Ok so I picked up a copy of Split/Second Velocity and have had so much fun with it, it really is an amazing game. I'm not much of a racer person, usually preferring adventure games or the good ol'FPS. So that got me looking at my game collection and I wondered just how many games I had that didn't use guns anywhere in them. You know what? Hardly any of them didn't have guns.
Now, I am going to do a little test and I'd like the fine people of the Escapist forums to join in... to find games that do not have guns featured in them as a playable weapon despite it being perfectly possible to have included them. So basically a game that could have guns, but the designers didn't include them, and yet it is still fun to play.
Now there are a few rules:
1) Does the game world allow for guns to exist? (E.G. is it set in a time period where guns are created?) This would mean that games like Oblivion and Prince of Persia do not count.
2) Do guns fit into the nature of the game overall? (E.G. a Rock Band game or Quiz game would not, by nature, have you using guns, so they also, do not count)
3) Would including guns still allow for a coherant story? (E.G. a Harry Potter game would not have guns because it clearly messes with the story that is being told, because wizards don't use guns and if they did then it undermines the whole story.) Therefore Harry Potter games also don't count.
If you answered yes to all of the above... and the game doesn't have guns in it... then you have identified a game which, for all intents and purposes, COULD use guns in it's core gameplay BUT DOES NOT.
I'm sorry for all the pedantic rules but it stops any smart alecs trying to dodge the point of the thread! Simply saying the Prince of Persia games don't have guns and are fun defeats the object because by the nature of the setting and storyline, they blatantly wouldn't anyway! I'm looking for games where the game designers COULD have included guns but chose not to.
I have to say, out of my whole game collection, which is pretty big and spans 4 consoles, there is only a single game which conforms to this. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. It interests me because guns seems to be something we have so readily accepted into our lives and seem to dominate near every game we play these days.
So tell me, what do you think?
Now, I am going to do a little test and I'd like the fine people of the Escapist forums to join in... to find games that do not have guns featured in them as a playable weapon despite it being perfectly possible to have included them. So basically a game that could have guns, but the designers didn't include them, and yet it is still fun to play.
Now there are a few rules:
1) Does the game world allow for guns to exist? (E.G. is it set in a time period where guns are created?) This would mean that games like Oblivion and Prince of Persia do not count.
2) Do guns fit into the nature of the game overall? (E.G. a Rock Band game or Quiz game would not, by nature, have you using guns, so they also, do not count)
3) Would including guns still allow for a coherant story? (E.G. a Harry Potter game would not have guns because it clearly messes with the story that is being told, because wizards don't use guns and if they did then it undermines the whole story.) Therefore Harry Potter games also don't count.
If you answered yes to all of the above... and the game doesn't have guns in it... then you have identified a game which, for all intents and purposes, COULD use guns in it's core gameplay BUT DOES NOT.
I'm sorry for all the pedantic rules but it stops any smart alecs trying to dodge the point of the thread! Simply saying the Prince of Persia games don't have guns and are fun defeats the object because by the nature of the setting and storyline, they blatantly wouldn't anyway! I'm looking for games where the game designers COULD have included guns but chose not to.
I have to say, out of my whole game collection, which is pretty big and spans 4 consoles, there is only a single game which conforms to this. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. It interests me because guns seems to be something we have so readily accepted into our lives and seem to dominate near every game we play these days.
So tell me, what do you think?
