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[RAM]

666...
4x4x4x4x4=1024
3x3x3x3x3x3=729

so... bullet speed, bullet path, rate of fire, triggering mechanism... damage effect... area of effect...
Bullet speed= instant, fast, slow.
Path = arc, flat, seeking.
Rate = effectively constant, precision.
Trigger = immediate, delayed(charge up for a time before shooting), option to delay(can be charged for more power per shot, presumably for ammunition conservation).
Damage effect= none, effectively permanent(like, it only goes away after, like, two minutes without being hit.) speed reduction, damage over time over an area, temporary(like, if resets after five seconds of not being hit) damage vulnerability... Increased reward(If there is no reward for shooting things, then maybe grant some form of self-recovery proportional to damage-dealt?).
area effect = line, penetrating line, wedge, explosion on impact, explosion at fixed range.
3*3*2*4*4*5=1440
I think that these variations would be distinct enough to each have their own feel, although some weapons would be less desireable. Even with significantly greater damage as compensation, a slow projectile with no seeking or splash would be painful to use against anything but the easiest of targets.

Graphics would be a pain, you could have symbolic-based weapon, using spiritual energy as ammunition, which would probably regenerate, but be drained by various environmental effects and be used as a shield against some threats so ammunition would be perpetual but require management. That way you could have a few generic graphical objects, such as a necklace, pendant on a chain, rings, wands, belts... And have a bunch of skins with various random geometric forms and assorted bits of obscure heraldry. Because it is all based upon symbolism and is acting more as a focus for other forces than an actual mechanism, it doesn't need to look as though it actually works, which saves on having hundreds of remotely-convincing AND unique gun images, you just need something where a simple palette-swap will keep the peripheries from being obviously identical and with a distinct pattern prominently displayed somewhere to keep it unique where the player is focusing. Probably split the graphic along the properties, the symbol is always based upon its effects when it hits something and the form is always based upon how it comes to be hitting something. Instant laser-beams always come from wands, homing laser-beams always come from two-handed wands with spiky bases, stuff that slows the victim down always have a symbol of an eye and if it explodes then there are teeth around the edge or the object looks rusty or something...

[KingofstarrySkies]

Multiplayer would be...
oh god

[flabort]

It's too bad 37 is a prime number.

Because breaking 666 down into it's primes yields 3, 3, 2, and 37. We could approximate 666 by bumping 37 down to 36, and break that down into 3, 3, 2, and 2. For 3^4*2^3=81*8=648
So four stats that can be one-of-three, one that can be one-of-four, and a sixth stat that is yes or no. With some derived stats to balance them together.
Add an extra 18 weapons that fall outside the parameters set that way, and you have 666.

[Niveras]

I dont wish this existed, but you know its coming on Steam Greenlight...

Masturbation Simulator: You move your mouse back and forth rapidly to get to a payoff. You can choose what you want to masterbate too. Furries, hot women, guys, dogs, Donald Trump. Normally there will be a timer before you can perform again, but you can make a microtransaction to purchase viagra to lower the timer to zero.

You know this is coming and people will buy it. They will likely let you 'mod it' so you can put the image of you want to be masterbating and what you want to masterbate to and this will be plugged into Steam Workshop.

I think there was a game like this on Newgrounds

Here it is. I found it. King Stroker (NSFW)

For something else, there's http://www.sdtmods.com/ (NSFW). It's not quite a masturbation simulator, though, but with skins and maybe some mods it can function in that way. Most of the skins are female, it should be noted; it is very rule34. It wouldn't ever be integrated with microtransactions or steam, obviously.

I'll probably regret having posted about it.

[SealyStar]

-snip-

Basically Borderlands with a hell-n-demons paint job?

[Bohandas]

Ideally it would be less linear than Borderlands.

Also, perhaps there could be multiple damage types (like physical damage, fire damage, holy damage, unholy damage, etc.) that some enemies are weaker or stronger against.

EDIT:
Also, not all the guns need be purely offensive weapons; there could be a grappling hook gun, a portal gun, a gravity gun, a heal ray, a hypnotism device, a firehose/water cannon, stuff like that

[KingofstarrySkies]

in what universe is a water cannon useful as a weapon
I mean, yeah, fire enemies, but

[Generally me]

A sandbox game where you craft stuff to survive the night against zombies, spiders and skeletons.
The graphics would be completely block like and there would be a purple dragon as an end boss.

[flabort]

I'm going to describe a game as if I were describing a stew.

To make a stew, you need some stock, meat and potatoes, spices, and vegetables.

Let's pick the meat first. It will be from the (Illegal) Racing genre, so let's pick some choice cuts; Need for Speed Most Wanted is a quality sirloin. For Potatoes, let's go with some hearty ones and pick Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode. As far as stock, we want mostly from the same animal. Let's boil the bones (AKA Grand Theft Auto) and the fats (Simpson's Hit and Run). To spice our stew, let's pick something Party-ish. Mario Kart and Diddy Kong Racing both sound like excellent spices that would compliment our meat well, but we can't use too much or it would overpower our protein; we just want to elevate it. As well, we can add some F-Zero as spice, for that futuristic taste. For vegetables, I'm going to pick and equivalent to carrots and butternut squash, with a small amount of complimentary tomato for acid; being the Roguelike genre for roots, let's pick Cataclysm: DDA, and for our sweet squash I'd pick Portal 2. For the tomato, the game of choice is Portals again.

[Bohandas]

in what universe is a water cannon useful as a weapon
I mean, yeah, fire enemies, but

Sludge based enemies too. It's also my understanding that they're useful against hippies.

[SealyStar]

in what universe is a water cannon useful as a weapon
I mean, yeah, fire enemies, but

Sludge based enemies too. It's also my understanding that they're useful against hippies.

You could use it to turn dust enemies into sludge enemies. Or lava enemies into rock enemies. Or, for that matter, it could melt ice enemies (water being warmer than ice and having high specific heat).

[Dutrius]

Never underestimate the force behind a large volume of pressurised water.

[scrdest]

Never underestimate the force behind a large volume of pressurised water.

Ayup. Can cut through steel. PSA: your body is usually not made out of a harder-than-steel material.

[Dutrius]

Never underestimate the force behind a large volume of pressurised water.

Ayup. Can cut through steel. PSA: your body is usually not made out of a harder-than-steel material.

In regards to cutting with water, it leaves a cleaner cut than a laser does and you avoid the issue of lasers causing thermal expansion within the metal.

I was thinking more of fire hoses that require multiple firemen to hold when I made my post though.

[UXLZ]

Also, you have to be quite close to be able to cut steel. I believe the industrial ones used have the water's nozzle basically tracing the metal like a pencil. You probably would be able to still have it work from further away, but the force would have to be massive. You can use a special type of fluid that apparently lets you cut the bark off a tree at 40 meters. Not quite steel-cutting (well, nowhere close) but strong enough to sound effective against a squishy enemy.
It's could be a weapon that has damage scale proportionally to your distance from the target.