Comments on: Insert Funny Pun About Lightning Here.

By: Everblue

Everblue — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:34:02 +0000

Pretty sure that someone has invented the taser already. Sorry man.

By: onyhow

onyhow — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:15:37 +0000

What about something like electrolaser?

By: A different Joe

A different Joe — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:07:25 +0000

Could you perhaps use the Bioshock method of an electrified liquid at the target?

Though perhaps that would defeat the purpose.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:22:33 +0000

I’m perfectly happy for lightning guns to remain firmly inside my videogames, to be honest. The regular ones are bad enough.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:20:41 +0000

I was thinking about something that fired a dart that somehow trailed out a charge path behind it but — again — why wouldn’t you just use wires.

And with plasma, well, I don’t know about the physics of keeping the plasma contained and coherent but even if you could do it the answer is the same: it would be less effective than a regular gun (except as a terror weapon, EH XCOM ALIENS), so why bother?

By: Gap

Gap — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:37:07 +0000

(And “charged plasma” isn’t what I meant, I realise, but there’s no edit button and it’s late)

By: Gap

Gap — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:36:31 +0000

I for some reason have this image of a gun that hoses someone with dielectric while sending a current through it. Again, an awful idea as it’d probably just earth with everything else, but eh.

Actually, what about plasma guns? I’d imagine a bolt of charged plasma would be ripped apart by instabilities pretty quickly, but I dunno.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:38:52 +0000

I’m a little disappointed. Given how ubiquitous lightning/electricity is in games, I kind of hoped that there’d be some potential for real-life, lightning-shooting fun.

Although I guess nothing could ever match up to the sound effects when using Lightning Bolt in Dungeon Keeper 2.