Poll of the Day > i think we can all agree that the spear is the best weapon

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every aspect is so good and doesn't require hammer upgrades to be viable

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ffs, just keep this all in one topic, helly

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no

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fist is best weapon

fight me

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i will, with my spear and far superior reach

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helIy posted...

i will, with my spear and far superior reach

I already dashed behind you and punched so many times with the more fast fists

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Sarcasthma posted...

ffs, just keep this all in one topic, helly

seriously bro its fucking weird and obnoxious

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but the spear is the best

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kH0Bag0akc

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Pretty sure a gun can beat a spear in most fights

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Mead posted...

I already dashed behind you and punched so many times with the more fast fists

too bad, i teleported to my thrown spear

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helIy posted...

too bad, i teleported to my thrown spear

uppercut

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You can't teleport in real life.

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I ended up clearing the most with the sword, but I didn't play past the credits.

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Blighboy posted...

I ended up clearing the most with the sword, but I didn't play past the credits.

if you played to the credits then you played very much the majority of the game

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Gun and sword are best weapons for me. Then shield and fists. The spear and bow
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Mead posted...

if you played to the credits then you played very much the majority of the game

I didn't unlock the final aspects for anything or clear with very high heat

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I compare most weapons to the shield. Some, like the fist, have obvious advantages over the shield, while having other things that are not as good. The fist for instance can lay down the damage FAST.....which is freaking sweet. A very good player probably loves that weapon the most (also if you have gotten deap in the game and obtained a ton of upgrades etc).

The spear though is really hard for me. It has a good range on it's melee attack, but no defenses at all. Honestly the shield seems better for melee attacks even though it has less range, because you can block most damage with the shield and shield rush etc.

But....a BIG difference is the specials. While a shield throw hits multiple opponents and can do sick damage doing so (especially with certain upgrades like 200% damage to special after dashing etc), the spear has, in my opinion, the WORST ranged attack, much like a cast almost....I say BLECH to the spears special.

It is by far and away my least used weapon, even over the sword.

The shield, to me, is the cake weapon to use. It might not be the best long term due to damage and player skill, but if your learning the game, the block ability that works on pretty much everything is freaking gold. The shield throw in combo with dash lets you just obliterate everything without getting hit. If you can get deflect on dash + dash gives shield 200% special damage, you are a freaking killing machine.

Anyway that is my opinion at least.

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joemodda posted...

Pretty sure a gun can beat a spear in most fights

But what if you had a spear gun?



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Mead posted...

uppercut

the range on the uppercut is equally as small

nowhere near the range of a thrown spear

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No, fists were my favorite weapon and the one I found the easiest to use.

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the firsts are the worst weapon in the game, keep up with the topic series

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fists def my fave, spear actually one of my least liked with only sword i find worse to use

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helIy posted...

the firsts are the worst weapon in the game, keep up with the topic series

literally the exact opposite in my experience. I killed Hades with the fists before I killed Theseus and the minotaur with half of the other weapons (spear included among those), and I was doing runs evenly between the weapons. I did more heats with the fists, was getting to Hades consistently with the fists even when I didn't win. I just found them way easier to use than everything else. They fit my playstyle.

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helIy posted...

every aspect is so good and doesn't require hammer upgrades to be viable

Zag spear is pretty much useless without one of the special-buffing hammers (or at least, it offers nothing unique or valuable in any way). Achilles is pretty much just vanilla casting with an extra step, which is good for cast builds, but nothing particularly interesting in its own right. Hades is just not good (or if you can make it good, you pretty much need Quick Spin to actually get the buff going). Guan Yu is also pretty dependent on Quick Spin to take advantage of its special charge (and if you aren't doing that, there's little point in picking Guan Yu).

So... Achilles is so good and doesn't require hammer upgrades to be viable. The rest, not so much.

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Replaying Radiata Stories on the ps2 with the kid; spear is the best weapon.

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Every weapon has it's pros and cons, the more you play the game the more you realize this is true. No weapon is trash or useless, it comes heavily down to playstyle.

Firewood18 posted...

Replaying Radiata Stories on the ps2 with the kid; spear is the best weapon.

this is one of the very few games i wish would get a port or remaster to current gen systems

it was woefully underappreciated

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helIy posted...

the firsts are the worst weapon in the game, keep up with the topic series

uppercut

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I used a halberd against many of the early bosses, but eventually settled on my trusty Battle Axe around Ornstein and Smough

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