Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> 12 guys run around inside a crumbling
>> dungeon hurling grenades and using rocket launchers. And after 20 
>> minutes, the map itself just has a few bullet holes.
> 
> http://hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2006-07-17
> 
> But nobody would play a realistic video game. Most people don't have the 
> training to play a realistic video game. And you'd need a whole bunch of 
> people together to do it properly.  (Think Quake II, where the first 
> thing that happens is you're cut off from all your teammates, and you go 
> the whole rest of the game without meeting anyone else.)
> 
> A realistic video game is "Boom! Headshot!  Game over, and you don't get 
> to play again."

You just described Insurgency.

You get to play again, but other than that it's just like a real war - 
i.e., not fun. It takes hours to walk anywhere. You can only run for a 
few seconds before you get breathless. When you're breathless, your aim 
is even more horrible than usual. There is no crosshair on the screen. 
You *can* look down the barrel of the gun, but then you can't see 
anything around you. And the gun dances all over the place as soon as 
you pull the trigger.

Most importantly, you wander around for hours not seeing any other 
players. You can *hear* gunshots coming from somewhere, but there are no 
people. At some point, as you walk towards the sounds of gunfire, you 
will suddenly drop dead for no apparent reason. The problem is that 4.8 
miles away, there's a sniper hidden behind some bushes. (This is 
probably beyond the max draw distance of the game engine.)

In short, it's a game that must have taken a vast amount of time and 
effort to develop (it's a community mod, not a commercial game), but 
it's completely boring and pointless. You just walk around until you 
drop dead. You won't even *see* another player to actually shoot at. 
You'll just drop dead suddenly.

It *does* have one redeeming feature though: If you play as US Marines, 
when you reload this gaunt voice mumbles "changing mags". If you play as 
the Iraqui Insurgents, an Arabic voice yells "rrrrrreloading!"

Funniest. Thing. Ever!

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