complicated, but in general getting hit by a boss or big trash once is usually enough to get her over 100%, especially if she's in Fury status. Barret's weapon you'd basically have to explicitly try to get under 100%, since it's based on total AP acquired on slotted materia. 100% is 160k AP. For context, each trash monster you're fighting in the section of the game you acquire it in gives 80-100 AP to each slotted materia, so you're getting around 250-300 AP per trash fight, per slotted materia, before multipliers. Vincent's weapon is the only one that's likely to be below 100% at the time you get it and requires some dedicated grinding to get to a usable level, but it has the highest ceiling out of any of them.
@MISAKA-cd2hq I feel like I'm not making my point clear. When Tifa's limit gauge its low or empty, doesn't Premium Heart do LESS damage than other weapons?
Dude, the excalibastard is stupid op because landing crits guarantees a freeze lock on enemies, whether melee or shot at by the weapon itself. Not to mention that Wilhelm pairs sp well with it due to having weapon damage skills, classmods, and a melee override that makes him deal extra melee and exosive damage, which frozen envies are weak to. The excalibastard is stupid strong and fun because of how easy it makes freezing an enemy becaaue any crit means garanteed freeze
The Fable one: if you don’t get it the first time, the game essentially marks your Strength, and then lets you pull it after you’ve upgraded your Strength stat twice after your first attempt. If I remember right. It’s actually a pretty useful exploit if you can get there with base Strength (for example as a Skill or Will build) and then just pump two levels of Strength and BAM you’ve got a great sword to back up your main stat.
Yeah I don't think its really even hailed as the ultimate sword either since theres the other one you get for beating the final dude that you either throw away or keep if I remember right. Its just a sword in the stone trope never was it said to be the ultimate sword, its just strong.
@@Notaforumguy007 I’m pretty sure you’ve got it right. The original video even said “third strongest sword” so I think the one you’re talking about where you keep it to be evil or throw it away to be good and then the identical Good version you get in The Lost Chapters are 1 and 2? Although I think you can get stronger ones in the expansion so idk.
The Ultima Keyblade in Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix isn't necessarily BAD, but given the fact that it requires so much grinding to get, and the fact that the Decisive Pumpkin - a Keyblade you gain naturally through the story - is far better, it's just... not really worth it. (Ultima and Pumpkin have the same attack stat of 6, Pumpkin IS a bit weaker in the Magic stat, but it comes with a much better ability than Ultima has, which more than makes up the difference)
Pumpkin is better damage for physical combos, but Ultima is a bit better for magic, as it has faster mp charge and higher magic. Know which tool to use for which job
The Casey Bat is actually a joke weapon from the Ernest Lawrence Thayer poem, "Casey at the Bat", with it's high attack power and low accuracy. But there is no joy in Mudville - Mighty Casey has struck out.
My entry would be Sparda from Devil May Cry 1. An ultimate weapon so powerful, it allowed a human to turn into a demon in the prequel. Yet when Dante awakens it after (seemingly) killing “Nelo Angelo” the weapon flat out sucks. It doesn’t do anything the other swords can easily do and you can’t Devil Trigger with it equipped. You also lose the ability to switch to Ifrit at the press of a button so long as it’s equipped. It’s not until you face Mundas, the Final boss of the game that it’s actually any good. But until then, you’re better off just switching back to Alistor.
I would've mentioned the xpcalibur from dying light, yes it has the capacity to kill pretty much anything in one hit (when it works) but the damn thing can only hit a couple of times before it breaks and is the only weapon you can't fix after it breaks
Re The Excalabastard: One of the things you didn't mention is that it spawns only once per character. To explain, Borderlands has game plus modes, namely "True" and "Ultimate" Vault Hunter modes. Level progression is tied with this, meaning that you have to play the game through three times with the same character in order to get to max level. (You CAN grind your way to be at max level sooner, but that is what it is, a grind.) If you pick up the Excalabastard during the first playthrough, it does NOT regenerate in subsequent playthroughs. You have to start a whole new character and try not to be impatient this time. As a side note, I always suggest a fourth playthrough on a character, just so you can properly compare the gear/loot to each other.
If you play with a friend though, the Excalibastard becomes farmable through a simple exploit. 1. Both players enter Stanton's Liver and dash to the Excalibastard. You've only got a handful of scavs to bolt past and there's no point in fighting them. 2. Host pulls Excalibastard from the rock but Friend picks it up. 3. Friend exits cleanly from the game, bearing the Excalibastard away in their inventory. 4. Host crashes out of their game (Alt-F4 on PC, for example.) This means the Host's progress is lost, including the fact they picked up the Excalibastard. 5. Begin another game. Host will start in Stanton's Liver now, your Friend can join you again, and you can repeat steps 1 to 4. 6. Begin yet another game. Friend drops one of the two Excalibastards in their possession, and now you both have one. 7. Or you can repeat over and over and use three Excalibastards in the Grinder to produce another random on-level legendary. Depends on your boredom threshold. Disclaimer 1: This works for me on PC. Can't speak for what you have to do in step 4 if you're on a console. Disclaimer 2: You may feel a little dirty for using such a cheap trick.
When I saw this, I thought of Anathema from Divinity: original sin 2. Not only do you spend a large portion of the game trying to get it, only to get it right at the end, but it also breaks in 1 hit, so it is almost useless for the time you have it
Yes, but you are confusing The Elder Scrolls as a franchise, with a single entry of that franchise - Skyrim. Keep in mind that Skyrim was the Elder Scrolls 5, meaning there were four other main entries in the series. And each of them were different in how they approached skills and leveling, what kinds of crafting were available, and what exploits could be used to break the game.
@@ianbraun271 not to mention a majority of "legendary weapons" in the elder scrolls franchise as a whole are not legendary themselves, but simply belong to a legendary figure, like the galdur weapons in Skyrim, daedric artifacts however are legendary.
The Handcannon in the Resident Evil 4 Remake, it takes the most effort to get out of the magnums, being a bonus weapon and all, it's maximum damage is outpaced by the Broken Butterfly since its damage has been nerfed since the original, and although it has infinite ammo when you get its exclusive upgrade, it also has massive recoil, which results in it taking forever to fire a second shot, if you're surrounded by enemies you're screwed as a result of this, plus if you get the cat ears you can use the Broken Butterfly and other guns with infinite reloads, rendering the Handcannon completely worthless as a result.
I think you are supposed to get the excalibastard right before facing a final boss of either the main quest, or a dlc. That would optimize its effectiveness in a dramatic manner.
Long ago, when the World of Warcraft was created, one of the programmers put a sword called The Sword of a Thousand Truths into the game inventory. But the sword was considered to be too powerful for anyone to possess, so it was removed from the game and stored on a one gig flash drive. But it was foretold[1] that one day players who could wield the sword might reveal themselves
Bishamon in Onimusha Warlords. You get the sword after you spend the whole game chasing down the pieces to open the door to get it. When you fight Fortunbras, who is the final boss, it takes like a dozen hits to kill him. It's honestly more fun and epic without it.
2:37 I always get this one, but purely for the collection. My sword of Choice is simply Glitching inside the Heroes guild to attain the Sword of Aeons. Which carries you through the game. The Solus Great Sword is more powerful, but the perks of the Sword of Aeons are better. Granted you lose it during the first battle with Jack, but you can replace it with Avo's Tear... which is the same Sword but a "good" version.
Since fable is so old now I'll explain that if you are getting harbinger late in the game you are doing it wrong. It's easy to get when you first see it if you save all your experience and try once and fail then warp back to the guild and level up your strength stats correctly. When you get it here its a great sword until you get a triple exp gem to mount to any other sword to max all stats and spells quickly
I'd say the Golden Gun in Goldeneye 007 is fucking useless for an "ultimate" weapon, especially compared to the Golden PP7, which does the same thing, and has vastly better ammo.
Borderlands not letting you level up weapons is one of my main pet peeves of the franchise. No, I don't want to re-grind a powerful ass weapon with a 0.5% drop rate from a hard ass enemy in a 2 week once-per-year event a few days before the next level cap.
There should be a special gunsmith character that can enhance your weapons for Eridium, moonstone, or whatever premium currency is in the game. Like, you can only increase levels of Legendary or higher equips as a limit, but once you have something, you only have to grind out the money to have it match your level.
The Excalibastard isn't really considered a "ultimate" weapon. It's just an easter egg. And depending on your playstyle, it might come in handy. And I wouldn't say Excalibur II is the worst. It's the best weapon for Steiner. It's just that getting it is not worth it. It would be something else if Steiner gets Gilgamesh's knock off, the Excalipoor, for completing the game in under 12 hours.
I will never get over the fact that Gilgamesh drew a not even sharpened, rusty replica from a chest and went yep that's the sword of legend and then it does 1 damage and he runs off in shame
The Excalibastard is stupid powerful when you make a build focusing on it. Crits guarantee freeze which means easier consecutive crits, weakness to melee damage and explosive damage. Using Wilhelm melee override on a frozen enemy is just a chefs kiss after freezing enemies out of the air
I was about to go on a rant defending the RYNO2, but then I doubble-took, and realised you were talking truth about the Clank-zapper, and not slandering the RYNO.
Haha, im surprised earthbound made #1. I was actually gonna suggest EB too but not the casey bat. The magic fry pan is similar. And paula's ultimate weapon. A pain to get from chomposaurs too
I immediately thought of FFIX for this list. The other issue with the weapon is it doesn't have any unique skills to instill a FOMO. You can get the skills on other weapons and can use a barely weaker endgame weapon for Steiner.
You say Soul Edge but what about the Soul Caliber itself? Soul Edge is the Cursed Blade while Soul Caliber is the Spirit Sword that will not Consume you but is meant to Destroy Soul Edge yet you shown most of your footage on the Soul Caliber (the blue glass looking sword) more than Soul Edge thus confusion ensues
Yeah I think the entry may have applied early in the franchise, but the Soul Edge pretty much stopped being the "ultimate" weapon as soon as Soul Calibur was available. It's functionally the same weapon with all of the strengths and none of the weaknesses (it actually replenishes health rather than consumes it). And it is confusing that the video shows a lot of Soul Calibur; I had a similar comment in a recent video where they had an entry about Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid and kept showing Big Boss, and even mentioned MGS3, a game where Solid Snake wasn't even born yet haha.
Not an ultimate weapon, but the Yoshiyuki in Final Fantasy VII was the worst for me. Its damage increases when other party members die, giving Cloud a better chance at winning if he loses people along the way. BUT it’s stats are so low, that Cloud is basically doing zip at the beginning of the fight, almost requiring you to off your allies to do any real damage. So if you’re in a boss fight, you’ll be killing your party members, and then praying that Cloud can hold his own without dying himself.
For me, it's from a underrated RPG franchise Grandia, specifically Grandia 2. The Granasaber. This sword was hyped up to be unstoppable blades, wielded by the God Granas, capable of cleaving the world to create canyons, originally used by Granas himself to cut the evil god Valmar to pieces prior to the game's setting. Then you get to wield one and it's just barely stronger than the 2nd highest sword and has a mediocre, "Reduce SP consumption by 15%" effect, lame.
For an addition to this series, I'd suggest Final Fantasy X. The ultimate ("celestial") weapon for Auron in the game is "Masamune". On the plus side, it retains the effect of all celestial weapons in that it ignores the defense stat of the enemy. To make it useful - just like all the other celestial weapons - you also need to find the Crest and the Sigil to power it up. The ones for Auron are not the hardest, but are very tedious and require large amounts of monster-capturing for the monster arena, which can be annoying when the monsters you require just refuse to appear in random battles. Once powered up, Auron's weapon has the special characteristic of dealing more damage the lower his health is. In the original Japanese release of the game, this was a straight up bonus. It dealt regular damage at 100% HP and dealt more than 4x as much damage when down to 1 HP. This was changed in all other releases, causing the weapon to deal regular damage when at 70% of max HP, half damage when at full HP and only slightly more than 2x damage when down to 1 HP. When you consider that farming and upgrading these weapons requires so much time and effort that the only things dangerous to you are optional- or super-lategame-enemies and most of them can deal 80-90% of your HP with a single attack, Masamune loses most of it's appeall because keeping Auron at low enough health to do just regular damage means that he's at a high risk of being one-shot by the stuff you're facing.
@@chadharger9323 And Tidus' Chocobo Racing. And Kimahri's Butterfly Dodging. My final team in 10 was Tidus, with a crafted weapon, Wakka, and Yuna/Rikku/Auron. Could never fully unlock Tidus', Lulu's or Kimahri's Ultimate Weapons.
2 things…. Both nioh 2: 1: sohoyamaru IS able to be gained from the dlcs as a combat skill, consuming your anima gauge. 2: you’ve had the blade throughout the whole game, if they gave it to you to use, it wouldn’t just be busted, but a paradox. Story also dictates it is kinda a big deal thing anyway
"Soul Calibur" would be the titular weapon. "Soul Edge" is only the titular weapon for the first game in the series and only in Japan since it's "Soul Blade" elsewhere.
You can actually use the sohayamaru in game although its very tedious to do so. It comes in the form of 2 skills obtained from defeating both minamoto no yoshitsune and minamoto no yorimitsu from the dlc. The catch? The drop rate is abysmally low. The skills are VERY good though. The one from yoshitsune is a four hit attack that consumes anima to fire waves of light. It deals massive damage if all hits connect and restores anima if you hit the enemy with the blade. The one from yorimitsu is a dual chasing slice that does very mediocre damage but is by far the best skill for closing distance. It also staggers most humans.
@@Mangler559 i dunno, i find myself using sacred bird flight quite often. Its very good at its job. Sacred bird cry really just depends on what build you're running and whether you can get an opening or not.
The Nioh 2 one really pissed me off. I liked the story and the gameplay so I was actually invested in getting and using the sword, only to find out it was just an execution thing.
Agreed. I love that game with a passion, but definitely felt cheated when it turned out to not be attainable. I honestly would've settled for it being a skin just so that we could have it! At least I was able to get Otakemaru's swords.
I seriously need to finish the Borderlands Presequel. I've played every single mainline numbered game through at least twice (2x for 3, over a dozen playthroughs on 1 and 2, I've probably spent 20,000 hours in the borderlands franchise in general I love them so much) and I need to revisit Wonderlands too. I've started the presequel like half a dozen times now and I never get more than a few hours in for some reason. I love the low G mechanics and I absolutely adore the general Borderlands formula, but somehow I've never been able to sink more than a couple hours at a time into the presequel. And IDK about you lot, but if I barely got past the tutorial on a game six months ago, I'm starting a new game next time if only to refresh my memory. Incidentally, games i quit in the tutorial and came back to months later include God of War 2016, DOOM 2016, and all 3 recent Farsassins Cried Ubisoft titles. I don't bloody buy a game unless it's ostensibly good, but as a GamerTM I have a back catalogue too lol. Crap, that reminds me I haven't played Hollow Knight in like a year and I'm probably terrible at it all over again... dammit.
I make WAY too many Ninja Gaiden references, but the heck with it, here's another. In both the vanilla OG Xbox game and the Sigma version, there is a wooden sword that you are given allegedly "to practice." If you take it to the blacksmith, you'll notice that it can be upgraded for literally thousands of valuable karma points, the game's hard combat earned version of money. Do this about five times, after hours of grinding or ignoring other upgrades and precious health and magic potions, and the wooden sword turns into, um, a thing. A really big, slow, heavy thing, like the Final Fantasy 7 sword. Now, it isn't that this guy is a weak weapon- no, it does do blistering amounts of damage. But it is painfully slow to use, leaves you open to being pummeled to death by the series' notoriously cheap missile and arrow attacks from unseen snipers or snatched up by unblockabke grab attacks. Couple this with how ridiculously long it'll take you to craft the Focker, and there is little need to do so unless you crave unlocking the master ninja difficulty level. And if you hate yourself that much, it would be easier to play a Souls game, or seek counseling.
Star Ocean 3 had a habit of giving you characters' ultimate weapons at the very end of a long string of optional post-game super dungeons. You even get one from defeating the strongest optional enemy in the entire game. By that point it's like... WHY? The game is over--officially. There's no more content. Nioh 2's ultimate weapon being almost exclusively a cutscene weapon is wild. The only way you can even use it is if you get specific skills dropped from two very specific bosses, I think. In the DLCs. So RNG. FFX's Celestial Weapons. They're great when you max them out. But the tasks you're expected to do to max some of them out are absurd. And you can make weapons just as good, with enough patience.
Every weapon you can get from the Legendary Blacksmith in Persona 2. They all are of the element "all mighty", which sounds impressive, until you get to the final boss, and the j3rk is immune to that precise element.
I’d say number one isn’t that bad. A 1/4 chance to do massive damage is a set part of most RPG games. There’s always at least be item in the game which rewards rng with insane damage. Plus, it unlike some of the others…it’s actually pretty useful.
Aircraft Carrier, Advance Wars Dual Strike. Ships in the Advance Wars games are pretty much all the same story: too weak and fragile to justify the enormous cost of building them. The carrier is the worst offender as it is the most expensive unit in the whole game at a whopping 30000 funds to deploy. It can one-shot any aircraft that flies into its enormous attack range, but it can be countered by the battle copter, a unit that your opponent is basically guaranteed to already have several of by that point in the match. By sending two battle copters (total cost of 18000), your opponent can completely shut down that carrier you spent so much money on. The best you can hope to do is shoot down one copter, but after that, the second one will absolutely get inside the carrier's minimum range, at which point it can't do anything except die. You COULD keep an air unit of your own around to protect the carrier, seeing as the ship can resupply aircraft, but at that point you're adding more money to the overall cost of keeping it operational, far more than it's actually worth. The fighter does the exact same job as the carrier for only 20000 funds, has a much larger effective range, can defend itself against direct attacks in the air, and can even be used for other things like body-blocking enemy units.
Not 2 weeks later: "Actually nvm the Casey Bat is really good at giving you auto-victories because the attack stat boost ramps up the game's perception of your combat ability."
Enchanting is what adds effects in skyrim and makes the crafted weapons and armor so powerful. Smithing is for creating the weapon and to increase the base damage somewhat but all the cool and more useful stuff comes from enchanting.
Not exactly an "ultimate weapon," but in The Witcher 3, there is a quest to unlock a master blacksmith & another to unlock a master armorer. Upon completion of the quests, the blacksmith & armorer promise to reward you with a masterclass sword & breastplate, respectively. Unfortunately, each turns out to be no better than mediocre loot you pick up. I always just end up having them dismantle the items as soon as I get them.
The importance of the Masterclass swordsmith and armorer is to craft the Witcher sets, which are the best armors and weapons (barring a very few) in the game, especially when the set bonuses are taken into consideration. The initial rewards for the quests are always terrible in Witcher 3, for whatever reason. But having these smiths unlocked means that you can bring the special diagrams for the various witcher sets to them.
another thing about elder scroll weapons and gear is that some of those things require you to be a higher level if you don't want a something that is weak as hell and even then the strongest version of it could still be crap
Usually by the time you get the ultimate weapons unless you have been deliberately avoiding them, you can smith and enchant stronger gear. Especially in Morrowind, where the enchant/alchemy bug can create enchantments that can kill even a god in one hit.
@@13g0man Skyrim restoration loop you can make a fork that will one hit anything even on legendary difficulty plus gear with so much hp and hp regeneration that you could just stand there tanking 100 legendary dragons and 10 million armed enemies and your hp bar won't even flicker lol (although you WILL drop dead the second you remove it and I'm speaking from personal experience on that part lol)
Not a weapon per se, but the One Hit Kill moves in Pokemon. Only a handful of Pokemon know them naturally, but some can still be taught them, and at base default stats completely unaltered these moves only have 5 attempts to be used and have an incredibly low accuracy rate of 30%. These moves also cannot be used on Pokemon with a high level than the one using the move, which is what you would want to do in most cases if you are desperate enough to even dedicate time to using these moves in the heat of battle anyway. On top of the roadblocks like level, accuracy, and such being in place, there are also to consider the targets resistances as Horn Drill still will not work against Ghost types being that it is Normal type move. So not only do you have to meet a bunch of conditions, you have only 5 shots at trying to make this move land, if your Pokemon is even still standing in battle while you try to get these moves off correctly. At which point you might as well just battled it normally or switched to a more accommodating Pokemon. There are ways to increase the changes of it landing, but it almost becomes pointless through all the effect that could have just been spent having a normal battle. And in the off chance you are actually facing a Pokemon with a higher level in which case the move automatically fails no matter what then you now have 1 move locked out for the battle which only leaves you 3 that you are now able to use.
My bud would call blasphemy on naming Excalibastard as a terrible Legendary. He has used it to set up instant freezing on crit and Power Fisting to kill almost every non-boss enemy (Even BAs and the Bulwarks in the Arena) in 1 shot on 4P health. Jack with a max Company Man and full Hyperion loadout and a Rerouter shield can also turn it into a death machine. You can also use the Grinder to make it or just draw the blade when you are max level.
In Soul Calibur 2, you can equip Nightmare/Siegfried with Soul Edge and duo his long range and combos, he is pretty much one of the strongest and broken characters
Master Sword in Breath of the Wild. Every weapon in BotW has limited durability and will break after enough usage. You’d think the Master Sword would be the exception. A crazy strong, unlimited durability weapon to finally cut through the monsters of Hyrule. Except it’ll run out of energy after enough hits and be on a cooldown for several minutes. Whatever, at least it’s super strong, right? Wrong. It’s actually weaker than many other final stage weapons. It does get a durability and power buff against specific types of enemies but even then it’s power is still weaker than several other weapons in the game. However, there are some quests that can be done that’ll let the Master Sword keep its boosted power and durability against ALL enemies… but they’re DLC. You have to pay for the right to make the Master Sword function properly.
I don't think that it's fair to add looters to the list, not to mention that Excalibastard is actually an amazing weapon and it's special effect works no matter what level the weapon is
The Ultima Weapon in the Kingdom Hearts games. Basically, you just get the final upgrade for the final boss. To a lesser extent, the two keychains you receive in Kingdom Hearts 2 *right after* you might actually find them useful in the battle against that treasure-stealing heartless in Port Royal, but those are nowhere near "ultimate" weapons.
I feel like the Excalibastard in Borderlands TPS has value in the early game because you can duplicate it to use as materials in the grinder to get all the other legendaries.
I want to throw in the ultimate dark magic tome from Fire Emblem Sacred Stones, Gleipnir. It is so heavy, no one who can use it will double with it, and the units that can use it (Knoll or Ewan) are horrible at fighting without grinding and stat boosters. It is really powerful, so it can OHKO some unpromited enemies, and the animation for it is amazing, but most players won’t have any use for it. Radiant Dawn’s Balberith tome has the same issues, and actually can’t be used at all on new game. Dark magic needs some more love.
Speaking of EarthBound, most would argue that the Sword of Kings isn't worth the grind. Sure, it's Poo's ultimate weapon (hell, it's his ONLY weapon) but you have to kill a ridiculous amount of Starman Supers and they'll vanish after you defeat Starman DX and save the hostages, so it's ridiculously easy to miss to begin with.
Nah, I have to disagree on Nioh 2. I've played too many games where you specialize heavily into a particular weapon type and build all your familiarity into, only to get to the end and the prescribed plot weapon is something completely different that locks you out of the skills you built up unless you happen to have decided to pick up the plot-specific weapon. Nope. Done with that. If there's going to be a plot significant weapon, then yes, I definitely want it done the way Nioh 2 does it. Let me do the gameplay with my weapon of choice and pull out the plot weapon for the cut scene.
This goes back to Final Fantasy II's original Famicom release. The Ultima spell, feared for its power and thus sealed away by the ancients, requiring about a third of the plot to unseal and obtain along with major character death, is bugged and cannot surpass about 500 damage. That's with maximum Intelligence/Spirit and sixteen Level XVI spells (including Ultima), the intended way to power it up. Remakes have fixed that, thankfully.
Apparently, the dev that coded Ultima made it weak on purpose because ancient weapons should be primitive compared to what is being made in the present. Rumor is, he encrypted the formula and the game was released as is.
Using Ghosts N' Goblins for the NES while using footage of the arcade version was definitely a choice. And the shield in the arcade version didn't look like the one on consoles.
I disagree about the shield. It can block projectiles and the short range is actually an advantage in the stage, as there are red devils sitting at the edge of levels that attack when you hit them.
There is actully a "bad" ultimate weapon that I like a lot. The Soulcanon from "Fuga Melodies of the Steel". The game is about a groupe of adorable wholesome anthropomorphic animal children that go on a quest to save there families. You start out with this weapon and it can instant kill any boss in the game. Its that games equivalent to Yugiohs Exodia. Using it is an instant win no matter what. The downside is that it requires a childs life in order to work. In other words the player needs to sacrefice a party member in order to use it. Now if you enjoy turning innocent children in to canon fuel you going to have a lot of fun with this weapon. But should you care about the life of these little fluff balls you will never use this weapon. But I like how its presents alone, is a grim reminder that these children put there life on the line. It starting to glow when there HP drops to low (they have one shared HP bar) is kinda scary. It makes every victory all the more satisfying. One more boss defeated without loosing a child. They might take a bit longer but with there courage and there teamwork they can achive the same effect as ths all mighty weapon, the destruction of there enemy, without lossing one of there own. Thats an empowering feel. So while this weapon is useless to me I apriate its presents a lot. In the sequel things get more intense. When the HP of the party drop low enough in a boss fight, a countdown starts and when it reaches zero and the boss is not dead yet the soulcanon fires, and they loose a crew member without giving the player the choice not to use it. An interesting way to mix it things up.
2:37 Honestly don't think the Harbinger should be on this list. It's not the sword's fault it was outclassed by weapons introduced in The Lost Chapters (as impressive as The Sword of Aeons is, the fact you only really get to use it in a (for the most part) empty endgame in the original Fable kinda limits how much enjoyment you get out of it, and then Lost Chapters nerfed it heavily as well.)
Yeah I agree there for me the True Ultimate weapon for Ness in Earthbound is the insanely hard to get Gusty bat NOT The Casey bat it's just so freaking bad that I never used it. heck I tossed the damn thing away cause any other bat is 100% better then it cause you hit things. With the Casey bat you may as well have a Soundboard ready with Wario's "DOH I MISSED!" ready all the time when it's the Casey bat
The Master Sword's durability does get increased when it's at full power (or when Link is facing any malice-infected enemies), but even then, its maximum power of 60 does end up getting outclassed by swords that can (potentially) hit harder, or can take advantage of certain armor set bonuses. Heck, something like the Ancient Short Sword can deal greater damage to a Guardian Stalker than a full power Master Sword when you combine the Ancient Proficiency set bonus with the 1.5x damage bonus that Guardian and Ancient weapons can deal to Guardian enemies.
The Specter weapons from Mass Effect should have been on this list, yes they are the most powerful weapons in the game, but the strongest versions of them just aren’t worth getting, 3 reasons, 1: each weapon is expensive af, unless you sell EVERYTHING you get, you can’t even get enough money in a single play through to get all of them, so, while you are saving up money and selling all your good equipment, you are actually making the game WAY harder than it needs to be, 2: even if you get enough money in one play through, you still can’t get them until play through 2, because that’s how you gain access to them, by beating the game, reason 3: though you can’t get there best versions until play through 2, there are slightly weaker versions of the same weapons available almost right of the bat in play through 1, the only real difference is that they have slightly lower stats, but they are also MUCH cheaper, and they are still strong enough that they decimate just about every enemy in the game, especially if you give them the right upgrades
This may not count, but the Rapier from 'Wing Commander' game. The ship is trash compared to the Raptor. The Raptor had better armor than the Rapier, and the Raptor had the mass driver and neutron canon compared to the weak laser and neutron. To compound the damage difference is the ability to even hit anything. The Mass driver is faster than the neutron, but at least they were close so you could get all your projectiles impacting at longer ranges. The Laser was way faster than the neutron, so you had to choose if you were going to hit with the laser or the neutron at longer ranges, meaning you only could use both weapons on a target up close or if the target was moving towards or away from you and not perpendicular.
Undertale. The "real dagger". This superior dagger is super fancy, and worthless, because by then only one enemy left. And that enemy will just dodge everything.
The Shield in Ghosts 'n Goblins was originally a Cross in the Japanese version. Hence why you need it to kill Satan, Lucifer or "Rushifell"
Whatever he's called...
Censorship at its finest... Worst. ... Worst.
It's just "hence". Not "hence why". Saying "hence why" is like saying "therefore why" or "that's why why".
The stats on Soul Edge vary per game, and what's worse, per fighter. Some fighters end up with a high-damage, unblockable and vampiric weapon, others get a middling-damage weapon that sucks their life instead. In fairness, the first ever wielder in the series is a zombie-pirate who rips off his own face in the very intro of the game, so it's not like you weren't warned before you picked the damned thing up.
Soul Edge's biggest curse isn't even in-game. Tim Langdell, the owner of Edge Magazine, had a dirty habit of siccing his lawyers at everything even remotely game-related that had "Edge" in the title, so the the first "Soul Edge"-game had to be relabeled "Soul Blade", and all subsequent sequels, "Soul Calibur". That's right, Langdell, I just called you a curse upon everything related to gaming, you goblin. Sue me.
What’s funny is your not wrong and I’m glad you brought Cervantes into picture because he was so busted in all the games especially in 4 if you gave him all Soul Edge build and perks he was a monster
It would make sense for the Casey Bat to have lousy accuracy when you consider what it's named after.
Yup. I was surprised when another YTer who played EB for the first time didn't know of the reference
@@thecunninlynguist never played the game can u elaborate?
The Casey Bat has the HIGHEST Physical attack stats in the game but like the story its named after it ONLY has like a 20% HIT rate of actually landing any attacks in the SNES Earthbound game which is why as a ULTIMATE weapon in that game it SUCKS if you can't actually HIT anything with it.
The Mighty Casey has struck out!
@@partofthetribe3277 look up Casey At Bat.
That's why I loved Cassandra's Soul Calibur IV ending , She's like "Your supposed to be the Good Sword but you made my sister's life miserable" and she destroys it
for me it's definitely the Rocket Pistol from Resident Evil Village, for all the bullshit you have to go through to get it(including beating the game on the hardest difficulty) it's rather underwhelming and the weapons you've fully upgraded by that point are much more powerful and it doesn't even have infinite ammo to boot, you have to craft it and it takes more resources then any other ammo type so there's really a situation where it's useful.
On the plus side, it has the 'rule of cool' advantage.
You kinda get to wield Sohayamaru in Nioh 2, actually, but not as a weapon per se, but as two active skills compatible with any weapon moveset. Those being sacred bird cry and sacred bird flight. But the point still stands: they're not as effective as you'd expect.
sacred bird flight is the better of the 2 in my opinion since you get great mobility across a large area for say slow weapons
I'm more of a bird cry guy myself for some reason that technique fills up your amrita gauge ludicrously fast. But yeah not really the sword of legends per se.
Sacred bird cry is great for dojo missions for free heals if you got life recovery
I enjoy both of them honestly. One has great mobility, while the other can charge your amrita gauge pretty quickly. And they both have style points which is a big win in my book.
Not to mention you have to farm two different bosses for each of them
Also with EarthBound Ness's other best weapon (the Gutsy Bat) can only be found as a 1/128 item drop from a Bionic Kraken in the Cave of the Past, but at that point you just got the Ultimate Bat in the same dungeon and you're literally outside the room to the final boss.
The Gutsy Bat still beats the crap out of the Casey Bat since it pretty guarantees SMAAASSSH!!! hits
Hey, I enjoyed the almighty fae knife sneeze shoe. It had +14 hindsight upon collecting. You know what, maybe I shouldn’t have picked it up.
Actually the harbinger in fable is good if you plan your play through around getting it, because there were 2 methods of getting it, one of which was meeting a high enough physique threshold, and the other way was putting in enough physique points (can’t remember exactly how many) after your first attempt at pulling it out. So if you put 0 points into physique before you made the first pull attempt, you could get it fairly early and it was a beast of a weapon for a long time.
I don't know if it was just just too obvious to need mentioning, but I would have thought they would have pointed out that the Casey Bat was an obvious reference to the poem "Casey at the Bat". Explaining the great strength and terrible accuracy. Particularly against a weak and easily beatable enemy.
The Fusion Rifle from Remnant: From the Ashes. It’s fire rate literally depends on how much Mod power you have stored up on top of low damage per shot, even at max level. Not to mention, you only get it from the DLC final boss.
Tifa's Premium Heart in the original Final Fantasy VII. Due to a flaw in the damage calculation, which may or may not have been intentional, this weapon actually starts out weaker than Tifa's other options until she has sufficiently built up her limit break, but then it resets once she uses her limit. Had it not been for an extra set of brackets in the damage calculation formula, this would have been the definition of an ultimate weapon.
It wasn't a flaw. All the Ultimate weapons in FF7 had stipulations to them, Like Premium Heart doing more damage the higher her limit gauge was.
Clouds Ultima Weapon Damage was based on his current HP.
Cids Venus Gospel was based on his current MP.
Barrets Missing Score was based on the amount of AP the Materia that was equipped to it had.
Vincents Death Penalty was based on how many enemies he has personally killed.
Etc, etc.
@@Fighter600 so... a volatile design choice. An intentional flaw
@@cphtfluke7565 No, these are not flaws, intentional or otherwise. The weapons have damage multipliers based on other factors that, far more often than not, are positive. They do start at a damage penalty, but very quickly get above 100% damage, and for most cases are a non-issue.
Cloud's/Cait Sith's weapons are only below 100% damage if you're in yellow HP, which you should only be in for brief periods of time, and that turn is likely better spent healing anyway.
Cid's/Red XIII's weapons, again, are only below 100% damage if you're in yellow MP, which usually means you haven't been using the weapon anyway.
Tifa's weapon is tied to both limit level and limit gauge fill percentage, and is at 100% at 1/4 full at limit level 4. The limit gauge mechanics are a little complicated, but in general getting hit by a boss or big trash once is usually enough to get her over 100%, especially if she's in Fury status.
Barret's weapon you'd basically have to explicitly try to get under 100%, since it's based on total AP acquired on slotted materia. 100% is 160k AP. For context, each trash monster you're fighting in the section of the game you acquire it in gives 80-100 AP to each slotted materia, so you're getting around 250-300 AP per trash fight, per slotted materia, before multipliers.
Vincent's weapon is the only one that's likely to be below 100% at the time you get it and requires some dedicated grinding to get to a usable level, but it has the highest ceiling out of any of them.
@MISAKA-cd2hq I feel like I'm not making my point clear. When Tifa's limit gauge its low or empty, doesn't Premium Heart do LESS damage than other weapons?
@@Fighter600 I always loved how Cloud's Ultima Weapon changed colors based on his HP.
Every final weapon that you never get to use until the final boss or you get after beat the game. Whats the point?
Trash game design. At least let me use it for a couple bosses before the final boss!
Wyrmhero blade : you called?
Dude, the excalibastard is stupid op because landing crits guarantees a freeze lock on enemies, whether melee or shot at by the weapon itself. Not to mention that Wilhelm pairs sp well with it due to having weapon damage skills, classmods, and a melee override that makes him deal extra melee and exosive damage, which frozen envies are weak to. The excalibastard is stupid strong and fun because of how easy it makes freezing an enemy becaaue any crit means garanteed freeze
The Fable one: if you don’t get it the first time, the game essentially marks your Strength, and then lets you pull it after you’ve upgraded your Strength stat twice after your first attempt. If I remember right. It’s actually a pretty useful exploit if you can get there with base Strength (for example as a Skill or Will build) and then just pump two levels of Strength and BAM you’ve got a great sword to back up your main stat.
Yeah I don't think its really even hailed as the ultimate sword either since theres the other one you get for beating the final dude that you either throw away or keep if I remember right. Its just a sword in the stone trope never was it said to be the ultimate sword, its just strong.
@@Notaforumguy007 I’m pretty sure you’ve got it right. The original video even said “third strongest sword” so I think the one you’re talking about where you keep it to be evil or throw it away to be good and then the identical Good version you get in The Lost Chapters are 1 and 2? Although I think you can get stronger ones in the expansion so idk.
The Ultima Keyblade in Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix isn't necessarily BAD, but given the fact that it requires so much grinding to get, and the fact that the Decisive Pumpkin - a Keyblade you gain naturally through the story - is far better, it's just... not really worth it. (Ultima and Pumpkin have the same attack stat of 6, Pumpkin IS a bit weaker in the Magic stat, but it comes with a much better ability than Ultima has, which more than makes up the difference)
No? The Ultima weapon is significantly better, and has much better range.
@@DennGreenIII the pumpkin is still better sadly.
Pumpkin is better damage for physical combos, but Ultima is a bit better for magic, as it has faster mp charge and higher magic. Know which tool to use for which job
Put both on Final Form, and dominate everything (except fights where you don't have two party members).
@@tristanward9937 wrong as fuk
The Casey Bat is actually a joke weapon from the Ernest Lawrence Thayer poem, "Casey at the Bat", with it's high attack power and low accuracy.
But there is no joy in Mudville - Mighty Casey has struck out.
My entry would be Sparda from Devil May Cry 1.
An ultimate weapon so powerful, it allowed a human to turn into a demon in the prequel. Yet when Dante awakens it after (seemingly) killing “Nelo Angelo” the weapon flat out sucks.
It doesn’t do anything the other swords can easily do and you can’t Devil Trigger with it equipped. You also lose the ability to switch to Ifrit at the press of a button so long as it’s equipped.
It’s not until you face Mundas, the Final boss of the game that it’s actually any good. But until then, you’re better off just switching back to Alistor.
I would've mentioned the xpcalibur from dying light, yes it has the capacity to kill pretty much anything in one hit (when it works) but the damn thing can only hit a couple of times before it breaks and is the only weapon you can't fix after it breaks
Re The Excalabastard: One of the things you didn't mention is that it spawns only once per character. To explain, Borderlands has game plus modes, namely "True" and "Ultimate" Vault Hunter modes. Level progression is tied with this, meaning that you have to play the game through three times with the same character in order to get to max level. (You CAN grind your way to be at max level sooner, but that is what it is, a grind.) If you pick up the Excalabastard during the first playthrough, it does NOT regenerate in subsequent playthroughs. You have to start a whole new character and try not to be impatient this time.
As a side note, I always suggest a fourth playthrough on a character, just so you can properly compare the gear/loot to each other.
If you play with a friend though, the Excalibastard becomes farmable through a simple exploit.
1. Both players enter Stanton's Liver and dash to the Excalibastard. You've only got a handful of scavs to bolt past and there's no point in fighting them.
2. Host pulls Excalibastard from the rock but Friend picks it up.
3. Friend exits cleanly from the game, bearing the Excalibastard away in their inventory.
4. Host crashes out of their game (Alt-F4 on PC, for example.) This means the Host's progress is lost, including the fact they picked up the Excalibastard.
5. Begin another game. Host will start in Stanton's Liver now, your Friend can join you again, and you can repeat steps 1 to 4.
6. Begin yet another game. Friend drops one of the two Excalibastards in their possession, and now you both have one.
7. Or you can repeat over and over and use three Excalibastards in the Grinder to produce another random on-level legendary. Depends on your boredom threshold.
Disclaimer 1: This works for me on PC. Can't speak for what you have to do in step 4 if you're on a console.
Disclaimer 2: You may feel a little dirty for using such a cheap trick.
When I saw this, I thought of Anathema from Divinity: original sin 2. Not only do you spend a large portion of the game trying to get it, only to get it right at the end, but it also breaks in 1 hit, so it is almost useless for the time you have it
The Casey Bat actually helps you instant kill and skip encounters. It's a bit of a niche usage, but it's actually worthwhile to use for that.
Not all the legendary weapons are useless in the Elder Scrolls. I always liked Auriels bow, and the Nightengale bow.
Yes, but you are confusing The Elder Scrolls as a franchise, with a single entry of that franchise - Skyrim. Keep in mind that Skyrim was the Elder Scrolls 5, meaning there were four other main entries in the series. And each of them were different in how they approached skills and leveling, what kinds of crafting were available, and what exploits could be used to break the game.
@@ianbraun271 not to mention a majority of "legendary weapons" in the elder scrolls franchise as a whole are not legendary themselves, but simply belong to a legendary figure, like the galdur weapons in Skyrim, daedric artifacts however are legendary.
Umbra Sword was absolutely the best Legendary Sword. Especially if you just never complete the quest and it stays weightless
The Handcannon in the Resident Evil 4 Remake, it takes the most effort to get out of the magnums, being a bonus weapon and all, it's maximum damage is outpaced by the Broken Butterfly since its damage has been nerfed since the original, and although it has infinite ammo when you get its exclusive upgrade, it also has massive recoil, which results in it taking forever to fire a second shot, if you're surrounded by enemies you're screwed as a result of this, plus if you get the cat ears you can use the Broken Butterfly and other guns with infinite reloads, rendering the Handcannon completely worthless as a result.
Jules! Is this an indication that there’s a backlog of Jules’ videos still to be published on WhatCulture?
I think you are supposed to get the excalibastard right before facing a final boss of either the main quest, or a dlc. That would optimize its effectiveness in a dramatic manner.
I suppose, if the weapon type is the sort you can use and you don't already have something incredible...
I love how Jules said “jiggle physics” and “titular” in adjacent sentences.
Personally I liked the Excalibastered. Yeah you have to wait a bit, but it's buff are worth it
I recall it being pretty decent with a melee Athena build.
The Sword of 1000 Truths?
Long ago, when the World of Warcraft was created, one of the programmers put a sword called The Sword of a Thousand Truths into the game inventory. But the sword was considered to be too powerful for anyone to possess, so it was removed from the game and stored on a one gig flash drive. But it was foretold[1] that one day players who could wield the sword might reveal themselves
But only, when the shadow of that which has no life walks across the land.
So OP!! Best South Park episode 😂
It will force you to face 1000 truths about yourself and force your character to die 10,000 deaths
powercreep moment
Bishamon in Onimusha Warlords. You get the sword after you spend the whole game chasing down the pieces to open the door to get it. When you fight Fortunbras, who is the final boss, it takes like a dozen hits to kill him. It's honestly more fun and epic without it.
2:37 I always get this one, but purely for the collection. My sword of Choice is simply Glitching inside the Heroes guild to attain the Sword of Aeons. Which carries you through the game. The Solus Great Sword is more powerful, but the perks of the Sword of Aeons are better. Granted you lose it during the first battle with Jack, but you can replace it with Avo's Tear... which is the same Sword but a "good" version.
Since fable is so old now I'll explain that if you are getting harbinger late in the game you are doing it wrong. It's easy to get when you first see it if you save all your experience and try once and fail then warp back to the guild and level up your strength stats correctly. When you get it here its a great sword until you get a triple exp gem to mount to any other sword to max all stats and spells quickly
I'd say the Golden Gun in Goldeneye 007 is fucking useless for an "ultimate" weapon, especially compared to the Golden PP7, which does the same thing, and has vastly better ammo.
Borderlands not letting you level up weapons is one of my main pet peeves of the franchise. No, I don't want to re-grind a powerful ass weapon with a 0.5% drop rate from a hard ass enemy in a 2 week once-per-year event a few days before the next level cap.
Finding a good weapon that fits your playstyle and build but is rapidly getting underpowered as you level up reeaaally sucks.
There should be a special gunsmith character that can enhance your weapons for Eridium, moonstone, or whatever premium currency is in the game. Like, you can only increase levels of Legendary or higher equips as a limit, but once you have something, you only have to grind out the money to have it match your level.
The Excalibastard isn't really considered a "ultimate" weapon. It's just an easter egg. And depending on your playstyle, it might come in handy. And I wouldn't say Excalibur II is the worst. It's the best weapon for Steiner. It's just that getting it is not worth it. It would be something else if Steiner gets Gilgamesh's knock off, the Excalipoor, for completing the game in under 12 hours.
I will never get over the fact that Gilgamesh drew a not even sharpened, rusty replica from a chest and went yep that's the sword of legend and then it does 1 damage and he runs off in shame
The Excalibastard is stupid powerful when you make a build focusing on it. Crits guarantee freeze which means easier consecutive crits, weakness to melee damage and explosive damage. Using Wilhelm melee override on a frozen enemy is just a chefs kiss after freezing enemies out of the air
6:32
"Jiggle physics"
"Titular"
Thought you could sneak that by us, eh Jules? 😏😉😇
I was about to go on a rant defending the RYNO2, but then I doubble-took, and realised you were talking truth about the Clank-zapper, and not slandering the RYNO.
Haha, im surprised earthbound made #1. I was actually gonna suggest EB too but not the casey bat. The magic fry pan is similar. And paula's ultimate weapon. A pain to get from chomposaurs too
I immediately thought of FFIX for this list. The other issue with the weapon is it doesn't have any unique skills to instill a FOMO. You can get the skills on other weapons and can use a barely weaker endgame weapon for Steiner.
You say Soul Edge but what about the Soul Caliber itself? Soul Edge is the Cursed Blade while Soul Caliber is the Spirit Sword that will not Consume you but is meant to Destroy Soul Edge yet you shown most of your footage on the Soul Caliber (the blue glass looking sword) more than Soul Edge thus confusion ensues
Yeah I think the entry may have applied early in the franchise, but the Soul Edge pretty much stopped being the "ultimate" weapon as soon as Soul Calibur was available. It's functionally the same weapon with all of the strengths and none of the weaknesses (it actually replenishes health rather than consumes it).
And it is confusing that the video shows a lot of Soul Calibur; I had a similar comment in a recent video where they had an entry about Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid and kept showing Big Boss, and even mentioned MGS3, a game where Solid Snake wasn't even born yet haha.
Not an ultimate weapon, but the Yoshiyuki in Final Fantasy VII was the worst for me. Its damage increases when other party members die, giving Cloud a better chance at winning if he loses people along the way. BUT it’s stats are so low, that Cloud is basically doing zip at the beginning of the fight, almost requiring you to off your allies to do any real damage. So if you’re in a boss fight, you’ll be killing your party members, and then praying that Cloud can hold his own without dying himself.
For me, it's from a underrated RPG franchise Grandia, specifically Grandia 2. The Granasaber. This sword was hyped up to be unstoppable blades, wielded by the God Granas, capable of cleaving the world to create canyons, originally used by Granas himself to cut the evil god Valmar to pieces prior to the game's setting. Then you get to wield one and it's just barely stronger than the 2nd highest sword and has a mediocre, "Reduce SP consumption by 15%" effect, lame.
Not in Elder Scrolls franchise, but in Skyrim. In Morrowind, Goldbrand was Holy Grail, pretty easily acquired.
For an addition to this series, I'd suggest Final Fantasy X. The ultimate ("celestial") weapon for Auron in the game is "Masamune". On the plus side, it retains the effect of all celestial weapons in that it ignores the defense stat of the enemy. To make it useful - just like all the other celestial weapons - you also need to find the Crest and the Sigil to power it up. The ones for Auron are not the hardest, but are very tedious and require large amounts of monster-capturing for the monster arena, which can be annoying when the monsters you require just refuse to appear in random battles.
Once powered up, Auron's weapon has the special characteristic of dealing more damage the lower his health is. In the original Japanese release of the game, this was a straight up bonus. It dealt regular damage at 100% HP and dealt more than 4x as much damage when down to 1 HP. This was changed in all other releases, causing the weapon to deal regular damage when at 70% of max HP, half damage when at full HP and only slightly more than 2x damage when down to 1 HP.
When you consider that farming and upgrading these weapons requires so much time and effort that the only things dangerous to you are optional- or super-lategame-enemies and most of them can deal 80-90% of your HP with a single attack, Masamune loses most of it's appeall because keeping Auron at low enough health to do just regular damage means that he's at a high risk of being one-shot by the stuff you're facing.
Then there is Lulu's ultimate and having to dodge lightning 200 FRICKIN' TIMES IN A ROW WITHOUT GETTING HIT!
@@chadharger9323 And Tidus' Chocobo Racing. And Kimahri's Butterfly Dodging. My final team in 10 was Tidus, with a crafted weapon, Wakka, and Yuna/Rikku/Auron. Could never fully unlock Tidus', Lulu's or Kimahri's Ultimate Weapons.
2 things…. Both nioh 2:
1: sohoyamaru IS able to be gained from the dlcs as a combat skill, consuming your anima gauge.
2: you’ve had the blade throughout the whole game, if they gave it to you to use, it wouldn’t just be busted, but a paradox. Story also dictates it is kinda a big deal thing anyway
"Soul Calibur" would be the titular weapon. "Soul Edge" is only the titular weapon for the first game in the series and only in Japan since it's "Soul Blade" elsewhere.
I swear I was thinking they were going to talk about Demon Sword from the NES game of the same name with that title art. XD
With Soul Edge it depends on which one you use usually
You can actually use the sohayamaru in game although its very tedious to do so.
It comes in the form of 2 skills obtained from defeating both minamoto no yoshitsune and minamoto no yorimitsu from the dlc. The catch? The drop rate is abysmally low. The skills are VERY good though.
The one from yoshitsune is a four hit attack that consumes anima to fire waves of light. It deals massive damage if all hits connect and restores anima if you hit the enemy with the blade.
The one from yorimitsu is a dual chasing slice that does very mediocre damage but is by far the best skill for closing distance. It also staggers most humans.
Both as underwhelming as the "weapon" itself. Not worth the hype or the hassle.
@@Mangler559 i dunno, i find myself using sacred bird flight quite often. Its very good at its job. Sacred bird cry really just depends on what build you're running and whether you can get an opening or not.
The Nioh 2 one really pissed me off. I liked the story and the gameplay so I was actually invested in getting and using the sword, only to find out it was just an execution thing.
Agreed. I love that game with a passion, but definitely felt cheated when it turned out to not be attainable. I honestly would've settled for it being a skin just so that we could have it! At least I was able to get Otakemaru's swords.
@@shadowarchivist2382 I’m sayin! Give me something
I seriously need to finish the Borderlands Presequel. I've played every single mainline numbered game through at least twice (2x for 3, over a dozen playthroughs on 1 and 2, I've probably spent 20,000 hours in the borderlands franchise in general I love them so much) and I need to revisit Wonderlands too. I've started the presequel like half a dozen times now and I never get more than a few hours in for some reason. I love the low G mechanics and I absolutely adore the general Borderlands formula, but somehow I've never been able to sink more than a couple hours at a time into the presequel. And IDK about you lot, but if I barely got past the tutorial on a game six months ago, I'm starting a new game next time if only to refresh my memory. Incidentally, games i quit in the tutorial and came back to months later include God of War 2016, DOOM 2016, and all 3 recent Farsassins Cried Ubisoft titles. I don't bloody buy a game unless it's ostensibly good, but as a GamerTM I have a back catalogue too lol. Crap, that reminds me I haven't played Hollow Knight in like a year and I'm probably terrible at it all over again... dammit.
right off the bat, #10 the Shield. Ooh, that hurts. Dang Jules, you've still got it
I make WAY too many Ninja Gaiden references, but the heck with it, here's another. In both the vanilla OG Xbox game and the Sigma version, there is a wooden sword that you are given allegedly "to practice." If you take it to the blacksmith, you'll notice that it can be upgraded for literally thousands of valuable karma points, the game's hard combat earned version of money. Do this about five times, after hours of grinding or ignoring other upgrades and precious health and magic potions, and the wooden sword turns into, um, a thing. A really big, slow, heavy thing, like the Final Fantasy 7 sword. Now, it isn't that this guy is a weak weapon- no, it does do blistering amounts of damage. But it is painfully slow to use, leaves you open to being pummeled to death by the series' notoriously cheap missile and arrow attacks from unseen snipers or snatched up by unblockabke grab attacks. Couple this with how ridiculously long it'll take you to craft the Focker, and there is little need to do so unless you crave unlocking the master ninja difficulty level. And if you hate yourself that much, it would be easier to play a Souls game, or seek counseling.
Star Ocean 3 had a habit of giving you characters' ultimate weapons at the very end of a long string of optional post-game super dungeons. You even get one from defeating the strongest optional enemy in the entire game. By that point it's like... WHY? The game is over--officially. There's no more content.
Nioh 2's ultimate weapon being almost exclusively a cutscene weapon is wild. The only way you can even use it is if you get specific skills dropped from two very specific bosses, I think. In the DLCs. So RNG.
FFX's Celestial Weapons. They're great when you max them out. But the tasks you're expected to do to max some of them out are absurd. And you can make weapons just as good, with enough patience.
Every weapon you can get from the Legendary Blacksmith in Persona 2. They all are of the element "all mighty", which sounds impressive, until you get to the final boss, and the j3rk is immune to that precise element.
I’d say number one isn’t that bad. A 1/4 chance to do massive damage is a set part of most RPG games. There’s always at least be item in the game which rewards rng with insane damage. Plus, it unlike some of the others…it’s actually pretty useful.
Games like ghosts and goblins are probably why I never learned to look for attack telegraphs in games.
Aircraft Carrier, Advance Wars Dual Strike.
Ships in the Advance Wars games are pretty much all the same story: too weak and fragile to justify the enormous cost of building them. The carrier is the worst offender as it is the most expensive unit in the whole game at a whopping 30000 funds to deploy. It can one-shot any aircraft that flies into its enormous attack range, but it can be countered by the battle copter, a unit that your opponent is basically guaranteed to already have several of by that point in the match.
By sending two battle copters (total cost of 18000), your opponent can completely shut down that carrier you spent so much money on. The best you can hope to do is shoot down one copter, but after that, the second one will absolutely get inside the carrier's minimum range, at which point it can't do anything except die.
You COULD keep an air unit of your own around to protect the carrier, seeing as the ship can resupply aircraft, but at that point you're adding more money to the overall cost of keeping it operational, far more than it's actually worth. The fighter does the exact same job as the carrier for only 20000 funds, has a much larger effective range, can defend itself against direct attacks in the air, and can even be used for other things like body-blocking enemy units.
The "Crown of Wills" remade from "Crown of Domination" deserves a spot here, even though its not a weapon exactly
Sohayamaru, from Nioh 2, seems similar to the Demon Sword from the NES game of the same name.
Yep, same weapon, essentially. Probably because both are based on the same weapon from legend. 🙃
Not 2 weeks later:
"Actually nvm the Casey Bat is really good at giving you auto-victories because the attack stat boost ramps up the game's perception of your combat ability."
The silent hill 3 pipe quest is inspired by a Japanese tale called "The Honest Woodcutter". Just a random trivia for you guys.
It’s of Greek origin, actually.
Great concept for a list.
Also thanks for the lovely message at the end of the video.
Enchanting is what adds effects in skyrim and makes the crafted weapons and armor so powerful. Smithing is for creating the weapon and to increase the base damage somewhat but all the cool and more useful stuff comes from enchanting.
Not exactly an "ultimate weapon," but in The Witcher 3, there is a quest to unlock a master blacksmith & another to unlock a master armorer. Upon completion of the quests, the blacksmith & armorer promise to reward you with a masterclass sword & breastplate, respectively. Unfortunately, each turns out to be no better than mediocre loot you pick up. I always just end up having them dismantle the items as soon as I get them.
The importance of the Masterclass swordsmith and armorer is to craft the Witcher sets, which are the best armors and weapons (barring a very few) in the game, especially when the set bonuses are taken into consideration. The initial rewards for the quests are always terrible in Witcher 3, for whatever reason. But having these smiths unlocked means that you can bring the special diagrams for the various witcher sets to them.
another thing about elder scroll weapons and gear is that some of those things require you to be a higher level if you don't want a something that is weak as hell and even then the strongest version of it could still be crap
Usually by the time you get the ultimate weapons unless you have been deliberately avoiding them, you can smith and enchant stronger gear. Especially in Morrowind, where the enchant/alchemy bug can create enchantments that can kill even a god in one hit.
@@13g0man Skyrim restoration loop you can make a fork that will one hit anything even on legendary difficulty plus gear with so much hp and hp regeneration that you could just stand there tanking 100 legendary dragons and 10 million armed enemies and your hp bar won't even flicker lol (although you WILL drop dead the second you remove it and I'm speaking from personal experience on that part lol)
@@13g0man resto loop in skyrim makes legendary wepons useless because you can just smith a weapon that's 10x stronger
Not a weapon per se, but the One Hit Kill moves in Pokemon.
Only a handful of Pokemon know them naturally, but some can still be taught them, and at base default stats completely unaltered these moves only have 5 attempts to be used and have an incredibly low accuracy rate of 30%. These moves also cannot be used on Pokemon with a high level than the one using the move, which is what you would want to do in most cases if you are desperate enough to even dedicate time to using these moves in the heat of battle anyway. On top of the roadblocks like level, accuracy, and such being in place, there are also to consider the targets resistances as Horn Drill still will not work against Ghost types being that it is Normal type move. So not only do you have to meet a bunch of conditions, you have only 5 shots at trying to make this move land, if your Pokemon is even still standing in battle while you try to get these moves off correctly. At which point you might as well just battled it normally or switched to a more accommodating Pokemon. There are ways to increase the changes of it landing, but it almost becomes pointless through all the effect that could have just been spent having a normal battle. And in the off chance you are actually facing a Pokemon with a higher level in which case the move automatically fails no matter what then you now have 1 move locked out for the battle which only leaves you 3 that you are now able to use.
Why does sohayamaru from Nioh 2 look like the dark dragon blade from ninja gaiden ? 😂😂😂
Because they're both based on 七支刀, the real seven branched sword
@@makotohosoi nice
Nioh and gaiden are in the same universe…
My bud would call blasphemy on naming Excalibastard as a terrible Legendary. He has used it to set up instant freezing on crit and Power Fisting to kill almost every non-boss enemy (Even BAs and the Bulwarks in the Arena) in 1 shot on 4P health.
Jack with a max Company Man and full Hyperion loadout and a Rerouter shield can also turn it into a death machine.
You can also use the Grinder to make it or just draw the blade when you are max level.
after using broken Skyrim smithing I give you "the fork of truth"
If only Ness had a 25% chance of hitting in Smash Bros 😂
In Soul Calibur 2, you can equip Nightmare/Siegfried with Soul Edge and duo his long range and combos, he is pretty much one of the strongest and broken characters
I always favored Soul Calibur on Nightmare in that game just because the notion of Nightmare using his opposite was funny to me.
Master Sword in Breath of the Wild.
Every weapon in BotW has limited durability and will break after enough usage. You’d think the Master Sword would be the exception. A crazy strong, unlimited durability weapon to finally cut through the monsters of Hyrule. Except it’ll run out of energy after enough hits and be on a cooldown for several minutes.
Whatever, at least it’s super strong, right? Wrong. It’s actually weaker than many other final stage weapons. It does get a durability and power buff against specific types of enemies but even then it’s power is still weaker than several other weapons in the game.
However, there are some quests that can be done that’ll let the Master Sword keep its boosted power and durability against ALL enemies… but they’re DLC. You have to pay for the right to make the Master Sword function properly.
I don't think that it's fair to add looters to the list, not to mention that Excalibastard is actually an amazing weapon and it's special effect works no matter what level the weapon is
The Ultima Weapon in the Kingdom Hearts games. Basically, you just get the final upgrade for the final boss.
To a lesser extent, the two keychains you receive in Kingdom Hearts 2 *right after* you might actually find them useful in the battle against that treasure-stealing heartless in Port Royal, but those are nowhere near "ultimate" weapons.
I feel like the Excalibastard in Borderlands TPS has value in the early game because you can duplicate it to use as materials in the grinder to get all the other legendaries.
I thought you couldn't grind legendaries?
@@dyingstar24 I don't remember the exact recipes but I think you could do 2 orange and a purple to get a new orange of the same type as the purple
@@hatchetohoulihan3716 is it difficulty locked or level locked? I've never played past standard difficulty
@@dyingstar24 nope as soon as the mission giving access to it has been completed you can do it
@@hatchetohoulihan3716 ill have to give it another go
I want to throw in the ultimate dark magic tome from Fire Emblem Sacred Stones, Gleipnir. It is so heavy, no one who can use it will double with it, and the units that can use it (Knoll or Ewan) are horrible at fighting without grinding and stat boosters. It is really powerful, so it can OHKO some unpromited enemies, and the animation for it is amazing, but most players won’t have any use for it. Radiant Dawn’s Balberith tome has the same issues, and actually can’t be used at all on new game. Dark magic needs some more love.
If you should do another episode on Final Fantasy music, I would suggest 4, 6, 7, 9, 15, 16. If you do 14 it would be a 4 hour video.
Speaking of EarthBound, most would argue that the Sword of Kings isn't worth the grind.
Sure, it's Poo's ultimate weapon (hell, it's his ONLY weapon) but you have to kill a ridiculous amount of Starman Supers and they'll vanish after you defeat Starman DX and save the hostages, so it's ridiculously easy to miss to begin with.
Unless you have Chuggaaconroy luck, at which point go buy a fucking lottery ticket.
Always hated the Clank Zapper. Getting 100% on Going Commando was always tedious because of that thing.
Nah, I have to disagree on Nioh 2.
I've played too many games where you specialize heavily into a particular weapon type and build all your familiarity into, only to get to the end and the prescribed plot weapon is something completely different that locks you out of the skills you built up unless you happen to have decided to pick up the plot-specific weapon.
Nope. Done with that.
If there's going to be a plot significant weapon, then yes, I definitely want it done the way Nioh 2 does it. Let me do the gameplay with my weapon of choice and pull out the plot weapon for the cut scene.
This goes back to Final Fantasy II's original Famicom release. The Ultima spell, feared for its power and thus sealed away by the ancients, requiring about a third of the plot to unseal and obtain along with major character death, is bugged and cannot surpass about 500 damage. That's with maximum Intelligence/Spirit and sixteen Level XVI spells (including Ultima), the intended way to power it up. Remakes have fixed that, thankfully.
Apparently, the dev that coded Ultima made it weak on purpose because ancient weapons should be primitive compared to what is being made in the present.
Rumor is, he encrypted the formula and the game was released as is.
Using Ghosts N' Goblins for the NES while using footage of the arcade version was definitely a choice. And the shield in the arcade version didn't look like the one on consoles.
I disagree about the shield.
It can block projectiles and the short range is actually an advantage in the stage, as there are red devils sitting at the edge of levels that attack when you hit them.
There is actully a "bad" ultimate weapon that I like a lot.
The Soulcanon from "Fuga Melodies of the Steel".
The game is about a groupe of adorable wholesome anthropomorphic animal children that go on a quest to save there families.
You start out with this weapon and it can instant kill any boss in the game.
Its that games equivalent to Yugiohs Exodia. Using it is an instant win no matter what.
The downside is that it requires a childs life in order to work. In other words the player needs to sacrefice a party member in order to use it.
Now if you enjoy turning innocent children in to canon fuel you going to have a lot of fun with this weapon.
But should you care about the life of these little fluff balls you will never use this weapon.
But I like how its presents alone, is a grim reminder that these children put there life on the line.
It starting to glow when there HP drops to low (they have one shared HP bar) is kinda scary.
It makes every victory all the more satisfying. One more boss defeated without loosing a child.
They might take a bit longer but with there courage and there teamwork they can achive the same effect as ths all mighty weapon, the destruction of there enemy, without lossing one of there own. Thats an empowering feel.
So while this weapon is useless to me I apriate its presents a lot.
In the sequel things get more intense. When the HP of the party drop low enough in a boss fight, a countdown starts and when it reaches zero and the boss is not dead yet the soulcanon fires, and they loose a crew member without giving the player the choice not to use it. An interesting way to mix it things up.
Imagine pulling the excalibastard, getting one kill, and then immediately leveling up.
Niihau is one of my favorite games and I agree I was looking forward to using that sword only for it to be a cut scene weapon still epic game tho
2:37 Honestly don't think the Harbinger should be on this list. It's not the sword's fault it was outclassed by weapons introduced in The Lost Chapters (as impressive as The Sword of Aeons is, the fact you only really get to use it in a (for the most part) empty endgame in the original Fable kinda limits how much enjoyment you get out of it, and then Lost Chapters nerfed it heavily as well.)
Yeah I agree there for me the True Ultimate weapon for Ness in Earthbound is the insanely hard to get Gusty bat NOT The Casey bat it's just so freaking bad that I never used it. heck I tossed the damn thing away cause any other bat is 100% better then it cause you hit things. With the Casey bat you may as well have a Soundboard ready with Wario's "DOH I MISSED!" ready all the time when it's the Casey bat
That damn Breath of the Wild sword. All that work and the thing still dies after a few hits
The Master Sword's durability does get increased when it's at full power (or when Link is facing any malice-infected enemies), but even then, its maximum power of 60 does end up getting outclassed by swords that can (potentially) hit harder, or can take advantage of certain armor set bonuses. Heck, something like the Ancient Short Sword can deal greater damage to a Guardian Stalker than a full power Master Sword when you combine the Ancient Proficiency set bonus with the 1.5x damage bonus that Guardian and Ancient weapons can deal to Guardian enemies.
The Specter weapons from Mass Effect should have been on this list, yes they are the most powerful weapons in the game, but the strongest versions of them just aren’t worth getting, 3 reasons, 1: each weapon is expensive af, unless you sell EVERYTHING you get, you can’t even get enough money in a single play through to get all of them, so, while you are saving up money and selling all your good equipment, you are actually making the game WAY harder than it needs to be, 2: even if you get enough money in one play through, you still can’t get them until play through 2, because that’s how you gain access to them, by beating the game, reason 3: though you can’t get there best versions until play through 2, there are slightly weaker versions of the same weapons available almost right of the bat in play through 1, the only real difference is that they have slightly lower stats, but they are also MUCH cheaper, and they are still strong enough that they decimate just about every enemy in the game, especially if you give them the right upgrades
Love the shout-out to Mitten Squad!
I've got another bad point of getting Excalibur II. It takes having Steiner in your party.
"Excalibastard stays the level you pulled it out at."
So every Borderlands quest drop? Theres TVHM for a reason.
This may not count, but the Rapier from 'Wing Commander' game. The ship is trash compared to the Raptor. The Raptor had better armor than the Rapier, and the Raptor had the mass driver and neutron canon compared to the weak laser and neutron. To compound the damage difference is the ability to even hit anything. The Mass driver is faster than the neutron, but at least they were close so you could get all your projectiles impacting at longer ranges. The Laser was way faster than the neutron, so you had to choose if you were going to hit with the laser or the neutron at longer ranges, meaning you only could use both weapons on a target up close or if the target was moving towards or away from you and not perpendicular.
the fact that the sohayamaru was never made an actual sword is nuts in the worst way
Dont forget the weapon of bubble Man in the old Mega-Man, useless against anything, nearly One-shots the last Boss.:D
The borderland gun should’ve been the one rare gun thaf lvl up with you, I think that would’ve made it all the more better
Undertale. The "real dagger". This superior dagger is super fancy, and worthless, because by then only one enemy left. And that enemy will just dodge everything.