Hehe. You speak as if we haven't had melee weapons in virtually every other first-person-shooter since the dawn of time. :)

They're generally hold-out weapons or combined with a utility function: Gordon's crowbar provides an efficient way to open containers as well as early offensive power and late-game last-ditch defence; the competitors in Quake III had the buzz-saw gauntlet which was incredibly powerful but only useful in very specific circumstances. A lot of games these days have phased out dedicated melee weapons in favor of a hotkey, in the way that Halo has for ten years, but you still get the occasional knife or billy-club.

I'd be interested to see how Bungie might utilize such weapons, though. I'm not too fond of the Halo method, where they just do tons of damage and that's it, but that's mainly due to the concept of Power Weapons, which I'd be happy to never see again. One weapon type shouldn't be superior to another, it should have aspects which make it more effective in one circumstance or another. For something like a spear in a universe with assault rifles and rocket launchers, those circumtances could be environmental: either in level design or enemy type. You're holding out agains the Xenomorph and you've got a squad with you, it might not hurt to have two or three guys plant their feet and hold a spear out while the others pick off distant targets, assuming you've dealt with the problem of your weapon disolving. :P

There's also the route Stargate took, where your melee weapons are also your ranged weapons. Spears with built-in rayguns and whatnot, that could be fun.

From Phantasy Star Online. Which makes me giddy. I also think they are probably some kind of tech from the Traveler. They are also seen around the Warlock class in the concept art so maybe they are the way the character uses "magic".

I swear, some of them have faces. Maybe they act as an AI companion that feeds you information throughout the game, eg, Cortana, 343 Guilty Spark, that little annoying fairy thing in the Zelda games, Wheatly and the GLaDOS potato in Portal 2 (they didn't really give you much information, but they were hilarious companions)...as well as being a sort of catalyst for our "magical" abilities, or like the MAGs mentioned above me.

I'm gonna name mine Alfred.

I hope the universe is filled with weird creatures and wildlife. Gotta skin me a space buck.

Hah, woah, I totally didn't even see Godzilla hanging out in the image. Is there a word for reading comprehension, but with pictures? Whatever it is, mine sucks.

But these look sexy and functional. I'll take a long flowing mint-y white one. :)

It would be awesome if they worked like towels from HGttG.
I mean, if you have a cape, you probably have all the other gear. If you ask for a particular gear, you probably just misplaced it, so it would be very rude of me to decline you said gear if you ever asked for it, no?

I'm all about the cape....

I'm unfamiliar with Mags. Can someone describe them for me?

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Glad that got cleared up.

And yeah, Kekai is awesome.

My fave...