10 BIG Video Game Items That Turned Out To BE USELESS [Part 2]

[@gameranxTV]

This video is part 2 of an ongoing series. Here’s the link to part 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/imiYc2eKlqigorc

[@kingshadow8782]

Happy Monday!

[@DezzmanX]

Half of the upgrades you can get in Sekiro are useless. How did yall skip that?

[@weedking1984]

the pendent in dark souls1 Does have a use you can trade it to snugly the Crow to get a Assignment demon's great hand

[@ezrafaulk3076]

I think the box fox costume is actually supposed to be a reference to Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham story, and the parts where the guy who supposedly doesn't like them says regarding eating them "Not in a *box* , not with a *fox* !" Doesn't make it any less useless or annoying, I just wanted to give *another* possibility for the idea behind it.

[@metalmasiah]

no before you buy for crisis core final fantasy remake?

[@BigMac87963]

I remember seeing the platforms under the bestial sanctum and being like “Ooh I bet there is something good hidden there!” and spent awhile descending. When I got there and obtained the dragoncrest talisman, my exact words were “That’s it?!” So yeah, definitely belongs in this video

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@putdownthreads]

Noooo you shoulda kept going, there's the Cinqueda down there which boosts Beast spells

[@michaelisjotorias4948]

Lol cos of one of the portals I actually found that dragoncrest talisman first. I think it was my 3rd talisman I found overall

[@BigMac87963]

@@putdownthreads No worries, I found it in another playthrough

[@Gigawicket]

On my new playthroughs I always go straight to the Dragoncrest Shield Talisman. It's a great talisman when you only have one slot, and you can basically get it immediately by taking the portal in Limgrave. The next upgrade is in Altus Plateau.

[@blessingm8354]

Definitely need a part 3, just to be sure what and what not to collect 😂

[@gameranxTV]

Lmao

[@angelogarcia6915]

11:39 “Like the normal game but with the difficulty turned up to MAXIMUM BULLSH*T.” The delivery and just the way Falcon said it got me good 🤣

[@juanrios4030]

I also hate “maximum bullsh!t.”

[@VongolaXZax]

The part 2 we didn't expect, but what we needed

[@gameranxTV]

🤝

[@MysticalReaper]

Is it just me or has Falcon been in a pretty good mood as the past couple of months now. He seems to be more happier. Which is good! I just noticed he chuckled and seems more relaxed. I love Falcon and everyone on the channel.

[@brainybunny13]

Maybe he is expecting a new bird with his partner? Who knows. I agree it is good that he is happier.

[@aimalpahrand1607]

He talks like a con man

[@aa-tx7th]

????? why are you trying to emotionally connect with a youtuber narrator???????

[@brendanriley1838]

"There's no vampires or werewolves in the game and there's no place to sell items" That's hilarious 😂

[@bentasticplays]

I like the Silent Hill pipe, it's referencing an old fable about a woodcutter losing his axe in a similar fashion with a story playing out the same way. Neat little bit to have in the game, even if it really serves little purpose

[@chriscoleman1572]

I believe .hack games did something similar as well

[@Astraeus..]

The pipes are a reference to "The Honest Woodcutter". Basically, a woodcutter loses his axe and Hermes does the bit with "is this golden axe yours?" and then the same for silver, and finally when the woodcutter answers honestly about the normal axe, Hermes gives him all 3. His jealous neighbor throws his own axe in, but when he lies to Hermes and says the golden axe is his, Hermes gives him nothing and even keeps the axe the man threw into the river.

[@trevorflake7854]

Gameranx kills it with every video!! Best part of my day for sure!!

[@gameranxTV]

🤝

[@spectre-8]

I’m going back through the last 10 years of gameranx videos filling the gaps of any videos I somehow missed. Falcon, pls narrate my life. 🙏🏻✨

[@jeannepucelle]

It's funny how the devs trolled with the sewer fairy that's based on the fables called 'The Honest Woodcutter' and 'Mercury and the Woodman'. There is a Japanese variation of the tale called 'The golden axe' where a goddess or a sprite asks the man if he dropped his gold, silver or normal axe in the spring.

[@southcoastinventors6583]

I thought that it was a reference to the lady of the lake from Arthurian legend that safeguards Excalibur however that sounds more likely however a actually solid gold pipe would be more damaging due to the higher density.

[@streamerVSnoun]

I thought it was a reference to harvest moon. If you drop your axe in the water a fairy comes and asks if you dropped a golden axe and if you say no you get the golden one but if you say yes you have to go buy another regular one.

[@jeannepucelle]

@@streamerVSnoun A lot of games like referencing 'The golden axe' and 'Honest Woodman' stories with their own twist to it. There was even a reference to it in Ape Escape 2 when you use the Gotcha machine in the hub area.

[@jeannepucelle]

@@southcoastinventors6583 Nah, it has to do with the fables of the woodcutter. I only know a little bit of King Arthur's mythology but the 'golden axe' stories seem to be a fun favorite among game developers in some fashion. The gold pipe would most likely shatter a zombies skull in so the devs didn't want us being op. Scared and nervous but not op.

[@southcoastinventors6583]

@@jeannepucelle They could always say it was gold plated but yeah has to be Japanese mythos most of their stuff is based on adaption of Shintoism, history, and inside jokes about Japanese societies.

[@ARIXANDRE]

I really feel like the Golden Turd in Zelda BoTW is Nintendo's jab at the trophy/achievements system.

[@braydogE]

Hey falcon, ive been commenting on your videos recently, and I just wanted to say thank you for noticing what we say and take it with respect. Thank you for the vid as well

[@gameranxTV]

🤝🦅

[@vinceely2906]

On a personal note. The bloomin’ cyclops in Subnautica. Spent ages gathering gear to upgrade to it. Only to find its stats weren’t as good as the upgraded sub I’d been using all along.

[@gameranxTV]

😔

[@georgelooney8949]

Exactly. I got so mad I quit playing it for a long time.

[@Smashingrascal]

Yeah, I also thought it was useless. But you could argue it's at least useable as a mobile base or temporary storage depending on how you play.

[@Aboul7alib]

I quit the game as soon as I've built the cyclop, I really hated the idea to craft it and felt like I was forced to use that heavy piece of junk just to add 200 extra meters to my depth limit

[@Smashingrascal]

The sewer fairy is just another reference to the honest woodcutter story. It a relatively common "riddle" in japanese games, they just change the item. I specifically remember the one in Megaman BN. The mario one I guess is to keep you on your toes, added tension if you're already small. Doesn't make the mentioned items any less useless though.

[@phamvietlong5409]

If there's a part 3, the Crown of Barenziah from Skyrim should probably make the list. Half of the 24 Stones require to remake the crown are in very obscure locations that require you to clear dungeons. And by that time you're already an end-game character and no longer needs the boosts from the Crown (finding more precious jewels in loot chests). If anything it's more like a trophy to flex for yourself.

[@XDarkNation]

Did they ever fix the multiple copy glitch? You save Infront of a stone, then mash the pickup button as fast as possible and it gives you like 2-3 towards the quest.

[@tubensalat1453]

And in the meantime those stones are clogging up your inventory...

[@thomasrankin6867]

The worst part about the wooden shield from Bloodborne is that it was still necessary for the Platinum trophy.

[@godouroboros8047]

Gamers: You can't do this to me. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SACRIFICED!?!? Game Devs: (silently sips tea).

[@gameranxTV]

😂

[@RynKen]

That wooden shield in bloodborne can actually really help in any fight with someone spamming bullets. I believe his name is Rykard and fighting him in the cathedral without my favorite piece of drift wood genuinely scares me.

[@marcuskennedy313]

The box fox could possibly be a metal gear reference because of snakes use of boxes + foxhound. Only thing I could think of

[@LogicalFlow]

I got the first dragon shield talisman pretty early in the game and I was just poking around. It was super fun to find that area and there was plenty of other good stuff there

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@Char1ey]

These videos have been getting kinda weird recently.

[@mappybc6097]

@A *If* you know where to look. He specifically said it would be useless to most first-time players.

[@LogicalFlow]

@@mappybc6097 I didn't know at all. It was just super early in the game and an obvious spot to try and explore

[@TitusTheTiny]

Thanks for the content Falcon I seriously owe you guys for always kickin ass and filling the void of boredom!

[@nightlyboot4888]

So true about the first version of the dragoncrest shield talisman. Already had the one you find in the haligtree before I heard about the wonky platforming you had to do to get that talisman along with the beast clergyman’s dagger.

[@perfectpats]

I’d mention the sword you get from Hattori in Witcher 3. After going through a fairly long side quest, you are rewarded with a weaker sword than you already have at that point. Despite, Hattori supposedly being a master blacksmith and promising to make the best sword for Geralt.

[@vivekp2183]

True fact , I thought it will be relic item but its a total junk I sold it to him immediately 🤣

[@perfectpats]

@@vivekp2183 I had him dismantle it.

[@d_shuffles]

This applies to every pre order or deluxe edition item in RPGs!

[@THEDAMNED02]

For the shield item in elden ring, you also get a dagger called cinqueda down in beastial sanctum i believe so it's not entirely useless to go down there

[@wowimnasty1350]

I wouldn’t mind to see a top 10 most addicting video games of the past decade. Don’t know exactly how one would make a top 10 (since what is addicting is so subjective), but I think of games like World of Warcraft, Sims, Fortnite, Warzone, etc. What do you think?

[@HawkFightTalk]

Shoutout to all the unused Masterballs waiting to be used on "the right" pokemon that will never come 😅

[@midnighterx]

Can I we just appreciate that max level elden ring player for number 10

[@baddman69]

How about the Auditore cape in AC2 that you get for collecting the 100 feathers? It makes you permanently notorious which is EXACTLY the opposite of what you want.

[@williamkneeland1083]

I want to point out that if you metapath like I do when starting a game of Elden ring, you end up at the beastial sanctum quite early through D's questline, and as a result this first item is actually obtainable as one of the first talismans in the game. I hadn't known it was there, and now that I do it will likely be added into my early game sprint.

[@elib912]

The steel pipe is a reference to the lumberjack and the fish folk tale that has a similar outcome.

[@drgonzo123]

The secret boots from Castlevania should have been called "Tom Cruise shoes" lol

[@Jason23448]

If an item can kills you, then it can't be useless (at least for the enemy side).

[@DOC_951]

Do a list of items or rewards you get after beating the game that end up being useless because you already beat the game and there’s no one strong left to even use the item on

[@tweakyapollo]

The greatsword used to fight Rykard in ER should be on this list. It's a sword that is used to fight an optional boss, that you only get RIGHT BEFORE the boss, and the sword really does not scale well with any builds

[@MinorZero]

It is a spear, and it actually scales quite well with strength

[@jelyse14]

"Discreetly increases height!" I love that a game series like Castlevania has all the classic vampire hunting stuff like magical whips and magic spells but then it straight up has a pair of fashionable 90s PLATFORM SHOES

[@Atrus999]

For the poison mushroom, is it an item if you can't pick it up? If touching it hurts you doesn't that make it an enemy? Or maybe a trap like if you were to see spikes on the ground or a fireball?

[@awkwardsilence4427]

I was just thinking that. I guess it could be considered a completely invincible enemy. But then again you bring it into existence by hitting a block, so if you say that only items are found in blocks, then that will de facto make it an item. And I guess to take this train of thought to its logical conclusion, could you say that the regular mushroom is an enemy that just makes you bigger instead of harming you? I mean it moves on its own, and it could be argued that it making your hitbox bigger and thus both making you into a bigger target _and_ cutting you off from any one-block-high paths if you don’t run and slide underneath to be a form of harm.

[@craigratio]

Zelda OOT. Biggorons sword. It's kinda great but you get it too late to make any use of it. Total chore to go for but it's still nice having it.

[@Machina_EX_Machina]

Potential idea: 10 games that delivered on the hype.

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks for your suggestion. Noted

[@Nebet1573]

I kinda feel like that 'Box Fox' costume is just a Metal Gear Easter egg. Snake likes Boxes, was a member of FOXhound.... still doesn't negate the uselessness of the costume if it only works randomly though. XD

[@MukiMuki688]

Finished Elden Ring before I even knew of the existence of the base Dragon Talisman. Also, Secret Boots in Symphony of the Night makes your hit box larger... that's about it...

[@mappybc6097]

It's worse than that. It also makes your *hurtbox* taller. And it's significant enough to make certain attacks that you would be able to avoid by crouching hit you.

[@TogonzoMedia]

I remember thinking a few items that nerfed your damage output in Valkyrie Profile 2 were useless until I accidentally equiped them with other items that made every hit a critical. Lezard is suddenly triggering break mode with every firestorm sending them damn giant flower enemies airborne and the rest of the party is making it rain crystals and AP pellets via juggle city and restarting break mode in thier own right, wheedling its health down very little! 😆 You guys should do a video on item combos that are useless by themselves but put them together and it's ragdoll physics time! 😁

[@TogonzoMedia]

If the surprise involves you kissing Falcon's rabbit betwixt the ears, count me in ... 😂 I'm not paying to see it, though. Sorry, Falcon! 😏

[@DetElliottStabler]

@@TogonzoMedia it's a bot trying to get money

[@TogonzoMedia]

@@DetElliottStabler I know.

[@DetElliottStabler]

@@TogonzoMedia he really acting like people Will believe that he's gameranx

[@brainybunny13]

@@TogonzoMedia wait Falcon is a bunny owner? That's amazing I own bunny too and I gotta say that bunnies are the best pets ever. ❤️

[@ready2die723]

Everyone hates going down there for the talisman but forget the dagger down there that has absolutely insane scaling.

[@MrSTVR]

I love how it's been nearly 2 years and we're still getting the name of Balan Wonderworld wrong

[@ixiahj]

A lot of the talismans in Elden Ring are like that. I remember getting +1 and +2 first on several talismans before getting the original. All it told me was that I missed talismans somewhere.

[@Mankey619]

Useless items in video games are common,but what makes it more insane is that we need to do these crazy attempts just to get that item. Can we blame ourselves that we get so curious of getting these things.

[@K6GSXRider]

I thought the "sewer fairy" was a reference to a link to the past. Throwing the sword and arrows into the pool and the fairy asks if it was you. Answer truthfully and you get the silver and golden versions

[@TonicofSonic]

I wanted to say orbital cannon in GTA5 online but then I remember the few times I was able to hit an entire crew at once while they were trying to accomplish something...good times.

[@MrTrueCaller619]

So consistent uploading, thank u falcon/gameranx crew .

[@douggiles7647]

Basically any of us that owned an N64 owned a RumblePak, the issue was that your memory card used the same slot on your controller so if you wanted to use it you couldn't save your progress.

[@yunietpiloto4425]

Ok this one was funny 😂, nice vid!

[@Cole444Train]

That silent hill one is just hilarious

[@SuperSayin4Gohan]

I've never played Legend of Zelda: OOT, but I just noticed the Stone of Agony actually looks like the Rumble Pack. Nintendo knew what they were doing.

[@cmwinchell]

Box Fox? I'm going to quote one of my favorite childhood books, which is exactly where my mind went when you said "Box Fox." "Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat them with a fox?" - Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess

[@MrJackoff12345]

Just caught the the line "good job seeing into the future with no spice." Phenomenal

[@6FStyleCo]

When he said there's no vampires or werewolves in the game and nowhere to sell items I had a good laugh

[@sigma0443]

Out of all the talismans in Elden Ring, i am surprised you didn't go for Daedicar's woe. Like you do the quest for Rya and at the end of it all your hard earned reward is a talisman that doubles your damage taken. Like nothing else.. i mean who in the right mind would equip that..

[@TheRealBOBlibob]

At least it's useful if you for some reason want to make the game harder

[@sigma0443]

@@Incarnivore i think u have this confused with Shabriri's woe, which transfers all threat to whoever wears it.

[@sigma0443]

@@TheRealBOBlibob there are already multitudes of hard modes and if u wanna get one shot by everything then rl1 challenges are for that

[@Incarnivore]

@@sigma0443 you right 🙌

[@ja_kobe_2048]

Glad to see two Zelda items on here. Honestly, I was expecting the golden poo from Breath of the Wild to be on here. Go find literally hundreds of korok seeds only to go a troll item in return.

[@NickJ345]

It's in the first list they made

[@cheesemonster9211]

Great video as always, I thought the rickety shield in Elden ring was pretty useless as well.

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼part2

[@Jedith_Freelance]

The silver pipe and gold pipe and the whole sewer fairy are based on a folk tale where a woodsman loses his axe in a river. He despairs that he won't be able to get money for his family and a fairy comes out of the water to offer first the silver, then the gold axe. He decides to not accept them and be honest, getting his axe back and his honesty wins the silver and gold axe. One of those morality tales, so nice to see it in a video game, even in an odd rendition.

[@RaphBlade7]

Personally, my theory is Rupoors are a cursed form of Rupees which curse anyone who picks them up to lose 10 Rupees! Also, one of the developers referred to Rupoor as the most evil item in all of Hyrule, which I think adds further evidence that they are somehow cursed!

[@jaxjones9034]

I love this channel Ngl ❤🎉

[@iverson7x]

Falcon completely missed the Simpsons joke. The crappy monorail is clearly an Easter egg for the famous episode where Phil Hartman scams the town into buying a useless monorail.

[@SuntanSuperman8]

Part 3 needs to include the Calamity Ring you get from defeating Kalameet in DS1. Doubles the damage you receive, and even it’s description says the ring is “befitting of no finger” or something like that

[@TheNightAngel1017]

At least that one's useful for challenge runs, 3/4 of the way through this video and all of them are totally useless (even for a challenge runs, aside from the bb shield)

[@Anduz001]

I'd love Sony to replace the PS trophy sound with the Gameranx FX. Favourite start to a video. 🙂

[@thetruesimplegrid]

Gameranx: it's a video on more useless items Me: that's actually very interesting

[@gameranxTV]

😅🤝

[@truthache8560]

I remember printing hundreds of pages on my old inkjet printer. Just to find all the Skultulas, on the GameCube…

[@gameranxTV]

😅👌

[@truthache8560]

@@gameranxTVAh to be young again, and stupid 😂

[@RygasV]

My guess is the box fox could be metal gear solid reference since snake is part of fox hound

[@blancodiablo8788]

About the dragon crest shield talisman .. you’ll get the dragon crest greatshield talisman long before you’ll get dcst +2, makes no sense

[@creepybastard7817]

"Those items are still useful than my son" -My parents.

[@reggiep75]

I'm laughing at this and thinking 'Yeah, I've been there and collected some right junk and didn't know why I bothered.' And spent the last 20-odd years doing it too. I'm never gonna get that time back 😂😂😂

[@zombielincoln89]

The Austin powers bit killed me

[@RG36]

The Stone of Agony is shaped exactly like the rumble pack.

[@McqueenCars2025]

Wooow das ist fantastick einfach super klasse video 👍👍👍👍

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@Kahadi]

In Rune Factory 4 (maybe also other games in the series but that one I know for certain), there's actually a reference to the Secret Boots from Castlevania, the Secret Shoes. As with Castlevania's, all they do is make you taller... Which is pretty well useless in a mostly top down 2.5D game. That being said, they aren't fully useless in that game, having okay defensive stats for when you can make them. Not the best, but also not the worst. There's also an upgrade item that pretty well is useless in those games, the Scrap Metal +. It reduces your weapon's attack to 1. Completely useless... Unless you're trying to minmax by farming one specific item, as there's an enemy that has a chance to drop a very useful upgrade item, but it's a very rare spawn in a late game area... That has... I think 2 HP, or maybe 5, with a chance to drop the item with every hit. So if you want to farm that item, you want a weapon that deals the least damage possible. Otherwise, an item that makes your weapon deal practically nothing is useless.

[@officialnucky]

Have you already done a video about the hardest weapons/items to get in games? You upload so often I can't remember what I've seen any more 😅

[@joeyhillers9460]

Hear me out: Leviathan Axe in Ragnarok. In first game, you didn’t start with the blades of chaos and you had to use it. They designed some puzzles around it, works ok. In Ragnarok, it sucked. Not really any changes from 4th game other than the frosting thing. I defeated Thor and only used it when I needed to solve a puzzle. The blades just work better. When you get Draupnir, that solves your ranged problem. It’s kinda useless to me

[@justinc5151]

I find falcons voice and descriptions so calming

[@scaramouche1207]

The stone of agony specifically looks like a rumble pack

[@DAllen-xc8gd]

Hey guys hope you y’all are having a great day/week❤

[@gameranxTV]

Hi

[@nathanteske7886]

The dragon Crest shield is great if you KNOW it's there on new builds

[@annoyingtiger888x2]

In Neverwinter, there's a pair of gloves that increases your stats but every time you crit, you lose 5 gold. I went broke pretty quick because I didn't realize this lmao

[@goldenboyy999]

I'm finally early 😭❤️💯

[@gameranxTV]

Nice

[@daveyg.5931]

Wasn't that broken sword in Ocarina of TIme part of the BigGoron Sword quest? The BigGoron Sword was badass!

[@shanebraaten9553]

Lucky Guy...!! And Yes.. Yes it was part of the Quest Good sir..,🤘🏻

[@awkwardsilence4427]

It actually wasn’t. I think you’re thinking of the Broken Biggoron's Sword, which looks just like a broken Giant’s Knife, but is considered a different item entirely.

[@Oakshield2]

My thing with Fromsoft weapons is that after you've chosen your main in the early game, upgraded and got used to them, every other one you get is pointless. Sure, it might be cool when going NG+ or replaying to rush to a weapon and get it as quick as possible to make it your main, but on a first playthrough it's ridiculous. Elden Ring kinda got around that with the bell bearings being sort of easy to access due to the open world nature of the game, DS1 and DS2 kinda got around that by giving you a shit ton of upgrade materials. DS3 is the worst of the pack with the scarcity of materials and their equivalent of the bell bearing locations.

[@gorytarrafa]

2:08 and the Cinquedea dagger an amazing wepon that boost the damage of bestial incantations .

[@hombuswacuracao]

Great video as always

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks

[@lemn7254]

bloodborne wooden shield completely breaks the martyr logarius bossfight. he can't damage you through it, and it only does chip stamina damage

[@ArgaAnders]

The "Blade from The Bits" from The Witcher 3 would have made this list! A long (Albeit fun) quest is rewarded with a sword with lower stats than pretty much everything else that you´re carrying!

[@Winnyao]

If there's plus one plus two quality dragon shield talismans, and eventually you do get more talisman slots, wouldn't that mean you could stack all three?

[@devondavis5119]

Nice details bro

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks

[@no8lc7c39]

After beating elden ring I realize I never used the turtle item duplicate thing and never used a rune arc. 🤷‍♂️

[@dougiemcbain]

Balan Wonderworld is so bad that Falcon can't even remember it's name properly lol

[@Krotas_DeityofConflicts]

Even in terms of realism, if they're supposed to be made of real Gold or Silver, it still doesn't make sense because they are indeed stronger than steel and also much denser.

[@SkotKozB5]

People at Gameranx need to learn what the word useless means. I'm halfway through this list and every single one so far has been "Here's how this thing can be used. But it's useless." My favorite thing was the secret boots. Speedrunners use them to get to slightly out of reach ledges. Oh but they're useless to everyone else. WHAT

[@EkangNaGala]

Foxbox? Foxhound?! Snake???? METAL GEAR!!!!!

[@DukeTogo505]

When I heard fox box, I immediately thought of metal gear. Maybe it's an homage to that? But even the box is more useful so idk.

[@flamingburitto]

Water chip from fallout. In fallout 1 your goal is to find a water chip, the main mission of the game. In fallout 2, in a certain vault you find 420 of them (nice) just sitting around. Do they do anything special? or have a purpose in the game? NO THEY JUST TAKE UP SPACE IN YOUR INVENTORY. But you can sell them so that's nice.Some extra money on the side.

[@cmdraftbrn]

hell in fallout 2 you go back to fallout 1 and break said waterchip