Best snipers and/or marksmen in video games

[FalloutJack]

Kurt Hectic, from MDK. I'm pretty sure that this game is the first to have a sniper scope. He's very accurate and can shoot accurately at an extreme range.

I was about to make a joke about myself in Fallout, hitting tiny flecks on the screen who are bad guys at the most-extreme range of my vision, but your answer is better. Kurt's life as a sniper is such that he has had to shoot from such distances that he needs an extreme rangefinder (built in) along with cameras in the bullets so he sees where they're going (especially important in any ricochet-related feat).

 

[m0ng00se]

Mordecai from Borderlands is a legendary sniper with a revolver, and he just chills out on a tower in BL2 killing everything for you no matter where you go in the map.

 

[vallorn]

Kurt Hectic, from MDK. I'm pretty sure that this game is the first to have a sniper scope. He's very accurate and can shoot accurately at an extreme range.

And you just reminded me about one of the games that defined my childhood. God the concept for that gun was awesome. mini chain gun when handheld and can be mounted ON YOUR FACE to act as a sniper rifle not to mention that in sniper mode it has all sorts of hilarious ammo types.

 

[Abomination]

A thread about snipers and no one has mentioned Craig Boone yet?

Spoiler: The last thing your enemies never see.

Yeah, thread over.

You think New Vegas was a game about The Courier? No, you were the follower who just carried ammo for Boone and served as his means of communicating with other denizens of the Wastes. You were his spotter... sometimes he didn't even need that. The number of times I encountered a Legion patrol because I heard him commenting about the damage he was doing, turned around to see 6-7 dead legionnaires and him staring back at me like nothing fucking happened...

Don't fuck with Boone.

 

[Azure23]

Female Infiltrator Shepard with a Widow. Garrus is good as well and especially badass when you meet him in Mass Effect 2.

Put in another vote for Infiltrator Shepard. Max headshot damage skill and equipment loadout, upgraded black widow with long barrel and time dilation, armor piercing ammo, freezing squadmate power. Add all that up and what do you get? You get Brutes dead in one headshot.

 

[AT God]

My first thought was Bishop from UT3, mainly because he is basically a copy-paste of Private Jackson from Saving Private Ryan.

But after thinking that I remembered crazy ol' Kojima already created the best sniper in history.

The End

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Church from RvB.

Cyrus the Scout from Dawn of War 2.

 

[Lilani]

I'm also going to have to go with the Sniper from TF2. And his voice is just so drop dead sexy. I know it's a fake Aussie accent, but still...

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

Definitely Nthing Lawrence Mundy AKA the Sniper from TF2.

Though anyone on this guy's countdown [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNafVUdHZKc] are definitely worthy contenders.

 

[OneCatch]

The Halo 2 Jackal Snipers... *Shudders*

"Sniper Alley" in the second level has at least eight, enough so that on harder difficulties there's virtually no chance the marines following you will survive, even if you can get past them.

I still have nightmares about sniper alley on Legendary Coop. Either one of you dies? YOU BOTH DIE.

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OT, since no one's said it yet, I'm gonna say Mordecai from Borderlands. He gibs stuff with a revolver.

Spoiler: and when out of ammo...

 

[ShinyCharizard]

-snip-

I'm more a GOL Sniper Magnum guy, mainly because of the zero idle-sway.

I can respect that. The GOL is a solid choice.

 

[JemothSkarii]

I'mma just gonna go ahead and say Ocelot from Metal Gear Solid. Specifically 3 as that is the best showcase of his skills. Plus all that gun twirling and such.

 

[kingpocky]

Snipers in XCOM with archangel armor and the squadsight perk. Send your other guys ahead to scout out where the enemies are, while you and your jetpack hover safely a mile back and you pick them off one by one.

 

[Me55enger]

Anyone here heard of a guy called Devil Dog?

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No? Oh well...

 

[Tayh]

Anyone here heard of a guy called Devil Dog?

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No? Oh well...

The guy from APB?
The biggest troll in San Paro?
Oh yeah.

 

[Ldude893]

I have a soft spot for the Snipers in the RTS Company of Heroes. They're reliable, they almost never miss, and they go through so many close-encounters it's hard not to get attached to them.
They now have female Sniper teams in Company of Heroes 2 for the Soviets. One of my favorite tactics is to put them inside scout cars so they can shoot while being able to move at high speed.

 

[The White Hunter]

The M24 from Battlefield Bad Company 2:

It's just perfect, perfect range, accuracy, reload speed, and it's the first one you get.

Yes.

Yes!

[HEADING=1]YES!![/HEADING]

That gun is brilliant, though I now favour the SV98 for it's lower sound and flash signature and similar lethality (also prefer the scope). But the M24 comes out for particular vengeance quests or taking down those with a lower star count on it.

 

[Spartan448]

Probably a tie between The End and The Sniper from MGS3 and TF2 respectively. They're on pretty much the same level of skill. One was the inventor of modern sniping, and the other perfected it, so that no living man could best him at it.