Community:GTA IV Gripes/Weapons: Difference between revisions

:::::::::[[Image:Smiley Face.jpg|20px|bottom|Rebut]]First, scroll down towards the bottom of the page for the rebuttals against additional guns in the game's inventory and the inclusion of the katana. Second, you want an anti-material rifle in the game? A [[wp:Barrett M82|Barrett M82 "Light-Fifty" AM Rifle]] weighs around 30 lbs. unloaded and without its accessories, more than the loaded weight of a RPG-7 (around 20 lbs.) or a M24 Sniper Weapon System (rifle, scope, etc.--around 16 lbs.), it has a overall length of 57 inches (for a 29 in. barrel), and it has a unit replacement cost of more than $8,600. Because of its size, it is fired in the prone position, which cannot be done in game. Some states ban civilian ownership of large caliber rifles & ammo, including New York, which Liberty State is based on. The U.S. Military primarily uses the M82 for bomb disposal purposes rather than for anti-personnel use. In short, an AM rifle is too cumbersome and too expensive to serve as a practical weapon in GTA. Also, a bullet of ANY caliber cannot knock a person back ([[wp:Newton's_laws_of_motion#Newton.27s_third_law:_law_of_reciprocal_actions|see Newton's 3rd law of motion]])

:::::[[Image:Smiley Face.jpg|20px|bottom|Rebut]] This isn't CoD5!

:::::::::::::[[Image:Smiley Face.jpg|20px|bottom|Rebut]]While it is true that Niko, Johnny, & Luis DO carry an impractical amount of weapons and ammo (GTA IV is a video game, so there is room for ''some'' impossibility), but the weapons they have available ''are'' intended for individual combat (some weapons, such as the RPG and sniper rifles, were meant for 2-man teams, but they can still be used by an individual). The minigun is meant to be mounted on a vehicle frame for suppressive fire. Next time you come across an [[Annihilator]], see how large and long its miniguns are. Do you think a normal person could even ''pick-up and carry'' one of the miniguns by himself/herself, much less fire it?

::::[[Image:Smiley Face.jpg|20px|bottom|Rebut]]Rebutting the original gripe of the limited number of weapons, you don't need multiple weapons for a single weapons class. First off, having too many choices can overwhelm or confuse players, second, having several different weapons with similar technical specifications (weight, effective range, etc.) creates redundancy, third, having additional weapons in a single class creates balancing issues (This is why the weapons introduced in [[The Lost and Damned|TLAD]] are not available in the main game), and finally, coding additional weapons takes up development time & storage space. For example, in the assault rifle class, the [[AK-47]] and the [[AR-15|M4]] do the job. We don't need additional assault rifles such as the [[wp:Heckler & Koch G36|HK G36]], [[wp:SA80|SA80]], [[wp:Steyr AUG|AUG]], [[wp:IMI Tavor TAR-21|TAR-21]], and so on.

:::::[[Image:Smiley Face.jpg|20px|bottom|Rebut]]A katana is a Japanese weapon. [[Niko Bellic|Niko]] is Serbian, [[Johnny Klebitz|Johnny]] is a Jew and a biker, and [[Luis Fernando Lopez|Luis]] is Dominican. None of those groups would use a katana. Also, a katana is expensive & hard to come by & takes years of training to properly wield, whereas a baseball bat can be acquired at any store which sells sporting goods for a low price & any two-bit thug can swing a bat. Besides, the GTA III era was meant to be over-the-top where as the GTA IV era outside of [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars|Chinatown Wars]] was meant to be realistic. If R* wanted to appropriately add a katana in the GTA IV era, then they would center a DLC episode or a stand-alone game around the [[Yakuza]].