Does everything need a gun?

[DINOPHOSAURUS]

tbh i'm quite tired about games having guns that don't fit in the game. I mean, game looks cool and seems to have a solid and immersive fantasy world, couldn't wepons be related to that?
I get that it's easy for devs to put guns and make it bee the default way to interact with the world, but a freaking Kar98k in a basicly medieval world?
Please tell me you agree at least in some messure

[xanthrite]

Game takes place in 1889 so guns make sense to me. So if the gun you mention is really a Kar98k it's still 45 years too early, but not as bad if the game was actually meant to be a medieval game. (But the rifle I see looks like bolt actions that absolutely could have been from 1889.)

[DINOPHOSAURUS]

Originally posted by xanthrite:

Game takes place in 1889 so guns make sense to me. So if the gun you mention is really a Kar98k it's still 45 years too early, but not as bad if the game was actually meant to be a medieval game. (But the rifle I see looks like bolt actions that absolutely could have been from 1889.)

You know what i mean, if its a fantasy world, souldn't weapons fit with that?

[xanthrite]

"stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world" So yeh guns fit just fine in this setting imo. The people are from a Victorian era world. They dress that way and the architecture fits, so why not is all. I wouldn't leave my firearms at home jumping through those portals!

[Nobu]

You should try Conan Exiles, OP. Maybe you'll like that?

[digitalheadbutt]

There also appears to be magic, so a gun isn't any different really. You can always go back to that Sagan quote; “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

Add on to that magic is often a proxy for tech in fantasy stories, even those based on periods even more removed in era from the current.

As others have already pointed out, this game is placing itself in a sort of Victorian clockwork magitech era not dissimilar to what we saw in Lies of P or the show Arcane. I don't think there is any real issue. Besides as far as I know, there is no PVP element so it's not like you will be at any disadvantage if you choose not to use ranged weapons. They will like have the option to do more close combat if you choose.

[Zombra]

A Victorian-era hunter with a jeweled battleaxe would look way weirder than what we have here. I love the style.

[Jinx]

there's a chance they'll do some melee weapons too tbf

[Rance]

Originally posted by digitalheadbutt:

You can always go back to that Sagan quote; “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

Actually that was an Arthur C. Clarke quote but I guess you were in the ballpark...

[Kylestien]

Personally, I think it rather depends on if there are also melee weapons or not. If you can choose between a magic gun, or a victorian sword cane or something, I fail to see what the issue is.

[Erstwhile]

I was expecting black power and paper cartrige… Not brass cased rounds…