Fans debate most-nerfed character in history, from Star Wars Galaxies to Baldur’s Gate

Whether you like it or not, nerfing a character or weapon to intentionally make them weaker is a necessary evil in video games. A recent Reddit thread pondered who the most-nerfed character in history is, inspiring many kinds of answers from live service games to huge RPG sequels.

The original poster of this question argued that Spider-Man/Peter Parker was nerfed in the spin-off Spider-Man: Miles Morales due to how he was unable to defeat supervillain Rhino in the latter after having little trouble in the original Spider-Man game. Users responded with their own takes that involved a mixture of both narrative-based and gameplay nerfs. Some of these examples include Gale from Baldur’s Gate 3, Death Claws from Fallout, Brigitte from Overwatch, and Jedis in Star Wars Galaxies. Character-specific nerfs in games like these are usually made to remove overpowered mechanics and make playing against them less cumbersome.

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