: Speak for yourself, dude. "Everyone" doesn't recognise those as
: dual-wielding, because I sure as hell don't. Having to keep track of which
: weapon has how many shots left and being able to strategically decide to
: fire one weapon rather than the other at a given time so you can choose
: when to reload is part of Marathon's metagame. Of course they're not
: comparable.
Wrong.
Everyone outside the story forum does recognise them as duel wielding. Just ask someone like Civvie 11, Psychedelic Eyeball or Steve of Warr. They are comparable. For example, Marathon's duel wielding requires you to reload your second gun and most others except Halo don't. That's a comparison.