Purposefully Overpowered: Difference between revisions

Yes. It's [['''Purposefully Overpowered]]'''.

Sometimes it's hard to figure out whether or not a certain [[Game Breaker]] is truly [['''Purposefully Overpowered]]'''. For example, if it's [[Justified Trope|justified]], it's done on purpose.

May be a part of [[A Taste of Power]] or restricted to at/after the final boss. Can also be essential to beat the [[Bonus Boss]] on the [[Harder Than Hard]] bonus difficulty. [[Crutch Character|Crutch Characters]]s are often (temporarily) [['''Purposefully Overpowered]]'''. Compare with [[Infinity+1 Sword]] and [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]. [[Bragging Rights Reward|Bragging Rights Rewards]]s often turn out this way.

* The Bonesaw in ''Bonesaw'', which can quickly kill most bosses and enemies, although you are required to defeat these "lesser" bosses without them.

** Or you could just [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|have Yojimbo instakill him.]]

* Once you get the Mascot Dressphere in ''[[Final Fantasy X -2]]'', you'll never need to use a different one again. [[Guide Dang It|Good luck getting it.]]

* Kreia in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] 2'' uses 42 point buy for her stats and unlike the other [[NPC|NPCs]]s has basic optimization in their placement, by contrast Atton gets 28 (and has a pretty bad placement), the player gets 30. This fits into her character, the player characters mentor during the game, former Sith Lord and {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]]}}.

** Tyrant Valvatorez was said to have been extremely powerful before his vow to never drink human blood [[De-Power|De Powered]] him. Since ''de-powered'' Valvatorez is acknowledged to be [[Brought Down to Badass|unusually strong for someone who's had his power depleted]] (or just for anyone in general), Val as a Tyrant would have to be a grade-A [[Game Breaker]] for him to be anything but [[Overrated and Underleveled]] -- so—so they made him a grade-A [[Game Breaker]].

* And in the ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' corner we have [[True Final Boss|Unlimited Ragna]], who out-tanks the [[Mighty Glacier]] character, Iron Tager, with his 3 folded HP; [[Lightning Bruiser|can, quite easily, deal damage in the mid-thousands; is much, ''much'' faster than his original form]]; can air-dash 3 times, while most characters can dash 1 or 2 times at most; has automatic Heat gain; and has a massive life drain on top of that! (He also has one super move that can [[This Is Gonna Suck|take off 2/3s of his opponent's HP]] [[Oh Crap|and regenerate 1/2 of his own]], so that's fair...) All of this is completely and utterly justified, because Unlimited Ragna has activated his titular [[Artifact of Doom]].

* The Peacemaker from ''[[Jak II]]'' and the Supernova from ''[[Jak 3]]''. The Peacemaker would send out a ball of lightning that would always hit an opponent and instantly kill it, after which most other targets that were too close (i.e. 10 meters or so) would be hit by equally lethal beams of lightning erupting from the first target. It was nerfed a bit in in ''Jak 3'' but there you had the Supernova, which is literally a mini-nuke. When fired, the whole screen lights up and when it's cleared, there's no enemy left. These two weapons were only stopped by their very low ammunition count. The Peacemaker could fire 10 shots in ''Jak II'' and 20 in ''Jak 3'', while the Supernova could only be fired twice (and uses up the same ammo as the Peacemaker).

** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' mixes it up by requiring the player to hold up a certain number of enemy sentries and collect their dog tags to unlock the previous items, as well as adding an assortment of wigs that give the player infinite grip and oxygen.

** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' swaps the bandana for face paint that does the same job, and also adds the EZ Gun to the mix. [[Easy Mode Mockery|As you could guess from the name]], the EZ Gun is a stupidly overpowered tranquilizer pistol with infinite ammo, a silencer that never runs out and a laser sight, and it replenishes your stamina and bumps your camo index to 80% when you hold it. Normally it's only available on a [[New Game+]], but it's instantly added to your inventory if you start a game on Very Easy Mode. There's also the Patriot (The Boss's gun of choice), which is basically a [[BFG|chaingun with infinite ammo]], and is also unlocked for the [[New Game+]]. Its only downside is wrecking your camo rating, but what machine gun doesn't do that?

** To a lesser extent, [[KaranoKara no Kyoukai:|Ryougi Shiki]] as well. Justified by her Void personality being (or at least [[Badass Boast|boasting]] to be) able to kill anything and everything under the sun, including [[God]]. {{spoiler|She can't kill Crimson Moon.}}

* [[Earth Defense Force 2017]] has the aptly-named Genocide Gun that does a million [[Hit Points]] of damage--enoughdamage—enough to one-shot any enemy in the game--andgame—and has an enormous blast radius. But you can only get it by [[Bragging Rights Reward|completing all levels at the highest difficulty]].

** All the S (or SS, if this is ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius|Radiant Dawn]]'') weapons in this series are usually pretty overpowered, as are any special weapons that main characters get (Sieglinde, Ragnell, Armads, etc.).

** Over on the [[Tabletop Games|manual]] [[Warhammer 4000040,000|side]] of the hobby, Games Workshop does this with almost a sick glee, ramping up the power level of whatever faction, race, company, chapter, tank, squad, monster, or single dude that [[Money, Dear Boy|they want to sell in large numbers]]. As of February 2011 (a date must be added because there's always some new [[Game Breaker|absurd unit]] that renders its predecessor as just another afterthought) the cake seems to be taken by [[Our Vampires Are Different|Mephiston of the Blood Angels Space Marines chapter]]. Predecessors to this title included [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|the ultra-decked melee Carnifex]] (most notably the mutant [[Gone Horribly Right|Old One Eye]]), the C'tan Nightbringer (whom to this date is still [[Cool but Inefficient|the single most expensive model]] in the game), [[Super Soldier|Marneus Calgar]], [[King Mook|Ghazskull Thraka]], the [[Demonic Possession|Bloodthirster]], [[Reality Warper|Njarl Stormcaller]] of the [[Horny Vikings|Space Wolves]], and if you're feeling generous [[Badass Normal|Commissar Yarrick]], to the point where nearly every race had at least one. The shock of shocks came when it was realized that Mephiston could curb-stomp [[General Failure|Abaddon the Despoiler]], the most tangible and iconic enemy of mankind in the entire setting. Granted, every last one of these characters mentioned could qualify for this trope at some point, but what sets Mephiston apart from all the others is that all the others are priced prohibitively high for what they do (in the ballpark of 275 pts). Mephiston has a statline that makes all the others cry ''and'' is cheaper than just about all of the aforementioned characters. Granted, [[Min-Maxing|using any of these aforementioned super characters in games of 750 pts or less]] is just ''asking'' to be punched in the face.

** The 'movie marines' list featuring in White Dwarf #300 (featuring fluff-aligned [[Space Marine|Space Marines]]s) also completely breaks the game, with most of their weapons and stats outclassing their 'regular' equivalents many times over: Armies of Movie Marines usually cost in the upwards of 2000 points for about 10 marines, yet each of these marines are a [[One-Man Army]] and can usually kill twice their worth in forces each. The list is not tournament legal and Games Workshop made it clear it was designed that way on purpose; it's only intended for 'friendly' games (the marines even have [[Stunt Double|Stunt Doubles]]s, just to give you an idea of how 'serious' it is).

* Good luck beating the [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Bosses]]es in [[Wild ArmsARMs 2]] without[[Super-Powered Evil Side|Knight Blazer]].

* ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' is full of numerous examples of overpowered unlockable [[New Game+]] weapons, one or two of them accumulated as bonus content from various re-releases. Perhaps the most powerful of them is the Wii version of the PRL. When originally added to the [[Play StationPlayStation 2]] port of the game, the gun was effectively a source of infinite flash grenades when fired without charging, and when charged, it was an insta-kill laser blast. When the game was ported to the Wii, however, it was beefed up so that it's charged attack would fire ''many'' beams in one blast, each of which would auto-target a particular enemy and kill it. The end result was that ''everything in front of you'' would die in one charged shot, with even the enemies halfway across the map getting sniped down.

* ''[[Pathfinder]]'' beefed up pretty much every core class along with giving all players more feats and skill or hp. This was partly to encourage players to actually play a core class through to 20th level (as opposed to spending the first five levels preparing for your [[Prestige Class]] as was common in 3rd edition [[Dungeons and& Dragons]]). Its also supposed to help diminish the need of the DM to place the correct magic items for players which used to be more critical to game balance (to address this second problem, they also made it easier for players to make their own magic items to the point that even non magic users can craft some of their own magic items with the right feats.)

* ''Everything'' in ''[[Command and& Conquer: Red Alert 3]] Uprising'', which is why there's no multiplayer mode. The grand prize probably goes to the Rising Sun Gigafortress: a massive, self-aware battleship with several battleship guns and several rocket pods (each as powerful as a separate unit in their own right) that can transform into a flying artillery piece that takes out everything.