Any games that got you studying its weapons?

[Mozgus]

I'm not a violent person and I have no wish to even test fire any gun in my life, but thanks to some games, I seem to find many of their designs and specs interesting.

For example, when I first discovered Soul Blade on PS1, I was excited with every weapon I unlocked. (Each character had 10, I believe.) Soon after, I went to the library and grabbed some books on medieval weaponry, and was happy to see that the majority of the game's weapons did in fact exist, at least in terms of shape, minus whatever magical properties.

Then after playing counter strike for so long, and all the Resident Evils, I started to study gun models, just to see which ones in the games had their authentic model names. They all obviously leave out brand names.

Anyone else become a weapon geek at some point? I suppose it's similar to becoming a car geek from playing GTA or Gran Turismo.

[fastbilly1]

Ive done alot of things in my life and throughout it all a working knowledge of weaponry, physiology and locks has helped quite a bit. So I kinda had that while gaming.

Though an early experience with Lucasarts brilliant Battle of Britain got me interested in flight. Many days of Xplane and several logged hours in a variety of craft later, and I am interested in actually getting my pilots license.

[Mozgus]

Though an early experience with Lucasarts brilliant Battle of Britain got me interested in flight. Many days of Xplane and several logged hours in a variety of craft later, and I am interested in actually getting my pilots license.

Wow, interesting.

Spinning off from that point, games mildly got me into history as well. I slept all through any kind of history class in school, and as such, I couldn't even tell you what the Civil War was. But thanks to certain PC games, I can now at least tell you who battled who, where, why, and when for just about any major war. Thank you games. I'm not totally retarded now.