Poll: Your Weapon of Choice?

[Ringo_Plumen]

It will always depend on the game, and gamemode.
In single player I'll usually go for the sniper-ish approach with very accurate but slow weapons and headshot my way through, because bots are easy to kill on any difficulty setting really.

As for regular online shooters I only ever play BF3 online, and I enjoy most weapons, though shotguns and assault riffles in particular are favorites, but that might be because I tend to prefer smaller more intimate maps.

Only other shooter I ever play is Counter Strike, and thats purely for surf which I always do with a Pump action shotgun, being a low level player on an RPG server makes it the ONLY way to kill most players.

 

[Anathrax]

Shotties and my trusty melee. Watch your flanks, or else I'll blow them buttcheeks off and slit your throat.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

No category for battle rifles? It ain't a sniper rifle if there's no scope. And scopes only slow me down.

 

[rasputin0009]

In games like Halo, I love dual-wielding cause there's little to no strategy. But in a game like Battlefield, it's always an assault rifle for its versatlity: you can survive in both close and long range situations. I did start playing around with the PDW's in BF3 recently and I noticed that the PP-19 is really overpowered. It's really accurate for its high rate of fire and humongous clip. I was able to rack up kills faster than any other weapon I've used. I don't know if its just that I'm a good match for the gun, or it's unbalanced. Anybody else noticed the PP-19 on BF3?

 

[IllumInaTIma]

Whenever it comes to power fantasy I always imagine myself with sword and shield. Always sword and shield. There's just something in that combination that clicks with my defender personality.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Sniper Rifles seem to be the most popular choice by far. Don't you sniper types ever find that sniping can turn on otherwise frenetic shooter into a game of "Whack-a-Mole"? I found ME2 worst for this as the Infiltrator's cloak makes it so easy. You just wait for a head and BLAM.

 

[mitchell271]

I love sniping and I love my shotguns. I think Borderlands is a really good testing ground for this sort of thing because every gun type is a viable option. I love sniping because it's harder for my enemies to hit me and I almost always get headshots and I love shotguns because they do ridiculous amounts of damage close up.