What really ruins an FPS for me

[The_Echo]

I don't play many FPSs, especially not online. What's rushing?

But what really ruins FPSs for me is the prerequisite of a good aim in order to not suck.

 

[MiserableOldGit]

Muppets jumping around the place firing rockets at peoples feet. It gets tiresome after the thousandth time or so, and its not like there's any special skill in it, it just makes people look like what they probably are; a fifteen year old social retard with no social skills looking to prove some unspecified point by winning an online match at the cost of any fun or challenge whatsoever.

I think the fault here lies less with the person, who is simply trying to get kills in an efficient way, and more on the developer who thought "power weapons" were a good idea. Just one more reason I stopped playing Halo. The game is less about individual skill and more about weapon and map control.

Well, some fucker's at fault, and if it isn't me then its a problem...

 

[Striker Vulsine]

Buy the game Battlefield 2, download the mod Project Reality, enjoy application of tactics.

Seriously, if you want a "tactical" FPS, don't play Call of Duty, Rainbow Six Vegas, Halo, or even the Battlefield series. If you try to Rambo it in Project Reality, you can expect to have the six man fire team you're charging cut you down in seconds. But on the other hand, you can't be thinking about yourself in this game either. It has to be about your team. You may WANT to fly the transport helicopter, but there is probably someone MUCH MUCH better at it than you, and all you will do is cost your team tickets.

 

[VitalSigns]

1. Non spiper campers.
2. People who steal youre kill after you've emptied an wntire clip into them.
3. People who spend the whole game trying to get an achievement.
4. Territories.
5. The fact that nobody on my side is more intelligent than a 4th grader.
6. So called "innovations" that ruin the experience.
7. Having to spend $50 on map packs to be able to play the game.
8. The lack of new inventive weapons.
9. Getting booted because nan idiot jumped in front of my gun at the last moment.
10. Achievments themselves because everybody judges you on whether or not you have them.
11. Armor permutations for the same reason.

Wonderful solution; stop playing Halo.

HAHAHA, beautifully true.

 

[z121231211]

The fact that everyone (and I mean everyone) is better than me at them. My average kill to death ratio is 1:10. Let me repeat, that's 1 kill for every 10 deaths.

 

[hagaya]

1. Non spiper campers.
2. People who steal youre kill after you've emptied an wntire clip into them.
3. People who spend the whole game trying to get an achievement.
4. Territories.
5. The fact that nobody on my side is more intelligent than a 4th grader.
6. So called "innovations" that ruin the experience.
7. Having to spend $50 on map packs to be able to play the game.
8. The lack of new inventive weapons.
9. Getting booted because nan idiot jumped in front of my gun at the last moment.
10. Achievments themselves because everybody judges you on whether or not you have them.
11. Armor permutations for the same reason.

Wonderful solution; stop playing Halo.

I'm not merely complaining about halo, incase you haven't noticed alot of fps's have map packs snipers and territories type games, thay also have online achievements do they not? Perhaps if you had truly thought my comment through and not been to quote yahtzee "pants on head retarded" you would have realized my complaint was the genres blandness and various aspects thay all shared. In fact i mainly play gearss of war. Seriously read the comment beyond face value.

Here's a little game that has absolutely none of that:
Team Fortress 2. The Control Point gametype is done with actual good balance and quick pacing, the DLC is all free; with user-made maps no less, Sniper campers usually don't come into play because there are enough barriers on good maps, people are actually intelligent, Achivements are a side point because there are specific servers for whoring them, innovations don't ruin the experience, Piss and boxing gloves aren't inventive weapons? There's no friendly fire, nobody judges you on achivements, and there aren't really armor permutations.
11 problems, 11 solutions. I read your damn post and all that is only noticeable on Halo.

 

[Mad Maniac with axe-firing chainsaw]

Hmm... on the subject of rushing...

I don't have a lot of experience in the multiplayer world, but I will say this. If you're being beaten in a long ranged gunfight, and your HP is seemingly lower than your opponent, isn't it a form of genius to then rush out suddenly and defeat your opponent with a short range weapon when he/she isn't expecting it? That, then, is the beauty of rushing. Yeah, its cheap sometimes, along with shotguns, rockets, vehicle kills, sniping and just about anything else that makes FPS's fun. If you're at an advantage in a gun-fight and you lose that advantage to some berserker with a shotgun, you weren't thinking your strategy through.

Doesn't mean your hopeless because you got caught by a rush attack. Sometimes there's little you can do about rushing, they had a close range weapon and you didn't, but kudos to them for thinking of using it and then being bold enough to pull it off like any other tactic.

It is annoying in close quarters when you get that dude with the shotgun running through a tunnel level reducing everyone to dust in seconds though. Not much you can do in that circumstance except counter with a shotgun of your own, that or a well placed grenade.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

and you can't just backpedal and fire because...? you seriously have a problem with rushing? I don't think I've ever once seen anyone with a problem with rushing. it's EXTREMELY easy to counter, and it's the most basic strategy of an FPS. I take it you're playing as a sniper? here's an idea, don't get near someone who can rush you.

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

camping MG noobs, spray and pray guns, people with like 500000 days of play time and shit sounding guns. oh and pre pubesent boys who dare to own a mic, you know who you are!

 

[Fallen_Hitokiri]

That its 3rd person?




Would be the lack of guns i know a few games where you can have like 2 guns

 

[Da_Schwartz]

The lack of feet.

heh

 

[Credge]

what do you type when you are standing still typing...and someone shoots you in the face it would probably be something more like wasdeqqesdf

I don't type anything. I hit enter and react.

:|

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Indeed. Both moving and shooting are rather frowned upon.

 

[Deadpool062]

Hmm... on the subject of rushing...

I don't have a lot of experience in the multiplayer world, but I will say this. If you're being beaten in a long ranged gunfight, and your HP is seemingly lower than your opponent, isn't it a form of genius to then rush out suddenly and defeat your opponent with a short range weapon when he/she isn't expecting it? That, then, is the beauty of rushing. Yeah, its cheap sometimes, along with shotguns, rockets, vehicle kills, sniping and just about anything else that makes FPS's fun. If you're at an advantage in a gun-fight and you lose that advantage to some berserker with a shotgun, you weren't thinking your strategy through.

Doesn't mean your hopeless because you got caught by a rush attack. Sometimes there's little you can do about rushing, they had a close range weapon and you didn't, but kudos to them for thinking of using it and then being bold enough to pull it off like any other tactic.

It is annoying in close quarters when you get that dude with the shotgun running through a tunnel level reducing everyone to dust in seconds though. Not much you can do in that circumstance except counter with a shotgun of your own, that or a well placed grenade.

ok, THAT is not cheap rushing, but when someone is behind a box taking cover, and there are about six people behind him on his team and you rush, only to be gunned down seconds later but still kill the poor guy behind the box. THAT is cheap rushing, it gives the rusher 1 kill 1 death and doesent really give him any advantage, it just pisses off the guy who died...that is what i dont like

 

[Deadpool062]

and you can't just backpedal and fire because...? you seriously have a problem with rushing? I don't think I've ever once seen anyone with a problem with rushing. it's EXTREMELY easy to counter, and it's the most basic strategy of an FPS. I take it you're playing as a sniper? here's an idea, don't get near someone who can rush you.

yea...i'm primarily a sniper, and im not too good at iron sighting.

 

[delroland]

 

[Piping Rock]

What really ruins an FPS for me is the billion of them released every year with nothing to offer.

Edit:

F'ing hilarious!

 

[Thyunda]

Hmm... on the subject of rushing...

I don't have a lot of experience in the multiplayer world, but I will say this. If you're being beaten in a long ranged gunfight, and your HP is seemingly lower than your opponent, isn't it a form of genius to then rush out suddenly and defeat your opponent with a short range weapon when he/she isn't expecting it? That, then, is the beauty of rushing. Yeah, its cheap sometimes, along with shotguns, rockets, vehicle kills, sniping and just about anything else that makes FPS's fun. If you're at an advantage in a gun-fight and you lose that advantage to some berserker with a shotgun, you weren't thinking your strategy through.

Doesn't mean your hopeless because you got caught by a rush attack. Sometimes there's little you can do about rushing, they had a close range weapon and you didn't, but kudos to them for thinking of using it and then being bold enough to pull it off like any other tactic.

It is annoying in close quarters when you get that dude with the shotgun running through a tunnel level reducing everyone to dust in seconds though. Not much you can do in that circumstance except counter with a shotgun of your own, that or a well placed grenade.

ok, THAT is not cheap rushing, but when someone is behind a box taking cover, and there are about six people behind him on his team and you rush, only to be gunned down seconds later but still kill the poor guy behind the box. THAT is cheap rushing, it gives the rusher 1 kill 1 death and doesent really give him any advantage, it just pisses off the guy who died...that is what i dont like

So what would be a better idea? To stand and die and not get a single kill? It seems more like an act of desperation. If you're gonna die, at least take somebody down with you, as opposed to standing in the open like a goon and dying there.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

... allies that just stay behind cover waiting for me to be the guinea pig (too many times I've turned a corner and was given a bullet sandwich to chow down on).

They're bad, but the Halo non-player allies are worse. There I am trying to be all sneaky and take out the emplaced heavy guns and the officer types with the shields and these bumbling idiots come running past me and one even turns and shines his torch in my face. They of course alert the officer type, who runs up onto a rock to shoot at them, obliging me to crouch and snipe him through the space between a soldiers' legs. At least they complimented me on my shooting.