8 Video Game Weapons You Were ASHAMED To Use

Let's face it, when it comes to utterly brutal Fromsoft video games, Bloodborne will always rank up there as one of the most spirit-crushing.

Presenting a huge departure from what fans had grown to expect with the likes of Dark and Demon's Souls, Bloodborne basically walked up, slapped your turtle-poking fighting style in the face, and then pulled your trousers down for good measure. This was a schoolyard bully of a video game that told you that everything you had relied on in the past would not serve you an ounce in this gothic nightmare.

Here you needed to duck, dive, dodge and drink so much body juice that you end up resembling a blood-filled balloon. Anything less is death and the devs even made a huge point of this with the inclusion of The Wooden Shield.

While not technically a weapon in the traditional sense, I'm including this on the list because this is a shield that utterly reeks of shame, more so than throwing dung pies at enemies in Dark Souls, more so than spamming Estoc hits on DS3 to stun-lock opponents, more so than having to call in support for Pinwheel, as here this shield not only slows your movement while in use, but barely blocks any damage in the first place.

Yet the greatest mark of shame comes from the item description "Shields are nice, but not if they engender passivity"

Ouch. My pride.