There’s none among us who hasn’t been taught a healthy dose of respect by Sephiroth’s impossibly long Masamune katana in Final Fantasy VII, or been blasted into oblivion more times than we care to admit by Shadow Man’s giant Shadow Blade shuriken in Mega Man 3. Let’s not forget: our adversaries in games also come armed to the teeth.
And sometimes we like stuff because it just plain rocks. Or maybe a weapon took on a special significance because it was important to the game for reasons beyond causing battle damage. Sometimes, what makes the biggest impression on us is not the ultimate weapon to be found in a game it could just be a particularly unique, if slightly less useful, weapon, like Ratchet and Clank’s Sheepinator. We always want bigger, better, anything more powerful to help stomp our enemies into the ground.
Whether it’s running 10-man heroic instances in Warcraft, hoping for a certain drop from the instance boss, or playing hundreds of matches of Blitzball in FFX to get Wakka’s World Champion celestial weapon.
As gamers, all of us know that feeling of grinding for hours just to get that one more weapon upgrade, or the thrill of felling a brutally tough foe with over-the-top firepower.
