Anyone else really disappointed with the "fake" guns?

[Crow]

Im only a few hours in, but this really really bothers me.. I cant help but feel it "cheapens" the game. The game certainly isnt 'cheap' its just every single previous MGS game had such great weapon lore and this is just a huge part of the game where I feel really let down.. especially because you can choose your own development etc and I have NEVER felt let down really in any way by an MGS game before. People may say its a small part of the game, however the entire series is based on a time line of true historical events, and thus far has been extremely "historically correct" with the firearms available in the previous games. Its bothered me enough to post this up and ask others opinion in any case.

[Onik]

Not really since it's for a good cause.

[Crow]

Good cause?

[JuggernautOfWar]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Run Rabbit:

Not really since it's for a good cause.

What is for a good cause? What cause specifically?

[ko]

A vidya game gun is a vidya game gun. If it goes *pow* *pow* it's good enough for me.

[Kuruseida]

As it was said, it IS for a Good cause.

[JuggernautOfWar]

As it was asked, what good cause?

[Osku]

Oprindeligt skrevet af JuggernautOfWar:

As it was asked, what good cause?

Not promoting weapon manufacturers maybe?

I don't know, doesn't bother me either way, game's amazing.

[The Bank]

I know what you mean. The gadgets and that are cool. But the guns dont have real power or punch when you are shooting, like the sound of gun, its qualitly sound, but the guns dont seem to have much power, weight to them when you shoot, like also the feedback of when you hit enemies, hit detection

[randir14]

I don't know why some games still do this. The old excuse developers used for fake weapon names is they thought they'd be sued for using the real name. But nearly every game these days uses the real names.

[JuggernautOfWar]

Yeah as an example "AK-74" is not a registered trademark and is free to use, so I don't know why the AK-74s can't be labeled as such in game.

Labeling a weapon properly would in no way be promoting weapon manufacturers since military designations are not initial factory model names, and an M4A1 for example does not necessarily have to come from Colt (which just filed for bankruptcy).

[Rotator Ocelot]

This is the first Metal Gear Solid game to use exclusively fake guns AFAIK, but on the bright side they do all seem based on era-appropriate weapons. In fact, they look like they're put together using existing weapons of the era.

The WU silent pistol looks almost exactly like the Ruger Mk II/Mk III, the AM D114 looks like a Browning Hi-Power, the Burkov is a clone of the Makarov PM, the Sz.-336 is some weird amalgamation of the Uzi and the Mac-10, the S1000 is obviously a Remington 870, the Rasp is your generic coach gun, the MSR-4 is some kind of combination of a FAL and the AR series complete with STANAG magazine, the SVG-76 is an AK copy and the UN-ARC is almost completely a FAL, the Renov is some weird bastard Mosin...

And so on.

[Crow]

Oprindeligt skrevet af ko:

A vidya game gun is a vidya game gun. If it goes *pow* *pow* it's good enough for me.

Im going to assume you havent played the full series.

Also the 2 people that posted that its for a "Good Cause" and then failing to elaborate or present any fact or evidence why this is the case..

[Mother]

Oprindeligt skrevet af randir14:

I don't know why some games still do this. The old excuse developers used for fake weapon names is they thought they'd be sued for using the real name. But nearly every game these days uses the real names.

They have to pay for it. That's why. I don't get why a name would improve the game.

[BuckshotMage66652]

I guarantee it's because Konami didn't want to pay for licenses because they suck.

[JuggernautOfWar]

I already said they don't have to pay for licensing. I explained it all a few posts up.