10 WORST Video Game Weapons

5. Board Of Education - Fallout 3

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Bethesda Softworks

I'm all for a really good pun name under the right circumstances, and in all honesty, the Board of Education is some 10/10 punage so it's hard to really hate this weapon, but there's very little reason to have it besides that. It's far from the best melee weapon in the game, and on top of that, show me someone who LIKES the melee combat in Fallout 3, and I will show you a liar and a degenerate.

Honestly, one of the melee weapons from the 3D Fallout games was bound to show up here somewhere. Because the melee combat was never really figured out until 4, most of the weapons in Fallout 3 and New Vegas are guns, though the latter did some rather creative things with the concept. It never helped that the engine these games were built on just did not do any favors for melee players.

The Board of Education isn't the worst weapon out there, but it just not being up to snuff with what you have to go through via exploration to find it, combined with melee weapons just not being worth the trouble in this game to begin with, makes for a cocktail that made it destined for this list.

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