new era of online gaming

[ExXz]

you know i've been thinking that with so much realism in gaming these days its easier for ppl to camp and hide and shoot from a distance. i miss the days of just running around and blasting fools without not worrying too much about some dude hidin in a bush or a dark corner. im an old school rusher. i dont have that kind of patience for wars and games where dudes just want to roast marshmellows and sing campfire songs. now days i play games like graw and cod and im having to check around every corner or window or look high and im getting shot a lot from dumb ass dudes hidin. b/c i usually just run right to their spawn. so it seems to me they're basically just making games for ppl to camp. and i know its realism and in real life you dont see 20 marines just running around like idiots but that was what was fun. now i find myself getting bored with online games as of late b/c that special fun factor isnt there. is this the new era of online gaming? is it who is the better team at camping? what you guys think?

[BornOfFire]

Depends on how you look at it. If you are playing a team and getting your butt kicked, what option do you have? I'm with you though, i tend to want to rush and i get hit by a grenade. You can rush but you have to have a strategy to it. By throwing flash bangs and grenades you can clear your way to the spawn. Try grabbing 3x flash bang and just blind your way to the spawn. I saw a guy yesterday throw one flash bang, blinding them all and we got the win because of it.

[Gremlin-]

You guys are funny... hehe

[BornOfFire]

If I was going to say something about this era of gaming vs. the era I grew up with I would say this. When I was younger you could play for 10,15, maybe 30mins and feel satisfied with playing a game but now a days people don't play for a hour at a time, they play for HOURS at a time. Including myself.

[slowfoo]

yeah socom for one game would take a long ass time...plus axiz u suck

[ExXz]

suck? thats why you always see me at the top of the scoreboard

[CheezeburgaEddy]

I'd rather deal with campers then have online play be too frantic *cough* Resistance *cough*. In that game I swear if you didn't do an 8 ball before hand you simply couldn't keep up with the pace.

Games like COD4 are pretty well balanced when it comes to rushing and camping, and what I like is the rotating spawn points, so that spawn camping or hiding out in one location becomes extremely difficult.

[FOURTYoz2FREEDOM]

Thats a good point Slow, an average Foxhunt game was 30-45 min. Unless you were playing against a bunch of scrubs. Since the fall of Socom, the repawn shooters have taken over. The reason is simple, Dev's are trying to keep the wait to play to a min. Hence respawn. I preffer non-respawn, but the times of non-repawn I fear are at its end. So adapt, thats whats its about.