What game has the most satisfying shooting?

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#1  Edited By artofwar420

Dude shooting IRL gun
Dude shooting IRL gun
Be it Modern Warfare 2, or Battlefield Bad Company 2, maybe Borderlands? Or Counter Strike. Maybe you enjoy more "hardcore" games like ARMA II . Even non-FPS games like Max Payne, or Gears of War. I'm talking about games that revolve around the act of shooting dudes/things. As such I ask you what game succeeds in making the guns feel awesome. 
 
What game "feels" good to you, that certain j'ne sais quoi that we feel when we push on the trigger on our controller or click our mice. Something so satisfying that the very act of shooting one bullet is an experience that almost transcends the game you're in. The acoustics are perfect, the act of hitting a dude is spot on. It keeps us coming back again and again.  
 
Maybe tell us if you've shot an actual gun before and how has that changed your opinion on guns in games.
  
 
I've never shot a gun before. For me it's Bad Company 2, even shooting a lowly Soldier rifle feels and sounds amazing. I have memories of Black feeling great, but maybe my memory is failing me.
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#2  Edited By jonnyboy

This current generation, probably Borderlands, for a non-realistic arcade shooter nice mix of weapons, interesting mods, all have a decent weight and feel.
 
Too bad the rest of the game is dull as shit.

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Gears of War 1
Halo CE  
CoD 1, 2, and 4
Mass Effect 2
STALKER SoC
Fallout 3

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#4  Edited By mikeeegeee

Perfect Dark 64. and Counterstrike.

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#5  Edited By delta_ass

Probably Mass Effect 2 and Modern Warfare 2.

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#6  Edited By Heartagram

I always felt like Gears 2 had a great feeling. Mostly in the single player though. 
 
 I like the way that your guns tear pieces of flesh from your enemies. 
 
 I think other than that COD has the best feeling to the shooting.  
 
No better feeling to me in MP than when you pull of a nice headshot and see the X pop up on the screen letting you know.

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#7  Edited By berva

COD4 and Modern Warfare 2 no doubt

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#8  Edited By LiquidPrince

Uncharted, Gears of War, and Mass Effect all have great shooting.

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#9  Edited By Icemael

Gears of War. No contest.

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#10  Edited By Dark_Jon

Deadly Premonition.

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#11  Edited By canucks23

In bfbc2 the way the bullets hit people, and the way they die gave the shooting a weight to it. It's really satisfying.

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#12  Edited By artofwar420
@Dark_Jon: Oh god. That made me laugh for a good 30 seconds.
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#13  Edited By Able

Does Portal count?  The sound and the recoil is so good.

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#14  Edited By HitmanAgent47

Crysis imo or counter strike source.

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#15  Edited By TheHT

CSS

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#16  Edited By LeetBalla

Gears of War, Killzone 2, Team Fortress 2, Halo 2 or 3.

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#17  Edited By artofwar420
@Able: Updated the first post to reflect this. One shoots walls and floors, so why not.
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#18  Edited By cjmabry

Insurgency mod. Tis awesome.

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#19  Edited By cancerdancer
@Tru3_Blu3 said:
" Fallout 3 "
Are you shitting me? ARE YOU SHITTING ME?! I love Fallout 3, but the shooting can suck my nuts.
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#20  Edited By artofwar420
@cancerdancer: Well, it's no Deadly Premonition, but I can see why one would like Fallout 3's shooting.
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#21  Edited By lucas_kelly

Half Life 2.

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#22  Edited By zanzibarbreeze

Let's go more classic. We can do better than just Halo, although I do not dispute it has fine shooting.
 
I like the machine gun in Quake II. It's got a nice sound, it's fast, it's thick, and the recoil isn't that bad. It feels good.

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#23  Edited By achoyq
@cjmabry said:
" Insurgency mod. Tis awesome. "
Indeed! Also, Left 4 Dead 2 (mainly because of the all dismemberment) and Bad Company 2.
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#24  Edited By TheGreatGuero

I would say that Fallout 3's shooting CAN be very satisfying. Especially when limbs are getting blown off or exploding into lots of pieces, but for the most part, I'd say it isn't. The shooting in particular isn't one of the game's strong suits, and is there anything lamer than shooting a dude in the head-close range with a combat shotgun and seeing no real damage? Despite my love for the game, the shooting needs some work, but I think it still managed to get the job done and the gruesomeness of the kills could be very rewarding.
 
As for the question, man, I don't know. This is a tough one. But just for the heck of it, I'm gonna say Halo 2, because... because... I JUST MISS IT SO MUCH! :(

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#25  Edited By mshaw006

You can't go wrong with the Counter-Strike headshots. However, the reports on the Modern Warfare guns are awesome, I'd say MW2 comes in a close second. Halo comes in third for its BR headshots.

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#26  Edited By thatfrood
@Tru3_Blu3 said:
"Fallout 3 "

   Woah. 
woah woah woah. 
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooah. 
What? 
 
I love that game, but no. The shooting is awful. 
 
As for me? There was something about the shooting in Call of Pripyat that I really enjoyed. 
And Max Payne. Yeah. What can I say? Bullettime, mfers.
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Left 4 Dead 2

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#28  Edited By dastly75

Counter-strike.   I remember the first time I played that game so long ago and it's the shooting that made it memorable.

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#29  Edited By isles

i'd say fear 2, the game has issues but you feel like you're ripping guys apart with those guns.

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#30  Edited By matthew

  Sorry about the formatting being all outta whack
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#31  Edited By hero_swe

Hmmmm. I'd say the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series of games does an amazing job of shooting (with mods/personal fixing. I hate range limits on guns in any game, so I always fix that when I can). You really feel the need to take cover and not just play Rambo, if you do you're dead within seconds. 
 
Hmmm, that's all I can think of now. I'm sure there are other games out there with awesome shooting. I just can't name them now
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COD 4, no contest. Bad Company is coming right along, though. Much better shooting in 2 than in the first game.
 
At one time I would have mentioned FEAR as well, but I replayed the game not long ago and it didn't seem as great as I remembered. FEAR 2 felt about the same.

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#33  Edited By inqsolarus

Gears for me as well, especially the shotgun at close range.

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#34  Edited By MonkeyGekko

I personally love the shooting in CSS or 1.6 for that matter. Counter-strike is the game I've played the most in my life, and I love that you can one-shot people if you get really good. I also enjoy Bad company 2, the sound of the enemies bullets flying past your head and the ability to take down a helicopter by shooting the pilot is really fun.

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#35  Edited By Skald

Metro 2033, Bioshock, maybe Killzone 2. 
 
Guns need to be loud and weighty, or they don't feel powerful at all.

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#36  Edited By Leptok

Arma II

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Bad company 2 the guns have weight, feels good. Halo by nature of mechanics is also pretty great.

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Call Of Duty, and  S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games are great. However, I can't really see how BFBC2 shooting is satisfying. From what little bit I've played, the bullet damage seems low, perceived recoil nonexistant, the sounds are a bit wimpy.

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#39  Edited By solidlife

Bfbc 2 Nothing like aiming down the iron sight and shooting in that game I really like it.

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#40  Edited By natetodamax

My favorite shooting is probably Call Of Duty even though it takes no effort.

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#41  Edited By GunstarRed

Gears of War 2... everything is so chunky 
 
but a close second killzone 2.  
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#42  Edited By KevinTheDeviant

As far as the feeling of shooting,  I always thought Half-Life 2 felt really well-balanced. Even the weakest pistol could kill a combine soldier with a well-placed shot, and each shot had the proper amount of kickback to it, both in the animation, the sound, and the vibration of the controller. So many games give you the sensation you're shooting spitwads at your enemies until you get one of the last weapons, but in HL2, it's satisfying to rely on the pistol alone, if you choose to.

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#43  Edited By Meowayne

Having to shoot The Boss at the end of MGS3.

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#44  Edited By isles
@KevinTheDeviant:  
 
the pistol in hl2 feels more like a bb gun, i don't think the gun mechanics in that game are bad by any means but there are games that make the guns feel powerful and i don't think half life 2 is one of them.
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#45  Edited By unclejohnny79

F.E.A.R 2 felt really good

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#46  Edited By Dad_Is_A_Zombie
@WindFall259 said:
" Left 4 Dead 2 "
I don't know if this is sarcastic or not but I agree. May not be technically realistic but at least in L4D when you hit something it dies.
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#47  Edited By Jimbo

FEAR is the only game I've played that really manages to make the shooting feel like an act of violence.  If it didn't have all of that stupid spooky little girl nonsense going on, I think FEAR would be rated up there with the classics.
 
Max Payne also felt pretty great.  There's something about being in bullet time and watching a whole room getting ripped to shreds that I find really appealing.

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#49  Edited By George_Hukas

Lethal Enforcers

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#50  Edited By spaceturtle

First game I can think of when it comes to excellent feel of the shooting, is Killzone 2. The whole feel of moving the gun around and actually firing it is so hilariously good! The sound-work on the weapons is probably what makes it so good, in my opinion. Crysis also have some bloody enjoyable shooting. Just feels so natural with both games. 
 
@cancerdancer said:

" @Tru3_Blu3 said:
" Fallout 3 "
Are you shitting me? ARE YOU SHITTING ME?! I love Fallout 3, but the shooting can suck my nuts. "
I too love Fallout 3. Don't think I've ever spent more time with a single player game EVAH, but the shooting really sux! Except for the VATS feature, but that really doesn't count as shooting now does it?