<!--quoteo(post=1738014:date=Nov 18 2009, 01:06 AM:name=R_e_n_e_g_a_d_e)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (R_e_n_e_g_a_d_e @ Nov 18 2009, 01:06 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1738014"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->2) Nor is there anymore data to suggest an axe would do better, but as I said that's missing the point completely - the current marine has any number of flaws against an alien that isn't going to be corrected for the same reason we're not going to see a "nanite shield" or "holo katana" (even if such things did exist). Let me spell it out again: you can't justify a <u>genre-breaker</u> based on <u>hypothetics</u>, no matter how 'plausible' it might seem.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
your a genre breaking! Sorry, I just like the axe no matter what you say :P
Genre shmenre, you still can't plausibly say that they <b>aren't</b> from a high-tech society--regardless of their blatant <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoOSHACompliance" target="_blank">OSHA violations</a>--while at the same time it's <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness?from=Main.MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness" target="_blank">soft sci-fi</a>.
They may be grungy tech, but it <u>is</u> a "super-high-tech society".
that's a contradiction, either they are grungy or 'super-high" and not both (notwithstanding rastafarian marines). regardless of nomenclature, I think it's clear by the examples I gave (and yours with 'soft SF') that they are of a society that is not ahead of its time and still takes a "modern human" approach (i.e. you pull a trigger and bullets fire) in most things they do, including combat and ship design. Inevitably this means the genre calls for a traditional "human" melee weapon, which is unarguably the knife, or in future times, a knife-like apparatus - and most definitely not an axe (or shudder... gun blade).
<!--quoteo(post=1735794:date=Nov 3 2009, 02:56 AM:name=JAmazon)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (JAmazon @ Nov 3 2009, 02:56 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1735794"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The gun blade does look pretty bad ass, but I was actually pretty thrilled when I read that the melee weapon would be a foldable axe. I just got this image of a frontiersman heaving a futuristic looking tomahawk at an incoming skulk and it spiraling through the air at its target and making a satisfying thwack as it embedded itself in the skulks face plate. Now I know that we probably wont be able to throw it ala tomahawk but my vote is still for the axe.
side note: Please don't be inflammatory towards someone who's probably new to the community and isn't quite up to speed on the current state of NS2. What is and isn't being implemented changes pretty often.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah!! I too thrilled... in same way.. i mean same things...
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your a genre breaking! Sorry, I just like the axe no matter what you say :P
They may be grungy tech, but it <u>is</u> a "super-high-tech society".
side note: Please don't be inflammatory towards someone who's probably new to the community and isn't quite up to speed on the current state of NS2. What is and isn't being implemented changes pretty often.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah!! I too thrilled... in same way.. i mean same things...