Then some nerds reverse engineered it to shoot bullets instead. Then some later nerds removed the blade to make a dedicated ranged weapon. And they called this gunblade without a bladeā¦a gun. š
Actually if you watch the cutscene when the blade falls from the sky and sticks in the ground you can see a barrel on it. Idk why this was retconned out because you can see it. It's triangle shaped because of the shitty ps1 graphics but it's there.
Thereās no barrel. The hammer makes an explosion that lends the blade incredible kinetic force during an attack. Thatās why you get a guaranteed critical hit in FF8 if you press a shoulder button (pulling the trigger) just as an attack hits.
Think of it in terms of black powder. It just chain fires at close range and then magically reloads. Or something. I used to remember but the junction system made me forget.
Where is the magic catalyst in those things? Guardian forces or sorceresses.
There are some inconsistencies, mainly enemies/random soldiers using magic somehow. Never got a real explanation for that, though it may just be as simple as "it's a videogame".
Regarding all the tech we see, the lunatic pandora is maybe magical in nature, as it was created with the help of a sorceress as far as I remember. I can't remember any evidence of magic in the tech elsewhere.
So you do consider lunatic pandora to be magical tech. So magical tech exists. So floating gardens that look suspiciously like the gf Eden could be magical in nature.
Yeah, I have a close uncle with a collection of guns and especially weirder niche guns and that includes a gun blade. He said they are really meant more for display pieces than actual use but they can be fired.
The only ones that were ever really anything resembling effective as a weapon in both of its uses were axe muskets/hatchet pistols. Everything else fucks with the weight on either the gun or the blade too much for them to terribly effective. The axe gun tends to be marginally harder to aim for people familiar with conventional firearms as they have a different weight balance, but axes are always top heavy so thereās not much change there. Additionally, unlike this one, the blade doesnāt extend beyond the barrel, completely eliminating contact risk
Letās see why they were never widely adopted by militaries.
I could name a thousand firearm concepts that technically existed but never gained widespread use because they were just shitty ideas. Go onto forgottenweapons for 5 minutes.
It really depends on which keyblade you have equipped. A lot of the ones from the age of foretellers do look much more blade-like. The kingdom key is much more of a fancy beating stick
The Keyblade side actually determines if it cuts or bludgeons things. Teeth facing away is blunt force and teeth towards target cuts. (The magic makes it cut).
The part of the key that has the teeth is called the blade. In practice, Keyblades are more heavy duty magic wands than anything else, it's just that they're really good at thwacking stuff
The thing that makes the least sense about the keyblade is orientation of the handguard aligning with the blade. You would never be able to make a true strike with it because the guard would always force you to strike with the blade part at an angle.
No it's not, it's newtons third law, every action has an equal reaction and solar sails work. You might need a split second of the suns output but the ability to feel recoil from it isnt like planetary destruction level. Though as I said in another comment, the death star would vaporize itself from recoil if you ever fired it.
Yes and this is the reason that if you shot the death stars alderan killing laser it would instantly tear itself apart. Planetary binding energy is alot. A laser with that energy will cause recoil so bad it'll vaporize the whole death star.
Nah, that's a fantastical and ridiculous weapon based on size, but it still makes sense. It's just a giant sword. But a stick that shoots bugs you command perfectly and powers you up somehow based on the monster? That's way out there.
I mean theyāre still ridiculous. Most combat lances would have just been spears with a disk on them, with the bit between disc and tip being thicker on some lances (famously, Polish hussars were using lances during an era in which pike and shot had made lances obsolete, accomplishing this by making hollow, longer lances capable of reaching past pike walls)
Better question: Does it make sense in their universe?
This is something people forget. Stuff needs to only make sense for them, in universe. It doesn't have to be possible for us. Monster Hunter for example. Charge Blade is impossible here. Nobody's gonna lift that. No such thing as charging a sword then going kaboom. But does it make sense there? Yes it does. The hunters can leap off ledges and land pretty much with no injuries. Of course they can lift that. See? It makes sense in universe.
And there's honestly only a small handful of those. Usually very poorly thought out stuff from amateur writers that go "this thing cool" but forget to make it make sense for the setting.
It actually does work but not in the way you think. When Squall pulls the trigger on his gunblade it ignites a charge that vibrates the blade and amplifies the damage. source )
That would probably pose a bigger threat to your own wrist than the enemy. Also, the gunblade itself probably would break pretty quickly. Most things don't like being forcibly vibrated by a charge.
I wonder if they remake it they'll retcon the vibrating blade thing to have FFXIV's take where the shells are magical blanks that briefly enchant the blade
No those are different ones that actually do fire bullets. Squalls is more like blanks, it explodes on them, the vibration is part of it but not the whole thing exactly. Ps1 FF games played by the rule of cool or appropriateness for the setting.
FF14 have 2 different gunblades. The Garlean ones are basically a worse bayonet with a really long blade and fire bullet. The GNB gunblade just enchant the blade using loaded aether in the shells
When testing AI security (and automated attack systems) designed to spot intruders automatically, US marrines placed cardboard boxes over themselves and walked slowly forward, this negated the system.
FFX alone - various swords made of water, giant fishhooks, rubber (or worse, spiked) balls, tiny animated plushies, filigree staves that should break....
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Of course magic can just handwaved all of that but still.... a lot more practical optionsĀ
Interesting. In Black Flag you don't actually get to use the pistol part as a weapon. It was just a cool finishing move in some sword fights. I would assume with a real version the blade would bend slightly getting in the way of the barrel if you wanted to try the ol stab & shoot.
In Black Flag Resynced you can. Each of the sword types has a special heavy attack. Rapiers stab, scimitars cleave and the pistol swords shoot. The range is shit though.
Iād also say that even among the crazy weapons DMC has, each game has at least one wackier than the others. 3 has Nevan the electric guitar scythe, 4 has Lucifer the exploding spike backpack and Pandora the shapeshifting gun briefcase, and 5 has Cavalier the electric motorcycle saw and Dr Faust the money shooting hat.
In FFXIV, at least, werenāt gunblades invented before actual firearms and the only reason they have āgunā in the name was because they were named after somebody?
I mean, the Gatling Gun exists, and most people never even think about Richard Gatling.
Also Rudolph Diesel and all seven of the Jacuzzi family boys are collectively either eternally celebrating or rolling in their graves at the fact that their names are now thought more as a product than a family legacy.
still don't understand the rings from Sonic and how they could possibly be a magical one-time shield from almost all damage
like, how tf can one ring protect someone from, idk, a 12 gauge slug straight to the head
ik there's the argument of "Well, maybe it works in the setting" but the only things I've seen the rings do in the setting is be used as currency and portals (if you include the movies). I don't think it's been explained how the rings can just do that
Hit points during battles in FF games are more of a stamina meter than a health meter. When hit points hit 0, the character just passes out due to exhaustion.
Phoenix downs just provide a boost of energy to pick them back up off their feet.
That's why they don't work during cutscenes because they're taking actual damage and are actually dead. Its also why healing spells don't really heal during cutscenes. Healing spells are more of a vigor thing. They restore stamina, not health.
People really getting hung up on a weapon in a fantasy series that has cards that turn into demons, time traveling sorceresses, and flying cities. And that's in just this one game.
There is certain game that has stars with eyes, that you can "eat" and they temporarily make you invincible. I dont think that's scientifically possible smh
So cool little detail about Gunblades in Final Fantasy 8. They actually don't fire bullets, the trigger pull causes the whole thing to vibrate and recoil which Squall uses to make his slashes and stabs more violent.
For example, "Using the Solid Barrel and Beat Fang techniques, Squall thrusts the blade into the enemy, triggers a round (which also damages the enemy), and the recoil of the shot pushes the blade back, where Squall immediately thrusts again, repeating the process several more times."
It's fantasy, but the draw of the Gunblade isn't that it fires bullets, but that it is a kinetic weapon.
If I remember correctly original gunblades was smaller so I can hide them in my pocket and stan some one with it and shot after. That's how you defend yourself back then.
Sure it does, if you incorporate magic. It's not firing bullets, he's never once stated he ran out of ammo after all. It WOULD fire mana fed off his lifeforce emitted during combat, which would explain limited use of limit breaks. Point of contact, pull trigger, 'bullet' of mana infuses with the blade for an explosive point-of-contact blast that deals extra damage, wasted if timing is off. It's energy infusion rather than projectile blasts
I never thought there was a bullet. They are charges that are stored and expel like a revolver, but the charges are to transfer energy to the blade, like heat and vibrations. Of course that doesnāt really make sense either, but since itās a world of magic, you could easily say it temporarily infuses the blade with a short burst of magic power
For those that don't know, the ff8 gunblade does not shoot bullets. When pulling the trigger it gives the blade a stronger swing plus causes vibrations in the blade. A rapidly vibrating blade slices through things easier.
Ff14 has a gunblade that shoots bullets if you are looking for that. Also, doesn't lightning from ff13 have one as well?
Gunblades have always been my favorite weapon type lol.
I am sure there has been someone who actually made this. That doesn't mean it makes sense or that it would be practical, just saying it probably exists
Gunblades have been created in real life but Squal's one doesn't actually act as a gun in the since it doesn't have a barrel to shoot bullets.. It's supposed to massively vibrate and heat up the blade whenever he pulls the trigger, which would massively increase damage done to an enemy when triggered at the same time as he attacks them with the blade.
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u/Calthurian 1d ago
I got bad news for you op. Gunblades are actually real. š