10 Video Game Weapons You're A Dick For Using

While Halo is often cited as the starting point for contemporary first-person shooters, it's the melee weapon, the Energy Sword, that is perhaps its most iconic weapon.

A favourite of the Sangheili, the Energy Sword is used against you in the single-player portion of 2001's Halo: Combat Evolved. There, it showed its massively overpowered capabilities, as Elite soldiers would swat away any attempt at an attack by killing the player with one single swipe.

As it made its way to the online mode, its ability to annoy was amplified as players could wield the weapon against their friends. Not unlike the Blue Shell from the Mario Kart series, the Energy Sword had a strange knack for ruining friendships, and any future battles between friends would begin with the prerequisite that the weapon would be off limits.

While the weapon is crazy overpowered, there is a skill to mastering its obvious benefits. People wielding the Sword had to be agile, seasoned Halo players to get close enough to their enemies for termination.

Regardless, those who would defy the unwritten rule and select it knew it was the ultimate dick move, and often continued anyway. Not cool.