Warrior Spirit
Junior Member
Guns seem to get nerfed in Japanese RPGs, but Western RPGs seem to respect their power.
I'm kinda thinking that if you give even mere flintlock pistols to people in a fantasy setting, they would win so many wars or fights even against great mages.
Magic is great, but it requires an insane degree of set up. Before the mage finishes his or her incantation, some musketeer would have already decimated the poor guy's forces. lol
The only magic school or magic discipline that I think is truly overpowered is some form of time magic. Elder Scrolls has certain thu'um (a type of magic) that literally slows down time, turning the character into basically a DBZ character for a minute. Final Fantasy has time mages that can stop time while the wielder does three chores before resuming the fight. Assassin's Creed is basically a form of time traveling game.
Aside from that, I think guns trump all. Even ballistas, which don't even qualify as real firearms, were already considered super weapons in their era.
I guess this is why I love dwemer lore so much in Elder Scrolls. Those guys can build guns if they put their minds to it. I just hope they... you know... still existed. lol
I'm kinda thinking that if you give even mere flintlock pistols to people in a fantasy setting, they would win so many wars or fights even against great mages.
Magic is great, but it requires an insane degree of set up. Before the mage finishes his or her incantation, some musketeer would have already decimated the poor guy's forces. lol
The only magic school or magic discipline that I think is truly overpowered is some form of time magic. Elder Scrolls has certain thu'um (a type of magic) that literally slows down time, turning the character into basically a DBZ character for a minute. Final Fantasy has time mages that can stop time while the wielder does three chores before resuming the fight. Assassin's Creed is basically a form of time traveling game.
Aside from that, I think guns trump all. Even ballistas, which don't even qualify as real firearms, were already considered super weapons in their era.
I guess this is why I love dwemer lore so much in Elder Scrolls. Those guys can build guns if they put their minds to it. I just hope they... you know... still existed. lol