In a game I just love the sound of that ping. No other game I’ve ever played has had a more visceral feel due to that. Since you had to carry and use it in real life, how was the weight? I remember reading one push to the awful early version of M16 was something about weight, but didn’t know if it was in relation to M1 Garland and if that weight savings was at all worth it (loud ping aside of course)
This is how Ion’s energy shield works in Titanfall 2… and when you release it, it fires back whatever was shot at you.
Yeah, like that, except you hold it down to maintain a shield right? I’m thinking one click, like you’re firing an actual gun. But in reverse.
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Argh, don’t remind me. Never did get one.
Props to @arrendek for remembering the dubstep gun. That was a cracking good time. A gun that actually makes the player wiggle their body parts! Genius!
…bless you?
Not available in multiplayer, so the (singular) RCP90 is the obvious winner.
Honorable mentions: The Spinfusor from Starsiege: Tribes, and the submachine gun from MAG.
Seconded. The Gears chainsaw gun was inspired, though. Medium range gun with a crazy close quarters backup. I remember I had gruesomely buzzsawed dozens of bad guys when the first one fought back and all of the sudden I’m in a chain saw duel. Wow!
See their mistake was best VIDEO GAME gun.
Because the M1 is the best real gun. And anyone who disagrees with have to hold an M1 at arm’s length for 5 minutes until they comply.
Honestly, I don’t remember the rifle being particular heavy - But then again, I was 19 and in pretty good shape, and we carried that thing everywhere. Our personal equipment in general had a weight around 50 kiloes, seeing we were Royal Danish Engineers.
I carried the tripod for a light machine as well at times, so thats probably why I didn’t think the Garand was heavy ;-)
But its pretty awesome to use the Garand in games, and the LMG M62 as well, which is the two weapons I was trained for - Both are somewhat profilic in games!
The two guns I think are best is the squirt gun in Fallout 4 and the gun used in Nintendo’s Duck Hunt. With the squirt gun you got to take out an invincible dude and I got to actually hold the the Duck Hunt gun in my hand while shooting those dang-blasted ducks.
Just what I was thinking.
Yea, it would have been nice to shoot that stupid dog to shut him up.
It’s a 10 lb gun with lots of wood and the balance of that weight isn’t distributed too well. It’s a pretty beefy piece of hardware compared to say an AR15 or the like. Good side is you could easily kill someone with it even without any bullets.
I played Quake 2 competitively so the Rocket Launcher and Super Shotgun will have to come first. Especially loved the the SSG with the Power Amp as I mainly played CTF. I can’t think of any other weapon Ive had better mastery over than the Q2 RL.
Although the RL in Team Fortress (I know its Quake/QW but I didnt play them) had a lovely feel to it too, and being faster projectile, blisteringly accurate.
I was really effective in Battlefield 2 with the DAO-12. Especially when I was one of the first to unlock it, I used to take out entire squads at close range.
The laser in Salamander (and Gradius series) is an excellent SHMUP gun, why are we only mentioning FPS’s here?
My Buriza in Diablo 2 was awesome, their were Burizon builds for good reason.
The chaingun in Serious Sam is probably the best videogame chaingun. All the weps in SS were pretty sweet tbh. Absolutely loved the star wars laser.
oh sure - but its not like we had other rifles to compare with so I guess we just took it for granted. The one thing I DO remember, is that firing it packed quite a punch, and you could easily get a bruised shoulder after a day on the firing range, until you learned how to lean into the shot.
The other weapons I fired were a M62 which was quite heavy, and then the sergeants carried small, British machinepistols I dont know the name off, so the comparison weren’t there. Other branches of the military had… G3, Heckler and Koch rifles , but for some reason we had to carry the old rifles.
Pop-up target practice with a M62 on a course you have to walk through, was pretty fun and made you feel badass. Not many games gives you the same sense of power that these kind of weapons actually exhibit in real life, but I seem to recall that Battlefield 1942 had the rifles, and more or less accurately portrayed them.
Oh man, the memory of sending some of the cannonballs or using the chaingun against a huge pack of galloping kleer skeletons in Serious Sam is still so good. In co-op, even better, with a line of Sams (in various costumes, of course) going nuts at like 100 enemies at once.
Yeah it’s a hell of a round compared to 5.56.