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Feel the Hatred:Mounted Machine Guns.
nebones | 9:17 PM on 09.09.2008 12 comments


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.




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SilverDragon1979's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 21:28
SilverDragon1979
I don't know, there is something very satisfying about taking hold of a mounted machine gun and firing off thousands of rounds into oncoming bad guys. Yes it might be mindless, and it might take no skill at all, but sometimes mindless fun like this is a blast in FPS games.
007's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 21:35
007
That last pic looks like my house...
youkilledmyguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 22:03
youkilledmyguy
It did happen in real life... read up on the beach at Normandy.

Other than that, good post.
LambChops's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 22:28
LambChops
You forgot that they Never...Ever....run out of ammunition.
Gameboi's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 22:38
Gameboi
I don't know man... they are kind've fun.
Teta's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 23:22
Teta
Me, the Heavy and Sasha are all sad about this article.
I am sorry, but the mini gun, mounted or not is my favorite gun in every game.
nebones's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 23:32
nebones
TF2 is a completely different story.
Gangles's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2008 00:11
Gangles
On the other hand, I really enjoy flaking mounted guns a la Gears of War.
Gangles's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2008 00:11
Gangles
*flanking
blehman's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2008 15:06
blehman
I really thought you were going to talk mounted machine guns like, car mounted machine guns, and I was gonna say, Yeah, I hate that you have to turn the car to fire too!

Man, I was waaay off.
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