Games where sniping is fun.

[Geekosaurus]

Sniper Elite. That game makes you feel absolutely awesome.

Until it forces you to do close quarters combat.

We're talking about the sniping exclusively. Look at the topic name.

Yes, but it sort of takes away from the experience when they stop you from doing it.

No, they just give a different experience. It changes nothing in the sniping of the game.

But it changes the game as a whole. And that includes the sniping.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Sniper Elite. That game makes you feel absolutely awesome.

Until it forces you to do close quarters combat.

We're talking about the sniping exclusively. Look at the topic name.

Yes, but it sort of takes away from the experience when they stop you from doing it.

No, they just give a different experience. It changes nothing in the sniping of the game.

But it changes the game as a whole. And that includes the sniping.

No, it really doesn't. What we're talking about here is in what games is sniping fun. When you are sniping in Sniper Elite, it is awesome. It doesn't matter what happens in the rest of the game. Sniping is fun in Sniper Elite. End of story.

 

[Au Naturel.]

Lost Planet 2. Headshots give an incredibly satisfying 'PTCHT' noise. Though, usually sniping battles come down to using them as aggressive megaweapons, meaning fighting about 10 feet away from each other with sniper rifles, rolling and jumping back and forth taking shots. And damn is it fun!

I remember fighting someone one on one in a narrow corridor. We were taking shots, back and forth, him with a plasma rifle and me with a 5 shot burst close quarters sniper. We both hid on the outside of the corridor behind a wall. He came out from behind his wall and I made my move. I went into a roll from behind my wall, aimed, took a shot and popped all five of my bullets into his frickin' face. It was very satisfying.

 

[SimuLord]

New Vegas absolutely NAILS the art of sniping from long range, especially if your video card's beefy enough to max out the actor distance slider without slowing to a crawl.

The sand flats behind Helios One, full of fire ants, is a devil's playground for farming XP one .308 round at a time. And the AMR is the great equalizer in Quarry Junction against the Deathclaws. Get up on a ridge and it's a lot less lethal around there. (though I admit, Stealth Boy + about four or five C4 in the main Deathclaw nest + remote detonation = explodey goodness.)

 

[The Wykydtron]

Battlefield sniping is good as long as your entire team isn't camping at the back of the map.

The Widow sniper in Mass Effect 2 is one of the best guns for Insanity mode

 

[Voodoomancer]

Sniper Elite. That game makes you feel absolutely awesome.

Yeessss. That game is awesome. I got it on a steam sale; never regretted it.

It's a game made about sniping. The effects of wind and gravity, slow-mo follow-the-bullet... awesome!

 

[Mr Shrike]

Operation Flashpoint, Arma, Arma2.

Stuff like that.

Very satisfying to put a bullet through a high value target at long range, after perfectly judging the drop, and even the windage, and enjoy the fact that his comrades are having a long, difficult game of trying to guess where the hell it came from.

^This.

Nothing is quite the same as dropping someone in a squad with a suppressed M110 and then watching the victim's squad-mates running around for cover and desperately searching for you. Little do they realise it came from nearly 1km away. Feels good, man.

Also, it's fun in Battlefield 2, but mainly for the ragdolls when people die. Backflips? Yes please!