# Most powerful (non-future) man-made game weapon **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 29, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721 "2011-07-29T09:39:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![h4ckys4ck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@h4ckys4ck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h4ckys4ck)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/1 "2011-07-29T09:39:32Z")
From computer games set in the past up to the present. What is the most powerful man-made (non alien technology) weapon? No biological weapons allowed cos that’s too messy. Metal gear Rex? Banana bomb? Yoga flame? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/2 "2011-07-29T17:23:22Z")
Define “non-future”. _Command and Conquer: Red Alert_ was set at the time of WWII, but in an alternate timeline where Hitler was killed before the whole Third Reich business. So are we allowed to count Tesla coils and the Chronosphere? Alternately, what about fantasy games? Is magic allowed, or just technology? In any event, though, there are plenty of games which have nukes (including the afore-mentioned C&C:RA). So we’ve got to start there. ---
**Author:** ![h4ckys4ck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@h4ckys4ck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h4ckys4ck)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/3 "2011-07-29T19:24:23Z")
I see what you mean about magic. Ok no magic. No alternate timelines. Aw fuck it. It’s a stupid question. Mods please delete. No wait, yes to magic and yes to alt realities. Gotta be man- made though, so no banana bombs after all. I should have read the op before posting. ---
**Author:** ![h4ckys4ck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@h4ckys4ck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h4ckys4ck)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/4 "2011-07-29T19:27:22Z")
And it has to be before the year 2012, our time. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/5 "2011-07-29T19:48:19Z")
The PATRIOT gun from the Metal Gear Solid series. Armor-piercing bullets and unlimited ammunition because, y’know, the drum was shaped like an infinity symbol. CODEC call: Sigint: From the looks of it, it’s fitted with a 100-round drum magazine… and it never runs out of ammo? Naked Snake: Never. Sigint: Why’s that? Naked Snake: Because the internal feed mechanism is shaped like an infinity symbol. Sigint: Ah, I get it. Yep, that’ll give you unlimited ammo. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/6 "2011-07-29T20:36:54Z")
Alternative timelines I’d go with the mini-nukes from the Fallout universe…the nastiest being the MIRV from Fallout 3, which it was death to use (at least I died the 2 times I attempted to use the thing). Man portable nukes are always going to trump just about anything out there. 😛 -XT ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/7 "2011-07-29T20:47:16Z")
I’d say the nukes from CIV (whatever). Though technically, isn’t STAR WARS set long, long ago? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/8 "2011-07-29T20:48:32Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Alternative timelines I’d go with the mini-nukes from the Fallout universe…the nastiest being the MIRV from Fallout 3, which it was death to use (at least I died the 2 times I attempted to use the thing). Man portable nukes are always going to trump just about anything out there. 😛 > > -XT That’s way in the future. Any game with ICBMs. Plenty of them out there. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/9 "2011-07-29T20:52:28Z")
Well, it’s an alternative time line…not sure how far in the future it was. What about Doom? When did that supposedly take place? There is always the BFG. 😉 -XT ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/10 "2011-07-29T20:59:31Z")
Fallout 3 is like 2270 or something. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/11 "2011-07-29T21:15:44Z")
Gordon Freeman’s crowbar. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/12 "2011-07-29T22:28:33Z")
Fallout 3 is in 2270s but all the weapons (except the things you build like dart guns out of toy cars) are from the 2070s at the latest. So I guess still doesn’t count ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/13 "2011-07-29T22:29:42Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Fallout 3 is like 2270 or something. Yeah, but the MIRV is a pre-war weapon. But the war was 2077, so still disqualified I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/14 "2011-07-29T22:32:59Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Gordon Freeman’s crowbar. This was going to be my answer, and when someone inevitably complains about it being set in the future I was going to retort that when they get to the Borealis in Episode Three, they’re transported back to the 60’s and have to elude the minions of Cave Johnson. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/15 "2011-07-29T22:44:51Z")
MIRVs do exist now, though. And if you’re going to disqualify _Fallout_, they still show up in _Scorched Earth_, which isn’t set in any particular time. Of course, as Scorch weapons go, they’re pretty weak. What you really want to go with there is a Death’s Head. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/16 "2011-07-30T00:10:52Z")
The nuke in civilization revolution is much stronger than nukes from other civ games. It actually DESTROYS the city. ---
**Author:** ![kjckjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kjckjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjckjc)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/17 "2011-07-30T12:37:01Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > I’d say the nukes from CIV (whatever). > > Though technically, isn’t STAR WARS set long, long ago? Yes, but it is also in a galaxy far, far away. And the OP said no alien tech. And to get nit-picky it was only a long time, not a long, long time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/18 "2011-07-30T14:08:42Z")
> [@kjckjc](#): > > Yes, but it is also in a galaxy far, far away. And the OP said no alien tech. > > And to get nit-picky it was only a long time, not a long, long time. 🙂 The humans in Star Wars were, as far as we know, humans. I’m thinking an argument for The Death Star is viable here. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/19 "2011-07-30T16:29:19Z")
Humans they may be, but they’re not Terrans. And thus, aliens. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721/20 "2011-08-01T15:14:34Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > The PATRIOT gun from the Metal Gear Solid series. Armor-piercing bullets and unlimited ammunition because, y’know, the drum was shaped like an infinity symbol. > > CODEC call: > Sigint: From the looks of it, it’s fitted with a 100-round drum magazine… and it never runs out of ammo? > Naked Snake: Never. > Sigint: Why’s that? > Naked Snake: Because the internal feed mechanism is shaped like an infinity symbol. > Sigint: Ah, I get it. Yep, that’ll give you unlimited ammo. Now that’s just silly. In reality, the magazine has to be shaped like a Möbius strip in order to have unlimited ammunition. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-powerful-non-future-man-made-game-weapon/590721.md?page=2)