Chainsaws as a non-improvised weapon.

Malkavian · 2013-03-31 19:23:47

It just gets to me. Chainsaws are actually incredibly inefficient weapons. They require fuel, are pretty heavy, and stuff that they aren't expressly made for cutting generally tend to fuck them up.

It's okay in most horror uses, like in Evil Dead or Army of Darkness where they're just working with what's on hand and the fact that they're loud and messy make them pretty scary. But when they use it as specialized weapons like Vampire The Masquerade's chainsaw duels or any video game where you have it all the while having twenty different more efficient weapons just annoys me.

Ironweaver · 2013-03-31 19:26:48

All I know is that chainsaws are so much fun in GTA. And GTA would suck hard if it tried to care about realism.

Kraken · 2013-03-31 19:50:59

You can do what in Vampire?

Malkavian · 2013-03-31 19:52:35

It's a past time of the Sabbat, evidently.

Hookah_Hashish · 2013-03-31 19:54:42

Funny how they initially tried to justify having a chainsaw on the signature gun in Gears of War by saying that regular bayonets literally just couldn't cut it when it came to the enemy aliens' ridiculously hard skin, but then they went and added in guns with regular bayonets anyways in Gears of Wars 3.

Anyways, what Milos said about realism, except for most video games.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

MadassAlex · 2013-03-31 19:55:30

I don't have anything to add except that I concur. I'd use a chainsaw if it was the best option available to me, but I'd take a fire axe or an improvised spear over one any day of the apocalypse.

Saigyouji · 2013-03-31 19:56:18

It's a past time of the Sabbat, evidently.

...But the Sabbat are insane anyway.

Kraken · 2013-03-31 19:58:49

I actually don't like chainsaws anymore.

RocketDude · 2013-03-31 20:56:03

Serious Sam has the chainsaw with the freakin' fuel-cell thing, so that's not a problem.

Saigyouji · 2013-03-31 21:04:06

That chainsaw is explicitly said to stop working after a few months, though. :P

Fuschlatz · 2013-03-31 21:05:55

A chainsaw...with a fuel-cell?

Wouldn't that cause a big reduction in the scare factor? I mean, even a nuclear-powered chainsaw wouldn't be very loud, now would it?

Saigyouji · 2013-03-31 21:08:52

Your first problem is taking Serious Sam seriously.

That is also your second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth problem.

ClockworkUniverse · 2013-03-31 21:29:41

^^Just slap on a speaker.

Ailedhoo · 2013-04-01 09:12:14

I saw this thread and "Doom" entered my mind. The memories...

Speaking of: you know Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and the Forge which was sadly rejected due to a minority of hate letters? Zombies with chainsaws for hands where to be included... although I feel not even chainsaws might save the Heroes of Might and Magic zombies...

Crimson · 2013-04-01 11:24:55

Chainsaws/swords/fists are cool, that's pretty much it. But I am under no pretension that they're good weapons in real-life.

Saigyouji · 2013-04-01 11:30:34

[swords] are cool, that's pretty much it.But I am under no pretension that they're good weapons in real-life.

Incoming Alex in 3...

MadassAlex · 2013-04-01 11:34:40

Even I can see the context here, y'know. :B

Saigyouji · 2013-04-01 11:36:13

Chainfist is not a concept that makes sense, therefore, he must be referring to normal swords.

Noimporta · 2013-04-01 11:38:29

>not killing people in Quake 3 with the chainsaw gauntlet

Naas_Human · 2013-04-01 13:10:47

Speaking of: you know Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and the Forge which was sadly rejected due to a minority of hate letters? Zombies with chainsaws for hands where to be included... although I feel not even chainsaws might save the Heroes of Might and Magic zombies...

I guess they would've just looked awkward. Heroes always looked far more low-tech than the "main" Might and Magic universe, at least that's what I hear.