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I was an eldar player back when I played WH40k, but the tau railguns are such a great bit of visual design. Perhaps amplified by how terrifying they are to be on the receiving end of.
Destiny 2 has some great ones. I always liked the design of the Sleeper Simulant.
Destiny has so many amazingly designed weapons. Thorn, Malfeasance, Winterbite, Touch of Malice, all the Ikelos weapons, Conditional Finally, Deathbringer, Eyes of Tomorrow, Gjallarhorn... Weapon artists at Bungie are on another level.
The coolest design is the gun-chucks from RWBY completely impractical, but awesome at the same time.
I mean the physical design of the gun, not the projectile or effect.
I'm a simple man. Same answer for decades.
I'm noticing a distinct lack of BFG
The BFG exists in several versions:
The original from Doom 1993 is just a rectantular box with a weird handle, the sides of the box is covered with techno pixelart, but nothing striking.
The Doom 64 version is very similar to the 1993 version.
The BFG in Doom 3 has a profile of a weird space potato: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/BFG9000/Doom_3?file=BFG9000-BP.jpg
The ingame model is more like a rectantular box, but with an updated case: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/BFG9000/Doom_3?file=Bfg3
In Doom 2016 is has a better styling, with an actual grip, it now actually looks like a gun!
In Doom Eternal it looks great, if a bit generic, but not bad.
The BFG does exist in Quake II and Quake 3 Arena, but the design is just terrible.
So while I like your enthusiasm, I don't share your oppinion on the design of the BFG series.
A couple that come to mind:
Boltguns, and esspecially the bolt rifle from Warhammer 40k - specifically because its so massive and brutalist in design to look intimidating.
Ar-2 from Half-Life 2, for the more grounded yet still entirely sci-fi look.
Finally, the Shard Gun from Xcom 2
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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