Sure, it wouldn't have blown my mind like Half-Life 2's Striders and Gravity Gun did in 2004, but you know: ice gun, blobs, the rest of the story. I'd have been into it! That wasn't enough for ...
To my mind, there were no traditional guns at all in Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. The gravity gun-only strategy wasn't perfect, of course. I'm pretty sure a rocket hitting whatever you were carrying ...