History Main / BreakableWeapons

** Every weapon has a durability meter that's reduced by blocking and attacking. The durability can be recovered by using items or resting in a Stargazer checkpoint. Pinocchio's arm has an infinite-use grinder that allows him to repair damaged weapons, but the blade will shatter if the durability drops completely, rendering the grinder ineffective and forcing the player to retreat to a Stargazer to restore it.

* In the ''{{VideoGame/Diablo}}'' series, an item keeps all its characteristics intact until it reaches zero durability, at which point it [[CriticalExistenceFailure instantly becomes useless]], but can still be repaired. ''Diablo II: Lord of Destruction'' added three special cases: Ethereal items, which are more powerful than regular items but have lower durability and cannot be repaired, the Indestructible attribute found on some unique and set items as well as regular magical items with the "of ages" suffix and finally the Zod rune (but good luck finding it). In the first ''Diablo'', using the repair skill at lower levels would fix the weapon, but lower its maximum durability number, meaning it would need fixing again sooner.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Diablo|1997}}'', items reduced to Zero Durability are destroyed, making low-durability items like the Thinking Cap very tedious to use. However, there were shrines in the game that raised maximum durability, and making use of the Thinking Cap item (which had 1 durability to start with), almost required exploiting these shrines.

** In ''VideoGame/DiabloI'', items reduced to Zero Durability are destroyed, making low-durability items like the Thinking Cap very tedious to use. However, there were shrines in the game that raised maximum durability, and making use of the Thinking Cap item (which had 1 durability to start with), almost required exploiting these shrines.

* In ''[[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game]]'', every weapon in the game will break after enough uses. ''Every'' weapon. Even the [[spoiler: [[InfinityPlusOneSword Power of Love sword]]]], although it does have a very impressive number of uses before it fails.

Compare with ThrowawayGuns; guns that cannot be reloaded are one way of implementing this trope. Of course, if a game doesn't feature this trope, it probably has UnbreakableWeapons. If you can break weapons before even ''getting'' them, it falls under DestroyableItems. This is a SisterTrope to WreckedWeapon when weapons break in fiction. Contrast with ScrappyMechanic and FakeDifficulty.

* ''VideoGame/SevenSixtyTwoHighCalibre'' has two different stats for weapons: Wear and Dirt. Both accumulate as the weapon is used, with Dirt rising faster (representing dirt, grime, carbon buildup, and other such byproducts of firing or careless use in a dirty environment). Dirt can be eliminated with a few seconds and a cleaning kit, while Wear can't be fixed without a weapon repair kit that can only be used when the gun breaks entirely. In both cases, a worn-out or dirty weapon causes a higher chance of a jam (requiring a second for the merc to fix his weapon, which may take multiple tries).

* Many melee weapons in ''VideoGame/DeathRoadToCanada'' have a chance of breaking when used to attack, as can firearms if used to [[PistolWhipping attack]] when you're out of ammo. Most of the strongest and most practical weapons are unbreakable, though, and those weapons that can break are subject to a percentage chance of breaking (rather than a durability meter).

** Most of the weapons are unbreakable, though human weaponry, slayer weapons and many staves that allow Great Magic use have a random chance of breaking after each use.

* ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance2'':

* ''VideoGame/BloodOmen2LegacyOfKain'' features this; there is a considerable variety in the types of weapons shown, but they're pretty much all breakable, usually only lasting two or three fights. When they break, they will ''shatter into a million pieces''. Oddly, weapons only break when you use them; You can strike an enemy's weapon all day long, and block their every attack, but it'll never break until it gets into your hands.

** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' has the durability of all non-broken equipment restored to full upon resting at a bonfire, and anything that ''is'' broken can be easily repaired at a blacksmith. However, this is counteracted by most weapons being as fragile as tissue paper, breaking in about 30-50 attacks. And just to make it even worse, the only game in the trilogy where Repair Powder is actually ''useful'' is also the only game where it can't be bought in infinite quantities right from the start. The merchant who has an infinite stock of it isn't accessible until about halfway into the game. There are three other merchants who sell it, but they only have one each. One enemy can drop it, but extremely rarely, not to mention they are only found in one of the game's biggest [=PvP=] hot zones. In addition to all that, they also gave ''rings'' durability, and more often than not the really useful rings are also the ones with the lowest durability. However, there is also a ring that slows durability loss when worn, which provides some relief. There is also Santier's Spear, a weapon with rather sub-par stats but insanely high durability. It will most likely never break unless you do so deliberately by smacking it against the crows' nest in Things Betwixt for several minutes straight, or are trying to do a [[NoDeathRun no-bonfire run]]. When it finally ''does'' break, however, [[GameBreaker the game breaks with it]], since unlike other broken weapons it not only doesn't lose any attack power but also ''gains'' a brand new, extremely versatile moveset. And since you can't break what's already broken, it now effectively has infinite durability.

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'', you can repair pretty much any and all weapons, including broken ones, simply by visiting the castle town shops and paying a corresponding fee (up to 1000 gold per use on legendary weapons). Which is rather less convenient than it sounds when you realize that each unit has its own bag of cash that can only be transferred to another unit under very limited circumstances and healers tend to have trouble acquiring money. Thankfully, in this game, almost everything (bar some specialty weapons, but including the Holy Weapons but not the Holy Staff) has 50 uses.