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Originally posted by Thoran:
What Sigmar said... not inane key puzzles (which you get just as much of in RPG's fwiw), but solving dynamic tactical and strategic problems. Choosing how to engage the enemy, conservation of resources, and lots of other decisions that need to be made in rapid fashion.
Well, deciding if you are going to use a chaingun or a knife at a rat. Hmmm hard decision. I can imagine the conversations 'Oh will we take the left corridor to shoot them up or the right one ?'. And it's the rapid fashion thing that i dislike. If you have to come up with a really good strategy, that takes time. Oh, you can get lucky of course but thinking of a really good strategy and then executing it takes time.
I'm also not talking about online multiplayer... too slow to achieve the level of immersion I'm accustomed to. I'm talking about 10-15 players on a local network... the potential for team dynamics adds a whole new dimension to the game. To say these games are mindless is to say that splatball is mindless, or capture the flag, or really that ANY combat oriented game is mindless. I would have to disagree on that assertion.
Basically the same thing, only the number of people participating change. Are you talking paintball or what here or computergame capture the flag. I was going to comment on it but since i'm not to sure i'm not going to.
Of course if you haven't mastered the basics of motion... freelook movement, strafing, and targeting on the fly... as well as keysetup that allows engagement without ever looking
Sorry but not everybody is 'perfect'
away from the screen... well then you're not going to be able to participate in the true challenge of the games (except maybe as a defensive camper in a capture the flag game)... you'll be spending all your time looking at the sky and the ground and you'll die usually before you know who's shooting at you.
I played fps games and was died of boredom before anybody
could kill me character. And true challenge of the game ? What is that ? Killing as much as possible right ? We are still talking about an fps game right ? Not a strategical combat game right ? Because they are different, you know.