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Lightgun games on home consoles have been knocking around for a while now. The likes of The House of the Dead 2, Confidential Mission and Time Crisis have become one of the most popular videogames genres, possibly due to the upped level of authenticity and interaction that actually holding a gun provides.
Anyway, home console technology is improving all the time...and it must be only a matter of time before lightgun games "evolve" too. So how's this for a cool lightgun evolution (albeit an expensive one)?
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This idea would work best on a console with 4 controller ports, so the Gamecube and X-Box would be best suited to it. Instead of the bog standard handgun weapon, you buy an actual set of 4 weapons.
E.g.
A pistol
A shotgun
A machine gun
A rocket launcher
All 4 weapons are plugged into the console, but at the beginning of the game, only the pistol is available for use. Then when you collect an item within the game, say a shotgun, the shotgun is available for use along with the pistol...and you could eventually switch between all 4 weapons at your own leisure.
As I said before, this would be an extremely expensive alternative to the conventional lightgun game; however, I think that it's a really good idea and one that games developers (SEGA in particular) should seriously consider looking into.
Thanks for your time. :)
Anyway, home console technology is improving all the time...and it must be only a matter of time before lightgun games "evolve" too. So how's this for a cool lightgun evolution (albeit an expensive one)?
- - -
This idea would work best on a console with 4 controller ports, so the Gamecube and X-Box would be best suited to it. Instead of the bog standard handgun weapon, you buy an actual set of 4 weapons.
E.g.
A pistol
A shotgun
A machine gun
A rocket launcher
All 4 weapons are plugged into the console, but at the beginning of the game, only the pistol is available for use. Then when you collect an item within the game, say a shotgun, the shotgun is available for use along with the pistol...and you could eventually switch between all 4 weapons at your own leisure.
As I said before, this would be an extremely expensive alternative to the conventional lightgun game; however, I think that it's a really good idea and one that games developers (SEGA in particular) should seriously consider looking into.
Thanks for your time. :)
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Lightgun games on home consoles have been knocking around for a while now. The likes of The House of the Dead 2, Confidential Mission and Time Crisis have become one of the most popular videogames genres, possibly due to the upped level of authenticity and interaction that actually holding a gun provides.
Anyway, home console technology is improving all the time...and it must be only a matter of time before lightgun games "evolve" too. So how's this for a cool lightgun evolution (albeit an expensive one)?
- - -
This idea would work best on a console with 4 controller ports, so the Gamecube and X-Box would be best suited to it. Instead of the bog standard handgun weapon, you buy an actual set of 4 weapons.
E.g.
A pistol
A shotgun
A machine gun
A rocket launcher
All 4 weapons are plugged into the console, but at the beginning of the game, only the pistol is available for use. Then when you collect an item within the game, say a shotgun, the shotgun is available for use along with the pistol...and you could eventually switch between all 4 weapons at your own leisure.
As I said before, this would be an extremely expensive alternative to the conventional lightgun game; however, I think that it's a really good idea and one that games developers (SEGA in particular) should seriously consider looking into.
Thanks for your time. :)
Anyway, home console technology is improving all the time...and it must be only a matter of time before lightgun games "evolve" too. So how's this for a cool lightgun evolution (albeit an expensive one)?
- - -
This idea would work best on a console with 4 controller ports, so the Gamecube and X-Box would be best suited to it. Instead of the bog standard handgun weapon, you buy an actual set of 4 weapons.
E.g.
A pistol
A shotgun
A machine gun
A rocket launcher
All 4 weapons are plugged into the console, but at the beginning of the game, only the pistol is available for use. Then when you collect an item within the game, say a shotgun, the shotgun is available for use along with the pistol...and you could eventually switch between all 4 weapons at your own leisure.
As I said before, this would be an extremely expensive alternative to the conventional lightgun game; however, I think that it's a really good idea and one that games developers (SEGA in particular) should seriously consider looking into.
Thanks for your time. :)
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