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[Mech#4]

Flak Cannon from Unreal Tournament. A shotgun by any other name but it has smiley faces on the flak bombs. Also the GES Biorifle.

While I've never played the series, the Cerebral Bore from "Turok 2" is still one of my favourite weapons. Homing, drills into head, explodes.

Aerosol Can from "Blood". Doubles as a pipe bomb in a pinch. Come to think of it, most of the weapons from "Blood"; voodoo doll, flare gun, napalm gun, pitchfork.

There was a time I played "Unreal Tournament 2004" with the "Ballistics Mod" installed. It includes a flamethrower amongst the other weapons, and after a bit of searching I found another mod that let you duel wield any weapon. I've never seen so much flame in a game, plus I had four arms.

[Delta Foxtrot]

There's always been something particularly satisfying about the shotgun for original Half-Life. Sound, lethality and weapon animation all give it weight that a shotgun deserves. Oh and since I recently started replaying it, gravity gun from HL2. Fun with physics.

For just plain silly weapons, I'd have to go with topsy turvy corkscrew from Armed & Dangerous. Turn the world upside down for a moment and let gravity kill 'em.

[DeKaFu]

My all-time favourite weapon class is claw weapons. Either fixed slash-claws, actual hand-claws or blades-for-fingers type things. Sadly pretty rare, and even more rarely actually good, but I love them in concept.

Biting things in Natural Selection.

Flamethrowers, especially in TF2. I've played a lot of games that did them badly, though.

For typical medieval weapon selections I'm most fond of spears. Best range and look cool to boot.

For ranged weapons I'm awfully fond of crossbows. There's something incredibly satisfying about the *THUNK* of a crossbow shot, and they're usually quite effective. I recently got my hands on the Avelyn (triple-shot crossbow) in Dark Souls and it's just wonderful to use.

I think guns are boring as hell. All of them.

[BFEL]

So no one's favorite is a Magma Cannon or a Death Star? Seem like obvious choices

Oh and what about a GUN THAT SHOOTS SHURIKENS AND LIGHTNING? Y'all know the one.

[nenjin]

Warhammer 40k's Chainsword. A brutal, ridiculous weapon. Point in fact, GWS once published a game called Chainsaw Warrior.

[Aedel]

Space Station 13's energy gun. Looks pretty and it shoots pretty pretty lasers...

[Darkmere]

Oh and what about a GUN THAT SHOOTS SHURIKENS AND LIGHTNING? Y'all know the one.

I gotta say I liked the stake thrower/grenade launcher from the same game, too. Only because I managed to fire a grenade and then stake it, making a crossbow-grenade-launcher that brought down the chandelier at the opera house of ninjas. Oddly enough, that sentence makes perfect sense.

I'll go ahead and nominate the Staff of Set from Hexen 2 (I think). Firing it while powered up would send out a seeking scarab that grabbed an enemy, flew them to the centerpoint of the room, and called chains from the walls that lashed to them, then tore them into polygonal chunks. Way over the top, too expensive to fire, and very entertaining.

[Mech#4]

Oh and what about a GUN THAT SHOOTS SHURIKENS AND LIGHTNING? Y'all know the one.

I gotta say I liked the stake thrower/grenade launcher from the same game, too. Only because I managed to fire a grenade and then stake it, making a crossbow-grenade-launcher that brought down the chandelier at the opera house of ninjas. Oddly enough, that sentence makes perfect sense.

Oo, yes. I like it when things like that are included but left to the player to find out. Like firing the entire electrified disc of shuriken or firing the painkiller while it's spinning.

[Astral]

Games in general?

Sniper rifles are my forte. Especially in first person shooters, as my mind can more accurately predict where someone is going to be, and what I should be compensating for, more easily than it can when at short range. I never played first person shooters past Goldeneye/Perfect Dark on the N64 as a kid, and preferred more in-depth strategy games to twitch reflexes (hence my preference for custom maps in Starcraft and Warcraft 3, rather than melee). So it plays to my strength to have a lot of distance and calculation between me and the enemy, as I never really honed my twitch reflexes in Halo or similar games, though I find FPSs on the computer much easier to play than on a console.

Not enough games have anti tank rifles though. I loved them in New Vegas, but first person shooters in general are devoid of long range weaponry that can damage vehicles in any way.

Mid range, I prefer DMRs (Designated Marksman Rifles), which grant a decent balance of damage, accuracy, and fire rate meaning I can safely predict where the bullet is going to go while maintaining focus on my target.

Short range/melee, I've always been a knife fan, despite their lack of use in a real combat situation. Death of a thousand well placed cuts is sort of counter to my long range preference for a single kill shot, but it also leaves less room for error since it would be quicker and have a better recovery time than a longer blade, though it places you closer to the enemy which is of course more dangerous.

I can't think of any specific examples other than the Farsight from Perfect Dark. The cheesiest camping weapon ever: a sniper rifle that automatically homes in on enemies, one shots them through full shields, and can pierce walls to great distance and effect.

As far as a vehicle could be considered a weapon, I would love to own one of the Mammoth Mk. II's from Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun, when GDI toyed with the idea of walker mechs. Nigh invulnerable against anything but a large army, or air units, and could singlehandedly stomp entire bases on its own, if it ever made it there, as it was a slow, lumbering behemoth. With railguns.

[Myroc]

The Doom shotguns, obviously. More so the normal shotgun as opposed to the Super Shotgun; More accurate and still packs quite a punch, even though the latter is usually better for most situations.

Gauntlets of the Necromancer from Heretic, as previously mentioned. Also Wraithverge from HeXen, which tends to kill everything in the room when fired.

The Revolver from Half-Life/Half-Life 2. Yes, thank you, I do like to kill most normal mooks in one shot.

Moving onto less conventional weapons, the Manticore Heavy Hwacha from Guns of Icarus Online. Just. So many rockets. So many components disabled. So much explosions. It's incredibly satisfying to fire.

[itisnotlogical]

Burst laser 2 + preigniter, from FTL. Shredding enemy shields FTW

[Jelle]

In just about any non scifi fantasy game I'll prefer to use an axe, or failing that a poleaxe or similar weapon. Swords are for fantsy pantsy fencers, a real fighter prefers the simplicity and heft of a good battleaxe! Alternatively I'll prefer to use a bow, provided the game makes it fun enough to use.

In shooters I prefer me a shotgun. Can't work with automatic fire, prefer the specialisation and punch of a good shotty. Also like using a sniper rifle on occasion but not all the time.

[TempAcc]

I never liked automatic weapons in games much either, they dont tend to be as satisfying to use. I dont think I've ever found a minigun in a game that feels satisfying to use. They never sound like actual miniguns (which are loud as hell).

[Sergarr]

BFG9000 from Doom 2
BFG10000 from Quake 3

[Itnetlolor]

Unreal games, the flak cannon is my personal favorite of the standard set, along with the ASMD shock rifle (a good combo fire can net you some good kills and multi-kills). The railgun, in Ballistic mod for 2k4 (such a satisfying noise when it fires). And most of the melee weapons, the compound bow (and it's varied arrows; especially the quantum singularity arrows; so many gibs all over the place when used correctly)), and the flamer from the Unreal4Ever mod for both versions. Not to mention the grapple beam in U4E 2k4 that you can use to sling across levels, or violently smash your targets into the ground and all other jagged surfaces. Especially fun in low-gravity matches where that's the only weapon/tool in the map. DM-Morpheus is especially fun with it, especially when seeing standoffs (2 players hitting each other and throwing each other at the same time) fly off the map into oblivion, as you play Spider-Man, slinging and swinging around the map.

I gotta play that again.

EDIT:
And my previous post was the BFG9000 from Doom. Such a fun weapon. Plasma gun comes second, due to how awesome it sounds when firing. BWO-O-O-O-ORP!!!!