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Article #696755Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2016?
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 17:49
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 17:49
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On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 10:30:35 -0600, "rms" <rsqui...@MOOyossmanMOO.net> wrote: > Bummer, I've never played a GR game, and was hankering after a military >shooter. If you're open to online play, you have a lot of options. I'm not sure there's such a thing as a decent single player military shooter. Maybe the Arma series covers that ground? All of the ones I'm aware of are online games first and foremost. The reason is that to provide anything remotely resembling an interesting war-like combat scenario, you're going to need humans on the other end of those guns firing at you. Bots work up to a certain point, but I think most people would find them unsatisfying. Rainbow Six Siege lets you play against bots, but of course it's nothing like the real game, they are mostly just strategically placed enemies that fire on you with varying degrees of skill, and "difficulty" is created by things like creatively placing them in the room (such that you may need to engage one of them in such a way that it opens you to fire from a second bot that you wouldn't have a visual on until you were already trading fire with the first one). There is something about a "designed experience" that just doesn't work in military style shooters, unless you're prepared to REALLY use your imagination. Squadding up and becoming part of a real team playing against other real teams gives the experience most people are looking for, but of course comes with all the trade offs of real team play (like varying levels of skill or cooperation from guys on your own team, etc).
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