I enjoy sniping. I find it immensely satisfying to take the time, line up a headshot and watch my target drop. Playing BF 2142, I was remarkably enjoying myself as I popped off the occasional PAC trooper. But there is one minor issue with me sniping.
I suck.
Honestly, only half of my shots actually hit them at all, and only about a quarter of the shots that hit are anywhere near the head, if that. But, I thought to myself as I managed to miss a soldier who had for the past minute sat head framed in the middle of my sights while he picked his nose, is that such a bad thing? We've all had the experience of screaming at the screen as we get our brains recycled as paint for the nth time by that scumbag camping sniper who's bullets can bend round freaking corners, and I think it's safe to say it isn't much fun. But as a sniper I was clearly mortal. Any effort to remove me was likely to turn me into a corpse very quickly, but I still managed to rack up a hefty number of kills and it definitely wasn't true that I was stopping the enemy from progressing. Surely that's better?
And it's not just true for sniping, nearly any feature of online play is arguably better with a healthy dose of noobishness, as while its all well and good to be l33t and pwn those n00bs, very satisfying and so on, isn't it nice to cock up sometimes and get killed because of it? The sense of reality, that it is only a game and sometimes, god forbid, you can enjoy losing. Isn't it nice to be playing a game where everyone isn't so good that any mistake results in instant death?
That's my opinion, what about you hounds of the forums? Would you rather be l33t and play l33t? Or be in a game with examples of throwing the pin instead of the grenade occurring quite regularly, and yourself not innocent? I'd like to clear up this isn't about how much you rock and how you want to be in a game where you pwn those n00bs. I want to know what would be the perfect skill level - noob, best of the best, or in the gray area?
I suck.
Honestly, only half of my shots actually hit them at all, and only about a quarter of the shots that hit are anywhere near the head, if that. But, I thought to myself as I managed to miss a soldier who had for the past minute sat head framed in the middle of my sights while he picked his nose, is that such a bad thing? We've all had the experience of screaming at the screen as we get our brains recycled as paint for the nth time by that scumbag camping sniper who's bullets can bend round freaking corners, and I think it's safe to say it isn't much fun. But as a sniper I was clearly mortal. Any effort to remove me was likely to turn me into a corpse very quickly, but I still managed to rack up a hefty number of kills and it definitely wasn't true that I was stopping the enemy from progressing. Surely that's better?
And it's not just true for sniping, nearly any feature of online play is arguably better with a healthy dose of noobishness, as while its all well and good to be l33t and pwn those n00bs, very satisfying and so on, isn't it nice to cock up sometimes and get killed because of it? The sense of reality, that it is only a game and sometimes, god forbid, you can enjoy losing. Isn't it nice to be playing a game where everyone isn't so good that any mistake results in instant death?
That's my opinion, what about you hounds of the forums? Would you rather be l33t and play l33t? Or be in a game with examples of throwing the pin instead of the grenade occurring quite regularly, and yourself not innocent? I'd like to clear up this isn't about how much you rock and how you want to be in a game where you pwn those n00bs. I want to know what would be the perfect skill level - noob, best of the best, or in the gray area?
