I love tactical shooter games, the more real, the better.
In the online PC version of COD4, on a full-ish SGS server your life expectancy is insane, some people stop playing online because most of the time, you don’t survive the duration of a single clip. Ja, that would happen in real life as well if you’d run in the in the middle of the street, spraying-&-praying. A lota players are playing a semi-realistic game, arcade style…
I’ve dreamt of a FPS where it’s as close to real life as possible. Things like taking a chest shot and dropping, loosing ability to walk, realistic firing accuracy, getting tired, using your body as a human shield, forcing players to go from cover to cover, covering team mates, etc.
Would it really be fun? A lot of people will probably get annoyed, but i think all the milsim fans out there will just love it. Some game developers have sorta tried it, take for example Flashpoint, they pulled off some realism, while still keeping it fun. Flashpoint 2 and the Source realism mods I’d say is your best bet for the ‘most’ realistic gaming, but nobody has gone all the way, guns blazing…
I’d love to see someone try and cut away all possible arcade from a FPS war title and attempt maximum realism, is that so hard to ask?
[Francois]
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Francois Wiid
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ArmA – Armed Assault. Then that’s the game for you. Realistic to the point of being annoying, but still an excellent army simulation.
I think developers stay away from the realism perspective simply because it’s “Games”. They’re supposed to be for entertainment purposes. But the select crowd does exist that enjoy playing a game modeled close to reality. So somebody should pick up the reigns and start developing for this market.
It might actually be a good thing. People will be able to see the consequences to using a gun and maybe stray away from using it in real life. Or on the other end of the spectrum, the people who want to use guns, can get their “fix” playing the game because it’s so close to reality. Maybe then we can start avoiding tragedies like what happened again in a US school yesterday (another shooting).
There are also companies who develop games for the army to train their soldiers or for recruitment (America’s Army).
I strongly feel this is the way to go if we want to keep our country’s military strong and violence to a minimum.