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The Three Cheapest Shotguns in Recent Shooters

Shotguns. Boomsticks. Double-barreled hand cannons. Skeet blasters. Every self-respecting online shooter has to feature a powerful shotgun, if for no other reason than to adhere to the rule of weapon tiers as established by id Software in the early 90′s.

Criminal4616d ago

The models were really terrible. Almost broke the game for me. Well, add to that the noobtubing with one man army and danger close, and various glitches throughout (infinite care packages, javelin,...etc) MW2 had a lot of cheap stuff.

Mister_V4616d ago

Wasn't a big fan of the fully auto shotguns with slugs in BFBC2. I'm sure many would agree!?

dodo1014616d ago

Sometimes even without slugs the shotgun feels OP imo. You can kill someone with 1 shot from a great distance like 30-50 meter

Mister_V4616d ago

@dod101, true dat. Kinda curious to see how the fully auto shotguns will turn out in BF3. Haven't unlocked any yet.

Spitfire_Riggz4616d ago

God I hated those damn slugs. My friend would snipe pilots out of helicopters with a shotgun. A SHOTGUN.

heaven knows why dice never nerfed it. It better not be like that on B3 because that turned me off the whole game sometimes with bad company 2

Solid_Snake-4615d ago

got to be the cheapest shotgun ever.

bad company 2 slugs pissed me off.

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Nitrowolf24616d ago (Edited 4616d ago )

I don't even like the shotgun that much. I feel like to many people run with it. Always expect some epic gun battle when someone comes up to me only it's a bullet to the face lol. It's good fro CQC though

JohnApocalypse4616d ago

The Sawed-off is fine. If the gun doesn't kill your opponent then there's a high chance your fucked

theEx1Le4616d ago

More than high, almost a cert unless they are using it too and miss.

MellauxGMNG4616d ago

The sawed off isnt fine and its not hard to run away while reloading your weapon.

The sawed off requires no effort at all to use because of its extremely wide spread and its gib range (1 shot kill) which is longer than the gnashers. All you need to do is walk or run up to an enemy and pull the trigger and if theyre on your screen you get a kill, with basically no aiming involved. Versus 1 sawed off user this is fairly easy to counter, but when there are 4 of them on a team (happens very often) it becomes a big problem, because it makes people scared to move around the map because there may be a sawed off user camping around the corner.

This coupled with the really stong rifles slow down the gameplay a LOT and makes it boring to play.

So epic really need to do something about it, like removing it from ranked matches or reducing its range.

DeFFeR4615d ago

I think you misunderstand what Gears is all about then... it was always a shotgun whorefest... we knew that after 2 days of Gears 1.

It's not supposed to be a tactical super realistic game... never was.

JeffGUNZ4615d ago

The sawed-off is annoying, but once you can ID it, just roll back, swtich the a rifle, and mow them down while walking backwards.

I can usually take down a sawed-off with my gnasher, the key is just really trying to identify what weapon they have in their hand when your closing the distance. The gnashed does some damage out of the sawed-off's range, so just stay back and go for the down, not the gib and you should see the sawed-off isn't too bad.

Blaine4616d ago (Edited 4616d ago )

People always complain about shotguns in games... But then most of the people who complain about them don't use them.

Either they complain that it's OP in CQC, which it's SUPPOSED to be, and ignore the fact that it's useless beyond spitting range. Or they don't realize that, in most games, whatever you can do with a shotgun, you can do with an AR, without the range nerf.

Shotguns are supposed to be OP in close quarters, end of story. Rather than complain, USE IT or shut the hell up. If you use it you'll realize one of two things: you enjoy it or it's not as good as you thought.

ReservoirDog3164616d ago

Well, some people don't like to use cheap tactics. Yeah noobtubes with scavenger is guaranteed kills but it makes me feel cheap. So I don't use them.

And if you feel like shotguns are cheap, then it's like you're stooping to their level.

Me? Shotguns have a time and a place (small maps).

Blaine4616d ago

I see your point, since I refuse to ever use RPGs and GLs. I don't think Shotguns are the same though because they usually have downsides to their OP CQC. Like slow ROF, slow reload, nerfed range.

I just think they're fun to use though. Having to use alternate routes to avoid open areas and reduce the range, and sneaking when you're just too far. Then when you're up close, unleash! But you still have to be careful not to miss your shots, because of the ROF, and to watch your limited ammo.

I used them briefly in MAG, and I even used smoke grenades in order to cross open areas and give myself a chance to cut down the range. That was a lot of fun. But people cried a lot about shotguns in MAG. I didn't use them long anyway because whatever I could do with a shotgun in that game I could do with an AR, and better... Yet people never complained about the ARs.

ReservoirDog3164616d ago

Yeah, it's nice to have an alternative play style when things start getting boring online. The pluses and minuses of a shotgun can sometimes change up the feel to a game so it's welcomed.

xX_Altair_Xx4616d ago

"useless beyond spitting range"

Actually the SPAS in MW2 (and MW3 going by footage) has ridiculous range. Also the problem in MW2 was twofold: overpowered and available as secondary weapons. So you could have and AR and a shotgun. Blops fixed the second problem and I think MW3 follows it.

Criminal4616d ago

Where did you see the MW3 SPAS footage?

Please leave the link!

Blaine4616d ago

Obviously mileage will vary depending on the game.

xX_Altair_Xx4616d ago

@ Criminal

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

There is a lot of MW3 footage on Youtube; just hit the search and it'll come up.

Criminal4615d ago

@Altair Thanks a lot. Funny thing that I'm subscribed to Tmartn but missed that one.

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Relientk774616d ago

I remember in Rainbow Six Vegas the Spas 12 was ridiclously overpowered you could kill anyone with one hit from soooo far away, and enemies could kill u from the bottom of a huge staircase with it.

e-p-ayeaH4616d ago (Edited 4616d ago )

yeah but still i miss playing R6 Vegas online it was something else getting kills felt really rewarding for some reason.

theonlylolking4616d ago

The sawed off shotty in gears is not cheap and epic proved it because they said in the beta more people got killed by the gnasher even when it was gnasher vs sawed off.

SwiftShot4615d ago

Yea but that doesnt mean it isn't a ridiculous piece of weapon.

JeffGUNZ4615d ago

The only real problem I run in with the sawed-off is when I play King of the Hill and the entire team has the sawed-off and it makes in nearly impossible to break the circle. Still, the dedicated servers, the fixed gnasher, and the smoothest gears game play ever, I can easily let the sawed-off slide.

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anast73d ago

Good games for the $9.99 bin, you can get all of the Metro's for $10 in a bundle.

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The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.

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OtterX74d ago (Edited 74d ago )

Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!

Rude-ro74d ago

I played killzone 3 in 3d and it really changed the game per being immersive.
In vr, that would be even more awesome.

darthv7274d ago

Funny you mention that... my son wanted to play some PS3 games in 3d on my PS tv and he was blown away by how good KZ3 was. It really was a great addition to the game. Im surprised there have not been more 3d games from that era being ported to the PSVR/VR2.

_SilverHawk_74d ago

resistance 1-3, killzone 1-3, uncharted 1-3, uncharted golden abyss, folklore, socom 4 , motorstorm, twisted metal, MAG, heavenly sword

Cacabunga74d ago

Killzone 2+3
Sly Thieves in Time
Crack in Time
God of War Ascension
Motorstorm
Modnation racer
Infamous 1+2

Profchaos73d ago (Edited 73d ago )

Killzone trilogy in VR would be amazing bonus points if they offer shadow fall.

There was a psvr1 Killzone project that supermassive was working on at one stage which wasn't up to scratch and Sony brand it back in house I was hoping we would see that on psvr2 eventually.

Personally I'd love to see some more love or acknowledgement of psvr2 from Sony in general it was a expensive headset and Sony barely acknowledge it's existence

seanpitt2373d ago

The amount of work needed to remaster these games wouldn't be beneficial on a financial and business sense.. MGS4 would probably be the best bet as it would need the least amount of work!

Iceball200074d ago

YEAAASSSSS! I miss this franchise and wanna play it so bad again.

Father__Merrin74d ago

The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer

InUrFoxHole74d ago

The resistance series is str8 trash to me. Socom 3 I would welcome. Or killzone MP.

Marcus Fenix74d ago

A Resistance reboot will be awesome

Michiel198974d ago

That's what Bungie should make, Ill keep saying it until it happens

1Victor74d ago (Edited 74d ago )

Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱

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Michiel198974d ago

Resistance was the best co-op fps I ever played after L4D2

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