Videogame guns can be made up!!!

[AdAstra2009]

Originally Posted by Evil Tim

Remember, we're here to field "what kind of gun is that?" Part of that is to tell people when something isn't real if they could reasonably be fooled by it.

True, but in my opinion the assumption should be made that said firearm; because it is an animation, and the supposed gun is not tangible should be assumed by the user to be fictional.

Yes I know sentence structure is not my strong suit.

[Evil Tim]

Originally Posted by AdAstra2009

True, but in my opinion the assumption should be made that said firearm; because it is an animation, and the supposed gun is not tangible should be assumed by the user to be fictional.

Well sure, but you know MPM's told us before that he's been asked if that absurd railgun from Eraser was real, so you have to set the bar pretty low for what people may or may not assume. I don't really see much problem with "looks like" descriptions if we're only identifying possible influences, as long as we're not bending over backwards to make excuses for an obviously fictional gun to be on the page just because it looks cool, rather than because it's important, looks convincing or is interesting for trivia purposes.