Gunblade...that is all

[LioJen]

Please no. Gunblades are a special kind of stupid best kept with dual wielding, scythes, and all the other awful weapon ideas.

Are you serious? All of those are real historical weapons and fighting styles. Scythes were re-purposed from farm equipment into weapons of war, dual wielding was used extensively throughout history perhaps most famously by Musashi Miyamoto, and gunblades... have you never seen a bayonet? (No, a bayonet is not like the FFVIII gunblades but it IS pretty much the same thing as the Garlean gunblades which are what is being proposed here)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_scythe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niten_Ichi-ry%C5%AB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonet