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This article lists several different interpretations for "BFG" and says they were variously used before the DOOM design docs stated it is "Big Fucking Gun." If you played DOOM and seriously believed it was anything other than "Fucking" then you are perhaps the most naive person in the whole world.
Is that right? The Official Doom FAQ that shipped with Doom v1.4 called it the Big Fragging Gun. I looked through the Doom manuals and found no mention of it being called the "Big Fucking Gun". Since the Doom Bible was scrapped, it can't be used as a canonical source. The first official name of the BFG is the Big Fragging Gun. Some sources:
http://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/bfgfaq/#1B
http://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/doomfaq/
I didn't see anywhere in the manuals where it was referred to as the "Big Fucking Gun" or implied that was its official name. If you find it, please let me know.
http://www.wolfensteingoodies.com/archives/olddoom/manuals/Doom_-_Manual_-_PC.pdf
http://www.wolfensteingoodies.com/archives/olddoom/manuals/Ultimate_Doom_-_Manual_-_PC.pdf
http://www.wolfensteingoodies.com/archives/olddoom/manuals/Doom_II_-_Manual_-_PC.pdf
http://www.wolfensteingoodies.com/archives/olddoom/manuals/Final_Doom_-_Manual_-_PC.pdf
Cheers. Shane Strife (talk) 06:48, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
I do not remember where but somewhere I've heard a ru|mor that the traces in original Doom were unitially plasma fireballs, but were made invisible because it caused too much of slowdown on the machines of the day to render so many sprites. –Gnomz007(?) 17:25, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
Where was it stated that they take place in the same universe? 24.255.172.149 14:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for being a grammar nazi or whatever, but the caption for the Doom II screenshot says it is capable of 'decimating' an entire room. Doesn't decimate mean to one tenth of something? Yeah... --ChristopherEdwards 01:46, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
'deci·mation n. Usage Note: Decimate originally referred to the killing of every tenth person, a punishment used in the Roman army for mutinous legions. Today this meaning is commonly extended to include the killing of any large proportion of a group.'
Don't worry if you want to change it, though, I've been through this conversation before :) DarkMasterBob 06:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
It dosen't mention it's ammo, what and how much it uses. Was it 30 Cells? Dfrg.msc 06:52, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
there are alternate names for the BFG9000 like Big Fucking Gun 9000
Guys I've just thought of a really cool name that fits for the BFG:
BINARY FUSION GUN!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.0.178.216 (talk) 03:06, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
The name is given as "Big Fragging Gun" in the current revision of the article, citing the Doom II manual and the original Doom design document, but I've just read them and the Doom II manual doesn't appear to say, while the Doom design document says "Big Fucking Gun". Tws45 (talk) 00:42, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
The article title has stated it being called "BFG9000". However, the article itself has the name "BFG 9000". Which one is correct, and if one is right, then which one is editted? Aramjm 19:40, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Why does B.F.M. ("Big Furry Monster" from Magic: The Gathering) redirect here? They have nothing to do with each other.24.27.203.38 15:08, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:53, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
As far as I know BFG doesn't stand for "Big F***ing Gun," it stands for "Big Fucking Gun." This isn't a children's book here you know. Wikipedia is clinical. Use your words. Thank you. 75.64.190.54 (talk) 19:40, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Well if you were a child seeking information about a children's book titled "The BFG" then you would come across a particularly nasty surprise, considering that you're 5 years old. Will someone please think of the children!!?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.114.29 (talk) 01:04, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
'The fictional weapon was selected by a real military expert as the fictional video game gun he would bring to war.' This does not belong in the introduction. It is an aside at best and trivia at worst. ||MJ
Did this gun appear in the Doom novels? If so, said novels should be mentioned, espeically concsidering how they are so very different from the video games. Lots42 (talk) 17:12, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I have a question: On the first sentence within the section "Critical Reception", it says "UGO.com ranked the BFG 9000 at number two on their Top 50 Video Game Weapons of All Time list[citation needed].", yet below, there is a "citation", [1], which leads to the UGO site. Should I edit the page to add the citation there or can I not?
--72.173.192.59 (talk) 22:33, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Being one of the four notable video game weapons might not necessitate another template, but this still seems a bit absurd. 8ty3hree (talk) 20:32, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
The version for the Nintendo 64 console entitled Doom 64 featured the BFG 9000. Why is this not mentioned in the main article? Aidensdaddy2k9 (talk) 06:45, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
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The main issue is that the BFG 9000’s damage output per tracer is incorrectly stated in this article as “between 16 and 128 damage” which I have corrected it. If you believe otherwise, here's how the BFG 9000 works, as explained by YouTuber decino.
Found this user who made this erroneous edit: Anon423, at 14:24 (UTC), 7 January 2022. How the user got this completely wrong (For each tracer dealing between 16 and 128 damage is not just a misunderstatement, but misleading too), I don't know what source that say that each BFG tracer deals "between 16 and 128 damage".
Wikipedia Vienna (talk) 15:44, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
This article is kind of sloppy; I feel like it might need to be tagged for a rewrite. 2605:B40:1303:900:D95:621D:F8C:29AC (talk) 16:52, 29 December 2023 (UTC)