Does anyone else get mad from shotguns in video games?
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its already in some games....darthzew said:
i swear i have seen an automatic shotgun that looks like that in at least like 5 games...
The other people have mentioned about the range so I'll say something else. In Call of Duty, they have the recoil and sound effect of a BB gun. Seriously, the shot is about as loud as your footsteps, and the recoil is like a new born baby punching your shoulder.
Yeah, the shotgun does tend to be portrayed poorly in most games. However, I think it is intended to be like this. If you had a gun that could tear a chunk out of someone from half a map away, why would you use anything else? For another example, Halo's turret. It has three barrels that rotate when you fire. In real life, these rotating barrel guns (can't think of what they are called, maybe miniguns?) have a ridiculously high rate of fire (think of the miniguns on helicopters) due to the fact that the gun barrels can cool themselves while being rotated. Yet in Halo and many other games with this kind of gun, it seems that the gun shoots slower than the Battle Rifle! The developers intentionally cut down on the power of these turrets and of the shotgun to prevent people running around with a enormously overpowered gun and ruining the game for everyone.
Well, the issue is that they are trying to build weapons for specialty purposes and the Shotgun being limited to that close a range might not be realistic, but it makes sense for purposes of game design.
It should be noted that Shotguns are pretty effective weapons, one of the comments I remember about "Terminator Salvataion" (I think it was in an "EZ Achievements" video for XBL) was that the Shotgun was not limited by range so there was no real reason to use anything else. In a way that sort of illustrate the issue.
Truthfully, there is a logic to game design that is rapidly moving away from reality. Especially given conventions like "health" and "hit points". I think Assault Rifles get it worse than Shotguns to be honest, because like 99% of the time when I play shooters (which is rare, I'm not a big fan of the genere) it seems like Assault Rifles are firing plastic BBs since they fire quickly but do almost no damage, and your opponents are able to move around making it difficult to keep the stream of bullets focused on them. I find this MORE ridiculous than shotguns being so limited in range.
It should be noted that Shotguns are pretty effective weapons, one of the comments I remember about "Terminator Salvataion" (I think it was in an "EZ Achievements" video for XBL) was that the Shotgun was not limited by range so there was no real reason to use anything else. In a way that sort of illustrate the issue.
Truthfully, there is a logic to game design that is rapidly moving away from reality. Especially given conventions like "health" and "hit points". I think Assault Rifles get it worse than Shotguns to be honest, because like 99% of the time when I play shooters (which is rare, I'm not a big fan of the genere) it seems like Assault Rifles are firing plastic BBs since they fire quickly but do almost no damage, and your opponents are able to move around making it difficult to keep the stream of bullets focused on them. I find this MORE ridiculous than shotguns being so limited in range.
I want to know why shotguns can hit a locust once and all he does in cringe, but the second time he explodes in to a million pieces.
Shotguns have never been really known for their range, but I agree with you. They go a bit short in some games.
Shotguns have never been really known for their range, but I agree with you. They go a bit short in some games.