Poll: Going Akimbo

[fix-the-spade]

Games don't have enough dua lwielding.

You shoul dbe able to use two of EVERYTHING, it's a videogame for crying out loud, rule of cool says two gagtling guns is better than one.

Besides, effective use of grenades negates any advantage you get from having two guns.

 

[Christemo]

you point on MW2 being unrealistic is a joke, because a few months back IW pretty much said "screw realism, its more fun unrealistic", and because of that your little point was blunt.

on topic, i think akimbo should stay in games. i hate realistic games, because the stuff you can do is very limited, and that spoils the fun of it. i love games where you can do stuff thats completely senseless in the real world.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Yeah, the word akimbo sounds like a sex-pose. And a damned painful sounding one... But anyway, Akimbo is good for about three reasons:

First: You're low on health, and blind firing with a rifle isn't doing a fucking thing.

Second: the Spec-ops missions require it to mow down enemies faster, so it helps if you have 3 other guys around going Akimbo with machine guns mowing down everyone in sight faster.

Third: It's freakin' hilarious!

But there are cons. no iron-sight aiming, so there is almost no way to tell where your bullets are headed. It's cheap when you are the one who's getting killed by it, and it's pretty unrealistic. I'm pretty sure if you were to dual wield Desert Eagles, I think both of your hands would break off just after you pull the trigger.

 

[BlackJack47]

I have never experienced a problem from anyone using them and barely use them myself

 

[Christemo]

It don't work! The sheer concentration required to track two targets, pull the triggers and deal with the separate recoil is impossible. If you want it to be a John Woo movie, fine. If you want it to be realistic, don't.

Left 4 Dead 1 is probably the worst offender. Trying to shoot 2 .45's would probably end up breaking your wrist.

However, some are able to do it...


Basically what I'm saying is, yes you can do it, but it won't be very useful.

that man is fucking awesome.

 

[mhitman]

I gotta say that dual wielding shotguns in MW2 is extremely cheap and really annoying to be at the wrong end of. What makes it worse is that its usually in the hands of a 10 year old

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

I'm just laughing because the word akimbo always makes me think of the league of gentlemen.

 

[Kozo]

Akimbo Rangers in MW2 baby, when im moving around in tights spots, I always walk around with em. I've gotten bunch of kills by standing at a door opening and shooting down hordes of enemies comming.

It might be stupid, and annoying. But, holy crap its fun!

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

MW2 is supposed to be a realistic representation of warfare.

I larfed.

 

[Instant K4rma]

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[Acidwell]

dual wielding 1887's is as unbalanced as fuck but aside from that i don't see a problem with akimbo personally i don't use it but it is fun in general and i don't see how anyone could complain about it in l4d and l4d2 since in those two all it does is double your clip size

 

[Ohten]

In general, if I can rush up at you with two knives in my hand and do to you what the guy at the end of A Christmas Story did to the duck, I'm happy. Otherwise, I avoid going akimbo because it's a ***** to sight down two sniper scopes.

 

[King_Julian]

MW2 is supposed to be a realistic representation of warfare.

I larfed.

If its supposed to be realistic then why did the developers state before release that THEY WERE NOT AIMING FOR REALISM AT ALL THEY WERE AIMING FOR ARCADE STYLE FUN!!!!

dumbass who made this thread get your facts right before you make a topic.

 

[deathdriver23]

I'm perfectly fine with akimbo/dual wielding in games that are action packed, have thrown realism out the window, and are trying to make the player feel as badass as possible, but in a game like MW2, which is trying to be as authentic and photo-realistic as possible(or that is how it used to be), it seems very out of place. I will admit I do use akimbo P90's from time to time, but I acknowledge that akimbo is a feature that should not have been included in MW2, instead, IW should have focused on balancing everything else. *cough* chopper gunner *cough*

 

[MGlBlaze]

CONS - Part 1: Broken Realism

I thought we abandoned realism after we started mowing down crowds of infinitely respawning terrorists, giving human players regenerating health without some sort of reason, and made it possible to withstand getting shot over and over because of said regenerating health.

CONS - Part Deux: It's cheap as fuck.

Only if the developers don't know what they're doing. Dual-wielding pistols in L4D works because you need all the extra firepower you can get. Balancing would be countered by increasing the recoil from firing them quickly and/or decreasing accuracy.

I'm pretty surprised they let you dual-weild shotguns though...

 

[number2301]

Akimbo weapons has been around since the dawn of FPSs? Wait, what?

Maybe if you think Halo was the first FPS.

 

[Fingolfin High-King of the Noldor]

I do it with the rangers on hardcore to be a little less unfair about it. But when people use those model 1887 that is just way too unfair. I was getting one shotted at a range on normal.

 

[Punisher A.J.]

Feel Badass and awesome or feel effcient your call.

 

[deathdriver23]

I am glad IW didn't allow AA-12s and Strikers to be used akimbo, oh man that would have been annoying.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

Akimbo weapons has been around since the dawn of FPSs? Wait, what?

Maybe if you think Halo was the first FPS.

Very incorrect - Halo didn't have dual wielding.

Ironically, the developers of Halo created Marathon in 1994 - one of the first games to feature dual wielding

[small]do tell me if I have incorrectly used the word 'ironic'[/small]