Gaming

Probably a bow. The newer Tomb Raider games where you could essentially make your bow a one shot silent killing lasergun were great. I also always liked to use a bow in Skyrim.

On the other hand, bows in Far Cry (starting from FC3) were pretty annoying to use as you constantly ran out of ammo and the physics weren't that great. I didn't play Far Cry Primal yet, I hear there the bow was good again. I won't buy Ubisoft games due to ethical reasons though…

I always want it to be the spear, but I find that most games don't really get spears right or just generally make them a worse choice than some type of sword. Spears or something in the spear family were the weapon of choice for the vast majority of human history. This is true both in contexts where fighting would have been done in tight formation and in times/places where it was not. It was more common than the sword, and in many places and times would have been considered a fighter's main weapon, with a sword acting as a kind of sidearm. In games, however, spears are almost always less effective than swords, while reach advantage is usually very minor or negated altogether.