I recently picked up Insurgency, and realized how fun it was for an indie game.
I also realized how realistic and terrible killing people in it makes you feel. Most of the gameplay consists of coldly mowing down enemies, most of which never even see you.
At 300 meters away, you sit in a decrepit bell tower with your Mosin. A small black figure darts out of cover. You look into your scope, take aim with the chevron, take a second to steady it, and click. Your rifle lets out a solid crack and you hear your bolt sliding back and forth. The muzzle flash stops, the barrel smoke dissipates, your hearing slowly returns and, still looking down your sights, you see a spurt of blood fly out of their body as it lifelessly tumbles forward onto its stomach. A person hundreds of miles away shouts at their computer.
You're slowly walking through a hallway as muffled gunfire cracks and hisses outside, none of it fake background noise. You know your squad is out there taking and sending fire, and here you are shuffling through a hallway, alone, towards an objective. As you turn a corner, the marker is only 50 feet away. Suddenly you stop. The tip of a barrel rests near the doorway in front of you. You instinctively drop to the floor as a flash erupts from it. It takes a few panicked seconds to realize its not shooting at you. A bullet flies into the next room and the owner of the barrel scurries past the door for cover. You take out your pistol, move to a crouch and slowly sneak in to the room. Their back is turned to you, they are aiming out the window. A quick glance tells you they are alone. You take a second to line up your sights on his head and click. A loud pop from your M9, and they fall over limp. A person hundreds of miles away looks at their screen confused.
At least for me, these experiences feel disheartening. The graphics are stark and realistic, the sounds and atmosphere not the least bit comical. I get a mix of feelings whenever I get kills like these. I guess I'm a bit of a masochist, but other games just feel so machine-like in comparison. That rush of a satisfying, clean kill coupled with the realistic spectacle of death in war that unfolds in front of you is something that is so out of place in today's games.
So I'm desperately asking you this; are there any other games that do this well? And don't say SPURC OPS DA LINE. That game was so forced and tried so hard to make you "feel bad."
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
I also realized how realistic and terrible killing people in it makes you feel. Most of the gameplay consists of coldly mowing down enemies, most of which never even see you.
At 300 meters away, you sit in a decrepit bell tower with your Mosin. A small black figure darts out of cover. You look into your scope, take aim with the chevron, take a second to steady it, and click. Your rifle lets out a solid crack and you hear your bolt sliding back and forth. The muzzle flash stops, the barrel smoke dissipates, your hearing slowly returns and, still looking down your sights, you see a spurt of blood fly out of their body as it lifelessly tumbles forward onto its stomach. A person hundreds of miles away shouts at their computer.
You're slowly walking through a hallway as muffled gunfire cracks and hisses outside, none of it fake background noise. You know your squad is out there taking and sending fire, and here you are shuffling through a hallway, alone, towards an objective. As you turn a corner, the marker is only 50 feet away. Suddenly you stop. The tip of a barrel rests near the doorway in front of you. You instinctively drop to the floor as a flash erupts from it. It takes a few panicked seconds to realize its not shooting at you. A bullet flies into the next room and the owner of the barrel scurries past the door for cover. You take out your pistol, move to a crouch and slowly sneak in to the room. Their back is turned to you, they are aiming out the window. A quick glance tells you they are alone. You take a second to line up your sights on his head and click. A loud pop from your M9, and they fall over limp. A person hundreds of miles away looks at their screen confused.
At least for me, these experiences feel disheartening. The graphics are stark and realistic, the sounds and atmosphere not the least bit comical. I get a mix of feelings whenever I get kills like these. I guess I'm a bit of a masochist, but other games just feel so machine-like in comparison. That rush of a satisfying, clean kill coupled with the realistic spectacle of death in war that unfolds in front of you is something that is so out of place in today's games.
So I'm desperately asking you this; are there any other games that do this well? And don't say SPURC OPS DA LINE. That game was so forced and tried so hard to make you "feel bad."
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
