The Search for Gaming's Perfect Pistol 

any pistol in any vr game is infinitely better than any pistol in any flatscreen game. you may see vr as a gimmick but trust me, using pistols in vr makes you feel like john wick.

"It serves as the exclamation point to the end of your sentence" Actually such a fire line. Great video! My personal favourite portrayal of handguns in games has to be in Modern Warfare '19. Specifically the M19/SiG P320. They just made it so versatile and feel so nice and snappy when shooting it that I'd often find myself just using it and forgoing my primary.

Intro is on point, unless you're playing Call of Duty's hardcore mode where pistol beats everything in damage, speed, and reliability.

everyone knows the best pistol ever after 2002 was the Halo CE pistola.

As a fellow pistol lover, Insurgency sandstorm is so much fun going pistol only. You also get to have much faster movement due to less weight, and the realistic nature of the game makes them feel just a strong than as a primary weapon.

Halo, the game where your pistol is your primary and the rocket launcher is your secondary.

The Senator in Helldivers 2 is easily one of my favorite secondaries in gaming, as you can just whip it out so quick, and its sheer damage it can dish out just feels so good and rewarding for hitting your shots in a game as hectic as it. I can totally understand the issues you take with weapons like it, though, as high-powered handguns don't tend to have the same *flourish* a normal one has.

Ready or Not pistols are peak, just enough (visual) recoil to realistically move more than a rifle, but not enough to make them completely unusable. It’s honestly the most immersive game I’ve played. Guns are very powerful yet you don’t feel like a god while using them. The whole game feels like it’s human sized, plus the fear and anxiety that comes with the gameplay/map design. 100% recommend even if you don’t care for realistic games

dont stop making videos you'll blow up

Genuinely awesome video! Insanely well thought out and put together!

My favourite pistol is the Spec Ops 1911 from the first Watch Dogs. I don't like stealth, but, using the Focus and the Silencer to headshot the enemies without being noticed, it's just great!

Oh look a love letter to video game pistols >look inside >shitting on my favorite pistols

It's how I play every game with the option. Fallout 4? Deliverer. Cyberpunk? Her Majesty. Destiny? Sidearms w/ Tricksleeves. CoD? Handguns. Armored Core? PB with a Handgun. I just like the stopping power and versatility of them.

Destiny got some good options. The last word is a revolver that fans the hammer when you shoot. Its really fun.

MW2019/2022 had some great gun play and the pistols were so fun to use.

the video is not 3 hours long, well edited, intresting and genuinely entertaining this is what we need dude!

How don’t you have more subs / views. That opening montage was beautiful

the auto lock on pistol in Titanfall 1 and 2 is my personal fave

I was ready for this to be a video from an average mainstream fps player standpoint, but then came the bullets per minute, hunt showdown and killing floor 2 gameplay, as well as others games I had never seen before. liked the video, and I like your taste in shooters.

Part of this great balancing of pistols in Halo is due to the original design of Halo Combat Evolved that released in 2001 when first person shooters were new to consoles. They made the AR have a huge bullet spray to make it easy for new players to hit something. And gave the pistol a more long-rang and accurate feel. It's a little backwards compared to reality but I see why they designed it like that.

I'm glad to see more pistol appreciation and I hope that this video reaches more people. I also highly recommend the Gunslinger weapons in Killing Floor 2, especially the M1911 and the HMTech-101. The crosshair in KF2 isn't on by default but once you turn it on it feels so good to hip fire the dual M1911s, especially with the Quick Draw skill making it the hip fire sniper accurate. The HMTech-101 is also a solid little semi auto bullet hose with the added utility of an attached medical dart launcher to heal teammates. Heck, even the universal 9mm everyone gets is pretty good against trash mobs and feels so good that when I play Gunslinger I usually end up pouring my leftover dosh in to my 9mm. And as a final treat, dual pistols in Killing Floor 2 have the option to adjust your ADS stance so you aim with your right hand gun in exchange for further off centering your left. The shotguns are also really good, just in general. The Boomstick and Shockgun are considered "meta" for a good reason, but every shotgun that Support has is fantastic. There is a reason why Gunslinger and Support are my highest level Perks.

Halo 5 Magnum > Halo Infinite Sidekick

One of my all time favourites is the pimped up m1911 from Battlefield 1 with the extended mag, front grip and Stock.

I definitely see your point. Years before I joined the military, I felt the same way about handguns, except I loved heavy hitters and auto pistols as well. I felt each had their own usefulness. Then I joined the US Navy and shot the M9. A gun I hated in most games (except the GOAT Samurai Edge of course), but ended up absolutely loving it and shot Expert on my pistol qualification. Today, I still understand the love and appeal of them in games, but it also showcases an inherent problem with guns in games. Pistols are self-defense tools designed to help you in the worst case scenario, or give you time to get to your primary weapon. Balance in games makes them super weak most times, a pistol in 9mm does less damage than an SMG in the same caliber, with sometimes even a shorter barrel which would decrease muzzle velocity I.E. damage. So after shooting almost a hundred different pistols in multiple calibers and configurations in real life, I stick with revolvers due to wanting a heavy caliber that is also small to carry. In video games now that's usually what I also use. I wish a game would make guns more realistic, because a pistol can be extremely effective, but only if you're fighting people who are unarmed or who also have pistols. You can beat someone with a rifle, but you need to be lucky, and very good at shooting. Imagine playing a game with such a high risk-reward when rifles can one shot you and you ace them with a pistol lol

Titanfall 2’s pistols have so much personality to me and I love using them Are you planning on making more of these styles of videos? That intro was Perfevtion

what a great video, I loved the montage in the beginning so much I had to rewatch it

In my opinion, Comrade's Hammer in Cyberpunk 2077 pre-nerf is the ultimate pistol power trip in any video game

Jeez that intro hooooly. Badass edit dude keep it up

For me a handcannon has and will always be so badass in my opinion, The deagle will always have a special place in my heart, it's one if not the only semi-auto handcannon to ever exist, The design is imponent and produces fear when faced and it's just so customisable. And what makes the deagle so much better is when it's in chrome.

Dude loved the vid. The montage at the beginning went crazy and also introduced me to a couple new games. Keep up the good work.

Never really thought much about pistols until this video, I’m definitely gonna be looking at them more closely moving forward! Great video!

Wow, your channel is a hidden gem in between all of the AI content nowadays on RU-vid. On the matter of pistols I think you missed suppressed pistols. my favorite is the usp-s from cs:go, nothing feels as good as 1-tap headshot with this gun.

John Woo taught me that "You give a man one gun, he thinks he Superman. Give a man two guns and he'll think he's god"

It wouldn't be a complete pistol montage without clips from Equilibrium

Great vid bro, the algorithm better pick this up

ZAMN the intro HIT HARD

Destiny with its plethora of handcannons and sidearms! The last word is a standout and there’s even the halo magnum that they added! Destiny has some of the most fun gunplay in general

Splinter Cell Conviction probablt has my favorite feeling pistol gameplay. Regardless of your feelings towards the marked executuon system, knowing that my pistol can wipe out basically anyone in one well placed headshot while also being fast enough to take someone out that might have spotted you without the necessity for accuracy makes it far more versatile than any weapon in the game. The fact that you can also mark 4 people to freely execute with stylish headshots to round out an assault on a group of enemies makes the power fantasy hit incredibly well. I miss Splinter Cell. It made me love silenced pistols and i still remember how it led me to use the tac knifr and M1911 silenced combo in MW2 to absolutely abuse enemy positioning.

I had the exact same feeling about running around with a pistol dominating a lobby, and when I saw the Sidekick in the trailers. I used to run around in Black Ops 2 with a Tac-45 just because that pistol was satisfying to use. Nowadays, I do the same thing in Counterstrike Source with a P228 on gun game servers. The pistol has just the right combination of damage, accuracy, and capacity for me!

I love revolvers way too much at this point. When I did a playthorugh of Fallout New Vegas, I just yeehawed my way through it with a Lucky revolver and medicine stick (I still used the anti material rifle and the riot shotgun but ignore that for now lol).

Honestly not a huge fan of machine pistols or hand cannons either, however Destiny’s hand cannons are an exception for me. Something is insanely satisfying about them.

TITANFALL 2 PISTOLS??? THE X12 FROM MODERN?? All so satisfying.

Pistols are the best with a realistic game engine like Modern Warfare and Ready Or Not. Red dead sealed my love for pistols, that game basically made the pistol your main weapon

saying revolvers bad while showing an ultrakill clip hurt my soul but I understand what you're saying

ive never seen a sinlge person possess so much love for a weapon class that just about everyone else would consider mediocre.

Checkout the Trepang2 Pistol and Revolver. Each weapon is readily available since nearly all combatants carry either, the Pistol has many attachments to change how you use it, you can make it a burst or auto pistol, give it a suppressor if you prefer to confuse your enemies, and you can also dual-wield the pistol. The Revolver is your heavy hitting sidearm with the ability to triple fan, but at the cost of no attachments (balancing decision likely), like the pistol, you may dual-wield the revolvers.

I love using pistols in games and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one

glad to see that people know how cool pistols can be. I highly recommend the game Maximum Action, love going in endless mode and mowing down waves of enemies with just a pistol John Wick style

damn only 850 subs? need more. you deserve it, this is good content

My personal favorite machine pistol is the redeemer from helldivers 2, as being able to hip fire it and have the diver one hand it from behind is such a power move. Its not even bad either

I'm a sucker for the Five-SeveN in every game, splinter cell really did a number on me

One game I truly enjoyed using pistols was F.E.A.R. particularly when used with slow motion power. Great video by the way

Oh, I'd love this as a series! My favorite revolver was always the Wingman Elite in Titanfall 2. Even back when it was a secondary, you could easily use that shit as a primary weapon. It's a bitch and a half, but it's also hilarious exploding people's heads with it. Especially in hipfire. Especially two people's heads in one shot.

me personally, im an enjoyer of ALL pistols, excluding fully automatics just cuz i dont consider them pistols. revolvers, 9mils, 45s, 50bmg, even .22s, they're just so classy

For me, there are 3 pistols near and dear to me. 1. The Magnum from Halo 1. Its the only Halo game I've played, but my god, that beautiful weapon has such a satisfying pop to it every time you fire, even moreso landing repeated headshots with it. It helps that Master Chief doesn't suffer recoil from using it making it feel so much better. It was my brothers second favorite weapon (he played a lot of ULTRAKILL so he scored chain headshots incredibly easy with it which he found very satisfying on the Grunts). 2. The pistols from FEAR 1. They definitely work best when dual wielded, but nontheless, their fast firing speed which you could tap quickly, very punchy and eargasmic sound effects, and high accuracy made it so that even by the endgame, I was still using them for picking off small groups of Replicas, or quickly switching to them when my other guns ran out of ammo as they were just so good at finishing a gun fight before the enemy can take a moment to recover and reload theirs. 3. The pistols from the Half Life series. A combo of good accuracy and good firing speed, Half Lifes sandbox to its gunplay made me pull out the pistols for dealing with small fry enemies, annoying little enemies, or sniping enemies from afar that I didn't wanna waste more powerful rounds on. That and the Desert Eagle from Opposing Force (at least when you turn the laser on) was just a beautiful gun. You could FEEL what an absolute unit Adrien was when that things recoil barely affected his accuracy since Adrien was just that well trained with guns, and it was great at taking down even the chunkiest enemies you ran into in a few shots.

Best pistols in gaming in my opinion: Far Cry 5' 1911, Every non-autimatic Cyberpunk 2077 pistol, Borderlands 3 revolvers (technically could be included in this)

with quality like this he should have literally a 1000x more subs

Good ass vid bro keep up the good work

Halo CE is a gold oldie. That thang has sex appeal

Hell yea i wanna see more of this with different types of weapons

Assault Rifle is almost always a meta and that also rings true to real-life too. On other note, I love Mauser C96 in RDR2. The game also have vital organ hitbox so ocassionally, bodyshot can do OHK, and it's so satisfying getting that OHK with Mauser. It becomes my lucky gun, plus the semi-auto ROF too so I can get follow up shot faster and getting critical hit more often.

My favorite pistols gotta be in ww1 games, a very good example is isonzo . Sense most weapons are bolt action and the game is about clearing trenches, pistols really make you feel like an action hero and to make it better every weapon is pretty much 1 hit kill. I remember one time I was defending a point and 5 enemies entered my trench and i had take stand my ground and I took like 3 of them with me and the pistols are all revolvers held with one hand which makes you feel even more powerful

I once did a whole Tarkov wipe only using the 5.7 and it was glorious

For me it's MW2019's Glock, the slightly John Wick position on screen, the variety of ways you can kit it out, fast fire rate, amazing sound design and the beautiful Hyper animations make it the ultimate pistol, the game's fast TTK makes all weapons viable but hey it's a pistol so you are generally at a disadvantage, but when you do get a good run going it's a treat. I have a couple of runner ups one is weirdly also a Glock, the handgun in Black Mesa, sounds great, feels great, useful through the whole game, most games feature military or special forces weapons so i have a soft spot for guns in games that feel more civilian like using a farmers shotgun for more than it's intended for, in this case you get the Glock from a security guard so it's being pushed way past its intended purpose. Next one is a bit more interesting, the revolver in Alan Wake, i think it's the first gun you get in the game and it suits the horror/thriller vibe really well having only 6 shots and an interesting reload mechanic, while you're scrambling away from psychos running at you with fire axes you'll be mashing the reload button to insert bullets one by one as fast as you can, it's a civilian gun, it's loud, it's a revolver, A+.

For me it's the KAP-40 from Black Ops 2, it's really hard to beat having a machine pistol that's actually competitive with SMGs in your back pocket. Plus it just looks and sounds good. Good video, I enjoyed using the sidekick while I was still grinding Infinite. Really loved pairing it up with the pulse carbine for some easy cheese kills.

love running with just a pistol in Ghost Recon Breakpoint

For me it’s the m1911 from bo1, THAT reloading sounds so good and the shining grey of the gun it’s the cherry on top, i don’t know why i like it so much. seeing concord is so cursed lol

how tf this guy only have 660 subs? You deserve at least 50k

0:42 Equilibirum mentioned!

Pistols with Chasi kits or carbine kits just hit diff

I still gotta give my most loved pistols to the samurai edge from resident evil and the malorian arms from cyberpunk. The malorian arms is carried by its reload and inspect as well as the caliber and the samurai edge such a sleek good looking gun

infinite: hold the weapon switch key down to drop the sidekick, then pick it up to do a racking animation! i do this all the time when i'm bored or there's downtime, or i just want to see the anim :) *while i'm here - i think I agree that the sidekick is the best pistol. i'd honorably mention the lato/lex from Warframe, and any pistol from the cods of MW19 onwards. Destiny 2's forerunner is really nice too, Killing Floor 2's pistols are great because there's a class FOR them, and I also like the sidearm in Republic Commando :)

On the topic of revolvers. Check out some exotic Hand Cannons in Destiny 2 (Hawkmoon, Ace of Spades, The Last Word etc). Another game with great revolvers is Call of Juarez Gunslinger. Most satisfying guns to shoot in gaming imo. Also very nice intro!

half life glock was never mentioned

I love the senator in helldivers the revolver is so good,its probably because i mained mccree back when i played overwatch 1.

I always loved the pistols in halo, except halo 3, the pistol in halo 2 was weak but it's fire rate was good and using it felt good in the campaign.

My brother in Christ, there’s no better pistols than Insurgency ones, just but the game and try them out

this was exactly what i was looking for thanks

We had the perfect pistol and it was the halo CE magnum, its been 20 years and I still think its the greatest pistol in video games

The gold desert eagle in call of duty 4, the revolver in half life 1, the magnum from halo ce and last but not least bioshocks revolver

Gonna throw the Re-45 from apex in. That guns is mostly viable and feels super fun to uses. The angled hipfire animation is very nice. It’s always one that has stuck out to me as a pistol that is actual good and fun to use

Personally, I thought MW2019 and Hunt Showdown had the best feeling pistols the first time I played them. Specifically, the Pax.

for me it's the Killing loor 1 Beretta, nothing like it!

If you like the sidekick you’d love the magnum from halo CE and reach both have a unique designs to them, hit like a truck you don’t have to take a coffee break after a each shot and on top of that sound amazing give them a chance if you must I’d say the only bad thing about them is maybe the long distance accuracy but that comes with every pistol ever

I used to shred people in MW19 with my 1911. It had that slide extending muzzle brake on there with the rapid fire trigger and was just the shit man.

ngl the usp in bo6 feels so gooooood

Hand cannons are my favorite handguns in real lifr

for me the best pistols are in trepang 2, where the pistol is better than an smg and an assault rifle and is really satisfying, and also the pistol in titanfall 2

In terms of satisfying feedback the Darktide Bolt Pistol takes the cake for me. Not the best pistol type weapon even in it's own game, but holy shit does it feel good to use.

FEAR and Crysis 1 & 2 had some great pistols. The pistol in Half-Life 2 is great as well.

i dislike the sidekick's design since imo it's not sci-fi enough for halo, that said it's not a bad design generally

No Ace of Spades or The Last Word :c still such a great video

My man talks about Halo and doesn't talk about the Magnum or the SOCOM 🤔

Seems you like pistols as much as i do. While the halo Magnum is iconic, the sidekick just hits different.

Nice video I enjoyed it! Could you try and record your games in 16:9 aspect ratio so that when you upload it doesn't look all squished?

If you like revolvers that let you fan the hammer you should check out the peacekeeper from battlefield 1, in my opinion its the most satisfying revolver in gaming especially because the animations are top notch not to mention the hunt to get it.

You should take a look at the book 5 Rings, written by the ronin Miyamoto Mushi. He talks of how he used and trained mainly on the short sword in a time when long swords and bows were becoming more common use, but he used the short sword because it put him at a disadvantage and would win fights through pure skill.

Titanfall 2 Smart Pistol is the most satisfying piston in any game.

ultrakill revolver, goodbye

Halo 5's pistol was perfect