10 Video Game Weapons With Hidden Potential EVERYONE Missed

10. Shotgun - Resident Evil 4

The base shotgun you find at the beginning of Resident Evil 4 is a useful weapon early on, but it gets easily outclassed by most of the guns you get access to later in the game. It doesn't have the same stagger effect that other shotguns get, and its poor range fails in comparison to the riot gun.

Because of this, most players tend to replace the base shotgun with a better model as soon as they get a chance.

If for some reason you do decide to keep the shotgun, however, you might be shocked to learn that its final upgrade makes it supremely powerful. The game doesn't explain this well, stating that the upgrade "significantly increases the destructive power of the weapon for long distance targets". In reality though, the upgraded shotgun actually makes it so that enemies hit by at least one stray pellet will get damaged as if they were hit by ALL of them.

This perk makes the shotgun incredibly effective against groups of enemies at short and medium range, and pretty much negates its inability to stagger enemies at a longer distance too, as even chip damage will instantly put them down.