Favorite Weapon type in a First Person Shooter

The one that kills dudes.

I'll say that, regardless of game, they're usually paced so that the [B.] assault rifle type of gun manages to handle most enemies and never seems to run out of ammo. It's a boring choice, but looking back on the sheer number of FPS games that have them, it's usually the one for me.

End game! Ka-blammo!

sniping, and i mean normal sniping, not quickscoping, i find extremely satisfying. especially in games like battlefield. but rest assured i also try to help out as much as possible by spotting and so on

You forgot "That hulking, 50 pound monstrosity of a weapon that fires an endless swarm of bullets the size of your finger at full auto"

Luv da dakka!

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In an FPS? Pistols are domination! Call of Duty and Halo boast the best selection of pistols and I love using them!

My robot arms in Deus Ex. My sweet, sweet, robot arms. So, uh, F I guess.

If the melee attack is a fist, it's usually that.

Anything that stuns rather than kills. I don't know why, I just get satisfaction knowing the enemy will wake up with their base totally fucked, and possibly having relieved their bowels. Also is it weird or just hilarious that when I read G it reminded me of the trowing knife from Modern Warfare 2?

Pistol, always, love those things.

Whatever category something like the BFG-9000 falls into... so G I suppose.

Always be shotgunning.

Shotguns always feel right. It is hard to mess it up all those some have managed to do it (looks at Brink)

Shotguns, magnums. I enjoy a pistol that feels good, but not a lot of games nail good pistols.

Lately in most everything I have gone with assault rifle. I used to like shotgun but unless I could carry it it's become the assault rifle. props to the 10mm in deus Ex-human rev though. with a few upgrades that became my true fall back weapon, as oppossed to giving it the old toss.

Always go for the range weapon with the scope, the perfect weapon in a video game is semi auto and it's got a scope!

In a game with an inventory system like Deus Ex I'll take a pistol, since they take up the least amount of space.
 
Otherwise I'll just use an assault rifle.

shotgun + knife.  or in the case of battlefield 1943 grenades + rifle grenades.

I voted shotgun, but really, my favorite FPS weapon is usually the most powerful pistol the game gives you. Almost always a ridiculous revolver or a Desert Eagle. Sure, the fire rate is slow, but that fucker will mow dudes down in a hurry.

Water Arrow.

Probably B.

Soldier of Fortune + Shotgun = mind blown

H. Special means; explosives, mines, air strikes, traps, demo packs, magic, etc.

Never fight the enemy on their own terms!

Depends heavily on the game, but as a standard: shotgun-type for close range combat games (Metro 2033, Fear), and the long range scoped option for more open worlds (STALKER, Far Cry 2).

Pretty much anything hitscan with a tight spread.

Hard choice, but I'm partial to explosives. Shotguns and Sniper Rifles are very, very close second, with pistols at third.

I just love a good explosion. Also, Fallout 3/NV physics with explosions are randomly hilarious (I play NV more like an FPS than I did with F3 though). There's never enough ammo for the explosives in games like MW or Halo though (discounting grenades).

Sniper Rifle and Shotgun are a great combo, and Pistols are trusty (and some look awesome) but I only use them rarely, either when I'm totally out of ammo or don't have time to reload.

I'm a big fan of SMG's, but I also really like to snipe. Never use shotguns.

@Giantstalker: You left out the Magnum that is too impractical even in it's own game. Although the broken starter pistol is actually my fave usually.

@ervonymous: That sounds pretty dirty.

I really like shotguns, when done well (I usually think of valve games or Doom) they feel really powerfull. I like when they have range, but in something like Gears of War its great just blowing a dude into chunks at point blank. A good six shooter is kind of satisfying as well. For some reason magnum revolvers have a lot of heft to them in games. The thing i really hate is the end game super weapon, those seem like a waste of time, I probably say that because I just played FFX, getting them takes hours of playing really bad minigames.

The one that's silent and helps me maintain stealth from a long distance.

Always be shotgunning.

Different from game to game. For Doom the double barrel shotgun, rl for Q1, shaft/lg for Q3, the flak cannon for UT, and for all the military shooters out there (there are far too many these days and they start to bore me) probably shotgun or sniper rifle.

The Shotgun, obviously.

Shotgun. Never Not Shotgunning

Revolver/High Powered pistol

Marksman/Battle Rifle. Not a huge fan of either your "short, controlled bursts" type assault rifle, or big, clunky "one shot, one kill" sniper rifles, so I go for the middle ground. Scoped and usually firing single shots or three round bursts, I aim to stay accurate at longer ranges than fully automatic weapons, but still get to be an active, mobile presence on the battle field.

>_> For some reason I have a thing for shotguns...I grew disturbingly attached to my scoped-electric shotgun in Borderlands:

I also kept a pretty big collection of other cool shotguns.

Um, anyway, other than that, I usually like sniper rifles. Special weapons are cool too; since I just recently mentioned Dark Corners of the Earth in another topic, it made me realise how crazy the endgame weapon there was :o

Anything with a red-dot sight or similar aiming device. I prefer an automatic rifle which is sometimes different than the starter weapon you get and not the same as a sniper rifle, of course.

I'm usually partial to a pistol, but I would say my favourite would be three shot burst assault rifles, there's just something really awesome about them.

Shotguns, specifically, id Shotguns.

Or the Flak Cannon.

The lack of accurate three round burst weapon makes this poll invalid in my eyes. 

Assault rifles because they handle the most types of situations. I play defensively and AR's are pretty good at that

I voted shotgun because in older-style FPSes the shotguns feel fantastic. In the Call of Duty era, though, I hate shotguns, and always use assault rifles. If a game is really methodical and head-shotty, I like a magnum; if a game is arcadey like Quake or TF2, can't go wrong with rocks.

It all depends on the game.  CoD games seem to favor the assault Rifle, slower paced weapon heavy games seem to favor the pistol and/or sniper rifle.  Few games have me liking melee weapons, though...  (Dead Island is my current exception)

@Marz said:

The lack of accurate three round burst weapon makes this poll invalid in my eyes.

A-Greed

There's no substitute for a well done shotgun.

Shotgun - for online FPS usually ... but lately