If Shooters were like real life

[theloneassassin]

If Shooters were like real life, what would actually happen to you and how would your game-play experience actually be.
Battlefield Vietnam: Spend all day walking through mud and getting bit by misquotes and other various bugs. You come across an enemy and you raise your M16 and pull the trigger. Lo and behold it jams and you get shot with an ak47 in the chest. Your body is sent home and your parents are informed you die for a war that was pointless.
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[Hyper-space]

If Shooters were like real life, what would actually happen to you and how would your game-play experience actually be.
Battlefield Vietnam: Spend all day walking through mud and getting bit by misquotes and other various bugs. You come across an enemy and you raise your M16 and pull the trigger. Lo and behold it jams and you get shot with an ak47 in the chest. Your body is sent home and your parents are informed you die for a war that was pointless.

That would be pretty lame, thank god games like ARMA are nothing like that.

 

[Ghostrick Dorklord]

For one thing you'll die sooner if they were real as reality would get.

Oh and remember that health regeneration you had in other games? Well too bad, you get to bleed to death while waiting for a medic.

 

[Wondermint13]

It will make you play like you f***ing mean it.
Put it that way.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

I hate getting bit by misquotes. They're all over the internet.

 

[The Imp]

Might want to give the HL2 mod Insurgency a shot. But in real life you will, mostly, never have an enemy unit in your sights. you'll shoot at enemy locations for suppressive fire or throw the occasional grenade at it but thats about it. unless you operate in a scout sniper or designated marksmen team youll never see the face of your enemy.
i tend to like that kind of playstyle where you have to think and develope the right tactical approache to the given situation but sadly, with the exception of ArmA, there isnt much around like that. so yeah, if you like simulations and/or semi-realistic shooters you have to dig deep in the shooter cesspool. i'd also recommend America's Army but it's too gung-ho patriotic for my taste.

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

No more goddamn quickscoping!!

 

[Radeonx]

You'd spend time sitting in some incredibly dirty shithole dying of starvation and disease before you'd ever get the chance to do anything "cool".
Sure, you might get to fire a few shots at some enemies, but you probably won't hit them and you probably will at most kill 5 people during this whole ordeal.

 

[Neverhoodian]

If shooters were like real life, there would be an emphasis on aiming for the target's center mass. Heads are small targets that tend to move around a lot, while the torso region is large with lots of vital organs. Even if you miss, there's a good chance you'll hit another region of the body, like a limb.

I suppose "BOOM! Chestshot" doesn't have the same ring to it, though.

Also, wounding an enemy can be more advantageous than outright killing them, as it takes lots of time and resources to rehabilitate them.

 

[wolf thing]

stalker: walk into the zone and die slowly of radiation poising

 

[fix-the-spade]

If Shooters were like real life, what would

You would suddenly realise you were playing Red Orchestra.

The Germans have a King Tiger and a Stug lined up in the trees, you can't get close, the only thing you can do is go around or wait for some douche bag in a plane to drop bombs on them...

 

[Gotrax038]

Then i wouldn't know i have a nose....

 

[Jason Danger Keyes]

You would never hit anything, the HUD would be invisible, reloading would take more than a tenth of a second, you would never see an enemy, and you can only get hit once, at which point you're either dead or sent home for the rest of the war.

 

[baddude1337]

As soon as you start teabagging the Taliban, You will get sectioned.

 

[Zantos]

If shooters were like real life? Then Half Life would consist of me hiding in a corner crying.