Best snipers and/or marksmen in video games

[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.

I really loved playing with the SV98, but after some time I finally switched to the M95.
While it felt a bit clumsy, it gave a great boost to penetration, which helped a lot against enemy snipers and them pesky attack-helicopters.

I really hope it makes a return in BF4^^

Penetration of what? Penetration in BC2 is pretty near a binary thing, the M95's less accurate and clumsier with a steeper drop pattern. It's big advantage is that it's a 1 hit body shot to something stupid like 50 metres. Makes a great shotgun.

I dealt with attack helicopters with AA guns and rockets. The M95 was ok for a cheeky kill steal on it though. In vietnam I just loved feeding helicopters to the Pig though (;

I have a couple gold stars on the M95 but ultimately I prefer the usability of the SV98 and M24, the GOL is really just kind of pointless, it's accuracy only helps at super-insane range (The entire length of atacama desert or so).

I hope BF4 fixes a lot of the issues with BF3.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

you frankly cant beat the troops from operation flashpoint and arma. whats that tiny dot at 500 m.. oh its an enemy sniper

Oh yeah, Bohemia Interactive games, home to the Pixel Snipers, the deadliest pixels in any game.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

If we're counting expanded universe stuff, I'd say Linda from Halo. On one occasion, she hanged upside down by a few wires, while heavily wounded and holding her sniper rifle in one hand, and managed to headshot multiple Banshee pilots through the slits in each Banshee's cockpit. Wow.

 

[lord canti]

Fools there is only one true king of snipers hit it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeoQXEp5n-A

 

[Happiness Assassin]

Without a doubt it has to be HK-47. Who else has ever used defined love so perfectly as this...

 

[Brown Cap]

Garrus is good as well and especially badass when you meet him in Mass Effect 2.

Ninja'd
I totally would say Garrus, even though I let him beat me at the shooting contest.

 

[Brown Cap]

Imagine an enemy sniper was this good in a game. Would rage quit and talk about how silly AI is

You don't need to. Play Last of Us on Survivor mode during the sniper level.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

Garrus is good as well and especially badass when you meet him in Mass Effect 2.

Ninja'd
I totally would say Garrus, even though I let him beat me at the shooting contest.

I beat him and then reloaded and let him beat me, it was totally worth it lol

 

[GundamSentinel]

How about the guy so dedicated to sniping, his skin can photosynthesise energy? A century old sniper who uses a parrot to spot for him and still can't be properly chased down by an elite commando? One of the few people to ever go toe to toe with Snake in a tactical battle (and in fact so fearsome that many a snake let him die of old age rather than fight him), who can camouflage himself against practically anything and carries one of the only and best non-lethal sniper rifles in the Metal Gear Solid final? His name is the The End because he's the end of this discussion

Agreed, and in my humble opinion one of the best boss battles ever. Damnit, now I want to play MGS3 again...

 

[ShinyCharizard]

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.

I really loved playing with the SV98, but after some time I finally switched to the M95.
While it felt a bit clumsy, it gave a great boost to penetration, which helped a lot against enemy snipers and them pesky attack-helicopters.

I really hope it makes a return in BF4^^

Penetration of what? Penetration in BC2 is pretty near a binary thing, the M95's less accurate and clumsier with a steeper drop pattern. It's big advantage is that it's a 1 hit body shot to something stupid like 50 metres. Makes a great shotgun.

I dealt with attack helicopters with AA guns and rockets. The M95 was ok for a cheeky kill steal on it though. In vietnam I just loved feeding helicopters to the Pig though (;

I have a couple gold stars on the M95 but ultimately I prefer the usability of the SV98 and M24, the GOL is really just kind of pointless, it's accuracy only helps at super-insane range (The entire length of atacama desert or so).

I hope BF4 fixes a lot of the issues with BF3.

Yeah I wasn't really a fan of the M95 either. It was just too slow to reload and offered no real noticeable benefit in comparison to the M24 considering a headshot was a one hit kill no matter which you used. And I too hope BF4 fixes what was wrong with BF3. From watching the e3 gameplay it looks like they are bringing weapon handling back to being similar to how it is in the bad company games. The lack of weight and punch to the weapons really killed BF3 for me. They just felt way too inaccurate.

 

[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.

I really loved playing with the SV98, but after some time I finally switched to the M95.
While it felt a bit clumsy, it gave a great boost to penetration, which helped a lot against enemy snipers and them pesky attack-helicopters.

I really hope it makes a return in BF4^^

Penetration of what? Penetration in BC2 is pretty near a binary thing, the M95's less accurate and clumsier with a steeper drop pattern. It's big advantage is that it's a 1 hit body shot to something stupid like 50 metres. Makes a great shotgun.

I dealt with attack helicopters with AA guns and rockets. The M95 was ok for a cheeky kill steal on it though. In vietnam I just loved feeding helicopters to the Pig though (;

I have a couple gold stars on the M95 but ultimately I prefer the usability of the SV98 and M24, the GOL is really just kind of pointless, it's accuracy only helps at super-insane range (The entire length of atacama desert or so).

I hope BF4 fixes a lot of the issues with BF3.

Yeah I wasn't really a fan of the M95 either. It was just too slow to reload and offered no real noticeable benefit in comparison to the M24 considering a headshot was a one hit kill no matter which you used. And I too hope BF4 fixes what was wrong with BF3. From watching the e3 gameplay it looks like they are bringing weapon handling back to being similar to how it is in the bad company games. The lack of weight and punch to the weapons really killed BF3 for me. They just felt way too inaccurate.

Yeah everything in BF3 felt kind of floaty and off and way to much recoil came with anything automatic even when you fired in bursts. There's a reason the most popular stuff is either low fire rate and heavy or just bullet spewing crap that can't aim for shit.

Also if in BF4 they start the marksman class off with a fucking semi-auto rifle and not a bolt I'ma be pissed off. And also I'ma be playing Killzone: Shadow Fall instead, much more team based game.