Poll: paintball vs. airsoft

[Dogstile]

in my experience i would go with airsoft as paint-ball is more arena type maps while airsoft is a entire wood or village. Also airsoft has cooler looking guns

Spoiler: paintball

Spoiler: airsoft

That second picture there is why i laugh at anyone who tells me their airsoft guns don't look like toys. They do look like toys and they way they're used they are toys. Paintball = honest about it XD

OT:

The airsofters in this thread surprise me. Do you guys really think speedball is the only thing paintballers do?

I just like the look of the terrain after a paintball battle. It really shows where the combat was. Aside from that paintball it shorter range, making for much more hectic match's than airsoft. People also have to keep a tab on their ammo.

What i've found with airsoft is that they'll go around a corner and spray 20-30 bullets at someone when "bunker busting". Paintballers refine doing a "2-3" shot combo rather than 20-30, and i enjoy the progessionalism of people who practise that.

Plus, bottom of the mask shots spraying vegetable oil into their mouths is hilarious.

I'll never understand people who choose airsoft for the "realisticness" of the guns. Its a game, treat it like it XD

 

[aLivingPheonix]

I'm not really sure. I've only ever played airsoft, but Paintball is more popular, thus easier to find people who play, so you can get games easier.

Airsoft however, has more realistic weapons, and is cheaper. But, it's harder to find people who play, unless you know where to look.

So really, they're probably even.

They're still both just games though, so it doesn't really matter.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Paintball. Hurts WAY less lasts longer as it's harder to die.

 

[sniper9474]

I prefer airsoft over paintball, for me its a much better game, you get more choice in play style, in paintball you dont get much, you can choose what sort or air can and if you want a single or double triiger, in airsoft you start with what sort of weapon, whether you want to go gas, electric or mechanical, from there you can pick out your favorite RL weapon and theres probably a replica for it.
Another bonus with airsoft over paintball is that if im hit in airsoft theres no need for me to clean, if paintball was to get to a stage where its equal game play to airsoft(which i doubt) when hit id have to scrub my ghillie so i dont have a coloured splotch being a nice little marker to where i am.