It's been more than twenty years, can we finally agree that the Punisher is the worst weapon in the game about weapons?
>>64678263Sex with Leon Kennedy
>>64678263It's so bad in the original it arguably ruins the enjoyment of the game to use it. In the remake it is borderline overpowered due to the fact that it pokes through shields like they are made of paper, which the default handgun sucks fucking ass against
>>64678263No gun in this game is so bad you can't make it workTrivia: technically the punisher has the highest DPS if every shot you fire hits 5 enemies at onceBut the handguns are all worse than the TMP anyway
>>64678354How did you get it so backwards?The original gives consistent stun/flinch effects with weak bullets, which the utility of the punisher greatly depends on. Instead of an occasional chance to get one penetration shot, it turns into an opportunity for a whole string of shots by letting you control the crowd.Punisher penetrates all shields in the original, while the remake adds those metal shields that it can't penetrate.
>>64678326no way, fag!
>>64678326no way, fag
>>64678263Its been at least 15 years since I played re4, but i recall the 5.7 being okay. the only gun thats legitimately shit was the sl8, because it was much weaker than the 1903 unless you kept them both stock, and really doesn't fire significantly faster either, plus it takes up more space. Considering the primary use was as a thermal host for regenerators, the 1903 was the obvious better choice and by the time you got access to the alternative, youd probably have most of the 1903 upgrade anyway.
>>64680689holy shit you cannot be this wrong.
>>64678263Brainlets don't understand that both Original and Remake RE4 are games where your playstyle has just as much of an impact as the loadout you are carrying. I'd argue the only objectively bad guns are the Remake TMP and maybe Ada's Remake blacktail. If you are having a bad time with a weapon, you are probably using the wrong weapon for the way you are playing the game.Punisher is fine if you're doing any kind of run where shotguns are a no-go. Their ability to penetrate means that if you can funnel two or more enemies into any kind of narrow hallway you can do lots of easy and cheap damage. If you're just using it to pop off individuals one at a time in a more open area yeah it's fucking shiiiiiit. But the entire benefit of the punisher is that you're probably not carrying any shotgun at all so the game is going to give you next-to-no shotgun ammo and give you plenty of handgun ammo to compensate. Remake is slightly more difficult because of what >>64679823 says with metal shield stuff. But you should still be good enough at aiming that you can pop enemies' feet even if you have a controller with stick drift.I'm a sucker for the Red9 because I like having unique looking guns to shoot and at max power it's like firing a minishotgun slug at someone's limbs. The starting handgun was something I swore off of most of my teenage years but after doing a starting-handgun-only run in the OG a few years back I really came around to appreciate bumped crit rate, it's cathartic random crits pulls you out of tough positions that your own stupidity put you in. Blacktail is just very 'meh', there's nothing about it that stands out except for superior handling but it can do almost any job without problem, it just shows up too late in either version of either game to really justify swapping over for minimal performance difference. Matilda is just dumb fun but it's a NG+ weapon so it's not really worth talking about.
>>64678263The punisher is complete dogshit because it doesn't work to the actual benefits of how the game is designed.>Regular pistolReliable, not powerful but it does the job. Upgraded it gains massive crit-chance so it basically pops anybody's head with 2 shots>Red9Powerhouse, inaccurate as hell but with the stock is dead-precise. Upgraded it can kill most things with just a few shots.>BlacktailQueen of all categories but master of none, great gun but you get it way too late. You'll have an upgraded Red9 or Pistol at this point and they will be superior in ways.>PunisherDoesn't explode heads with ease, doesn't KO enemies with just a few body shots, all it does is pierce shields...Big whoop?
