Favorite Weapon type in a First Person Shooter

None of those. I like the magnum-type, the powerful gun with low ammo where you have to make every shot count. It suits my playstyle of conservative shooting well.

Painkiller's stakegun.

the last level gun. it's usually the best weapon in the game. only lets' you use it for the last part.

Anything that impales dudes to walls (no homo).

What would a Bow&Arrow count as?

On console, Shotgun. On PC Sniper.

I went for "That long range weapon with the zoom - since you're just one of those people", but that's not quite what I do. I'll go for an accurate rifle. I prefer precision in each of my shots over emptying a mag and barely hitting anything. I also prefer to kill my enemies while they are as far from me as possible. I am however crappy with sniper rifles and moving targets, so I'll stick to normal rifles rather than forced-scope stuff.

If there's a revolver I'll take that. (my favorites would be the Half-Life 2 and MW2 magnums)

semi automatic mid to long range weapon, like the DMR in Reach or the precision rifle in Red Faction 1

Shotguns tend to be something I favour, if it's available. After that...eh, just some crazy sci-fi/fantasy guns. Stakegun from Painkiller, Gravitygun from HL2, the whatyoucallit time manipulator from Singularity...

I very, VERY rarely play FPS, but when I do, I always like to use the Light Machine Gun. They always sound satisfying to me. Funnily enough, I hate Assault Rifles.

The one that makes whoever i kill die the slowest

I really like pistols in FPSs. In F3AR, I used the pistol pretty much the whole time.

My vote is for the pistol, though ideally I'd like a silenced weapon. I just love the way silenced weapons sound in video games (no matter how unrealistic).

So, a silenced pistol for me is the ultimate.

I voted for melee since stabbing dudes in the face screaming "YOUR GUNS ARE USELESS, FUCKER!!" is very awesome. But i also love pistols.

I use what's appropriate for the situation, but if given the opportunity to choose my role in a battle, I generally prefer accurate, mid-to-long-range weapons: single-shot or burst-fire weapons with some kind of mid-range scope, typically. A full-auto assault rifle is an acceptable stand-in as long as its accurate and the rate of fire is easily controlled by pulsing the trigger.

I went for shotgun... but the pistol in Halo is a real beaut now that I think of it.

@Slaker117 said:

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.

This is pretty much exactly what I like in shooters.

Shotguns. There hasn't been any really amazing shotguns lately though. I do enjoy Resistance 3's shotgun. Rage should have a good shotgun, just because it's an id game.

I've always found handguns to be sexy. Revolvers especially.

There are two ways I really like to play FPSes. One is sneaking around with a pistol, meleeing guys and getting silent kills. But, since games that let you actually do that are few, I'd say I love sniping. It can be frustrating at times, especially with slower rifles, but nothing is more satisfying than pulling off a headshot.

The brain bore from Turok 2, and damn it, we need to see more like it.

which ever gun shoots the most amount of bullets the fastest.

if it isn't dead you aren't firing enough bullets.

M4A1 Colt with three round burst, shotty, grenade.

Assault rifles...I'm boring like that.

The ones that makes stuff explode.

Usually the simple and reliable auto-gun. I remember loving the submachine gun in Frontlines: Fuel of War (even with that game being as fucked as it was) because it was broken in the way that it had perfect accuracy. By which I mean it would fire in a straight line no matter what. The long range kills you could get were INSANE.

handguns, specially in horror games, makes me feel empowered.

Well I guess since we're going purely off classic arcade-y FPS standards then it would have to be the shotgun equivalent. If realism at all is in play then it's the automatic assault rifle thingy. Though if there's some sort of mid-range scoped semiautomatic rifle then I'm all over that.

shotgun.

also, what no flamethrower?

Nothin' like blasting that shawty