T/S: First-Person Shooters -- sneaky-sneaky or run & gun?

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Which do you prefer, and have a better time playing? a game where stealth is a part of it(No One Lives Forever, Thief), or a strictly run & gun & blow-shit-up romp(UT, any game from Id, Serious Sam)? Why?

what about games that let you choose between the two different approaches, like Half-Life or Deus Ex?

I find that I like sneaky games more, as run&gun-types tend to have less of a narrative to get in the way of all the exploding-demon and hott zombie-on-zombie action.

I guess this could also apply to 3rd Person adventure games--TR, Metal Gear, Syphon Filter, etc. PC, console, don't matter.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i like to run and gun...but splinter cell is a totally different experience. very cool. i almost shit my pants last night with 15 seconds on the clock and me trying to disarm a bomb. and then, sneak up to some wall mines (which are movement sensitive) and disarm them.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Perfect Dark, four players, laptops, poison knives, grenages, dragons and CMPs in the G5 - I am seriously bad. Fuck stealth - break out the carnage.

Failing that it was always proxims in the Felicity for 10 minutes of living hell.

I never had the patience for putting in the hours of single player brain-sapping concentration on the Dark (or any other game for that matter) - but put me in with a buch of other players and I'll rip them up.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

the Autofire Sentry Laptops in Perfect Dark were killer. "how to annoy your roommate, pt 67"

"fuck YOU, dude! stop using those!"

"hahahah! suck on it!"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a sense of accomplishment w/ sneak kills, esp. games that reward you specifically for them (e.g. Fear Effect, Tenchu, to some degree MGS), prob because you honestly need to have mastered some of the gameplay to do it consistently.

Anyway, we should have an ILX Perfect Dark/GoldenEye tourney. I work you all. And at Mario Kart too.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

A good combination of the two. Right now I'm playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and they do a pretty good job of leaving opportunities for you to break out the sniper rifle or even sneak up on someone and knife them in the back.

― Dan I., Friday, 8 August 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

ahhhhh man goldefnyye is teh best gsame ever - goldengun on her librarry leveli foru sure just strafein adn shit round the vookshelfs - wicked

― sean g, Friday, 8 August 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Hitman 2. Oh man that game is so incredibly involving. I played a Splinter Cell demo, seems along the same sort of heavy-strategy lines. I can't stand Doom-style shooters - why wouldn't I just play Xenophobe instead?

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

hitman 2 is impossible.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to play counterstrike and mostly went in guns blazing - mainly because to win, you had to "inspire" your teammates to follow you or else your team would be mired in defense.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought this was another sperm thread.

i don't play video games but would happily tell you that i like sneaky sneaky sperming

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

so, "daddy was a rollin' stone" = "run & gun", huh?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 8 August 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

HALO for the XBOX. Lovely combination of both styles, run and gun and sneaky-sneaky. Nothin' like being low on ammo and health, expertly evading an alien horde and then coming across an abandoned tank. CARNAGE.

― Mike Stuchbery, Friday, 8 August 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

hitman 2 is impossible

I got outta the first scenario killing only a couple of people, I felt like a GOD

the first Russian scene though you gotta just kill every motherfucker you see on the way out

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 9 August 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I just killed you all from behind. I WIN.

― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 9 August 2003 05:44 (twenty-two years ago)

first scenario in Deus Ex = TEH SUCK.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 9 August 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I usually get horribly motion-sickness from playing first-person shooters, but damn... that Halo game is crazy. Made me scream like a little girl

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 9 August 2003 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha I really thought this thread was going to be about Aftershock and tequilla..

― Sarah (starry), Saturday, 9 August 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

third-person Aftershock & Tequila: classic or "I can see me arse from here!"?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 9 August 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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