The nice thing about the Ebony Blade is that It's not picky at all. You don't have to kill friends or loved ones like it's advertised, just general allies. Meaning you can simply hire a merc and chop them up right then and there. Better yet, it also has a twisted sense of humor, because you don't even need to kill multiple people. If you have the master level Undead Thrall spell then you can just keep reviving and killing the same person over and over. Combine these facts with any other quest that has an ally die in script, and you can keep the population of Skyrim right where it should be.... (low on civilians, and high in bandits)
@@solidmoon8266 I can understand why they included it. Lore wise, it should be totally fucked up and evil. They're just not accounting for poor game design.
@@ReigoVassal Killing one zombie that you barely know repeatedly is more fucked up than murdering several loved ones? The world you live in is a funhouse.
Since any undead Thrall counts as an ally you can just raise a bandit and repeat no need to kill anyone friendly at all. However in concept it's pretty messed up so I'd say still has a place on a list like this.
To be fair, half the acts I commit as Dragonborn I do not condone. It's just that I can't get to all that sweet sweet glitchy content without making stupid decisions
i love that most of these are like 'ohhh you have to do so much murder, this weapon will drive you to become a being of pure moral degeneracy and violence oh nooooo' and the borderlands one is just: annoying lol
They also completely forgot the fact that the only way to stop the noise is to turn down the volume of the appliance itself. In-game volume doesnt affect it at all.
There's actually a way to bypass the Ebony Blade's Curse. Take it along, on quests you know one or more "ally" will betray you, and slay them with it, when the time comes. One example, is the final main Thieves Guild quest. Killing Mercer can count as one of the ten kills, since technically, he was once an ally.
I loved to trick Deadra rules with some experience through P&P devils pacts. I killed the cannibalistic trader in Markath, revived her with the stronges necromancy spell which does not destroy the corpse...and killed her again. Rinse&repeat until the blade is charged up again. And no, i dont tend to dark techniques and arts, what gave you that idea.
Are there ten or more "allies" that betray you? I haven't played the game. If there are, then it sounds like no one is trustworthy here. If there aren't, then you're still gonna have to kill someone decent.
@@wanderlustwarrior It's been a while since I played, so I'm not sure it there are ten people that betray you. Let's see... 1. Mercer Fray 2. Ciciero (I probably spelled his name wrong...but he's the jester guy, with Dark Brotherhood) 3. Accano (Again...probably spelled this name wrong. But he's the end villain in the Wizard School missions.) 4. Leader of Dark Brotherhood (Can recall her name right now.) 5. In one of the crypts, you go in with two explorers, and one betrays both of you, to use you as a sacrifice. 6. There's a guy you help with something, living in the town at the foot of the Throat of the World Mountain. He's then a target for the Dark Brotherhood. If you help him before doing the assassination mission. I could be wrong, but I think this counts too. These are ones I can think of, off the top of my head...but I bet there's more scenarios like this.
@@wanderlustwarrior There’s also an exploit you can do with it that only requires one person to be betrayed. I usually use a follower you can gain from a specific Daedric quest because she’s a cannibal, she kind of sucks as a follower and she has no importance to the game after you finish the quest. So once you kill her, you need to use the power from the ritual stone to resurrect her, then kill her again. Usually you can only use this power once a day, but with the Aetherial crown you can have multiple stones active at once, and removing it and putting it back on lets you get the stone back and its power right away, allowing you to do all 10 revives/murders in a couple minutes. Just be sure to save between resurrections, as if you kill her with a decapitation (which is a random killing blow you can’t control when it happens), it’ll be impossible to resurrect.
I thought with DMC 3 you would have talked about the item that drains your life bar but gives you infinite Devil Trigger. Agni and Rudra are cuties and they can talk as much as they want!
On the cursed shield from FF6: If you have the patience, in the world of ruin segment, there is an island with an enemy called "Mu" I believe. They have low health and are inflicted by the sap status. Meaning they will die roughly 5 seconds after the battle starts. These make the grind for the paladin shield slightly more bearable.
I just waited until I was max level to equip it, made sure I had a ribbon on, then continued grinding Dinosaur Forest until I had lifted the curse on the shield. With the ribbon the only status my character had was Doom, and that's not an issue if you're so overpowered you one hit everything on the screen. Totally worth it for the paladin shield.
Another thing this video overlooked is that the Paladin Shield is not just "the best shield in the game", it is broken, giving several inmunities and a big boost to defense and evasion.
I actually thought I had the genius idea of equipping a ribbon on anyone with the shield equipped (the GBA version) and then immediately regret it because I accidentally fired an Inferno spell and killed my Cyan, who's my strongest attacker then. (because I do not want to abuse Quick + Valor Knife Locke for damage multipliers)
Yea... i don't think the writer ever USED the shield... It made you absorb almost all elements, block nearly every physical attack and taught you ultima. Combine it with a ribbon and that character was effectively a god. Big payout for some level grinding.
Not to mention the fact the shield is RIDICULOUSLY easy to uncurse by just going to the solitary island where enemies just instantly die before you even get a turn.
@@kalierdarkekd Why even 'grind' to uncurse the shield? Cursed shield + Offering + Safety Bit + heal staff = one hell of an auto medic. Hit them with haste and it makes some of hardest fights way easier.
FF6, the cursed shield was the best equipment in the game. Attach a ribbon to that character and get to fighting. No other equipment comes close to the paladin shield, then it teaches it's wielder the Ultima spell as a bonus. Considering the Ultima spell is the most difficult spell to get in the game (or really any FF game), thats huge.
@ChristophBrinkmann do you remember the cursed ring? Same nonsense, but the payout was a hero ring when you can literally buy them for dirt cheap. I had to stop for a while after figuring that one out.
Definitely one of the best. Deserves to be talked about more but maybe gets overlooked because of its graphics. I loved the story and the characters and its the best post fight music and action. It's amazing. If they really want to re do another one after 7 it should be 6.
Quick correction about Siegfried: he was only Nightmare in Soulcalibur I and II. (and then on VI due to the timeline reboot). In SC III and IV, Nightmare was essentially a sentient Soul Edge controlling a lifeless armour. In SC V, Nightmare was actually Raphael (never stated officially but made clear through plot info & Nightmare's armourless appearance), possessed by the Soul Edge.
@@aaronruf8421 actually Southern Hospitality doesn't have a "hit yourself on miss" effect, just no crits and more fire vulnerability, though if I remember correctly it used to be less damage instead of no crits
The ebony blade in Skyrim is actually really good and you don't have to kill your besties just anyone who trusts you enough to travel with you so you can hire random mercenaries and then kill them
You missed the fact that the true curse of the Ebony Blade is that it can’t be improved by smithing. Meaning that without glitches it’s only going to do about a tenth of the damage as any fully improved weapon.
That was actually a bug caused by the Unofficial patch that was then later fixed by an update to the patch in the base game you are SUPPOSED to be allowed to upgrade it with smithing so yeah
Ac Odyssey: the Falx of Olympos. When you equip it, your damage is up by 100% but your health is capped at 25%. If you so much as stub your toe, you’ll die.
Yeah, I came across that thing by accident and was baffled for a moment why my health did not regenerate. Also maybe not the best moment to square off against a boss.
Nah thats absolutely worth it. That doubles your assassin damage too. So that's the difference between one shotting high level targets and only getting a partial. If you play stealth that plus armor augs can make one wicked build
I equiped it plus increased fire damage. Would do the conquests where I would combo the ignitr weapons move with the stun move which lights up everyone in the vacinity (armor auged for fire and assassin damage plus faux equiped) ares rush straight through the flaming group lighting more people on fire. Then theres to much chaos for you to really take damage if you good at dodging. Faux equiped makes light work of mercenaries when you chain that assassin's damage boost with the hero strike(I rarely ever actually use the faux as a weapon. Mainly attached as secondary to either a heavy hammer auged to convert physical to fire damage or twin blades depending on the situation)
Oh, sentient weapons are the *worst* kind of curse. They're prone to having a will of their own, and leading the poor sap that's dumb enough to hold them on a merry chase across the countryside to do *their* quest, and fuck this "saving the world" bollocks the hero was originally doing.
@@mikato2 except, they're just swords. And they're not allowed to talk or they'll be easily replaced by Cerberus, Beowolf or Nevan. So......yeah, they have no power over themselves any longer.
I'd add Frostmourne to that list which appeared first in Warcraft 3. That runeblade has the ability to drain the life and soul from it's victim just by touching it, including the wielder. It also controls the wielder as long as the sword is close to him/her. Arthas found the weapon with the intention of saving his people from the Undead Scourge with it but instead Arthas' soul was the first that was claimed by the sword and he became undead. And evil. And Lordaeron fell. Yikes. On top of that, you can hear the Lich King through that sword. At least you are never alone I suppose.
Technically the first souls claimed by it when Arthas grabs it are those of his allies who are with him...... namely the Dwarven Hero, whom I loved to death. Dude has an amazing ultimate
@@johnlucas2838 nope, Frostmoure consumes the Dwarf & any nearby allies, if you watch the cutscene and then look at the surrounding area after you have the blade, the Dwarf is dead... i can't remember his name currently though
One really unusual one: In Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, a parody game about video game consoles, one of the endings involves you finding a cursed sword capable of defeating the final boss. The catch? The sword can only be powered up by brutally murdering half of your entire party, including the protagonist of the previous game. You do get a really nice sword to use on a New Game Plus, though.
I like that you brought up the shield in FFVI, but most of the status ailments (sans Doom) can be a non-issue by then as you should have two or three Ribbons at your disposal. It still makes those 256 victories a mindless grind, but at least you can laugh in the face of said curse for the first dozen or so battles before you get bored of it.
The cursed sword from baulders gate was so powerful, but a total pain to use. Caused the party member with it to go in a rage and kill everything in sight until the fighting was over.
Akujiki. The entire plot of PS2 Shinobi, and only weapon you can use, kills you if you don't defeat enemies fast enough. Which gets tough seeing that in the first level, the floor is lava.
@@thereub8166 They didn't took away half of the throws. The B+G throws are moved to 6A+G and you need to break them with the appropriate movement (because some chars like Cassandra even has 4A+G throws).
Fun fact: the bane can't be silenced by turning down the special effects sound. It's tied to the game "music" and even if you turn that down. It's not a guarantee that it's silent.
10:06 As a Psychology major, I would like to point out that Freud was a bit of a looney thinker, even during his time. Psychoanalytic theory itself is kind of a looney practice. So, please people take the humans have a death wish thing with a teeny tiny grain of salt.
The Soul Reaver got smashed over the head of Raziel, caused it to impale himself, bound itself to him in both realms and only released itself after he caused Kain to stab him. That’s a cursed weapon.
And his ultimate fate? Being TRULY consumed by the Reaver, after purifying Kain, so that his former adversary could finally "see the true enemy." Hell of a sacrifice, but then what else did Raz have left, after everything he had gone through?
@@jaredcrabb Unfortunately, Square Enix owns most of LoK, and doesn't see any financial gain in making anything after Nosgoth Online (which went defunct a few years back, anyways, save for fandom-ran servers).
I cannot believe Frostmourne (HUNGERS!) was not mentioned: Pros: Arthas becomes a powerful knight and is able to kill the demon Mal'ganis. Cons: Arthas becomes a powerful *evil* Death Knight, and goes on to make atrocities several times greater than Mal'ganis. Not the best deal ever if you ask me.
@@KozKalanndok So why is Soul Edge in the video then? If anything Frostmourne would be a perfect weapon to have in the video with all the negative things it did to Arthas and the kingdoms in Azeroth
I love the original Warcraft fans.... before WoW ruined the franchise (imo pay-to-play games are insane when you have to buy the game and then pay a subscription to even play the dammed thing)
I never noticed that Agni and Rudra were talking. Their voices sounded similar enough to standard magic whirlwind sounds that I thought that's all it was.
- Agni and Rudra aren't cursed. They're just 'devil arms'; all bosses have weapons for souls (or however that works). - They cannot be combined to form a staff, Dante just holds them awkwardly for style points.
I think they're called devil arms because they are armaments made of demons. Soul sculpting kinda thing. Much easier to do just after you've kicked the heck out that demon.
Agni and Rudra actually being the two swords and not the two bodies wielding them, means that those swords are demons. demons are infernal being. as such, one could quite correctly state that two demons you use as swords/demons in the form of swords, are cursed weapons.
Demon souls are crafted into devil arms. Although in Agni and Rudra's case it came directly from their spines and severed heads. I always figured they were joined at the mouth for the linked attacks
The Bane was always my most favorite weapon. Every time i started a new game, i would bee-line to it whenever i got to the point i unlocked the quest. It was so much fun to use!
What about the entire cursed set of gear in Golden Sun? Had zero stats, couldn't remove any of it, and the one way to make it useable was to find a special ring towards the end of the game.
I'm so glad "The Darkness" franchise is coming to light now, I loved those games growing up, the first was more of a puzzle and the second is based more on combat
Me and my friend play with double sal, he handed me his corrosive bane with my slag and all my friends who watch me stream it on discord fucking hate me while playing it, it’s hilarious though and strong enough to destroy anything that sucks against corrosion, I just can’t move while doing it and at least I can see things unlike my friend who duel wields rocket launchers and can’t see anything through the smoke.
What is truly terrifying about the Ebony Blade is finding out you can make better gear with maxed enchanting after you've already maxed the Ebony Blade
Tales of Symphonia's Devil's Arms: you need to first find all of them throughout the world and then beat the game's hardest boss. After that, they gain one power for every enemy you kill with them, but only the weapon that landed the killing blow.
Those are a mainstay in all Tales games, like the Fel Arms in Tales of Vesperia (and yes you have to kill x number of baddies to get them to full power as well).
@@GayBearBro2 No. By the point you get them, some of your characters have killed tons of enemies, and your main character (usually Lloyd) would just break the game in two with their devil arm (doing over 20K damage with just one Rising Falcon is enough to prove it). Not only that, Raine and Genis's Devil arms buff their magical stats by a lot, making them the best weapons for the siblings even before unlocking their powers.
Phantasia doesn't have cursed arms but there is the Doom Blade. It's the third strongest sword in the game (fourth if you've played the PSX version and managed to get the Swordian Dymlos from Stahn's sister in the Coliseum) next to the Eternal Sword but since almost every enemy/boss has resistance/immunity to darkness, or if you're like me, foolishly equipped the sword in the fight to get Pluto, it might as well be a cursed arm.
What I love most about your channel is that you remember that games existed before 2000 and reference them. Curse of Monkey Island played too big a role shaping my childhood. Thanks for the reference
To be fare, Soul Edge isn’t the only problem. Soul Calibar is just as problematic to hunt down. Not to mention that it’s the reason Nightmare exist independently of Siegfried. And sometimes it turns the heroes to crystal after they defeat Soul Edge! Sophitia had the right idea of destroying both swords, since in her words they’re both a blight on humanity.
Too broad to put on a list feature. They could probably do an interview video where each member talks about their personal favourite video game outfit. That could be fun.
I mean, it's a black suit with a white dress shirt and a red tie. I'm pretty sure that at least half of Congress and 60% of groomsmen have been accidentally cosplaying as Agent 47 for the last 75 years.
Now, to be fair, the Paladin Shield is not just the best shield in the best Final Fantasy game, it is also one of the few ways outside of espers to learn a spell. Said spell being Ultima.
The Lucky Blade in Lufia and The Casey Bat in Earthbound had the same curse: it missed its mark roughly 97% of the time. But the attack boost made you want to believe.
17:26 ~ Jane spittin' some truth that all of us content creators are very aware of. Also, the cursed belt from the very old school original Dragon Warrior game on the NES. Find it, put it on, and it squeezes you literally to death. Absolutely zero positives of equipping it.
Not to be too nitpicky (but totally still nitpicky), but Frostmorne was actually from Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos. It's what turned Arthas from a paladin into a death knight in the first place, long before he became the lich king.
@@Mythlorrr *Thank* you! Everyone forgets that Warcraft used to be a strategy game series first and it really bugs me when people talk about "Thrall/Jaina/Tyrande/Arthas etc from World of Warcraft"! And I'm not even a big Warcraft fan at all, so I wonder why it annoys me so much?
@@Mythlorrr I’m well aware Frostmorne originated from Warcraft 3. I’m a massive Warcraft lore nerd. Shadowmorne and Kingsmorne are from WoW though, so I just said WoW instead of Warcraft. Also Xalatath could fit this list maybe.
Kusanagi is a semi-legendary, semi-real sword that may or may exist (supposedly it still exists and is part of the ceremony to crown a new emperor) and is part of the royal treasures of Japan. According to legend, it was handed down from divine ancestor of the Emperor.
I love Agni and Rudra. Excellent crowd control and they’ll occasionally complement you for doing really cool moves with them (I don’t remember how that happens).
Whenever I find a talking weapon, my first thought is "where is the sound coming from?". Which is usually much harder to ascertain in-game than IRL, like in the case of the cursed squirt gun I found in my basement.
Ok, so I thought you said “Diamond-tit Jason Statham” which was an initially strange mental image but I’ve decided that diamond nippled Jason Statham is a great concept for a future action movie
I still recall the Berserker Sword from Baldur's Gate. It was a two-handed sword +3 (really good), but it had the side effects of 1. It could not be unequipped unless somebody cast Remove Curse on you and 2. In combat, you would enter a berserker state and attack everything on the screen until they were dead or you were dead. The berserk state also made you deal extra damage with each swing. It was not worth it to use despite the nice damage.
Dragon Quest has a plethora of cursed items you can get. Some give kind of good bonuses but with permanent status effect, or are just straight up cruel. Heck they even got a little jingle that plays when you wear them, oh and if you wanna unequip them you gotta visit a priest
@@marhawkman303 I seem to vaguely remember a game like that too. I'm sure that it' not Shining Force though because lifting the curse only unequips the item.
@@marhawkman303 yes, it's the Dragon Quest (Warrior) games. Cursed equipment like the Sword of Destruction, Armor of Hades, Noh Mask, and Unlucky Helmet could not be removed from the character except by a Priest's Uncurse spell, which destroyed the item.
In dark souls there is a ring that give you more spell slots but cuts your hp in half. Not sure if it counts as a curse but I thought it was worth mentioning
@@DGneoseeker1 it's the cursed blade that stole the soul of prince Arthas as he was trying to defeat the undead, binding him to the will of the lich king turning him on his own people he was just fighting so hard to protect and eventually becoming the lick king. Literally one of Warcrafts best storylines. Go play Warcraft 3/ watch Arthas storyline online
I have a bit of an obscure one for you: the dagger with an evil aura around it found in the dungeon in the game Swordbreaker. It mind controls you and makes you commit suicide the instant you pick up the dagger.
Spooky's jump scare mansion: The axe. Okay, it is not cursed per se, but if you kill anything with it you are forced to become a new specimen in the end instead of dying. Again, no thanks.
More specifically, if you kill too many things with axe that isn't the final boss, you get the bad ending. And that includes the cardboard cutout signs that try and jump scare you.
@@shotgunshells2 sorry, but in classic horror movie fashion, I didn't watch the add. Obviously nothing is going to happen later that's gonna make me regret that.
On the Ebony Blade (if you don't have the unofficial patch) just grab a companion you don't particularly like, grab the ritual stone blessing, kill, revive, repeat. Since creatures resurrected using the ritual stone don't disintegrate when re-killed, and retain their relationship to you, you can continue doing this until the blade is fully upgraded. Have fun!
I used it to torture my cousin into doing side missions (he likes to power through games, I’m a completionist, it was the only way I could gain leverage over him)
I'm sure I'm not the only one who isn't bothered by The Bane. I find it comical rather than annoying. 👌👌 That gun is 100% worth it. Also, Agni and Rudra are totally worth it. Then again, I am the guy who listened to the same song on repeat for 4 days straight and I still wasn't sick of hearing it.
Curse you all for forgetting the 'Chicken Knife' from Final Fantasy 5!! The cursed weapon that scales attack power with the number of escapes from battle, becoming the strongest weapon of them all.
That one fits more on a list of 'Curses that are totally worth the downsides', honestly. I mean, who DOESN'T use the chicken knife? It's too damn good, and the side effects are easily worked around.
I think maybe the One-Hit Obliterator would fit into this one, but it would also fit into a list of '7 dangerous weapons in gaming, to both them and you', because it not only kills enemies in one hit, but also keeps you at a constant 1/4 heart. You try to heal and it sucks it right back down too. In a way, that also contributes to the Master Cycle being a '7 items that were questionably worth what we went through to get them', because in order to get it, you have to go through the Obliterator trials, and then other trials, and then fight all the blights again, and then the fifth divine beast and one more fight.
If I remember correctly, in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2, the Soul Reaver also sucked up all the surrounding health when you had it equipped when you try to suck up souls.
Why deal with the painful moral dilemmas of the Ebony Blade when you can just use the Wabbajack? No questionable actions there, just turning people into chickens and cheese. Seperate, unrelated question. *Is it cannibalism if I turn a man into cheese then eat the cheese to heal myself in a fight against his mates.*
@@Santisima_Trinidad I *may* have eaten more than one cheeseperson, so I *might possibly* have tasted another human... But hey I'm still better than a vampire, werewolf or Namira worshipper, right? If it wasn't for people like me we wouldn't know that CheeseNords taste of cheddar and that DairyArgonians taste of stilton, so my 'research' is actually helping to further our understanding of the world!
@@Santisima_Trinidad I think the guards can settle this. While for you they'll mention how you smell of death and a wet dog while simultaneously trying to burn you, for me they'll only notice a mild aroma of parmesan. Nobody could possibly know that the smell was not mere cheese, but actually a notorious Redguard bounty hunter by the name of Derek the Rich and Creamy.
@@Spiracle yes, but consider: the guards call you childish given absolutely zero provocative, and so are we really going to listen to them? I think not. And vampires can turn people into health without needing soul gems and the favourable smile of the wabbajack
There is one thing i like to add about the cursed Kitetsu sword in Ninja Gaiden. When you had the Armlet of Tranquility, which slowly regenerates Ryu's healthbar, equipped, it would negate the life draining effect of Kitetsu. Its not easy to get that armlet, because you had to give Muramasa 40 golden scarabs for it. But its sure worth the effort.
Siegfried's hardly a "clean-cut Teutonic knight" before finding Souledge. While his father was away fighting, he'd taken to ambushing knights returning from the Crusade with his mates for fun and profit, until one day he nicks a victim's helmet to discover IT WAS HIS OWN FATHER! At which point he simply can't deal, and goes, "Oh no, SOMEONE has killed my father! I must dedicate my life to hunting them down and seeking vengeance!" So really, he's the perfect vessel for Souledge to wield.
The Soul Reaver from Legacy of Kain. It's the ultimate weapon that can help you change your fate in a Universe where time and the events in it are set in stone normally. However, if you wield it, you're probably going to get messed up by a convoluted time paradox or TEN at least, maybe, if you're lucky.
For an AD&D game I ran, I had the bad guy have a really cursed weapon. It had some benefits but it was only good if you are getting attacked by a mob of people. One, all your attacks are done at the end of the round... but fortunately all as the same combo-strike and against every single adjacent target. So, if you do three attacks for that round, you do three attacks against each adjacent target. Sounds great? Not quite. Two, you attack every adjacent target... both friend and foe, when you make the attack. All attacks are exactly the same as your first attack's action declaration... so don't make it a beheading attempt or anything like that if you are within reach of friends... or even attack when within reach of them. Three, whenever someone does an attack and they are adjacent to you (no matter who they are attacking), you get an automatic free attack against them. You roll this strike right before they make theirs. If you hit and do damage, not only do you hurt them but their attack automatically misses. Sounds great? It's not, that includes friends adjacent to you attempting to attack someone. Now you are thinking "I can work with this" but wait, there's more. Four, the blade is huge and super-dense, and it magically empowers you to use it and carry it it does so barely, so you always seem to be dragging it around until you swing it in bursts of insane speed and action when it CAN be used. During the time you are carrying it, you weigh 3x your maximum carried weight allowance and are constantly maximumly encumbered in speed. Mechanically, it weighs normal mass for you and allows you to still carry what you can but it does what it does after those calculations. There's a big tree of if-then for that. Its base damage is 5x the damage of the weapon it replicates but that ONLY applies to the base damage (can be cool for Backstab or critical hit if those apply). Side-effect... can be used as a siege weapon akin to a capped and weaponized battering ram. Five, it's a cursed item but only as a willing temptation item, so you CAN be free of the curse but only if you CHOOSE to not carry it for at least a day all the while not needing any weapon in that time. If you need a weapon within 24 hours of leaving it behind, it will teleport to you and be on your person. You need not use it but it's on you. Six, if the weapon is on your person and you are not using it, all of its properties override the weapon(s) you ARE using. That includes cancelling out the initiative-winning aspects of Quickness/Swiftness weapons, speed factor bonuses, the ability to not attack allies, etc. Seven, if you are using a missile weapon while this weapon is on your person, "everyone adjacent" suddenly becomes "anyone within weapons' range". For the sake of your allies, let's hope you run out of ammo fast. If you are using a sling, your ammo is technically infinite (for stones, not sling bullets) so there's that. Eight, it is a coveted weapon, even to those ignorant of its abilities. CHA-based diplomatic efforts in every single way are at -4 and the chances of random hostile encounters are at twice the normal frequency. Even monsters and animals want to grab and run off with the weapon. Nine, it's a Stone-Giant-sized weaponized machete, so it looked like a "normal" weaponized machete (the sword modifications at the handle and below the blade) that the player dragged around that was 3x in every dimension until he seemed to get bursts of action while holding it. Before I was told about the Playstation FF7, I was told about "Cloud's Sword" at the time and bought a PlayStation... Cloud's sword was much smaller and not anything like my cursed weapon. If the one holding it was larger than size M, some of the hindrances were reduced. It was still far more massive (density) than Stone Giant weapons of its size. The if-then tree applies. I designed this weapon as the OP weapon of THE boss enemy, a cursed weapon that makes it clear why he fights alone save for ranged support (archers and spell casters standing far away), and was OP tempting that my players would learn was just not f^cking worth it. You know what every player group that ever got this did? They had fun working around the curse to make one of their guys the OP DPS guy... every single time, every single group. I mean, each group would have done FAR better by not even bringing this weapon but they loved it despite how tactically unsound it always was in all ways.
Dream Blade from "Shining in the Darkness". Strongest and hardest to get weapon in the game, but you can't use it, because your character falls asleep at the start of every battle.
@@Geheimnis-c2e Yeah, but Dark Sabre is at least usable and it's able to cast desoul. Dream Blade on the other hand, renders the character totally useless. Even if you wake him up via a spell, he falls asleep as soon as it's his turn again... Of all Shining games, SitD has the most fkt up cursed items... Dream Blade is just the tip of the iceberg. Demon Staff and Forbidden Box are fun too.
Here's one, Fatal Labyrinth. A Sega Mega Drive/Genesis era rogue-like that has stuff like needing to eat or you starve. If you unknowingly equip a cursed item, you can't unequip it and you immediately start starving. Taught me to only equip new items when I was near food.
One of my favorite cursed weapons in games is Kiel's Morning Star from Baldur’s Gate. An incredibly powerful weapon that can’t be unequipped unless you cast Remove Curse or a similar effect. It gives whoever wields it the berserk status, which makes them attack whoever is closest, but gives them massive stat buffs in return. If you could manage to keep the rest of your party in range combat, your Kiel’s user could tear enemies up.
If a weapon having a voice is all it takes to not make it worth it, you forgot two: From Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn: Lilarcor. Not only does it talk, it is an absolute moron who is constantly yammering at you to "Swing harder swing harder swing harder!" during combat and begging you to please go kill something -- ANYTHING! -- when you are not. From Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark: Enserric the Longsword. Who spits out a one-liner every single time you attack a certain type of enemy. Which, in a game that takes place in the Underdark, means you are going to hear him shouting "I love the taste of elf blood! Oh yes!" once every three seconds.
wait the kusignagi makes no sense, you'd redeem it in like 3 years of just killing one random bad guy every day, that's not horribly cursed, that's a normal dead end job
unless it resets with every new weilder meaning everyone who gets it now has to kill one bad guy a day for 3 years. Doing that consistently a day without rest is going to be tough. Especially depending on how bad they have to be to count. Like does a guy who litters count?
A sword I would probably suggest the Iris Sword from The Witcher 3’s Heart of Stone DLC. The sword is the heaviest sword in the game for one minor thing, and in order to get it you need to choose to save Olgierd from having his soul ripped from his body by Gaunter O’Dimm who you need to challenge. In order to challenge him you must also do an optional objective to speak to a professor who was driven mad by O’Dimm. Gaunter’s challenge is a timed challenge as well and as you keep going Gaunter will keep trying to find ways to tempt you to slow you down. Then at the end of the challenge you basically have to somehow know to use Aard on a fountain. After this you’ve defeated him and given the Iris sword by Olgierd as a thank you. The sword is amazing in combat as with enough hits and then a strong strike it unleashed a powerful red glowing slash. However this cool part of the blade also takes away 15% of your vitality and if you become distracted enough it will eventually kill you as you keep doing that. The Iris blade is also a steel sword and while there are many opportunities to fight human enemies in the game, you of course are a Witcher and most times are fighting monsters and can only fight monsters with silver blades.
17:33 "Even as a UA-camr trapped in the hamster wheel of content creation"
Sounds like Jane could do with a vacation herself.
But a week long vacation will take 7 years off her life. Not worth it.
@@qinaxin7107 7 out of 2000? Then again, 1 out of 104000 isn't a lot either.....
I thought the content came from the video mines.
If she vacations UA-cam is going to shave off a year of her life.
Well, she did mention Bondi Beach, so...
You forgot to mention my favorite part of The Bane: Even if you turn your in-game sound completely off, it still screams at full volume
There's no escaping the curse
well... it's a curse, you can't escape it
Came down to say just that
I never knew this
Some like Tiny Tina. Some don't.
The nice thing about the Ebony Blade is that It's not picky at all. You don't have to kill friends or loved ones like it's advertised, just general allies. Meaning you can simply hire a merc and chop them up right then and there. Better yet, it also has a twisted sense of humor, because you don't even need to kill multiple people. If you have the master level Undead Thrall spell then you can just keep reviving and killing the same person over and over. Combine these facts with any other quest that has an ally die in script, and you can keep the population of Skyrim right where it should be.... (low on civilians, and high in bandits)
Exactly, kinda annoyed these guys didn't know this... its not exactly hidden knowledge on an almost 10 year old game...
@@solidmoon8266 I can understand why they included it. Lore wise, it should be totally fucked up and evil. They're just not accounting for poor game design.
That's even more fucked up than killing loved ones.
But that's fine
@@ReigoVassal Killing one zombie that you barely know repeatedly is more fucked up than murdering several loved ones? The world you live in is a funhouse.
Since any undead Thrall counts as an ally you can just raise a bandit and repeat no need to kill anyone friendly at all. However in concept it's pretty messed up so I'd say still has a place on a list like this.
"You didn't become the dragonborn by being smart". I have never felt so called out by something 100% accurate.
I know right
To be fair, half the acts I commit as Dragonborn I do not condone. It's just that I can't get to all that sweet sweet glitchy content without making stupid decisions
Me as dragon born: I’m not taking this because I’m dumb “”I know exactly what I’m doing””
@@edwinsandra5904 I'm riding this horse straight up this mountain, and there's nothing you can do to stop me (cue Legendary Dragon attack)
this makes me want a dragonborn sitcom full of shenanigans
2:45 The funny part; If you take the camera past the door while talking to her, she’s a feckin dresser
Of course she is
Don't doubt the dresser!!
Were you peaking at a Daedric's drawers?
not any kind of dresser tho. a floating dresser, those are the worrrst less trusty ones.
13:18
Dante: *Literally impaled by multiple scythes*
Mike: "Why doesnt my body look like that?"
"god I wish that was me"
i love that most of these are like 'ohhh you have to do so much murder, this weapon will drive you to become a being of pure moral degeneracy and violence oh nooooo' and the borderlands one is just: annoying lol
It also makes you a sitting duck.
@@bthsr7113 at least it’s powerful tho
There's a LOT of annoying talking weapons in Borderlands, and I particularly like the one that killshames you every kill. :D
They also completely forgot the fact that the only way to stop the noise is to turn down the volume of the appliance itself. In-game volume doesnt affect it at all.
@@ka-mai But the others only occasionally talk as opposed to a constant SHRRIEEEEEEEEK!!!!!
There's actually a way to bypass the Ebony Blade's Curse. Take it along, on quests you know one or more "ally" will betray you, and slay them with it, when the time comes. One example, is the final main Thieves Guild quest. Killing Mercer can count as one of the ten kills, since technically, he was once an ally.
Killing mercer, and basically the whole Civil War arc if you join a faction and then Betray them
I loved to trick Deadra rules with some experience through P&P devils pacts.
I killed the cannibalistic trader in Markath, revived her with the stronges necromancy spell which does not destroy the corpse...and killed her again.
Rinse&repeat until the blade is charged up again.
And no, i dont tend to dark techniques and arts, what gave you that idea.
Are there ten or more "allies" that betray you? I haven't played the game.
If there are, then it sounds like no one is trustworthy here. If there aren't, then you're still gonna have to kill someone decent.
@@wanderlustwarrior It's been a while since I played, so I'm not sure it there are ten people that betray you. Let's see...
1. Mercer Fray
2. Ciciero (I probably spelled his name wrong...but he's the jester guy, with Dark Brotherhood)
3. Accano (Again...probably spelled this name wrong. But he's the end villain in the Wizard School missions.)
4. Leader of Dark Brotherhood (Can recall her name right now.)
5. In one of the crypts, you go in with two explorers, and one betrays both of you, to use you as a sacrifice.
6. There's a guy you help with something, living in the town at the foot of the Throat of the World Mountain. He's then a target for the Dark Brotherhood. If you help him before doing the assassination mission. I could be wrong, but I think this counts too.
These are ones I can think of, off the top of my head...but I bet there's more scenarios like this.
@@wanderlustwarrior There’s also an exploit you can do with it that only requires one person to be betrayed. I usually use a follower you can gain from a specific Daedric quest because she’s a cannibal, she kind of sucks as a follower and she has no importance to the game after you finish the quest. So once you kill her, you need to use the power from the ritual stone to resurrect her, then kill her again. Usually you can only use this power once a day, but with the Aetherial crown you can have multiple stones active at once, and removing it and putting it back on lets you get the stone back and its power right away, allowing you to do all 10 revives/murders in a couple minutes. Just be sure to save between resurrections, as if you kill her with a decapitation (which is a random killing blow you can’t control when it happens), it’ll be impossible to resurrect.
I thought with DMC 3 you would have talked about the item that drains your life bar but gives you infinite Devil Trigger. Agni and Rudra are cuties and they can talk as much as they want!
That one is a key item!
And Dante is awesome in the game!
but they won't talk so yeah
That sounds worth the hassle
These weapons are not
@@derrickshowproductions3010 plant
On the cursed shield from FF6: If you have the patience, in the world of ruin segment, there is an island with an enemy called "Mu" I believe. They have low health and are inflicted by the sap status. Meaning they will die roughly 5 seconds after the battle starts. These make the grind for the paladin shield slightly more bearable.
Peepers!
@@royplatt455
Was it Peepers?
Either way they're pallet swaps so potato potato, I guess.
Literally just slap a Ribbon on the user with the cursed shield and go about your business.
I just waited until I was max level to equip it, made sure I had a ribbon on, then continued grinding Dinosaur Forest until I had lifted the curse on the shield. With the ribbon the only status my character had was Doom, and that's not an issue if you're so overpowered you one hit everything on the screen. Totally worth it for the paladin shield.
One thing that was overlooked with the Paladin Shield was that it ALSO gradually taught you Ultima, one of the strongest spells in Final Fantasy 3/6.
Another thing this video overlooked is that the Paladin Shield is not just "the best shield in the game", it is broken, giving several inmunities and a big boost to defense and evasion.
I actually thought I had the genius idea of equipping a ribbon on anyone with the shield equipped (the GBA version)
and then immediately regret it because I accidentally fired an Inferno spell and killed my Cyan, who's my strongest attacker then. (because I do not want to abuse Quick + Valor Knife Locke for damage multipliers)
Yea... i don't think the writer ever USED the shield... It made you absorb almost all elements, block nearly every physical attack and taught you ultima. Combine it with a ribbon and that character was effectively a god. Big payout for some level grinding.
Not to mention the fact the shield is RIDICULOUSLY easy to uncurse by just going to the solitary island where enemies just instantly die before you even get a turn.
@@kalierdarkekd Why even 'grind' to uncurse the shield? Cursed shield + Offering + Safety Bit + heal staff = one hell of an auto medic. Hit them with haste and it makes some of hardest fights way easier.
FF6, the cursed shield was the best equipment in the game. Attach a ribbon to that character and get to fighting. No other equipment comes close to the paladin shield, then it teaches it's wielder the Ultima spell as a bonus. Considering the Ultima spell is the most difficult spell to get in the game (or really any FF game), thats huge.
So give it to someone whos not Terra. She learns Ultima naturally if I remember correctly.
And why are they showing them fighting in the dinosaur forest while trying to get rid of the curse
Or... just fight a ton of Peepers.
I love FF6, but The Cursed Shield is obnoxious
@ChristophBrinkmann do you remember the cursed ring? Same nonsense, but the payout was a hero ring when you can literally buy them for dirt cheap. I had to stop for a while after figuring that one out.
Dude, the Bane in BL2 is hilarious. I was playing with a buddy, and he tossed me his, so I could dual wield them. Now THAT was some noise.
Honestly had more than a few ideas to use that gun for, one was to annoy people out of your room with it.
How is your hearing doing
@@piercedsiren what?
@Vishal Morningstar
@@rangerleaf1505 hahahahah yes
Agni and Rudra seem tame as a "cursed blade" compared to what you have to do to use Alastor.
Do you mean the sword from 1 (which is actually 2) that impales you but gives your devil trigger flying powers?
@@jaredcrabb Yeah.
I was thinking more of Beowulf
@@selfloathingweekly How comes Beowulf? Kill that tough mf and you're good. Come home with some sweet flashy punching gloves
As a veteran Devil May Cry fan, I can definitely agree to this statement 👌
I'll never forget the day I accidentally suplexed a ghost train.
"Accidentally"
Best FF game ever however
Definitely one of the best. Deserves to be talked about more but maybe gets overlooked because of its graphics. I loved the story and the characters and its the best post fight music and action. It's amazing. If they really want to re do another one after 7 it should be 6.
But to the Ghost Train, it was a Tuesday.
@@neiltiffany4740
A man of taste l see. 🍻🥂🍻
Quick correction about Siegfried: he was only Nightmare in Soulcalibur I and II. (and then on VI due to the timeline reboot).
In SC III and IV, Nightmare was essentially a sentient Soul Edge controlling a lifeless armour. In SC V, Nightmare was actually Raphael (never stated officially but made clear through plot info & Nightmare's armourless appearance), possessed by the Soul Edge.
The Devil Axe from Fire Emblem
You have a % chance to HIT YOURSELF with it
Watching enemies accidentally kill themselves with Devil Axes is all fun and games until it eventually happens to your units.
The walls now have a >0 K/D ratio because of that thing.
The Boston Basher, southern hospitality and Gerald's sword in TF2 will automatically hit you when you miss a swing
@@aaronruf8421 actually Southern Hospitality doesn't have a "hit yourself on miss" effect, just no crits and more fire vulnerability, though if I remember correctly it used to be less damage instead of no crits
I was thinking the same lol.
My favorite thing about the Bane is that even if you mute the game volume you still hear the screaming. It literally ignores the in-game volume
The ebony blade in Skyrim is actually really good and you don't have to kill your besties just anyone who trusts you enough to travel with you so you can hire random mercenaries and then kill them
Then cheese the ritual stone to kill them repeatedly.... If You double cross Madanach it works.... NOBODY Will miss him, not Even the Forsworn :)
Loophole abuse for the win!
I kept killing and reviving amaund motierre. Easy way to level it up and keep the promise to the emperor
And if you want all of the Dark Brotherhood members count towards powering it up
@@michaelblack3481 why would You kill your family? The questline is better than destroying in my opinion
You missed the fact that the true curse of the Ebony Blade is that it can’t be improved by smithing. Meaning that without glitches it’s only going to do about a tenth of the damage as any fully improved weapon.
Or you can just play on a difficulty lower than Legendary and avoid using the boring and broken ass crafting mechanics in the game.
That was actually a bug caused by the Unofficial patch that was then later fixed by an update to the patch in the base game you are SUPPOSED to be allowed to upgrade it with smithing so yeah
Ac Odyssey: the Falx of Olympos. When you equip it, your damage is up by 100% but your health is capped at 25%. If you so much as stub your toe, you’ll die.
Yeah, I came across that thing by accident and was baffled for a moment why my health did not regenerate. Also maybe not the best moment to square off against a boss.
Nah thats absolutely worth it. That doubles your assassin damage too. So that's the difference between one shotting high level targets and only getting a partial. If you play stealth that plus armor augs can make one wicked build
I equiped it plus increased fire damage. Would do the conquests where I would combo the ignitr weapons move with the stun move which lights up everyone in the vacinity (armor auged for fire and assassin damage plus faux equiped) ares rush straight through the flaming group lighting more people on fire. Then theres to much chaos for you to really take damage if you good at dodging. Faux equiped makes light work of mercenaries when you chain that assassin's damage boost with the hero strike(I rarely ever actually use the faux as a weapon. Mainly attached as secondary to either a heavy hammer auged to convert physical to fire damage or twin blades depending on the situation)
@@audacious3198 that’s too big brain for me honestly
I thought the Falx was worth it. I mean yeah you lose alot of health but better that than losing mobility
I wouldn't count Agni and Ruda as cursed... they're just sentient swords
Oh, sentient weapons are the *worst* kind of curse. They're prone to having a will of their own, and leading the poor sap that's dumb enough to hold them on a merry chase across the countryside to do *their* quest, and fuck this "saving the world" bollocks the hero was originally doing.
@@mikato2 Or Dante getting revenge for his pizza:D
@@mikato2 except, they're just swords. And they're not allowed to talk or they'll be easily replaced by Cerberus, Beowolf or Nevan. So......yeah, they have no power over themselves any longer.
@@mikato2 like Cutter from the R.A. Salvatore novels.
What about 7 cursed weapons totally worth it? Like Megaman ZX with the Model O form.
I’d like to see this
I'd also recommend the finished gun from enter the gungeon
@@dr.eggman8942 what makes that gun cursed?
The cassy from enter the gungion how is a C TIER weapon when it almost one shoots all normal enymiss?
@@Genesis23OPB same with soul edge
I'd add Frostmourne to that list which appeared first in Warcraft 3.
That runeblade has the ability to drain the life and soul from it's victim just by touching it, including the wielder. It also controls the wielder as long as the sword is close to him/her. Arthas found the weapon with the intention of saving his people from the Undead Scourge with it but instead Arthas' soul was the first that was claimed by the sword and he became undead. And evil. And Lordaeron fell. Yikes.
On top of that, you can hear the Lich King through that sword. At least you are never alone I suppose.
I'm honestly surprised it didn't make it into this list, given the catastrophic chain of events that get set in motion simply from wielding it.
Technically the first souls claimed by it when Arthas grabs it are those of his allies who are with him...... namely the Dwarven Hero, whom I loved to death. Dude has an amazing ultimate
@@danikirk5774 I don't think he died, didn't he have amnesia?
@@johnlucas2838 nope, Frostmoure consumes the Dwarf & any nearby allies, if you watch the cutscene and then look at the surrounding area after you have the blade, the Dwarf is dead... i can't remember his name currently though
@@danikirk5774 he returns in world of warcraft and turns out he only had amnesia
I never noticed that Agni and Rudra talk during combos. The only noise I remember them making was when dante flails them about in a slashing rush.
One really unusual one: In Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, a parody game about video game consoles, one of the endings involves you finding a cursed sword capable of defeating the final boss. The catch? The sword can only be powered up by brutally murdering half of your entire party, including the protagonist of the previous game. You do get a really nice sword to use on a New Game Plus, though.
That must be the conquest ending Ive heard about.
I like that you brought up the shield in FFVI, but most of the status ailments (sans Doom) can be a non-issue by then as you should have two or three Ribbons at your disposal. It still makes those 256 victories a mindless grind, but at least you can laugh in the face of said curse for the first dozen or so battles before you get bored of it.
The cursed sword from baulders gate was so powerful, but a total pain to use. Caused the party member with it to go in a rage and kill everything in sight until the fighting was over.
Akujiki. The entire plot of PS2 Shinobi, and only weapon you can use, kills you if you don't defeat enemies fast enough. Which gets tough seeing that in the first level, the floor is lava.
And people talk about dark souls being hard
*sees a Soul Calibur entry*
*Soul Calibur fandom rises from the shadows*
Almost forgot we exist
Idk what that 1-button counter bullshit they put in the latest game was about. & they took away half of the throws (no more B+G throws).
@@thereub8166 They didn't took away half of the throws. The B+G throws are moved to 6A+G and you need to break them with the appropriate movement (because some chars like Cassandra even has 4A+G throws).
Blood, darkness, i will resurrect from both😅 Soulcalibur fans rise!!
I miss the star wars characters from soul caliber
Me: (sees Borderlands 2 in the spoiler list) Cool. Must be going to talk about... (grim realization) oh, shit... (cranks volume down to 1%)
They should have chosen "The Crit" its an awesome gun but can fall out of your hands when you reload.
Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty DLC has some cursed items
Mike talking about cursed weapons?
"Here, have this cursed mace."
"Cool, thanks!" BONK.
That one thing from the LoZ: BotW DLC that kills any enemy in one hit but allow reduces you to one heart fragment.
Great shout.
The one-hit obliterator? That part of the DLC was...trying 😅
It's not a permanent weapon though. Just an instrument to complete the test.
@@ananth.a well most of the weapons mentioned you don't have to even use them
@@bern9642 are you agreeing with me that obliterator isn't worthy of mention in the list?
Fun fact: the bane can't be silenced by turning down the special effects sound. It's tied to the game "music" and even if you turn that down. It's not a guarantee that it's silent.
10:06 As a Psychology major, I would like to point out that Freud was a bit of a looney thinker, even during his time. Psychoanalytic theory itself is kind of a looney practice. So, please people take the humans have a death wish thing with a teeny tiny grain of salt.
Still thinking about the time Andy won super mario party through pure skill alone
The Soul Reaver got smashed over the head of Raziel, caused it to impale himself, bound itself to him in both realms and only released itself after he caused Kain to stab him. That’s a cursed weapon.
And now the obligatory demand for an hd remake commences.
And his ultimate fate? Being TRULY consumed by the Reaver, after purifying Kain, so that his former adversary could finally "see the true enemy."
Hell of a sacrifice, but then what else did Raz have left, after everything he had gone through?
@@cooltrainervaultboy-39 Sequel first. That ended on a bit of a cliffhanger.
@@jaredcrabb Unfortunately, Square Enix owns most of LoK, and doesn't see any financial gain in making anything after Nosgoth Online (which went defunct a few years back, anyways, save for fandom-ran servers).
That's one of my favorite series!
I cannot believe Frostmourne (HUNGERS!) was not mentioned: Pros: Arthas becomes a powerful knight and is able to kill the demon Mal'ganis. Cons: Arthas becomes a powerful *evil* Death Knight, and goes on to make atrocities several times greater than Mal'ganis. Not the best deal ever if you ask me.
Might be because it's a mandatory plot element instead of a weapon you can decide to pick.
@@KozKalanndok So why is Soul Edge in the video then? If anything Frostmourne would be a perfect weapon to have in the video with all the negative things it did to Arthas and the kingdoms in Azeroth
I know, right?
I love the original Warcraft fans.... before WoW ruined the franchise (imo pay-to-play games are insane when you have to buy the game and then pay a subscription to even play the dammed thing)
It does make a certain amount of sense that a game with continued expenses would also look for a model with continued revenue @@danikirk5774
"Secret Best" is by far the most effective way to describe FF6, lol.
12 is also great, by my understanding of maths, Final Fantasy 18 should also be amazing! 🤩 Whenever it comes out, PS6 or PS7?
@@ernieodell4058 Given Sony moved their headquarters out of Japan... I wouldn't be surprised if it's on PC.
I never noticed that Agni and Rudra were talking. Their voices sounded similar enough to standard magic whirlwind sounds that I thought that's all it was.
I thought they were entertaining. They were having so much fun!
They're totally worth having them plus having those two as tour guides would have been helpful tbh
Balrog also speaks in relation to the Ignition ability and is the default Style anouncer of dmc5
- Agni and Rudra aren't cursed. They're just 'devil arms'; all bosses have weapons for souls (or however that works).
- They cannot be combined to form a staff, Dante just holds them awkwardly for style points.
I think they're called devil arms because they are armaments made of demons. Soul sculpting kinda thing.
Much easier to do just after you've kicked the heck out that demon.
@@SymbioteMullet probably because you showed the demon that if you're powerful enough to beat it, you could probably kill it too.
Agni and Rudra actually being the two swords and not the two bodies wielding them, means that those swords are demons. demons are infernal being. as such, one could quite correctly state that two demons you use as swords/demons in the form of swords, are cursed weapons.
Demon souls are crafted into devil arms. Although in Agni and Rudra's case it came directly from their spines and severed heads.
I always figured they were joined at the mouth for the linked attacks
agni and rudra ARE the swords
The Bane was always my most favorite weapon. Every time i started a new game, i would bee-line to it whenever i got to the point i unlocked the quest. It was so much fun to use!
What about the entire cursed set of gear in Golden Sun? Had zero stats, couldn't remove any of it, and the one way to make it useable was to find a special ring towards the end of the game.
I'm so glad "The Darkness" franchise is coming to light now, I loved those games growing up, the first was more of a puzzle and the second is based more on combat
Imagine Salvador dual wielding Banes- twice the screaming with the speed of an arthritic turtle
Dual banes is surprisingly good.....as long as you dont plan on moving much
Never tried that. Does it multiply... everything? The movement neuter, the noise?
4 Salvador's with double Banes
Me and my friend play with double sal, he handed me his corrosive bane with my slag and all my friends who watch me stream it on discord fucking hate me while playing it, it’s hilarious though and strong enough to destroy anything that sucks against corrosion, I just can’t move while doing it and at least I can see things unlike my friend who duel wields rocket launchers and can’t see anything through the smoke.
Ah yes, Banezerking
What is truly terrifying about the Ebony Blade is finding out you can make better gear with maxed enchanting after you've already maxed the Ebony Blade
Eh the 30 health drain with infinite charges is still amazing at that point
Tales of Symphonia's Devil's Arms: you need to first find all of them throughout the world and then beat the game's hardest boss. After that, they gain one power for every enemy you kill with them, but only the weapon that landed the killing blow.
Those are a mainstay in all Tales games, like the Fel Arms in Tales of Vesperia (and yes you have to kill x number of baddies to get them to full power as well).
@@deathbykonami5487 So the point stands that they should be on a list?
@@GayBearBro2 yes
@@GayBearBro2 No. By the point you get them, some of your characters have killed tons of enemies, and your main character (usually Lloyd) would just break the game in two with their devil arm (doing over 20K damage with just one Rising Falcon is enough to prove it). Not only that, Raine and Genis's Devil arms buff their magical stats by a lot, making them the best weapons for the siblings even before unlocking their powers.
Phantasia doesn't have cursed arms but there is the Doom Blade.
It's the third strongest sword in the game (fourth if you've played the PSX version and managed to get the Swordian Dymlos from Stahn's sister in the Coliseum) next to the Eternal Sword but since almost every enemy/boss has resistance/immunity to darkness, or if you're like me, foolishly equipped the sword in the fight to get Pluto, it might as well be a cursed arm.
What I love most about your channel is that you remember that games existed before 2000 and reference them. Curse of Monkey Island played too big a role shaping my childhood. Thanks for the reference
Somewhat surprising that the sword from Minit didn't make the cut for this list. One of my favorite video game curses ever
What's "Minit"?
@@michaelandreipalon359 2d game like Link's Awakening where you only have a minute to beat the game
Yeah! Great game!!! I should replay it soon.
@@yenkocamaro6965 Yikes.
Neat, what was the curse?
To be fare, Soul Edge isn’t the only problem. Soul Calibar is just as problematic to hunt down. Not to mention that it’s the reason Nightmare exist independently of Siegfried. And sometimes it turns the heroes to crystal after they defeat Soul Edge! Sophitia had the right idea of destroying both swords, since in her words they’re both a blight on humanity.
I remember playing DMC3 as a kid, that pair of swords was my favourite weapon
I never noticed Agni and Rudra talking during combat, and I used them a lot. Guess there was too much chaos around me to pay attention to that lmao
You should do another video covering the most iconic outfits in video games - with 47s signsture suit being one of them
Too broad to put on a list feature.
They could probably do an interview video where each member talks about their personal favourite video game outfit. That could be fun.
Gordon Freeman's HEV suit
I mean, it's a black suit with a white dress shirt and a red tie. I'm pretty sure that at least half of Congress and 60% of groomsmen have been accidentally cosplaying as Agent 47 for the last 75 years.
This is a good list idea, which will absolutely spawn a commenter's edition or three.
@@lnsflare1 He does have a very specific suit, but yes, 47 himself is more iconic than the suit he wears.
Now, to be fair, the Paladin Shield is not just the best shield in the best Final Fantasy game, it is also one of the few ways outside of espers to learn a spell. Said spell being Ultima.
Luke's parenting leave has made me appreciate even more that Mike's back! Love his mug!
Oh, is that why Mike took his place in the last OxTra video? That's a good reason.
The Lucky Blade in Lufia and The Casey Bat in Earthbound had the same curse: it missed its mark roughly 97% of the time. But the attack boost made you want to believe.
17:26 ~ Jane spittin' some truth that all of us content creators are very aware of.
Also, the cursed belt from the very old school original Dragon Warrior game on the NES. Find it, put it on, and it squeezes you literally to death. Absolutely zero positives of equipping it.
Frostmorne/Shadowmorne/Kingsmorne from World of Warcraft. Cursed swords can’t get more iconic than Frostmorne.
Not to be too nitpicky (but totally still nitpicky), but Frostmorne was actually from Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos. It's what turned Arthas from a paladin into a death knight in the first place, long before he became the lich king.
@@Mythlorrr *Thank* you! Everyone forgets that Warcraft used to be a strategy game series first and it really bugs me when people talk about "Thrall/Jaina/Tyrande/Arthas etc from World of Warcraft"!
And I'm not even a big Warcraft fan at all, so I wonder why it annoys me so much?
@@Mythlorrr I’m well aware Frostmorne originated from Warcraft 3. I’m a massive Warcraft lore nerd. Shadowmorne and Kingsmorne are from WoW though, so I just said WoW instead of Warcraft. Also Xalatath could fit this list maybe.
Kusanagi is a semi-legendary, semi-real sword that may or may exist (supposedly it still exists and is part of the ceremony to crown a new emperor) and is part of the royal treasures of Japan. According to legend, it was handed down from divine ancestor of the Emperor.
I love Agni and Rudra. Excellent crowd control and they’ll occasionally complement you for doing really cool moves with them (I don’t remember how that happens).
Whenever I find a talking weapon, my first thought is "where is the sound coming from?". Which is usually much harder to ascertain in-game than IRL, like in the case of the cursed squirt gun I found in my basement.
@Back from the Deadpool You don't want to know what he does if you fill it with tequila.
Ok, so I thought you said “Diamond-tit Jason Statham” which was an initially strange mental image but I’ve decided that diamond nippled Jason Statham is a great concept for a future action movie
That Red Lyrium weapon from Dragon Age 2 seems like it would fit this list pretty well.
I still recall the Berserker Sword from Baldur's Gate. It was a two-handed sword +3 (really good), but it had the side effects of 1. It could not be unequipped unless somebody cast Remove Curse on you and 2. In combat, you would enter a berserker state and attack everything on the screen until they were dead or you were dead. The berserk state also made you deal extra damage with each swing. It was not worth it to use despite the nice damage.
Dragon Quest has a plethora of cursed items you can get. Some give kind of good bonuses but with permanent status effect, or are just straight up cruel. Heck they even got a little jingle that plays when you wear them, oh and if you wanna unequip them you gotta visit a priest
Does that destroy them? for some reason I was remembering a game where the process of removing cursed gear actually destroyed the gear.
@@marhawkman303 I seem to vaguely remember a game like that too. I'm sure that it' not Shining Force though because lifting the curse only unequips the item.
@@Geheimnis-c2e I'm not sure but I think maybe one of the FF or DQ games.. I think one example was a cursed helmet called "Noh Mask"?
@@marhawkman303 yes, it's the Dragon Quest (Warrior) games. Cursed equipment like the Sword of Destruction, Armor of Hades, Noh Mask, and Unlucky Helmet could not be removed from the character except by a Priest's Uncurse spell, which destroyed the item.
In dark souls there is a ring that give you more spell slots but cuts your hp in half. Not sure if it counts as a curse but I thought it was worth mentioning
For me it's always aust have
Xal’Atath comes to mind seeing as it’s a sentient claw of an old god whispering madness into your ears
I thought of that too, or Frostmourne. Doesn't really work out super well for Arthas
@@somethingnotreal4674 yeah I was kinda expecting frostmourne to be in this list when I saw the title.
Well that name seems oddly familiar.
WOW has Xal'Atath.
Eternal Darkness has Xel'lotath.
@@DGneoseeker1 it's the cursed blade that stole the soul of prince Arthas as he was trying to defeat the undead, binding him to the will of the lich king turning him on his own people he was just fighting so hard to protect and eventually becoming the lick king.
Literally one of Warcrafts best storylines. Go play Warcraft 3/ watch Arthas storyline online
@@TheLiveactiongamer Is this some kind of metahumour joke? Frostmourne is what did that, not Xal'Atath.
I have a bit of an obscure one for you: the dagger with an evil aura around it found in the dungeon in the game Swordbreaker. It mind controls you and makes you commit suicide the instant you pick up the dagger.
You can't eat all the birthday cake yourself.
Oh oxbox how you underestimate me
The Bane gun from Borderlands 2 actually cracks me up every time I hear it.
Spooky's jump scare mansion: The axe. Okay, it is not cursed per se, but if you kill anything with it you are forced to become a new specimen in the end instead of dying. Again, no thanks.
More specifically, if you kill too many things with axe that isn't the final boss, you get the bad ending. And that includes the cardboard cutout signs that try and jump scare you.
The Darkness games were really fun to me. I recently played through both of them.
The add UA-cam put before this video was literally "how to remove a curse". That was weird.
Don't stop there, tell us how to remove a curse!
@@shotgunshells2 sorry, but in classic horror movie fashion, I didn't watch the add. Obviously nothing is going to happen later that's gonna make me regret that.
On the Ebony Blade (if you don't have the unofficial patch) just grab a companion you don't particularly like, grab the ritual stone blessing, kill, revive, repeat. Since creatures resurrected using the ritual stone don't disintegrate when re-killed, and retain their relationship to you, you can continue doing this until the blade is fully upgraded. Have fun!
I feel like Malphala would appreciate this, actually, since they are all about deceptions and subversions.
I loved The Bane. Honestly if it didn't slow you, I would use it for fun.
Masochistic.
I used it for quite a while because A) it's powerful and B) I was playing in multiplayer and it drove my friend crazy
@@Muttson And we found a sadist too.
Imagine a Teddiore Bane, "here I go" BOOM, or "BANZAI" Boom, or "your mama so fat I don't have enough bullets" BOOM
I used it to torture my cousin into doing side missions (he likes to power through games, I’m a completionist, it was the only way I could gain leverage over him)
I'm sure I'm not the only one who isn't bothered by The Bane. I find it comical rather than annoying. 👌👌 That gun is 100% worth it. Also, Agni and Rudra are totally worth it. Then again, I am the guy who listened to the same song on repeat for 4 days straight and I still wasn't sick of hearing it.
Curse you all for forgetting the 'Chicken Knife' from Final Fantasy 5!! The cursed weapon that scales attack power with the number of escapes from battle, becoming the strongest weapon of them all.
That one fits more on a list of 'Curses that are totally worth the downsides', honestly. I mean, who DOESN'T use the chicken knife? It's too damn good, and the side effects are easily worked around.
Ah, then you can take up the title Sir. Robin the Brave.
@@insaincaldo I feel like there's a reference here that I'm missing
@@caiusballad8544 Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
@@insaincaldo Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
I think maybe the One-Hit Obliterator would fit into this one, but it would also fit into a list of '7 dangerous weapons in gaming, to both them and you', because it not only kills enemies in one hit, but also keeps you at a constant 1/4 heart. You try to heal and it sucks it right back down too.
In a way, that also contributes to the Master Cycle being a '7 items that were questionably worth what we went through to get them', because in order to get it, you have to go through the Obliterator trials, and then other trials, and then fight all the blights again, and then the fifth divine beast and one more fight.
If I remember correctly, in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2, the Soul Reaver also sucked up all the surrounding health when you had it equipped when you try to suck up souls.
Why deal with the painful moral dilemmas of the Ebony Blade when you can just use the Wabbajack? No questionable actions there, just turning people into chickens and cheese.
Seperate, unrelated question. *Is it cannibalism if I turn a man into cheese then eat the cheese to heal myself in a fight against his mates.*
Depends. Are both you and he of the same species? It yes, then yes. If no, then no. If wood elf, then it doesn't matter.
@@Santisima_Trinidad I *may* have eaten more than one cheeseperson, so I *might possibly* have tasted another human... But hey I'm still better than a vampire, werewolf or Namira worshipper, right? If it wasn't for people like me we wouldn't know that CheeseNords taste of cheddar and that DairyArgonians taste of stilton, so my 'research' is actually helping to further our understanding of the world!
@@Spiracle As am ex-werewolf vampire follower of Namira (don't ask), I disagree, you are very much worse.
@@Santisima_Trinidad I think the guards can settle this. While for you they'll mention how you smell of death and a wet dog while simultaneously trying to burn you, for me they'll only notice a mild aroma of parmesan.
Nobody could possibly know that the smell was not mere cheese, but actually a notorious Redguard bounty hunter by the name of Derek the Rich and Creamy.
@@Spiracle yes, but consider: the guards call you childish given absolutely zero provocative, and so are we really going to listen to them? I think not. And vampires can turn people into health without needing soul gems and the favourable smile of the wabbajack
There is one thing i like to add about the cursed Kitetsu sword in Ninja Gaiden. When you had the Armlet of Tranquility, which slowly regenerates Ryu's healthbar, equipped, it would negate the life draining effect of Kitetsu. Its not easy to get that armlet, because you had to give Muramasa 40 golden scarabs for it. But its sure worth the effort.
"Darth Vader singing soprano"... 😂🤣😂🤣
Isn't he on baritone?
Siegfried's hardly a "clean-cut Teutonic knight" before finding Souledge. While his father was away fighting, he'd taken to ambushing knights returning from the Crusade with his mates for fun and profit, until one day he nicks a victim's helmet to discover IT WAS HIS OWN FATHER! At which point he simply can't deal, and goes, "Oh no, SOMEONE has killed my father! I must dedicate my life to hunting them down and seeking vengeance!" So really, he's the perfect vessel for Souledge to wield.
Not sure how many times i have seen Bane mentioned in these list videos but i'm here for them, LOVED that gun in BF2
Love the slow pan around to look at Lydia while Mephala explains how to upgrade the Ebony Blade
I am sworn to carry your burdens.
The hilarious thing to do in Borderlands 2, equip both Bane, and the Tortoise shield XD.
Fabled Tortoise
@@jayveedon And with both on, you run SUPER MEGA slow XD XD
The Soul Reaver from Legacy of Kain.
It's the ultimate weapon that can help you change your fate in a Universe where time and the events in it are set in stone normally. However, if you wield it, you're probably going to get messed up by a convoluted time paradox or TEN at least, maybe, if you're lucky.
Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild DLC: One Hit Obliterator-
Destroys everything but you die if you’re hit once.
But it's not really a curse since it's supposed to test your skills as the Hero.
Yeah but you can’t unequip it or use defense or health boosts to stop the effects.
For an AD&D game I ran, I had the bad guy have a really cursed weapon. It had some benefits but it was only good if you are getting attacked by a mob of people. One, all your attacks are done at the end of the round... but fortunately all as the same combo-strike and against every single adjacent target. So, if you do three attacks for that round, you do three attacks against each adjacent target. Sounds great? Not quite. Two, you attack every adjacent target... both friend and foe, when you make the attack. All attacks are exactly the same as your first attack's action declaration... so don't make it a beheading attempt or anything like that if you are within reach of friends... or even attack when within reach of them. Three, whenever someone does an attack and they are adjacent to you (no matter who they are attacking), you get an automatic free attack against them. You roll this strike right before they make theirs. If you hit and do damage, not only do you hurt them but their attack automatically misses. Sounds great? It's not, that includes friends adjacent to you attempting to attack someone. Now you are thinking "I can work with this" but wait, there's more. Four, the blade is huge and super-dense, and it magically empowers you to use it and carry it it does so barely, so you always seem to be dragging it around until you swing it in bursts of insane speed and action when it CAN be used. During the time you are carrying it, you weigh 3x your maximum carried weight allowance and are constantly maximumly encumbered in speed. Mechanically, it weighs normal mass for you and allows you to still carry what you can but it does what it does after those calculations. There's a big tree of if-then for that. Its base damage is 5x the damage of the weapon it replicates but that ONLY applies to the base damage (can be cool for Backstab or critical hit if those apply). Side-effect... can be used as a siege weapon akin to a capped and weaponized battering ram. Five, it's a cursed item but only as a willing temptation item, so you CAN be free of the curse but only if you CHOOSE to not carry it for at least a day all the while not needing any weapon in that time. If you need a weapon within 24 hours of leaving it behind, it will teleport to you and be on your person. You need not use it but it's on you. Six, if the weapon is on your person and you are not using it, all of its properties override the weapon(s) you ARE using. That includes cancelling out the initiative-winning aspects of Quickness/Swiftness weapons, speed factor bonuses, the ability to not attack allies, etc. Seven, if you are using a missile weapon while this weapon is on your person, "everyone adjacent" suddenly becomes "anyone within weapons' range". For the sake of your allies, let's hope you run out of ammo fast. If you are using a sling, your ammo is technically infinite (for stones, not sling bullets) so there's that. Eight, it is a coveted weapon, even to those ignorant of its abilities. CHA-based diplomatic efforts in every single way are at -4 and the chances of random hostile encounters are at twice the normal frequency. Even monsters and animals want to grab and run off with the weapon. Nine, it's a Stone-Giant-sized weaponized machete, so it looked like a "normal" weaponized machete (the sword modifications at the handle and below the blade) that the player dragged around that was 3x in every dimension until he seemed to get bursts of action while holding it. Before I was told about the Playstation FF7, I was told about "Cloud's Sword" at the time and bought a PlayStation... Cloud's sword was much smaller and not anything like my cursed weapon. If the one holding it was larger than size M, some of the hindrances were reduced. It was still far more massive (density) than Stone Giant weapons of its size. The if-then tree applies.
I designed this weapon as the OP weapon of THE boss enemy, a cursed weapon that makes it clear why he fights alone save for ranged support (archers and spell casters standing far away), and was OP tempting that my players would learn was just not f^cking worth it. You know what every player group that ever got this did? They had fun working around the curse to make one of their guys the OP DPS guy... every single time, every single group. I mean, each group would have done FAR better by not even bringing this weapon but they loved it despite how tactically unsound it always was in all ways.
Dream Blade from "Shining in the Darkness". Strongest and hardest to get weapon in the game, but you can't use it, because your character falls asleep at the start of every battle.
Cursed with narcolepsy, great.
also Dark Saber from Shining Force.
idk what the curse does but it's cursed.
@@Geheimnis-c2e Yeah, but Dark Sabre is at least usable and it's able to cast desoul. Dream Blade on the other hand, renders the character totally useless. Even if you wake him up via a spell, he falls asleep as soon as it's his turn again... Of all Shining games, SitD has the most fkt up cursed items... Dream Blade is just the tip of the iceberg. Demon Staff and Forbidden Box are fun too.
@@vermilion7777 What do they do?
Here's one, Fatal Labyrinth. A Sega Mega Drive/Genesis era rogue-like that has stuff like needing to eat or you starve. If you unknowingly equip a cursed item, you can't unequip it and you immediately start starving. Taught me to only equip new items when I was near food.
I’ve got a fever, and the only medicine, is more Andy talking over the spoiler screen.
One of my favorite cursed weapons in games is Kiel's Morning Star from Baldur’s Gate. An incredibly powerful weapon that can’t be unequipped unless you cast Remove Curse or a similar effect. It gives whoever wields it the berserk status, which makes them attack whoever is closest, but gives them massive stat buffs in return. If you could manage to keep the rest of your party in range combat, your Kiel’s user could tear enemies up.
Timestamps
1:06 1) Ebony Blade - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
5:34 2) Cursed Shield - Final Fantasy VI
7:40 3) Soul Edge - Soulcalibur
9:52 4) Bane - Borderlands 2
12:36 5) Agni and Rudra - Devil May Cry 3
15:14 6) Kusanagi - The Darkness II: Vendettas
17:44 7) Kitetsu - Ninja Gaiden
If a weapon having a voice is all it takes to not make it worth it, you forgot two:
From Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn: Lilarcor. Not only does it talk, it is an absolute moron who is constantly yammering at you to "Swing harder swing harder swing harder!" during combat and begging you to please go kill something -- ANYTHING! -- when you are not.
From Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark: Enserric the Longsword. Who spits out a one-liner every single time you attack a certain type of enemy. Which, in a game that takes place in the Underdark, means you are going to hear him shouting "I love the taste of elf blood! Oh yes!" once every three seconds.
wait the kusignagi makes no sense, you'd redeem it in like 3 years of just killing one random bad guy every day, that's not horribly cursed, that's a normal dead end job
unless it resets with every new weilder meaning everyone who gets it now has to kill one bad guy a day for 3 years. Doing that consistently a day without rest is going to be tough. Especially depending on how bad they have to be to count.
Like does a guy who litters count?
I think The Curse of Binding deserves a mention.
Playing in Hardcore Mode with Curse of Binding effectively means you can NEVER remove that item.
The bane's curse has to be the most borderlands curse I've ever seen.
I thought that was just a sound fx that agni and rudra made. Did know they were actually talking. Still one of my favourite weapons in dmc
This entire video could’ve just been about the Soul Calibre games.
Is that including bonus weapons?
@@IamaPERSON ok two video then lol
@@psychogoreman198 lol
A sword I would probably suggest the Iris Sword from The Witcher 3’s Heart of Stone DLC. The sword is the heaviest sword in the game for one minor thing, and in order to get it you need to choose to save Olgierd from having his soul ripped from his body by Gaunter O’Dimm who you need to challenge. In order to challenge him you must also do an optional objective to speak to a professor who was driven mad by O’Dimm. Gaunter’s challenge is a timed challenge as well and as you keep going Gaunter will keep trying to find ways to tempt you to slow you down. Then at the end of the challenge you basically have to somehow know to use Aard on a fountain. After this you’ve defeated him and given the Iris sword by Olgierd as a thank you. The sword is amazing in combat as with enough hits and then a strong strike it unleashed a powerful red glowing slash. However this cool part of the blade also takes away 15% of your vitality and if you become distracted enough it will eventually kill you as you keep doing that. The Iris blade is also a steel sword and while there are many opportunities to fight human enemies in the game, you of course are a Witcher and most times are fighting monsters and can only fight monsters with silver blades.