Hiding behind cover, greatly outnumbered. Swarms of enemies heading towards you. Their’s no possible way you can make it out alive, all you can do is think of your family and loved one back home, then you see it…A few feet to your left, The Mounted Machine Gun. You dive to your left and set yourself up behind it, and start firing at your opponents. They keep coming, you keep shooting them, plies of dead soldiers start stacking up in front of you. Then, suddenly, they stop. They’re all dead, and you’re still alive. You leave the gun behind and start to continue your journey.



When would that ever happen in real life? When would the enemy just run at you and become living targets. It seems to be compulsory in FPS’s. I know not every FPS has it, but a lot do. Half Life 1 & 2, Call of Duty 4, Gears of War, Halo 3 and the list goes on. Not only is it unrealistic, but it gets boring very quickly. What game developer came up with the idea of standing there holding down the shoot button, it hardly even requires any skill, you could probably do it with your eyes closed.



Realism

As I said before, this would never happen in real life. First of all, the guns are always very covalently placed. Usually where there’s only one entrance/exit. That’s lucky. And, as I said before, the fact that enemies just run at you is stupid. I remember playing Half Life 2, where the Combine just ran directly at you. Didn’t even give a shit if they were in your line of fire or not. At least in GoW they took cover. God damn it.



It’s Boring

Yup, how much fun is it to sit there and shoot at brainless enemies? I’m sure it would actually be pretty fun in real life, but that’s not the point. Sometimes they’ll throw in a vehicle or two to entertain us with the pretty explosions, but the enjoyment is short.

Easy

It takes pretty much no skill. You could probably do it with your eyes closed. ‘nuff said.