What's your favorite FPS weapon?

The Cerebral Bore from Turok 3, Shadows of Oblivion.
Honestly the whole weapon set was super unique and fun for deathmatch. Too bad the recent remake excluded multiplayer entirely... I'm still very sour about it.
- I definitely read that as Turok Tutu
  
  And Rage Wars.
- The split screen multiplayer where one person would be a monkey while the others hunted it was so much fun. I can see the cerebral bore squirting monkey brains so clearly in my mind.
- That's a deep cut and I'm so glad you said it
- Came here looking for this

I'm kinda torn between Unreal Tournament's (ut99) sniper rifle, flak cannon and the instagib variant of the shock rifle.
- Flak cannon all the way, but I spent many days in high school instagibbing my friends so the shock rifle does hold a special place in my heart.
- Definitely the flak cannon. But I also really liked th3 disk gun, especially the sound of disks flying past you.
- The flak canon was a ton of fun, but I have a special fondness for the slime gun. Primary fire leaving a bunch of slime balls around was hilarious, as was running around with the secondary charged up, just hoping to run face first into someone and fire it at point-blank range, killing you both. Strategic or tactically sound? No. But hilarious.
- I was just about to answer OP with "any ut99 weapon". Even the backup melee one was great in the right situation.
  Though my favourite of them is probably the rocket launcher, but only by a thin margin. Mostly because my favourite map was always the small dojo one (morbias][), and that only has rockets and the occasional redeemer. Just pure death match all the time..
  
  Ye. Ut99 weapons were pretty much all great. Personally I didn't really like the goo gun, but others made it an absolute beast. The sniper rifle ended up being hilariously good at range and stupidly deadly at close range as headshots seemed to trigger on any hit above belly. The buzzaw throwing thing was nifty for the bouncing shots, but iir the headshots with that required hits to the forehead... Which still cut the heads off from the neck. Felt weird that
  I guess the default pistol was a bit weak, but dual pistols was decent upgrade to it.
- Translocator kills were most satisfying for me, but flak cannon was most useful.

M1 Garand in the old Call of Duty games.
Love me a quick single shot rifle and the iconic ping sound when it reloads is just chef's kiss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lezq2l-Z_wc
- I loved the kar98k even more. My friend and I would one v one on small maps only using this weapon. So much fun. And the single player sniper missions with it were great.
- oof good answer

Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2
- Undeniable classic. Not much more satisfying than hucking a file cabinet at a group of people who don't see you yet.
  Also, the trip mines were fun to use in smaller games (just like the Duke3d ones).
- Soooo creative. Those saw blades were classic.

The flak cannon from Unreal. It's just a more fun and innovative type of shotgun with grenade launcher.

railgun, red faction
- Aww man, Red Faction was an awesome game! Didn’t the rail gun also have an infrared scope that could see through walls?
  
  Yup. In multiplayer, I used to blow a crater in the floor with explosives and then sit in the hole with the rail gun, shooting people through the floor.
- I used to play RF2 multiplayer on GameCube with my brother when we were kids. We'd go onto that space map and try to snipe each other from across the map with the railgun.
  The early RF games are really underrated.
- Yesssss. I also loved the pistol in that game. It was one of the first games i came across where the pistol was just as deadly (in the right hands) as most anything else you could get.
  Side note, why the fuck don't we have games with destructible environments anymore? I know BF4 has it, but the only other FPS I can think of that did it as well as red faction was 'Black' in 2006.

Super Shotgun from Doom 2, love the feeling when you shoot it.
- To quote Civvie:
  ..it’s not important compared to The Super Shotgun. The ultimate demon slaying weapon, the pinnacle of shotguns. You think “why don’t they just call it the double barrel?”. Because it’s better. Because it’s super.

10mm HV Penetrator from F.E.A.R
https://fear.fandom.com/wiki/10mm_HV_Penetrator
thunk thunk thunk thunk
- Man I bought F.E.A.R. recently for like a dollar on GOG and I really want to play it, but I don't want SecuROM malware all over my system.
  
  Download a cracked version. You’ve already bought a license.
  The graphics dated fairly quickly but I believe the ai, combat and atmosphere should still be excellent.
  
  Seems like SecuROM won't install from playing singleplayer:
  https://www.gog.com/forum/fear_series/gogs_blatant_lies_regarding_securom_in_fear/page4

- I was hoping someone would mention the disc launcher!
  We used to play the shareware version on the school computers whenever we had free time. Shazbot!
  
  We still playin its free now
- In one match I got two air disc kills over 300m. I was a god damn sniper with that thing.
  
  A feel-good lifetime memory!

Farsight from Perfect Dark
- What about the laptop turret, that was a fun one!
  
  I almost said the Laptop Gun too. That game was full of cool and original weapons, second only to the Turok series

Flak cannon from unreal tournament 2004.
Having a shotgun and a long range AOE explosive round was just too much fun.
- Flak cannon on original UT was better, by my opinion.
  
  I'm a 93 baby. 2004 2as my first unreal game. I never went back and played the original sadly.

Compound bow in Crysis, I think it was the third game.
Flak Cannon in Unreal Tournament.
Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2 obviously.

The Heavy's mini gun is so satisfying to use. Just pick a direction and spray.
- I especially like Heavy's "bratatata" after a while hahaha

Unreal had a gun that shot saw blades that bounced off of surfaces. That was fun.
The Goo Gun in Fortnite was also great it sprayed a sticky goo that exploded after a few seconds

Force-a-Nature
- Ooo, that's inspiring. Maybe my answer should be Sasha...

Favorite? Fuck if I know
But the Gauss Cannon from DOOM 2016? Siege mode? CHUNK GUNK*\ beedleedeep BOOOOSCHHHHHGGRRRRZZZLLLKK baron gibs everywhere The ballista from DOOM Eternal got nothing on it.
Also, there were a ton of fun guns from Bulletstorm, the game about stupid but fun guns. The quad barrel shotgun stands out in my memory quite fondly.
It’s hard to forget the amazing times to be had with the duel-wielding in Wolfenstein: The New Order. Carrying two of those semi-automatic shotguns in that game meant you could liberate nazis quite enthusiastically from their skin, blood, and organs very quickly, and very cathartically. I need to replay that game.
On the subject of nazis, I can’t forget the Wunderwaffe DG-2 from Call of Duty. Yeah, I know it’s Call of Duty, but I got to watch a dozen or so nazis’ heads explode simultaneously while they were paralyzed. That was great.
I also think there’s a very strong case to be made that the greatest gun in any FPS game is the one that drives what is arguably the greatest video game ever created: the portal gun.
Thinking about multiplayer games is a slightly different beast though.
I got so much mileage out of the Cold War in Titanfall 2 - a burst fire, energy impact-grenade launcher. It was so much fun. But moreso than that, I think I loved the Double Take - a projectile-based double-barrel DMR. It took skill to get hits and even more skill to maximize damage by getting a hit with both bullets at the same time, and while flying around the map either jumping off a wall or Spider-maning around with the best-implemented grapple hook in any multiplayer game there was nothing that felt the same.
- Man if you like guns and portals, your gonna love Splitgate.
  
  Splitgate was fun. I played it for a while back when it came out and then when its popularity surged. Great concept, great execution, great arcade-style gameplay.

The sub-machine gun with grenade launcher in Half Life. such a vital tool.
- MP5 I think. All the weapons in half life were very satisfying to use.

Railgun, Quake II.
Rocket launcher, Quake III
ASMD, Unreal/Unreal Tournament
Any good stake weapons (Painkiller, FEAR?).
- Damn I remember crouching on painkiller so I could stake enemies to the ceiling
  
  Lol, same

Rise of the Triad's Flamewall.
- I just got a classic FPS tattoo from my friend I used to play these games with. I got something from the original Doom. I've always wanted a mushroom tattoo though and I think it will be the mushroom powerup from Rise of the Triad.
- Ooooohhhh, the true connoisseur's choice.

Halo pistol, easy choice. Two to the body, one to the head
- Tank beats everything, but unfortunately it's third-person, so I don't think it counts.
  Still I don't know, I kinda wanna say I like the DMR better...

The Boltgun from Boltgun.
It sounds right, it feels right, it purges right. There is something poetic about pulling the trigger and knowing whatever you direct your fully automatic rocket propelled grenade launcher at will explode in a cloud of gore.
- You need to try Darktide. It's the best bolter in any video game ever. It is massive, it is chunky, the magazines are huge, it makes big clunky mechanical noises every time you ready it, and on full auto it feels like you are unleashing the holy wrath of the Emperor with every round fired.

The bolt thrower in painkiller.

The kritzkreig from tf2. It does no damage, it actually does negative damage. But when you hit that switch, oooooo

I used to roll with the G3 in Battlefield 2.
Also the DMR from Halo Reach is a favourite.

The gravity gun in HL2 was a lot of fun

There's been a lot of fun ones. The battle for second place is bloody and impossible to call, but the number one spot belongs only to the BFG.

Halo 2 BR. Sooo many kills, headshots, and memories with that thing.

The Seeker from Singularity is greatly under appreciated like the whole game. It fires a steerable bullet and slows time down while doing so.
BTW, any smart asses that want to go "Well Ackchyually" that the gun shoots the whole bullet with the casing, it's based on gyrojet guns.

Thung https://youtu.be/y3MP0z2_IyE

I’ve spent a lot of time with Halo 3’s Battle Rifle, it remains a favorite to this day and I was overjoyed when I finally got to combine it with a mouse

The "huntsman" bow and arrow for the sniper in TF2.

Pissing in postal

The one that's the most fun and made me feel the most powerful is the VSS from STALKER. Learning the bullet drop and managing to head shot a moving target is very satisfying.

If I could only pick one, it would probably be a simple shotgun
- Pistol grip pump from Soldier of the Fortune, or of course the super shotty from Doom.

Voodoo Doll from the game Blood.
Just look, and poke!

I hacked the Super Shotgun in Quake II to autorepeat quickly and take clips up to 999 large instead of 20 at a time.
Gibs the Makron in about five seconds. (No not that French geezer.)
Edit: oh yeah, I did the same with the rocket launcher too. I'm not sure which of those two is my favourite.

Proxy mines, complex, license to kill mode
- Golden Eye is the GOAT

I played CoD4 a lot. As well as Halo 1. In both games I always liked the sniper.

I never played a lot of FPS, but I loved the Quake rocket launcher. It was fun to jump around with in multiplayer. But what I enjoyed most of all was the satisfaction of guessing when someone rounded the corner and having a rocket land at the exact same time.

Quake 1 HWGuy gatling. Tap, tap, tap to keep it spinning ... enemy appears at the bottom of the elevator shaft ... BZZZZZT.

The Thumper from Tribes. Most people went with the Spinfusor because of the linear projectile, but once you learn to account for the arcing shots the Thumper was better.

Pistol with a pocket full of coins. Uktrakill.
- When i first played ultrakill, i thought: yeah, it's fine. I guess this is a okay game. Wait a minute... Coins? Is this the best game ever made?

A simple.handgun, I like to just take a moment to aim for the head
- Particularly the rifle-like properties of the standard Halo CE handgun. That weapon was broken at distance.
  
  My friend group made a DM variant that was just Pistols with no shields and health at 400%. The only shots that mattered were headshots
  We quickly learned that the pistol was not hitscan and it was always cool when two players took each other out.

Long barrel ksg. Many good memories trolling on Hijacked.

The razorjack from Unreal 1 would have to be my favourite.
https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Razorjack

I always liked double pistols in Serious Sam. They had infinite ammo and felt pretty good to shoot.

SR8 in Urban Terror... used to have so much fun sniping people in that game
https://urbanterror.fandom.com/wiki/Remington_SR8

The cerebral bore from turok 2.

The Kuva Bramma in Warframe. Just rains cluster bombs.

Gravity Gun.

The Sigil of the One God from Strife. Like, the fully completed gun.
And also the Nuke from Shadow Warrior.
Mechanically, I love the uh... The rifle from UT that had the orb for the alt fire you could shoot with the primary fire for an explosion (I forgot the name). I liked it for rewarding the combo play; even now you don't see many guns like this.
- ASMD!

Original Unreal Tournament shock rifle. Nothing has ever been quite as satisfying as nailing a perfect shock combo.
But close second is the Tribes mortar. Tribes 2 especially. The teamplay potential with the laser designator was an incredible bit of design.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but the Magnum in L4D2. For whatever reason, it's the most satisfying gun I've used in any game - the weight, action, recoil and sound all come together in a perfect package.
- Yeah, that gun rocks. The magnum in Black Mesa is also pretty great, and probably based on the same feel.
  
  Your comment just made me realize that I bought Black Mesa awhile back and never got around to playing it. Thanks for resurrecting a forgotten piece of my Steam library, kind stranger!

The Farsight in Perfect Dark. Alas, I'll never be as good with it like I was back in high school.

AA12 in Killing Floor