Your favourite guns! - The Bear and Badger

Billy

Disclaimer, I'm trying to work out what games/films have awesome gun sounds in to use as reference at work. Â And thought some folks here might have an opinion on that.

I'll kick things off with a video comparing BF to COD, although it's slightly unfair as the BF capture is so much louder, you will have to keep adjusting the volume so the COD stuff is as loud....

And another one where the volume is much more consistent -

So yes, I really like the gun sounds in BF, not just that they each have their own character where many of the COD sounds are quite similar, but also the way they excite the environment i.e. the guns sound natural in a town courtyard, on a street or in a house.

Billy

Not to say the discussion has to be about REAL GUNZ, if you like crazy crazy guns like the spartan laser or BFG then fine, just share your thoughts about that

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Heat has the best gun sounds imo.

mk64

could swear i did a daily question on this.

Fav gun? RCP-90. Or the H3 BR, or... the crossbow in Timesplitters 2

Billy

Heat the film? Yes! I love the gunplay in that. Â Considering it is now 17 years old the guns still sound great, and in terms of that balance of realism vs fatness they are still a benchmark.

@MK is that the RCP90 from Goldeneye or am I getting confused?

Bollockoff

It's a toughie. But the first weapon to always pop in my head is the land shark gun from Armed and Dangerous.

Bollockoff

If we're talking realistic firearms, had some ex-army man say that the recent Medal of Honour recreated the most realistic firearm sound effects according to him.

Choke

WorKid

I remember GoldenEye having a decent arsenal.

Perfect Dark too, while we're in that frame of mind. A bit more fantastic, obviously.

[Deleted User]

syndicate shotgun!Â
thread over.

[Deleted User]

Sorry yeah Heat the film. That whole gun fight is awesome.

Webbins

M41A Pulse Rifle, when you absolutely, positively got to kill every xenomorph in the room, accept no substitutes.

WorKid

Catapult in Skool Daze.

metagonzo

I think the Aliens smartgun deserves a shout too.Â

"Let's rock!"

[Deleted User]

When you first get the wrist gun thing in Ass Creed 2. Thats pretty cool, massive risk to reward ratio when using it and one hell of an awesome bang.

Raiziel

Cerebral Bore, Turok 2.

AJ

Unreal Tournament had an excellent selection of guns n the first two installments which I don't feel get nearly enough love. By the time the third came out, I'd utterly lost my interest in FPS, so can't really comment on that or later ones.

djchump

Least Favourite: Half life's guns have always annoyed me; sound weak and too spitty and spraytastic.
Favourite: Probably counter strike - haven't played for ages but IIRC sound was beefier, always liked the handling (first shot from settled aim was accurate, recoil/spray always seemed balanced).

Seem to remember the Trent Reznor sounds for Doom 3 were amazing - can't remember if this included the gun SFX, presume it did.

fullspectrum

I'm a sucker for shotgun sounds..all the Resi ones, and more recently the one in Vanquish was amazing.

stormyskiesahead

Bollockoff wrote:

It's a toughie. But the first weapon to always pop in my head is the land shark gun from Armed and Dangerous.

Raiziel wrote:

Cerebral Bore, Turok 2.

Two of my favourite fantasy guns there. I'm also a sucker for Halo's needler, watching the pink darts of death chase down and impale an enemy then blow them across the room never gets old.

For more realistic guns I like the stupidly high rate of fire and chattering/tearing sound of Far Cry 2's Mac 10. Also the same games AS50 sniper rifle. Earth shaking recoil and a thunder clap accompany every shot. Wonderful.

For films, District 9's alien weaponry looks great and has some nice effects, I'll never forget that lovely squelchy sound an exploding person makes. The 20mm sniper rifle used to take down the prawn mech at the end of the film is just plain awesome and I want one.

[Deleted User]

Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here.

Dark Soldier

Pretty much anything in Borderlands once you reach a high level. I absolutely adored my AR with 4x fire damage, high accuracy and incredible fire rate. But, as we will all agree, the SMGs were the shit, with their mental bullet patterns, speed of light fire rate and beautiful spread.

BORDERLANDS YEAH

Skerret

Turok 2 had a decent spread.

Blocks100

Viper 5 from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Â Killed me a lot of bandits with that one.

Paul the sparky

Liveinadive is pissing it so far.

My fav real life gun is the Desert Eagle. Scary recoil.

In a game, any shotty really. Doom had a good one and Red Dead Redemption had a top sawn off.

Billy

Bollockoff that shark gun is amazing, I hadn't seen that before! Â Awesome that they got that past a publisher!

Loads of good shouts in this thread, thinking about movie stuff I love Indiana Jones' revolver, it's just huge. Â The heros in films are often given better sounding guns than everyone else and Indiana Jones is really obvious, also Hanks' gun in Saving Private Ryan is much more kick ass than everyone else's.

i've not shot a Desert Eagle in real life, but have shot a bunch of modern and antique rifles, shotguns and pistols. Â My favourites are the old black powder guns, much less refined and more raw and brutal than the modern stuff, much more fun. Â Although I did attempt to shoot a 4-bore 'elephant' gun once, that didn't go well for my shoulder...

Check outÂ http://designingsound.org/2010/04/chuck-russom-special-gun-sound-design/

Billy

4 bore

Was much the same for me, had no problem with the normal shotties but yea, the 4 bore was different!

dynamiteReady

The Resident Evil 4 'TMP'.

PUT THAT SHIT IN THE AIR, MOFO.

Yossarian

I dunno about sounds, but favourite videogame guns have to include:

Railgun from Quake III Arena. I've never used another gun which makes you feel like as much of a badass when you're doing well as this one.

Pistol from Halo: CE. Stupidly overpowered but wiping out waves of Grunts and Jackals with this thing is just about the most fun I've had in an FPS.

The Settler Pistol from Rage. Especially when loaded with Fat Mamas. The very definition of 'hand-cannon'.

As you can probably tell, my favourite guns tend to be massively overpowered, single-shot type deals which force you to conserve ammo, time your shots well and be careful about reloading, but which turn your entire enemy into a weak spot that can be hit for massive damage.

Roujin

A couple of faves from back in the day:

The blaster launcher from UFO: Enemy Unknown - A weapon which fired a projectile that followed a set of points you placed on the map. It also generated an explosion so massive it would almost certainly destroy anything of value within whatever you pointed it. Perfect for when you had to investigate a crashed UFO or alien base but couldn't be arsed to send in the troops properly.

The .223 Pistol from Fallout 1, 2 and later New Vegas - A rifle cut down and modified into the form factor of a pistol. Made a satisfying mess of your enemies in the early games if you managed to score a critical hit for the killing shot.

Paul the sparky

For Roujin, in case you missed it, aÂ threadÂ you may be interested in.

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