Favourite TYPE of weapon in FPS?

[Pulsifer]

Actually, the Raging Bull in Vegas is the closest game enviroment sound I've ever heard that put me in mind of being on the shooting track. (I'm an quasi-pro pistoleer and all-'round weapon nut) Most games just don't capture the deafening effect a gun, shotgun or rifle has in a closed enviroment.

My personal favourite, real life and game-wise, is the bow. Preferrably a classic, sweet longbow, though I'll jump on a recurve bow in a pinch. There's something about feathering a man (well, target) at a hundred yards, knowing you beat the calculation of ballistics, boreales, wind and humidity and compensated accurately for your projectile's weight. While sniping (and I'm certainly not ragging on rifles; I'm a nearly a marksman grade rifleman and a hobby hunter) contains a lot of the same elements, it just lacks that little something.

Also, walking up to your target nearly two hundred yards away in a game like Mount & Blade and finding your arrow lodged in his neck beats any other feeling of skill-shooting I've found in games.

 

[Kikosemmek]

I'd have to say a medium-range weapon with blunt, skull-shattering firepower. In other words, a shotgun. Nothing feels better to me in an FPS than to fill up a guy's head and upper torso with double-barreled indignation. Since my latest FPS crushes have been all by Valve, the predominance of zombies and my affinity to the Engineer in TF2 has led me to completely appreciate the beauty of a weapon like the shotgun, and even though in TF2 the shotty ain't what it is in HL, I still love it and I apparently always will.

Most common satisfying scenario that I'd refer to:

Me: "zomg scary skinless zombie!"
*zombie leaps at me, flailing and yelling horridly*
*zombie gets two barrels in the face in mid-air and is thrown back before I even think twice of it*
*I walk out of Ravenholm alive*
*I post about it at the Escapist*

Ok, fine, no recursion.

 

[Artinam]

The basic "junk" weapons. In the old Battlefield Vietnam its just awesome to kill people with an Ak-47 basicly falling apart while they are toting a Rambo kit M60, with Law Rocketlauncher.
The Mac-10 in Counterstrike, sound is just sweet... just as the killing.

Besides that... twinbarreled sawed off Shotgun...*Drewls*

 

[NoobMaster]

Teh shotgun ftw. its fun to go behind someone and blast their heads off

 

[Thegreatoz]

OZ LIKE THINGS THAT GO BOOM!! BIG BOOM!!!!! THERMAL DETONATORS, RPG'S, MINES, C-FUCKIN-4, NUKES!!!!

 

[CarlosYenrac]

I'm a pistols man... as I've already posted elsewhere on these forums, some of my most enjoyable deathmatches have been with Goldeneye on the N64, pistols, one shot kills- first one to hit his mark wins.
As a result, I've always had a soft spot for the oft-overlooked handgun in multiplayer games, and any game that will let me use 2 at the same time always gains points. Note this is projectile weapons only, wanky laser pistols can bite me, i still want a gun that goes boom.
Other than that, my favourites usually end up being very game-specific... Lightsabers and jedi powers from the jedi knight games, and BEING the weapon in AvP2.

 

[Senaro]

I've always liked handheld automatics, much like the CP in Perfect Dark. Sniper rifles can be really fun, but the good/bad thing about them is that most games let the opponent know exactly where you are after the first shot, but that just encourages you to keep moving, I guess. Besides that, I always loved remote-controled landmines, like in Perfect Dark 64. Those were easily my favorite weapon in that game. You could just throw them and detonate in midair, or place a bunch on your partner and have him go kamikaze. Fun times.

 

[njsykora]

I'm a pistol person, I'm particularly fond of the Engineer's pistol in TF2 and the revolver in Bioshock. My favourite though is the Desert Eagle in Max Payne.

 

[Pwnage_Incarnate]

However, my one true love? Explosives. Give my opponents all the guns they want, as long as I can use rocket launchers, grenade launchers, grenades and mines (Timed, Remote AND Proximity, in an ideal world).

ditto, especially in a game with a physics engine (HL2, specifically) so I can watch the corpses fly. I also really enjoyed laying proxy mine traps in F.E.A.R. They would hop through the window showing off their smart AI and get blown to pieces by the mine I planted underneath the windowsill.

 

[HMD]

I generally like medium range sniping combined with stealth play. Mainly in the battlefield games. Running up with a automatic can be all fun and games as well but i never like playing styles that are "line holding" and never yields more then say max 3 kills in a streak due to the accumulated damage you take. However the best kill is always the melee kill. Especially in the BF games where the melee is instant kill.

 

[excessum ado]

THis may sound odd but If available I love a good blade like a katana or knife. It so much fun to kill someone with one of these when they have a gun because you know the odds were pinned against you but you still won. Secondly I would have to say a revolver. Im not sure what it is about these weapons they are just too cool.

 

[GrandBoy]

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

Nobody likes a camper

Nobody likes YOU.

Most sniper haters cant snipe, so that says alot about you. And yes Im aware that ill recieve tonnes of hate mail, but its my opinion so go complain to your mum not me.

Snipers are frowned upon due to the fact that you have to camp to use one normally. Whereas my sniping involves (on CoD4) running around with a Dragunov and G36C (for those that dont know a Perk called Overkill lets me do this and yes you guessed it, i use Overkill)
whilst halting when i feel like it to scope the area out. Then PING as i blow a hole through an approaching OpFor soldier because he is sight impared and cant see me from 2 foot away. Aaaahhhh, such enjoyment.

Though snipers have always been a campy gun,
I think my alternative is so much more fun.

 

[GrandBoy]

Pistols are always so underrated in games. For example in CoD4 the Desert Eagle is one of the best guns in the game!

I have to disagree there, on multiplayer they are LETHAL, so much so that i beat 3 mates of mine by myself using one with DOUBLE their score.Online however they are not a better substitute than say an AK74u or a MP5 at short range. The DE seems to have a habit of missing for no reason online unfortunately and though its a good gun i wouldnt run around with it when theres much more better alternatives (plus 21 bullets gets you only a few kills).

 

[hbomb]

Any close combat tool, like the crowbar. Blunt objects seem to have a way of dealing with every situation. Although if there's any weapon that nails bodies to walls when you kill with them, they're always nice. Like the Penetrator in F.E.A.R. Or the crossbow in Half-life 2. Hearing that breathy sound that come along with stapling someone to a wall seems so satisfying.

 

[Quinn Davis]

Ever since Doom the first, in any FPS, I love the shotgun. Don't know why, perhaps I was one in a past life? Either way, I can't begin to describe the delight in closing swiftly with your opponent like a unescapable storm front while he plinks at you in terror with his SMG or pistol or other such nonsense.

But, I have to say, for sheer humiliation factor, I enjoy getting pistol kills. It lets the other guy know exactly what you think of him. "You weren't deemed worth my sniper ammo, here, let me just shoot these M&M's at you until you die."

 

[Larenxis]

1. Grenades. For obvious reasons.
2. Shotguns. Sweet memories of blasted zombies, as well as the delight of someone's body flying backwards. Just plain old awesome.
3. Gnomes. In HL2:Ep2, in the mines, you can pick up a gnome with your gravity gun that is indestructible. Unlike the melons of Half-life, nobody programmed them to break.

 

[Scolar Visari]

Im what most people would call a camper. The problem is that I dont see how you can operate like a true sniper without being labeled a camper. As a sniper I dont whore all the kills, infact I usually have about three to five minutes between each shot on larger maps. A single good sniper can easily lock down entire section of a map. So people who complain about getting killed by a sniper constantly need to remeber that hes just doing his job and doing it very well unlike the complainer. If you dont want to die then dont walk into a sniper's field of fire.

 

[Pirate Brahm]

Proximity Mines.

There's something incredibly satisfying about setting a trap and letting some poor fool stumble into it.