Favourite TYPE of weapon in FPS?

[BoBoTheBum]

I'm a hit and run guy. So, preferably, I opt for say, a flamethrower, a homing missile, or, if all else fails, a sniper rifle.

Call me a coward, if you will.

 

[kioko9959]

I reckon that the Engineers toolbox from TF2 kicks ass
theres just something about the ability to put down dispensers and
turrets by just chucking down a toolbox and then being able to kick there asses
by just sitting down in a chair

 

[Flopus]

Personally i like meleeing, be it with a weapon designed to do so or not

additionally i enjoy remote detonated explosives and grenades, yeah I'm a pyro but hey it's more fun then sitting around sniping

 

[Do4600]

I like the sniper rifle for some many reasons. When using a sniper rifle, it's almost a game in itself, like Where's Waldo but with heads. You also then have the luxury of picking off enemies before going through an area so you don't get your ass handed to you. Also, if the game is advanced enough, you get the pleasure of watching the NPC's or whoever freaking out.

Shotguns are only fun when you have a bunch of on shot kills coming at you.

I hate rocket launchers. You always have a limited amount of ammo, there usually slow and miss the target and, quite a few times, I'll end up killing myself with it.

Nope, I'm sorry for quoting this but it's still just, "Use gun on man." especially the way you seem to play snipers. I usually play some sort of assault class and when a sniper kills me, I just go sniper and kill them my next life, I don't see the skill in that; especially if they can't stop me from sniping them, and they usually don't. So I see people who play snipers most of the time as people who couldn't win playing medium to close range and then decided that if they played long range would minimize the risk of getting owned and maximize their enemies weakness. Which anybody can do. And as for the rocket launcher, didn't you play quake at all?

My favorite weapon is any sort of railgun, Red Faction had it perfect(oh so many modders ruined by that gun) Second favorite would have to be a nice accurate rifle or just a damn sturdy handgun like from Stalker.

 

[2ndclasscitizen]

Semi-auto rifles (M1 Garand for example), a powerful hand gun, or where appropriate i.e close quarters fighting, a good shotty.

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

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.

Me three on this. I get an inordinate amount of pleasure from pistol-sniping in particular.

 

[SubterraneouS]

My favorite weapon type to use would have to be sniper rifles. To me, it feels like i've accomplished something when i kill someone, it's a better experience than running up on someone with a SMG or some other automatic weapon and spraying away.

 

[Axolotl]

My favorite weapon is any sort of railgun, Red Faction had it perfect(oh so many modders ruined by that gun) Second favorite would have to be a nice accurate rifle or just a damn sturdy handgun like from Stalker.

You say you hate snipers and then go on to say that RF railgun is your favourite gun?

My favourite weapon has to be the shotgun, especially Red Factions. What really annoys me is how most games seem to potray shotguns as needing to be right next to your enemy to be effective.

 

[CriMs0nC0bra]

Always the sniper rifle. If not that, something like the semi-scoped rifles from Vegas.

 

[Colodomoko]

Any rifle is the obvious choice w/ lase scope and grenade launcher( maybe scilencer )

With this in mind I would also like to say customizable ammo is good because ya never know what you run into.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Things that A splode.

 

[TLK Cydonia]

Heavy Assault rifles, things like the BAR or G36C are cool

 

[sapient]

Definitely the shotgun, and customizing it with a sniper scope and short fire in Crysis was a dream come true. Sniping people with a shotgun blast to the face was brilliant. Blowing some poor Korean to bits off the edge of a cliff never gave me more satisfaction.

The Team Fortress 2 weapons are also brilliantly designed - a grenade launcher that depends on your skill with angles and distance, a flamethrower, a sniper rifle that charges up the longer you're zoomed, a needlegun and a motherfucking baseball bat.

 

[Facey McFace]

Well my favorite TYPE o' weapon has to be a sniper rifle, i get great satisfaction from killing enemies from far away when they aren't expecting it.
Second favorite is submachine guns, 'tis fun emptying so many rounds of ammo in such a short period of time.

 

[Sparkly-elf]

Either the railgun from Quake III Arena or...

The rench from Bioshock. Smacking the gick out of a Big Daddy mere seconds away from a healing station was the most two hours of fun ever.

 

[Altair-Ego]

Depends on the game. Half-Life, Crowbar. Call of Duty, SMG. Call of Duty: UO, Semi-Auto Rifle (cos I use it as a sniping rifle on Kursk). Call of Duty 4, My precious, precious M4. Halo 3, I don't know.