The solution isn't to get a gun. The solution is: don't go inside the sketchy drug dealer / rape den to begin with.
Man, that would've been a cool story.
"Would you like to take my call to action?"
"No."
"Oh, okay."
Then we watch Guy sit on the couch and eat Cheetos while a ring of girls beg to be in his harem.
In most states in the US you just need a valid ID and to pass a standard background check, in and out in about 30min if the stores not busy. Edit: for a gun, to clarify
I'm from the midwest, I know about guns. ;D But, FiN is set in a fictional city that's somewhere between Los Angeles, CA and Chicago, IL -- so, who can say what the gun regulations are there? Bigger cities tend to be more stringent.
Guy has been rich and famous for some time now, also he comes from a poor background so he should know better.
After becoming rich and a public figure having at least a gun for personal protection is a no brainer.
Without looking -- who runs the largest charitable organization in your city? Who won the last Mega Millions jackpot? What does the most wanted man in America look like?
If you know any of these, you're way more informed than I am!
Guy's famous to
us, because we see him interacting with people who find him interesting. We didn't see that several month gap where Nicki was gone, because he mostly just got to carry on as usual with his life. We're here, at this moment, because it's interesting to see his celebrity begin to catch up with him, because that's interesting. Before that, he was just enjoying his money and charity in peace, without being recognized.
But, even in Chapter 9 there's a new character who sees his name, and her only question if he's related to a guy who owns a local camping supply store. Like he says to Nicki, he's not a celebrity -- he's a regional figure of interest. I live in a city of 130,000 people, and our mayor can often be seen wandering around without bodyguards, and most likely unarmed. It's not crazy to think that someone who isn't like.. Tom Cruise, could get along unbothered. Hell, there's even those viral pictures of Keanu riding the subway without being pestered.
I honestly like that guy doesn't have a gun it would him seem boring to me I like him how he is. Sure a gun probably make sense but unless the gun usage is limited I think a gun would be too easy for guy in some situations.
Sounds like the people want to put some LI on pause while guy goes to the gun store and waits in the apartment for any paperwork that needs to filed
Even on top of time being an issue in having gotten/getting a bodyguard there's also the issue of the stuff guy does.... on either path.
As a pureboi is the guard just standing outside the apartment door while guy is doing some incest rp with ashe? Is he sitting with Guy and Nicki on their date is he at another table? Maybe he could actually keep Mason company so that's a win at least. On the dark path guy would want a bodyguard that was "less scrupulous" which i feel like would make the search for Guy a bit harder.
Also how would YOU show us the bodyguard? Always in shot with guy and whoever? Implied offscreen? Seems like extra work and consideration and honestly a headache for both parties involved.
And these two comments really highlight the crux of why Guy is how he is -- because it's more interesting. I fucking hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate invincible AVN protagonists who are always the smartest, toughest, strongest, most skilled human being in existence. The kind who can give women orgasms with a sideways glance, before throwing an effortless roundhouse kick that can fell a grizzly bear.
It means nothing if Guy pulls a gun out and shoots Lucien, other than that I've cut off a story before it happened. Like, why not just have him blast him with heat vision, and reveal Guy's actually an X-Man? Why not reveal that Markus was working for Guy
the whole time, because he's just
that cool and smart and awesome, and he twists Lucien's head off walking away never to be seen again? They all have the same end result.
This is a genre where your victory means nothing, other than that you can use your mouse wheel to reverse a decision. That's it.
So, if I have to choose between the player going down an interesting road i.e.
(Guy vs Lucien, Guy and Lucien team-up, or Guy trying to ignore this new threat) or the player clicking a button that says, "I win!" then I'll go with the former. Because it will, ultimately, be more interesting to see where that goes.
I'm sorry that some people play these games to be the ultimate alpha male, but that's not what I'm doing here.
