How would you define a 'satisfying' weapon?
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I so totally agree. The Black machine gun just had that air of badass to it. All the guns in Black sounded wicked, but the machine gun had the stopping power to go with it.Samurai Goomba said:
Oh, and thanks for reminding me; the Tazer in Urban Chaos was pretty satisfying too. It may have been close-range, but you just gotta smirk when you use it to fry people.
How would you define a 'satisfying' weapon?
SIMPLE!
my judging how many badass mofo's you can kill in a grusome way before you have to reload!
unless its melee where is just has to be balanced so if a guy is gonna get ya with a gun and all you have is a butterknife, you atleast get a chance to make that guy toast "if you know what i mean"
SIMPLE!
my judging how many badass mofo's you can kill in a grusome way before you have to reload!
unless its melee where is just has to be balanced so if a guy is gonna get ya with a gun and all you have is a butterknife, you atleast get a chance to make that guy toast "if you know what i mean"
What makes a weapon satisfying is the enemy's reaction to it. Valve makes a pretty good job of this in Left 4 Dead. Its one of the few games where the assault rifle feels as satisfying as the shot gun. When you shoot and enemy they stagger, fall, there head blows up etc You know, they actually feel like there being hit with bullets. Thats the key to weapon satisfaction. There may be very few weapons in that game, but they all feel so, so good.
Modified Fatman from fallout 3
while the ammo supply is not exactly run-of-the-mill and it takes about 8 mini-nukes to do 1 blast, it sure is a heavy-hitter.
tried it once in a tunnel full of deathclaws.......sweeeet
*coughs from radiation*
while the ammo supply is not exactly run-of-the-mill and it takes about 8 mini-nukes to do 1 blast, it sure is a heavy-hitter.
tried it once in a tunnel full of deathclaws.......sweeeet
*coughs from radiation*
One with easy ammo, dead-on accuracy and omgwtf-power that can plow through entire halls of enemies in single firing mode. (BFG anyone?)
something with a quick reload and with skill can take something down with one to three shots if used for a head shot.
cerebal bore from turok
or maybe the rockets from brute force. they are homing and they spil every half a second
the original pistol from the original halo
the auto shotty from L4D
any gun from jet force jemini.
serously it decapitates teddy bears!! how much awsomer can you get!
or maybe the rockets from brute force. they are homing and they spil every half a second
the original pistol from the original halo
the auto shotty from L4D
any gun from jet force jemini.
serously it decapitates teddy bears!! how much awsomer can you get!
melee weapons always seem to be more satisfying to me (can I count being the tank in l4d as having satisfying weapons?) in terms of actual guns.... i'm gna go with the tactical nuke launcher from crysis MP - even if the gameplay is rubbish, its hilarious having those things and then just trying to kill 1 guy with them XD
The most satisfying weapon? Depends on the genre. In a first-person shooter, the closer a weapon comes to that minigun they've busted out on MythBusters a few times to cut trees in half and blow up propane tanks, the better. More Dakka is not optional, it is mandatory. Failing machine guns, something on the order of a German 88-millimeter panzerfaust is acceptable, provided that it's completely implausibly designed to blow up in ways that are more Hollywood than reality or fire at a rate comparable to at least a semi-automatic.
In an RPG, however, I've a tendency to play it like a stealth game, and to that end either a nice interface for shooting arrows from the shadows (as in Oblivion, especially when Marksman hits 50 and, as my wife put it, "why the fuck does an elf get a sniper scope?") or, as in Morrowind, with strutting right up to someone (thanks to 100 Sneak and 80% Chameleon) and disemboweling him with a Daedric Katana (I whacked the Black Dart Gang in Tribunal without letting any of them even get off a shot).
In an RPG, however, I've a tendency to play it like a stealth game, and to that end either a nice interface for shooting arrows from the shadows (as in Oblivion, especially when Marksman hits 50 and, as my wife put it, "why the fuck does an elf get a sniper scope?") or, as in Morrowind, with strutting right up to someone (thanks to 100 Sneak and 80% Chameleon) and disemboweling him with a Daedric Katana (I whacked the Black Dart Gang in Tribunal without letting any of them even get off a shot).
It needs to make a nice 'stabbing an apple' sound when it hits. Ooooh, god I love good satisfying audial feedback <3