(05-11-2015, 12:35 AM)Mercurias Wrote: I think Gunblades are quite possibly the dumbest thing ever.Â
"In Final Fantasy VIII all forms of gunblade consist of a sword blade with a gun action built into the hilt, the barrel running inside the length of the blade. They are mostly used like normal swords, but triggering a round sends a shock wave through the blade as the weapon passes through an opponent to boost damage." - From this link on the FF Wiki concerning Gunblades.
Theoretically possible IC, but you're basically making an extremely awkward weapon with a limited number of "shock waves" unless you've got the unlimited ammo cheat on.
Admittedly, there are a number of guns with blades on them which would function as ranged weapons, but if you want to primarily fight at ranged, then you could just have a gun with a bayonet on it.
If you really, truly, and absolutely want a gunblade, then it's possible in lore. I just don't know why you'd want to edgelord like that.
This is mostly wrong and completely ignores applying the principles of firearms to combat, in regards to their efficacy.
A sword, I'm sorry, is just a sword. If youre aether-swinging it around sure its going to slice through stone or whatever else, but gunblades provide an interesting extra - a large bored firearm.
Say what you will about your snowflake aether powers that make you bulletproof, catching a .454 sized round, or something above .500 is going to fucking destroy what it comes into contact with.
It's not about 'vibrations', are you even familiar with how firearms work? People need to stop being deadset on how FF8's very...silly notion of Gunblades dictates their behavior here. The individual roleplayer here dictates that, not that terrible PS1 game. Bullet comes out, destroys what it can until it's out of energy.
People get hung up on pulling the trigger of a gunblade mid slice, well thats how FF8 worked for extra damage on the normal Attack, but if you try to actually RP that you'd likely pull the trigger after you bury that sword into...whatever. Dragon's haunch, something like that. Or you could simply have a limited capacity ranged attack option. Not everyone has infinite naruto throwing knives and chakra magics to sling.
Gunblades, in this sort of Fantasy setting, are crazy fucking overpowered if you line them up alongside most, if not all, hand weapons that are melee in nature. People who think their special suit of inherited armor are going to stop a bullet are plot-armoring too much.
