Favourite TYPE of weapon in FPS?

[Swenglish]

Note: This is not a thread where you type your secret crush you have on any random weapon from Turok:Evolution, I'm asking about what type of weapon you prefer. The one type which you run after at the beginning on every multiplayer deathmatch, just to make sure that you first kill is with it and nothing else. Do you like instakills with the shotgun, being cheeky with the sniper or blowing up things with the RPG:s? Please, share your secret and tell us why!

I can admit that my favourite is the handgun. I know, call me silly but there is nothing more satisfying in a game like BF2142 or GoW when you manage to pull of a perfect headshot with it, and most of the games I've played it always seem to be ridicously overpowered and really accurate. And for some reason I find that the game is much more fun to play with only 20-30 bullets instead of 6000 which you get with the standard SMG or Rifle. HL2 was for example much much more fun to play when I was stubborn enough to always use it instead of the gravity gun and the crossbow.

I was a strange little boy back then.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

Wrench, followed closely by crowbar. Perhaps I have a tool fetish, but there is something magical about busting skulls with a heavy, blunt, metal thing.

 

[propertyofcobra]

Shotgun. Push the barrel against his chin, blast the double barrels off, don't even bother to stop running while doing it. Awesome. In both single and multiplayer FPS games, the shotgun is my staple gun of choice.

Sniper rifles, I loathe and hate. They're cheap weapons, and I feel absolutely no joy from killing someone with one of these (single player slightly excluded). I hate getting killed by someone because, golly gosh on a stick, he's using a sniper rifle on the only spot on the map with one, which is a hundred miles away from the rest of the map, so he will dominate for the rest of the game because the map creators were morons.
Ergo, I don't kill others that way if at all possible to avoid.
(And if you find a camping sniper, please, kill him in the most insulting way possible. Balance a grenade on his stupid head. Pull out the worst weapon in the game and explicitly type out "Behind you, dipshit" before you kill him. Make these stupid people stop their ways and start playing like honorable men.)

 

[zardosbacon66]

Full automatic whatever. I love pumping things full of lead. Be it carrying a turret in Halo 3 to playing a Heavy in TF2.

Lighting guns are fun to.

 

[Carpo]

I'm going to say a sniper rifle.

 

[Divinegon]

The kind of weapons that usually are able to pin someone dead to the wall.

 

[Frapple]

Shotgun

 

[robfoughtrome]

no game is worth its salt without the shotgun! the only gun to truly feel meaty in my opinion in almost any shooter (with the odd exception of the goldeneye shotguns which i just never found... satisfying). but my crush started with hmm... probably the duke nukem or turok games, each one of them knew how to pull off a decent shotgun (and the basic shotgun in turok 2 equipped with regular shells is arguably the sexiest weapon of all time haha). moving on to timesplitters one, lugging around a sawed off in each hand was pure obliteration in the multiplayer. carrying on with halos meaty one shot, one kill beasts and then half life 2's beautiful shotty, perfect for decapitating the odd zombie. gears of war saw, much to my pleasure, the shotgun become to staple starting gun of choice. and recently mass effect's unlimited ammo shotgun had me running riot with glee.

but i also agree with the handgun generally having a nice feel to it in games. come on, who didnt love half life's magnum, and i have yet to see a desert eagle in a game that hasnt been satisfying

 

[Psuedointellectual]

I like Burst fire weapons, they give me the comfort of knowing i can take the guy down, while still offering medium range accuracy. Ex: COD4 M16 (multiplayer)

 

[Shfoosmuck]

Trip mine weapons. I love luring people into a well-placed trap. They think they have you, but they always realize a second too late that they're surrounded by explosive barrels and are standing on a land mine.

Diabolical.

 

[10 Dollar Bagel]

The spartan lazer from Halo 3!

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Much like Swenglish, I prefer a good handgun, ala Halo 1. I hate how in most games, they're just an underpowered sidearm. If I had a choice between wimply starting pistol and a slower firing, but rightly powerful magnum, I'd go with the magnum.

 

[SnowingMonkey]

Any guns that manipulate physics.

...Okay, so this is a *little* limiting. We've got so far:
-Grav Gun
-Portal Gun

But it's a really good list so far!

 

[NexusBlade]

Shotguns or Assault Rifles.

 

[p8ntballer49]

Assault Rifles are what I generally stick to, but I like the occasional Shotgun or Grenade Launcher.

 

[Golem29]

Shotgun, always the shotgun. Everything else feels rather unsatisfying by comparison to a good shotgun.

 

[ChaosStep]

Mine has changed over time, 1st was the Cerebral Bore then the Razor wind from turok.
Then that gun from SoF that causes guys to implode, i forget its name...
Then the "Zero-Point Energy Field Manipulator" from HL2 since it was a bit of something new and it remained that until i discovered the absolute brutality of the paper cutter from Condemned

 

[yourself]

I really love snipers and camping.
It's effective and really upsets people.

 

[qbert4ever]

Snipers. gotta love the snipers. I dont care how much people whine, a good
sniper rifle takes skill to use and is satisfying in all the right ways.

Also, I love the double-barrel shotguns. they're almost always the most
powerfull shottys in the game, and somthing about popping it open, snaping it
shut, and filling your foes full of lead makes me feel like Ash from Evil Dead.
And that, as many would agree, is awsome.