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Besties Battle Bracket: The Best Best* Weapon

🕑 Added 2024-07-02 04:01:04 +0000 UTC

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Matthew Spainhour

Second this. Much needed

Stewardii

Think you guys need to do a melee only version of this. Sad to see the Leviathan Axe not represented - could make a cool bracket pitted against the chaos blades…

Bishibosh44

I'm working a slow, grindy job right now and have been dying for goodcontent. This is so appreciated and Besties has the best cold opens, bar none.

PokéRedstone

Wild that Russ insists on having only the Master Sword from Zelda 1 despite it not being in that game. Zelda 1 features the Magical Sword; An entirely distinct sword from the Master Sword

Liam Granlund

Excited to watch this, sad the RYNO from Ratchet and Clank didn't make the cut

Bryan Ische

The vibes of these episodes are *chef kiss*

Al Paca

The master sword in 3d Dot Game Heroes could be the size of the entire screen. That's pretty sick

Josh Wolff

Not including Ratchet and Clank in this list is WILD

Tragedy-san

Loved the episode. I think one major flaw that’s forgotten in the Smash Bros hammer is its ability to fail. It’s possible for the head of the hammer to fall off, leaving the wielder swinging helplessly. Is there any other weapon on this list that can fail? If your hammer head falls off, you go from being the most dangerous on the field to a non-issue.

Casey Francis Alger

My money for trebs from AOE2

SlimLeaper

Loved the episode and it left me wanting more. The part where everyone had to name their favorite Goldeneye weapon simultaneously was awesome. I don’t know if it’s a most iconic weapon episode (which is where some of the conversation went) or best feeling or maybe just more rounds of “what weapon pops in your head when I say…”

Hayley Roehrig

Okay hear me out. Are the worms big though? There’s a grandma bomb, is that a tiny grandma? Why are the planes scaled to worm size. I think maybe the worms miiiiiight be people sized.

Josh Andrews

Absolutely love this chaotic episode think the Master Sword should have taken it. As way cooler in TOTK with the ability to attach things to it like bees and bombs. Also surprised that none of the Like a Dragon weapons or Poundmates weren't on this list those weapons and items are absolutely wild.

AWildBrozerker

I'm surprised they used the Infinite rocket launcher instead of the PRL 412, but then again the PRL 412 is definitely the most OP weapon I've seen in any game

Dan Smillie

I think a really fun bracket would be "Best traversal in a videogame"

Jimmers

I was so sad to see the master sword die, but you know what, the blue shell would kill the line Tetris piece too

Haley

Loved this episode! Loved having the holy hand grenade included. I grew up playing Worms Armageddon, and enjoyed countless hours with my dad. So much fun! Also, honorable mention for me would be the RYNO from the Ratchet and Clank series. Definitely a fun one that keeps evolving in new ways every game!

Dizzel M

➡️⬆️⬅️⬅️ Wow, see how cool I look when shooting my hellbomb?

Shart Carbuncle

Roll that beautiful beam footage.

Rook

Yay! fun episode, thanks! I mostly came here to talk about Times & Galaxy which is a game I think the besties would enjoy. You're a robot reporter writing newspaper articles in a quirky scifi setting. Definitely a very light game and it still has some minor bugs, but I played the demo and am loving the full release :) Great art, funny writing, jammin music, and it's from the same devs as speed dating for ghosts which I also liked

Jim

Folks. I enjoyed this episode immensely, but the omission of earthbound and the weapon of prayer is truly disappointing

Johnny Van Cura

Super Horn > Blue Shell

superliman

I came here looking for some cursed soul calibur custom character images and was not disappointed 🫡

Chris

magnifique!

Charlie Dalton

This one was tons of fun. Sad to see the Elden Ring rep die in round 1, but it's a very good point that there just isn't an OP standout like with these other games. Either way, Gjallarhorn was my front runner so I'm glad it moved on. I think ER and Bloodborne would succeed more in a criteria of how good it feels to use and general cool factor rather than power level. Blasphemous Blade, Moonveil, MLGS, Pizza Cutter, Burial Blade... could be its own entire bracket.

Dalton Keibler

I think the Hammer of Dawn was a big leave out. Rip gears of war lol

Pman24

One of the primary benefits of the Gravity Gun is the ability to catch projectiles. It’s got built in defense against any other weapon. Should’ve been part of the discussion… 😢

Michael Sullivan

my brothers in christ, where is the Ratchet and Clank representation?! Chicken Gun wipes the floor with all of these 😩

Brad MacDonald

Loved the episode doods

DieselDonkey

Once again Strategy Games get snubbed. It's good because in this case the Atherophasic Engine from Stellaris would make this a very short episode.

ThanaThots

The episode should’ve ended with the blue shell taking out the first place spot and every other weapon moving up one in the bracket.

ThrashMTN

Back in my day, you wouldn’t dare make a list like this this without including the FF8 gunblade.

Sweet Wizzle

Soul Calibur 2's Xbox guest character was Spawn, not Master Chief -- though my thoughts went to the exact same place as Griffin's at first! Also, Smash doesn't work for scale comparison, because they played around with character sizes to make it work. (Olimar would be way smaller and Ridley would be way bigger in actual scale.) P.S. Soul Calibur 6 custom characters are such a wonderful rabbit hole.

demonicevol

I love the bracket battle episodes so much and you can tell because every single one of them has a choice made by the besties that gets me so heated I shout out loud in my car. In this one it was the going with inarguably not Best Best* Sword in tLoZ games.

Overcooked cucumber

Regular Joe dork here I could definitely carry the gravity gun!

PaxSnax

Following the rubric, IMO the best weapon is the the guardian head from OG Shadow Warrior. You have to kill a very tough enemy to obtain it, it's super limited in ammo, and you get to shoot fireballs out of the eyes of the enemy you killed by flexing your fingers in its brain. It RULES. It's pretty overpowered, you punch your fingies into the back of the head to fire it (VERY COOL), and a demon's head is super light compared to basically any gun.

Casual Flying

Is there a Patreon tier I can subscribe to that provides a discord like service that i can have you all in to talk about Elden Ring DLC spoilers? Ill take my answer off the air... :P Also who ever spent the time in Soul Caliber to make these is a champ.