Poll: Does this trend in new FPS games annoy you?

[Merkavar]

too me it looks like some of those guns are basic machine guns in the earlier screens and more advanced guns in the later games.

but also i would think that holding a gun would take up alot of your field of vision like in the later games.

 

[Erana]

I don't mind it if your gun is also your HUD, but otherwise, its one of those things that grinds my gears.
It just doesn't make sense to me- we have our controls on the table or in our lap. Reminding us of the fact that we aren't actually holding a weapon by waving it in our face is a bit of an immersion breaker for me.

 

[Biodeamon]

i don't really notice it.

It's like blinking, you don't notice it until somebody points it out then it annoys the crap out of you.

btw:manual breathing activated. lol u mad?

 

[Stoic raptor]

And since when is HL2 an old school shooter? How long ago did it come out? 2007, yes?

pretty sure it came out around 2004

OT: I really dont see the problem. It is not that big.

 

[Doclector]

I didn't notice...but I bet I can't unsee it now.

 

[Captain Epic]

I've only noticed this on one occasion. The bloody chemical thrower from Bioshock. Also that Crysis 2 screenshot looks off somehow. It looks like a much uglier game than what I played. Also that red dot sight wasn't as square as the one in what I played. I'm just going to assume that's from when it was in developement.

 

[lamigra69]

I personally enjoy 3PS's because of the added animation of the characters, such as Gears of War. Its adds a whole new dimension of gameplay. And in terms of the guns, I love seeing the guns I'm using. In FPS's, if i want to use an M16, and I also want to see how it fires, the empty casings, smoke, how it reloads, etc. It adds a particular level of satisfaction in my opinion. But then again, I'm also a huge fan of little details. So thats my two cents, hope it helped.

 

[DesertMummy]

Huh, I never noticed that before. Doesn't matter IMHO. And is HL2 old school now? Wow, I'm 15 and you just mead me feel old

 

[loodmoney]

I'd say it's a legitimate design decision that fits in with, first and foremost, iron sights, as well as health regeneration, reduced accuracy when moving/increased accuracy when crouching, limited sprint ability, silent movement while walking, one-hit-kill headshots, &c. &c. It's all part of making the player slow down, rather than run-and-gun through everything. (In this respect, I don't think Deus Ex would have suffered from a larger view of the weapon/iron sights.)

If you were making a run-and-gun style thing, and a gun did take up this much space (without it being e.g. a specific disadvantage for using that weapon), or if using iron sights didn't improve visibility (I'm looking at you, Killing Floor's M14), that would be a problem.