Let's discuss tactical shooters. Remaking thread because codemonkey fucked the last one
I'm currently playing through Raven Shield for the first time and I'm enjoying it. What happened to these kind of games anyway? Did they really die out? I'm not talking about milsims like Arma by the way. I know most shooters went the way of the CoD bandwagon and turned into modern fps around 2006/2007, but do we really have to rely on underfunded indies to give tactical shooters a breath of life?
Are there even any projects, indie or otherwise, like that around that aren't doomed to fail? Kind of depressing when you think about it. I'd love to see a new game like Raven Shield or SWAT 4 with more fleshed out mechanics for breaching and the like.
All genres become the same if too many come out, gameplay can only take you so far after a while so there needs to be an interesting setting/lore/story there to keep playing the same genre, you already answered half your question on why they died out.
Rainbow Six Siege is a decent spin-off of the series surprisingly and Door Kickers is a good top-down one. I want a tactical shooter with as many guns as MGS 4 and JA2. Not really a tactical shooter but simcade war games like Joint Ops and Red Orchestra are my favorite tactical games, MGO 2 if you want to stretch it.
Xavier Martin
7.62 Hard Life is pretty god damn fun
Jaxson Harris
I need to play raven shield one of these days.
I can recommend the original Ghost Recon though, the gameplay is fun if you don't mind the controls being a little clunky (but still good), and there's loads of content and great multiplayer.
It also does something I REALLY like - realistic reload. I think every game should do this, since the alternative makes no sense. Basically, it keeps track of how many rounds are in each of your magazines, and when you hit reload it just swaps out your current one to the one that's the most full. Compare this to a standard FPS where every gun essentially loads rounds individually, and it's way better.
Jose Bell
Bro how long has it been since a game like swat 4 or raven shield has come out? I'm not asking why they died out, I'm asking if they really did. If there isn't some game made in recent years that can at least somewhat compare to those. I agree, I'd love to see something with lots of guns along with plenty of customization options.
Door Kickers was kind of fun, but (and this is just me) the top-down aspect of the game got boring pretty quick. Still played through most of the missions though. I'm really liking siege, but it's definitely not the same.
I've been considering getting into Ghost Recon. I remember buying one of the Advanced Warfare games with a friend and playing it. I don't remember if it was actually any good though.
Is there a way to turn that off? It looks so weird.
Josiah Allen
The thing I don't like about siege is that you can't get as "tactical" as I'd like. Doing an actual breach and throwing a flash in will more often than not get you killed, whereas just trying to craftily peek and droning in is what wins games. Also the little drawing screen isn't in the game and would be useless anyway because the defenders have so many options to deny you. I think if it had a full campaign where you can kill bots the way the trailer advertised, and left multiplayer as is the game would be so much better.
Jackson Walker
There's not a way to turn it off as far as I know, but that's actually just the sniper rifle crosshair. The other guns don't do that.
Jordan Stewart
Because it's too fast paced. That's why I said it's not at all the same. It's not necessarily a bad thing since I think it does it's own thing and does it decently well. Just that it isn't exactly tactical in the original sense.
Ah I can live with it if it's just for sniper rifles.
