What's the deal with fake gun names?

Game » consists of 6 releases. First released on Nov 02, 2010

GoldenEye 007 (for the Wii and Nintendo DS) is a re-imagining of the 1997 Nintendo 64 classic of the same name (as well as the 1995 movie it was based off of).

What's the deal with fake gun names?

#1 Posted by Vkramac (23 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

It makes no sense for any shooter that models it's guns after real guns to use fake names . I found it really annoying in the early going picking up and discarding guns just to identify them.

Eurocom can use the proper name for the P99. Other Activision titles use real gun names. It's hard to imagine that a publisher would license the rights to use a manufacturer's gun likeness and name on a per title basis? Is this actually how it is done? Does Blood Stone use fake gun names?

#2 Posted by Ineedaname (4319 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

I don't know because I've not played either, but it might be to retain the names from the original.

#3 Posted by TheGreatGuero (9083 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

I thought it was the PP9. Shows how much I know about guns...

#4 Posted by Jost1 (2065 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

pew pew pew

#5 Posted by E211 (31 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

Because like with cars in games they have to buy the licence to use the name.

#6 Posted by TaliciaDragonsong (8671 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

Really don't care much.
I rather have awesome weapons like the cerebral bore or cyclone then the same boring assault rifles with generic names.

#7 Posted by Lucifer (263 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

probably a homage to when games didn't have as much money and they couldn't afford to have licensed weapons.

#8 Posted by MrKadaver (135 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

Original had fake names, sometimes named after the people who made it like the "klobb".

#9 Posted by Zero_ (1698 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

The gun licensing is probably on a per-title basis.

#10 Posted by Jack268 (3386 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

@Lucifer said:

" probably a homage to when games didn't have as much money and they couldn't afford to have licensed weapons. "

This. The names in the original goldeneye were like this too.

#11 Posted by aurahack (2064 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

@MrKadaver said:

" Original had fake names, sometimes named after the people who made it like the "klobb". "

Ta-da!

#12 Posted by Venatio (4435 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

Blood Stone has real licensed names for it's weapons

I'm using an AK-74 alot in that game

#13 Posted by MooseyMcMan (8664 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

Because having the guns be named differently will certainly impact the gameplay a lot.

#14 Posted by Hailinel (18527 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

Because not everyone cares whether a gun is called an assault rifle, an AK-47, a machine gun, or Happy Dave's Boom-Boom Device.

#15 Posted by BitterAlmond (399 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

Actually, the AK-47 is properly named. I would assume because the gun is the intellectual property of the Russian government (or so I've heard) and the name can be used without paying royalties.

#16 Posted by wolf_blitzer85 (5178 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

@Hailinel said:

Happy Dave's Boom-Boom Device. "

Only found in Borderlands.

#17 Posted by Mikemcn (6804 posts) - 2 years, 7 months ago

I love James Bond games mostly for their fake gun names, so Yay!

I never played the original Goldeneye but it's sequel had some real gun names mixed with fake ones. It had the real SA-80 but it's version of an M-16 was called a "Mustang"

#18 Posted by pretender15 (192 posts) - 2 years, 6 months ago

@Ineedaname said:

" I don't know because I've not played either, but it might be to retain the names from the original. "

They are trying to name them after the original gun names.

#19 Posted by melcene (3056 posts) - 2 years, 6 months ago

I certainly would care if they're named after guns from the original game, or even similar to those names. Personally I loved the Laptop gun and the RCP90, along with others. Their name is also what set them apart.

#20 Posted by ViciousAnchovy (597 posts) - 2 years, 6 months ago

@TaliciaDragonsong: I was too stupid to figure out how to use the cerebral bore back when I rented that game. Could you tell me?

#21 Posted by mazik765 (2299 posts) - 2 years, 6 months ago

I can't imagine something I care less about than the names of my virtual guns. This is exactly why I only play games with fictional guns with my friends, because they are the types of guys that will explain to me what type of gun it is, why it was invented and other shit that I don't care about.

#22 Posted by TaliciaDragonsong (8671 posts) - 2 years, 6 months ago

@ViciousAnchovy:
From what I remember it only worked on the semi intelligent creatures (aka the gunners, not dino's or beast thingies).
The gun locks on, you see a reticule turn red, you fire, the projectile bores his way through the victims head while first blood spews out, then gray matter, and then he falls over.

<3

#23 Edited by JJWeatherman (13983 posts) - 2 years, 6 months ago

I'd rather see fake names in all games. Screw trying to keep track of the difference between an AK-47, an AK-74, an M16, etc. etc.

To many letters and numbers, man! Did the creators just glance at their license plates while naming them?!

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