Talk:Outlaws

Finally Complete

After years of this page being tagged as incomplete I have finally done the deed and finished it up. I've added screenshots for every weapon category, even including weapons that aren't usable in-game/are only useable in multiplayer by certain characters. There are more screenshots I could grab, sure, but they aren't exactly necessary to label this page as complete, at least for the most part. The only weapons I didn't include are dynamite and knives. Don't think it's really necessary to include those, since they aren't firearms. I will do it though if anyone tells me to. I think it's safe to say this page is now at least done enough that I can take the "incomplete" tag off of it. I will likely improve on the page as I go along, as will anyone else I'm sure who plays/has played this absolutely magnificent game. This was a labor of love for me, considering this was my first video game ever and was a major influence on my love for the Western genre. I acknowledge that the weapons are depicted in a horrendously inaccurate manner and that the old 90s graphics leave a lot to be desired from a modern gaming perspective, but as someone who grew up playing it, the sentimental value wins out for me. Plus it's just such an awesome, classic FPS game with an absolutely stellar soundtrack and an awesome voice cast with beautifully drawn cutscenes and awesome level design. Aaaanyway, I'll stop being a nerd now xD big thank you to whoever originally started this page. Saved me quite a bit of extra work believe it or not. And huge thanks to the mods for not deleting it. -- -Jared (talk) 19:07, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much for completing the IMFDB page for this underappreciated game. I'm of the opinion that if LucasArts had capitalized on Outlaws, they could have had a major competitor to the Red Dead series of games long before those were ever a twinkle in Rockstar Games' collective eye. But sadly that didn't happen, and LucasArts faded away. --Mazryonh (talk) 01:13, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

(I may add gameplay captures later, but the graphics are pretty bad and don't provide a good view of the guns at all. These were what I could cull from the excellent animated cutscenes.)

Question about adding bonus material to this page

It happens that I have a promotional photo for this game back when it was still upcoming, featuring some of the key developers of Outlaws posing in Wild West clothing and with what look to be replica firearms from the Wild West era. Can I post that to the wiki page for this game as "bonus" material? I'm sure some of the more knowledgeable users here could tell me if it's possible that the replica firearms seen in that old photo were used as the basis for the ingame firearms. --Mazryonh (talk) 01:13, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Don't see why not, if it's official promo material - plenty of pages have official trailer/promo stuff in a separate "Other" or "Unusable" section, or at least on the talk page. Pyr0m4n14c (talk) 01:48, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Here's the promo photo below:

The cover of "The Adventurer" magazine from Summer 1996.

According to the inside cover of this magazine, these "scary looking varmints" are, from left to right, Stephen Shaw, the lead programmer for Outlaws; Adam Schnitzer, lead background artist; Daron Stinnett, project leader; and Charlie Ramos, lead animator. The Western wear apparently came from Roger Bubel of Amusement Concepts located at Marine World Africa USA in Vallejo, California. Can anyone identify the long gun held by Stinnett, at least? Could it be the reference the dev team used for the "Winchester Rifle" in the game? The other firearms are too dark and blend into the background too well to make out much if any detail on them. --Mazryonh (talk) 13:15, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

I think it looks suspiciously like a pump operated toy that has a few lever gun aesthetics ~~

What makes you think it's a pump-action toy? --Mazryonh (talk) 17:52, 1 October 2023 (UTC)