8 Video Game Items That Pranked Players
6. The Shoddy - Borderlands 3
The Borderlands franchise is certainly no stranger to idiosyncratic weaponry, yet most of them at least tend to, y'know, deal actual damage to enemies.
The aptly-monikered Shoddy, exclusive to Borderlands 3's Bounty of Blood DLC, can be unlocked during the Money Back Guarantee mission, though despite the game itself hyping it up as "your new favourite weapon," it's absolutely not worth the effort.
Beyond its name, the Shotgun-looking weapon clues you in that it might not be that great when its stats page refers to it as "100% Genuine Fakobs," implying it's a knock-off created by an imitation of the series' weapons manufacturer Jakobs.
Though the Shoddy certainly looks like it packs some solid stopping power, the big, disappointing rub is that the pellets it fires out near-immediately drop to the ground within a few inches of being fired, straight-up defying gravity in their pursuit of aggressive lameness.
This ensures the Shoddy's only practical use case is in extreme close-quarters combat - either as a projectile weapon or a cudgel you can exasperatedly beat enemies to death with while bathing in its utter disappointment as a ranged weapon.
Needless to say, if you threw down $15,000 to buy this thing from scammer Stickly, you got ripped off big time. Thankfully the mission lets you track him down, punch him in the face, and get paid double what he stole to kill him.