Escapist fans! Let's settle this. What do you prefer, a realistic shooters (Call of Duty and Battlefield) or the sci-fi shooters(Games like Mass Effect or Resistance)?
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>Implying there was ever a conflict over which genre was preferred.
I like good shooters.
Doesn't matter what I'm shooting and in which location in the Omniverse I'm shooting them.
I like good shooters.
Doesn't matter what I'm shooting and in which location in the Omniverse I'm shooting them.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than just Realistic and Sci-Fi shooters. What would you call Max Payne? Or The Darkness? Or Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines? Or any number of games that do not fit in the categories of 'Realistic' or 'Sci-Fi'?
I do not see your crazy moon logic cartoon shooters good sir. Though that's irrelevant because I lean slightly toward sci-fi, just more opportunities available. It's just a shame most "realistic shooters" are better than sci fi ones anyway.
CoD is super realistic.Hazy992 said:
Doesn't matter how far away someone is, bullets will always hit what you're aiming at with no deviation whatsoever.
Just like real life.
People who die from being shot are just noobs who can't dive behind a wall quick enough.Hazy992 said:
Real pros jump off of ledges, do a 360 turn and no scope dudes using aim assist.
Just like in real life.
LastGreatBlasphemer said:
Are you kidding me? They're what's called Fantasy. Sci-Fi is shorthand for Science. Fiction. There's about as much science in Bloodlines as in My Little Pony. You gain the ability to call something like Bloodlines sci-fi, you can pretty much call anything Sci-Fi, right down to The Lord of the Rings. It's -Urban Fantasy-, look it up sometime.
Going with sci-fi on this one for a few reasons. First: I'm a nerd, I love sci-fi and I prefer any universe to our own. Second: there has been an abundance of "realistic" shooters recently and I like to keep things interesting. Any game that has some weapons other than the stock earth military rifles will immediately be more intriguing to me.
There's no science to vampires, you know. The whole point of science fiction is "Something that science would theoretically allow".LastGreatBlasphemer said:
Science doesn't allow for classic vampires, werewolves, or demonic snakes launching out of someone. Thus, it's fantasy. Everything with aspects that can only be classified as "MAGIC!" (say, vampires melting in the son or no longer needing food, werewolves breaking the laws of matter and turning into animals for a night, or demonic snakes launching out of someone), it's defined as fantasy.
I've played VtM:B many many times, I don't think I have ever shot anyone...no wait, Bach when he is on the balcony, I think I may occasionally take some pot shots at him...shooting people in VtM:B is the least interesting combat option in the game, especially given Gimble's severed limbs, Vampire powers, and your bare hands.PrinceOfShapeir said:
Anyway neither BF or COD are realistic, that phrase deserves to be reserved for the likes of ARMA, Red Orchestra, the Original Rainbow Six/Ghost Recon games, SWAT and Operation Flashpoint. Maybe you should say either Contemporary Combat games or High Visual fidelity games depending on how you want to categorize them by either content or look.
I like the BF, TF2, Enemy Territory team based shooters when it comes to multiplayer. Enemy Territoy is available in both of your "categories" a WW2 version and a Quake one. My all time favorite multiplayer games would be either Planetside (terrible pings on US only servers, but I still kept playing it) and Battlefield 2142. They weren't great because of the Sci-Fi setting (although the Walkers and Titans in BF2142 helped) they were great because they were great games.
EDIT: I haven't tried Tribes:Ascent yet, but I am looking forward to it, and Planetside 2... Firefall not so much as it seems to be a PvE Co-Op MMO.
I can't think of a recent Sci-Fi shooter that was any good, Deus Ex:HR was a very enjoyable Stealth RPG game but a so so shooter, Mass Effect is digital wack-a-mole which only got less fun with the 2nd game, and the rest have been either so uninspiring I gave them a miss, or console exclusives.
I was gonna say there's no such thing as a realistic shooter, and then I remembered the original Rainbow Six. Damn you, Tom Clancy!
I really don't have a preference there. I'm only that specific with what I don't like... which pretty much goes thumbsticks, simplistic map design and no long-term consequence for taking damage.
I really don't have a preference there. I'm only that specific with what I don't like... which pretty much goes thumbsticks, simplistic map design and no long-term consequence for taking damage.