Which video game has the greatest shotgun of all time?

Super shotgun in all Doom games is awesome. Was my favorite weapon in Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal.

Objectively it's Doom, it's the only shotgun endorsed by the man himself Terry Pratchett

"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon..." - Terry Pratchett

Without taking away from the OG, I like the Borderlands 3 tribute to it:

https://borderlands.fandom.com/wiki/Hellwalker

Always incendiary. Fixed parts. Reduced reload time. Massively increased damage. Projectile spread assumes an inverted pentagram pattern. Makes heavy electric guitar noises when fired and picked up.

It's almost unfair to compare any other shotgun to this one.

It's sounds like God slamming his car door shut

The sound of it was perfection.

Fuck yeah. This is easily my answer. I’m a zoomer who only played DOOM for the first time 6 months ago, I’m so jealous I haven’t discovered the SSG earlier in life. I envy people who played DOOM in the 90s and got to experience that.

I’d kill to deathmatch in DOOM II back in those days honestly.

People sleep on Unreal Tournament 2004 but that shit was peak multiplayer exprience

I used the Flak Cannon in the OG Unreal Tournament so much as a kid, best weapon

UT voice

Flak Monkey...

This is my favorite of all time.

Direct hit with secondary was so dam satisfying

You’re goddamn right it does

Damn I owned lobbies in UT99. First game I played online when my parents moved from landline to cable internet

God damn, came here with ONLY THIS IN MIND.

It's such a goated weapon, it's not even funny.

You are an FPS connoisseur I see. This is the only right answer

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GOW's gnasher was top tier video game shotgun. Their reload system just worked so well for shotgun action. Very satisfying.

The good ol gnasher, nothing beats that

This was my answer. Exploding someone with the Gnasher in Gears is one of gaming's finest moments. Pure dopamine.

Sweaty Bairds charging at you with Gnashers either has to be outright hilarious when you find out they're trash, or make you throw your controller when they're cleaning house.

Gears 1 had effectively two tiers of weapons. The Gnasher, and everything else.

It truly was amazing, the shotgun duals in that game were great

And it was a lever action shotgun.

If you perfectly double-stacked the active reload you could turn three people into chunks from 20 feet away 

It’s depressing how far down I had to scroll to find this

Gnasher two piece will always be a classic

Yeah, the plain pump action shotgun felt brilliant. I would often keep it instead of switching to the semi-auto shotgun later in the levels

BF bad company 2 shotguns slugs were 👌

Throat shots in SoF. Blood spraying out, you hear them choking as they grab their necks, trying to stop the bleeding.

You can control DAY AND NIGHT!

Playing rush on Seine crossing. You either tackled the LAV or the guys in the house with portable LAVs as weapons. My god what a glorious month before it got patched to oblivion

I couldn't remember if it was BF2:BC or BF3 but yeah, use a slug and headshot snipe the enemy from across the map!

This just made me let out an audible moan, that was so fun/fucking annoying

That shotgun was particularly good because when Father Grigori tosses it to you its like "WHY DIDN'T I HAVE THIS AN HOUR AGO HOW HAVE I BEEN GETTING BY WITHOUT IT?!"

Going From Being jump scared, to being jump scared by a red cloud.

Most weapons in F.E.A.R felt like the best of their category. I loved the heavy feeling of the assault rifle

Hard agree on that.

Had to scroll down way too far to find this

I love the original Halo shotgun because it shoots like an actual shotgun, a spread of pellets and you can see each individual pellet if you shoot a wall. Halo 2 shotgun was like: 5 feet and closer? instakill anything in a 70 degree arc. Over 5 feet away? gentle caressing whisper. Ruined such a good weapon

I just played through Halo:CE again and I don't think I had used it very much outside of The Library but it is probably my favorite gun in the game now, so good

I'm currently playing the Master Chief Collection and the shotgun is amazing and all the Halo games (played Reach, 1, 2 and 3 so far). Especially against the Flood it's awesome.

I replayed 1-4 recently and the shotgun quality drop off from CE to 2 is INSANE. The reload animation / speed only makes it worse.

Just how damn easy that thing mowed down the flood. You have the AR and the pistol at the beginning vs the flood, and right away you know the rifle doesn’t do shit. Dump a whole clip into one of them and it’s still coming. The pistol, which you’ve been relying on all game because it’s crazy OP against the covenant, works but not very well. Then you get that shotgun and it’s one shot one kill one after another. Set em up knock em down

Had to scroll too far to see this one.

Oh, RDR2. My finding of the explosive slug pamphlet marked a catastrophic time for the duck and goose populations, followed by an even worse time for the goddamn O’Driscolls.

Yeah the pump action shotgun is probably my favorite gun in the game, with slugs especially it could be deadly at long ranges too.

I loved the revolver that had one shotgun shot just in case an outlaw came too close.

Prey was such a gem. The way each weapon had a different role. "The right tool for the job" method of game design is my absolute favorite.

This is too far down the list. They are a work of fucking art

The Spas-12 was also very satisfying to use.

Pre-nerf those things were FUCKING BUSTED. The only thing worse than hearing two 1887s barking out fire was turning a corner and seeing a guy with a glitched Javelin that will fire a rocket at his feet the moment he dies.

Fuck, the original MW2 was so good, even the glitches were hilarious.

Those things pre-patch were more accurate than the sniper rifles in the game

let's just ping everyone all at once

CC + Bee Shield was so overpowered before they nerfed it. Basically 2-3 shots and everything died on screen.

I remember people in my game yelling WTF when I dropped in killing Terramorphous in seconds. They had been grinding him for 40 mins.

It is a great shotgun and does the job very well, but it does not feel impacting. Hellwalker does.

Yeah, if we’re talking DOOM II SSG vs Eternal SSG it’s really hard because of the greatest item in any game ever, grappling hooks. There’s literally nothing better than a badass grappling hook.

I want to make a website sort of like that one where you can look up a movie then it tells you if the dog dies, but with different shooter games. doesithaveagrapplinghook.com or something lol. I’d include other parameters you could search for, like “does it have an OP shotgun” or “is the starting weapon busted?”

If anyone wants to help me get a website like that hit me up lmfaoo. That would be a sweet project

Don't forget it also sets them on fire when you hook them..

Exquisite pick! Using the electric slug to delete Big Daddies was so satisfying. Whack em with the wrench with the frozen mod or just use electro bolt and then blast the fuckers.

Fun times.

Ooh, fun pick. I forgot how lovely that one felt.

Agreed! Especially with the way its introduced. Pick it up and the lights go out and a bunch of splicers start coming at you!

I always focus on getting the grenade option upgraded ASAP. 

That and the pistol can carry me easily through a large chunk. 

I've thought about a shotgun run, were some of the fights a bit drawn out only using that? 

Sad that I had to scroll this far to find this. Blood, and it's shotgun in particular, are absolutely goated

I live... again

New Vegas shotguns were the best in the series. If you were a gun build that took the Shotgun Surgeon and And Stay Back perks, the game might as well have rolled credits

Fully upgraded striker was sick

The way you get it in the first big fight in the Village is great too. You are clearly out gunned, but then suddenly as you take cover in a house it's right there. Excellent pacing by the writers.

12 Gauge, Pump Action Shotgun - Don't leave home without it!

I have fond memories of my first playthrough using a shotgun modded to just be a one-shot wonder. Yeah it overheats immediately but whatever is unfortunate enough to be in front of you gets absolutely obliterated

ME1's shotguns with high explosive ammo is definitely the first thing I thought of - one frame the enemies are there, the next they're halfway across the sky with hilarious ragdoll physics. I tell myself the next playthrough will be different but I always end up coming back to this build for endgame every time.

This one is iconic if only for the inexplicable secondary fire.

Projectile boosting alone makes it one of the best. Then all the different variants and tech puts it at number one for me.

The Destiny series in general has a lot of crazy shotties. Perks like trench barrel, one-two-punch and auto-reloader etc make them so nuts.

had to scroll down for this. Tractor Cannon is pretty solid too!

Remember when felwinters lie took over the crucible for like 2 years?

Eyyy, I love this answer!! I’m unashamed to admit I’m a sucker for shotgun Heavy sometimes. Funny as hell and gets some funny reactions from the lobby. Also I respect shotgun pyros since they aren’t pussies who use scorchshot.

Then obviously Engie as well. Love how all of the other shotguns are pretty much sidegrades it always stays relevant.

Especially for the Library

The Quake II regular shotgun has such a satisfying sound. Sounds like slamming your fists down on a glass desk full of coins.

It's funny because the Mozambique was magnificent in Titanfall 2, to the point where they had to switch it from a secondary to a primary weapon.

Which is why I was glad to find one in my first Apex match. It was quite the surprise when I found out it shot rubber ducks instead of bullets in that game. Once hammerpoints came around it suddenly felt like my old Mozam again lol.

Ah a man of culture.

Yes came to this thread to nominate this one. The game was ok for most aspects except the feeling of the guns, which is some of the best I’ve ever experienced and the shotgun was the best.