The health regen article is kind of "why so serious?" but it does bring up a good point. Don't say you're aiming for realism and then do....all that stuff. Granted a game where getting shot once either kills you or takes you out of the battlefield wouldn't be very fun, the more gamey you make it the less realistic the game becomes. So...own up to that. You can have it "military themed" and still have the fun stuff, which is basically what these end up being. Just stop bullshitting.
I think he [Greg] does own up to what isn't realistic by saying "It's a video game" [which usually ain't real] and mentions that those are "game mechanics". He does say what aspects of the game he's aiming to be real (narrative in SP mode, the type of guns, etc).
Though, I do find it kind of funny and ironic Tom admits to never have played MOH 2010 and that he has only seen the MOH:WF demo.
Though, it is cool that there is a planned "Hardcore MP" (sounds like it's No Respawn per round) for MOH:WF - even though it wasn't [unfortunately] shown at E3.
Or bring back scifi shooters. Then you can hand wave away all that stuff easily.
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And I think more important is his point that it lets players play in a non-realistic way. That was one of the cool things about Red Orchestra is that you couldn't just run around, take a few hits, duck down to recover, and keep going. You could and usually did die to a single shot so you played carefully.
Granted, I haven't played Red Orchestra - but isn't that what makes this kind of game special for so many? That is it so different from the norm?
ARMA series and Red Orchestra series are loved by their hardcore fanbase b/c they are not the "typical" shooter saturating on the market. I could imagine if the "realistic shooter" was commonplace on the market and that there were tons of these "realistic shooter" clones, people would be bored with that genre - just like how many probably get tired of the COD-clone syndrome. I think since COD seems to do this COD-style game better than just about everybody else, I think that's why many gamers will go right back to COD or be pumped for the next COD game.
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About sci-fi shooters - yes, I could go for a true-blue Unreal 3 or new UT game. It's been a while since the last ones.
