Minecraft Forums

Quote from DarkWolfXV

Not everyone can stand brutality and satanism and all evil in this world neatly packed into one song .

Quote from Murkling

Yeah. Assassins creed is turning into COD.
Look at all the guns, and team death matches.

Quote from Bindal

1. you're. (your means something COMPLETELY different, ffs)
Oh, did I spell that wrong? hadn't even noticed, wouldn't normally do that.

2. A good bunch of the Halo Community probably doesn't even KNOW that there is a singleplayer in the first place...
Then they're not proper Halo fans and can't say which is best.

Quote from Neospector

First off, don't give me that crap. If this wasn't your idea you wouldn't even care what I was saying, you'd just comment with your own opinion. But when I comment on your idea ("your" as in the general audience, I.E, whoever's thread I'm commenting on, not specifically you.) automatically it makes me the bad guy, it turns me into "The guy who hates every little tiny thing" which I'm not. It really annoys me to see someone take a forum post like that, it's like "Oh he just disagreed with me, KILL"

Quote from Sushimmi

That might be counted as gore, and Minecraft is a gore free game

Quote from Liberality

Agreeable. But to think about it, a majority of the story is usually gun fights. I don't know how thats gonna work out.

Quote from 123guy45

The OP might want to buy one of these thee games and have no idea what one to go with.

Quote from Liberality

Yeah, Gears of War is great. I loved the series from 1-2. I'm not done 3. I'm super lazy when it comes to story games, but once I get into it, theres no way stopping me.

Quote from 123guy45

Like the post above said, its saying what game do you like best.

Quote from AnonTheMouse

I hear a lot of arguments claiming that any gun would be redundant to a bow. Or that it would by default be too powerful. In the first place, I don't think that's true. Logically speaking, while I certainly believe that Steve can understand "This powder explodes with heat...I bet it could push things." I doubt he has the tools to make the precision-machined parts used in modern firearms, or that their construction would even occur to him. So, forget about silencers and scopes, and rapid-fire or cartridges.

What we have is a simple, muzzle-fed, single shot black powder weapon. So...what's true about such firearms? Well, first of all, they take a long time to reload. For simplicity's sake, lets say that in Minecraft terms it would take three, maybe four times as long as charging a bow fully...and you wouldn't have the option to take less time. Second, they aren't accurate. While the bow has a predictable arc, a gun would likely have to use a random deviation...making it less reliable. The last point ties into the previous. Early firearms didn't have the range of bows. So a gun that was made to fill the role of being a gun wouldn't be "another long-range weapon". It would be the only mid-range weapon. So much so, in fact, that I would argue that the bow should get a range boost if guns were added, and an added mechanic that gives a bonus to damage at far range.

That, of course, is just using the current system, though. I'm also inclined to question the wisdom that we only need one ranged weapon. How many melee weapons to we have? If you answered "One"...well, go count again. The sword is supposed to be our melee option, but there are also variations for each material class, plus every other tool gives a bonus to melee damage as well. My math may be off, but let's take a count here: Five tool types, plus swords, times five materials...plus your fist...that's, what, thirty-one melee weapons? However, there's only one ranged weapon.

Leaving all that aside, though, it's common knowledge that combat could use some improvements in this game. So a firearm doesn't have to compete with the bow at all. They could both be just as good in every way, but specialize to a different niche. For instance, I've proposed a change to the combat system myself, with the goal of satisfying those that want more weapons in the game and making combat a little more strategic, where different weapons deal more or less damage depending on the mob (idea being that you only need to ever use one weapon, but are rewarded for using the one best suited to a fight). With that system, I introduced the idea of both guns and crossbows alongside the bow, with each being about the same but getting an advantage against different mobs.


The point I am trying to make here is that people should not dismiss the idea of guns simply because they are guns. It depends entirely on how they are implemented as to whether or not they can work, and despite the bad ideas out there, some of the people putting these ideas together really know their stuff and are working to come up with a way that makes things fair. So rather than saying, "A gun is redundant." or "A gun doesn't match the theme/setting of the game." you should look at the idea as a whole and say "If this didn't have the word gun in it...if I didn't know what a gun was...what would I think of this idea?" and "How can I make this idea not be redundant?" or "Is there a way this can be made to fit into the game?".