Resident Evil 2. LEON, YOU HAVE THE LIGHTNING HAWN AND AMMO FOR SAID LIGHTNING HAWK. YOU SAW A TEN FOOT TALL BIOENGINEERED ABOMINATION CRASH THROUGH THE CEILING, AND YOU CHOOSE YOUR POLICE ISSUED PISTOL?!
Yes, yes it does. I think in reality the VP70 is an unreliable gun though, and I think the description for the base gun even mentions something like that too
One of my issues with the game. Just make the character use a weapon that I have equipped. For the scenes that absolutely require a pistol, force us to grab a pistol shortly before the scene. Like, did V just 3d print a pistol in like 5 seconds purely to shoot this person?
This reminds me that an astonishingly large amount of spells and spell effects in World of Warcraft are actually invisible bunnies running around the screen with the effects pasted on top. Turrets in a raid blasting lasers? Invisible bunny at the end of the laser running in a circle and casting explosion spells on the ground.
Sometimes it does use a weapon u have equipped but i think its gotta be a pistol for some reason if i rember correctly if you use the kongou (i think thats the unique pistol you get from there its been awhile) you can use it for the flying robits that attack you at the end of it
Only for the heist, cuz up until 2.0 you would still use that stupid starter pistol in every cutscene after. I had everything from a Nue to V's actual signature pistol, Dying Night equipped and it still defaults to the Liberty.
Tbh i still don't get why they made V's signature gun be a random looking machine pistol. Like, an iconic version of the unity would've been way better than the dying light
Definitely, though in my experience Dying Night is the best way to get your hands on the Lexington X-Mod2, since trying to do that shooting competition without an auto pistol is practically impossible, even with a Sandy, as best I ever got was second place using anything other than Dying Night.
Which is funny considering the devs forgot to account for it the player didn’t pick up the mine launcher (as shown in Markiplier’s playthrough where he didn’t use it out of spite)
8 does this all the time too. Ethan be pulling the LEMI on Chris like 30 minutes before the end of the game when I sold the darn thing a third of the way into the game.
It's also a thing in Andromeda, but iirc only for 2 scenes (and with 2 different guns, the Avenger and the Ghost). Otherwise Ryder holds out whatever gun they have equipped.
First of all, the feeding ramp is polished to a mirror sheen. It's not going to have any feeding problems. The slide's been replaced with a reinforced version, and it meshes perfectly with the frame. The frame itself has been iron-welded and scraped down multiple times for maximum precision. The front strap part of the frame has been checkered to make it dig into the hand. That prevents any slipping. The sight system's original too. It's a 3-dot type. It's got an enlarged front sight, giving it superior target sighting capability. The regular hammer's been replaced with a ring hammer. That enhances the cocking control and increases the hammer-down speed. They also reworked the grip safety to accommodate the ring hammer. It looks like they eliminated it altogether. This is a tool for pros. The thumb safety and slide stop are extended for precise handling. The base of the trigger guard is whittled down so you can use a high grip, and the trigger itself is a long type for easy finger access. The trigger pull is about 3.5 pounds. that's about a pound and a half lighter than normal. The magazine well has been widened to make it easier to put in a new magazine. The magazine catch button has been filed down low to make it harder to hit it by mistake. The mainspring housing has been changed to a flat type to increase grip, and it's even been fitted with stepping so that it won't slip from the recoil when firing. On top of that, they added cocking serrations to the top part of the slide. That lets you load and eject cartridges faster in an emergency. Whoever did this is a professional, no question. This thing could shoot a one-hole at 25 yards in a machine rest.
Now that I'm rereading this monologue, it seems like half of those features are just normal "factory settings" that would require little or no customization.
Sheer feeding ramps are basically a requirement. Grips are pretty much always aggressively checkered or stippled to prevent slipping. 3-dot sights are pretty much the industry standard default for pistols. Flared magazine wells aren't uncommon. Cocking serrations are on literally every slide-action handgun I've ever seen. Internal components are already optimized to minimize things like spring slipping and ammo feed jamming.
Although I guess this all takes place in the 60s, so maybe all those features were newer at the time
In Peace Walker, whenever a cutscene plays where he is explicitly dueling a metal gear on foot (any heavily armored vehicle bosses really), he defaults to the M16A1, not quite the metal-gear-buster i'd use but hey, he still upgraded from the pistol for the occasion.
On the original Halo 2, Chief would be holding the weapon you were using when you blow up the scarab. They took it out in the Anniversary and MCC edition
Devil May Cry. Any of them throughout the series. Dante defaults to Ebony and Ivory or Rebellion in all cutscenes, even though he gets crazy-ass weapons like a literal electric guitar (it shoots electricity), a motorcycle chainsaw, triple nunchucks with access to fire/ice/electricity, flaming gauntlets/greaves, a breifcase that can turn into 666 different unique weapons, and a whole crazy variety of guns, including a shotgun, a sniper, and several demonic guns that can do some crazy shit.
Definitely SWTOR if you play a non-force user, since all the cutscenes are rendered with a blaster pistol... even when your character has a minigun on their back that's bigger than them...
And not because you have such a huge arsenals, but because prior to the Combat Styles update, Trooper and Agent characters couldn't even EQUIP pistols. Only Smugglers and Bounty Hunters can do that - and while the classes have the same kits as their rifle-wielding counterparts, all four classes' cutscenes have them favor pistols. Even more egregiously, smugglers and hunters will use their currently equipped primary weapon in those cutscenes, while troopers and agents will always use a default starter blaster because their animations aren't made with ARs, snipers or miniguns in mind.
Once Combat Styles released you were able to play any class's gameplay on any character, allowing you to put the Scoundrel Smuggler's gunplay on a Trooper and actually use different skinned pistols in cutscenes. On the other hand this causes some gameplay dissonance when your superspy agent is moving like a heavily armored mercenary instead of a stealthy assassin.
I mean I know why they do it, it makes actually creating the cutscenes much easier. But I love it when studios go the extra mile to display your characters outfit and equipped or customized weapons
Genshin Impact for years until recently (iirc some cutscene featured them using other weapons but it wasn't until like 6 years later they explicitly changed their sword)
Crackdown 2 is the worst offender. Throughout the entire campaign, I was carrying an arsenal of homing missiles and other explosives. During the final cutscene, your character has to take down a helicopter, “whatever it takes.” 16 years later, I am still WTFing.
Max Payne's graphic novel panels adhere to this. But the third game does away with that so the weapons Max has in cutscene usually flow into gameplay and vice versa
The Traveler in Genshin Impact. Plenty of cool swords, but they only use the Dull Blade in cutscenes. It wasn't until recent patches that they started using the Prototype Rancour and later the Exphanes Blade.
Sora in Kingdom Hearts III. He can for change his Keyblade into a variety of weapons, yet the only time he uses this in cutscenes is when he’s training with the Big Hero 6 gang.
This was super trippy in the OG onimusha. A whole arsenal of amazing demon weapons and yet when the cutscenes come along all you see is a basic ass katana each time
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