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Posted by: ForceMorph
I never said Marathon was realistic, bud. I said it has "a bit more realism than current games".
I gave you two "current games" to compare with Marathon, "FarCry" and "Call of Duty." Marathon beats neither in terms of realism. In storyline, Marathon wins easily without working up a sweat. In network play, Marathon is quite likely superior. (Both the current games are horribly vulnerable to cheats.) In sheer enjoyment, I'd argue that Marathon beats both. But not realism.
It certainly does have inaccuracy written into the code - just fire the machine gun and WHOA, what's this? Why, not all the of the bullets hit the same place! The pistol isn't perfect either, but it's the best.
That's not due to poor aim though, that's due to dispersion. An artificially large amount of dispersion at that, probably to mitigate the effect of always being a stable gun platform. The dispersion is not correctable by the player, save only by using the assault rifle in short bursts. (And even then it's not much of an improvement, is it?) You can't stand still and tighten the spread. You can't kneel and gain more stability, or fall prone and make tighter long-distance shots.
Aiming in Marathon isn't realistic; it's a fun version of point and spray.
It's the most realistic aiming of the time it was made.
I didn't call that into question. Of course it was, and there's no way I'm going to dispute that. You said "current games", though, where the claim is, er, rather more debatable.
I doubt they could have incorporated some world war II iron sights into a game taking place a century or two from now.
And that argument, unfortunately, leads to a favourable point for having cross-hairs in your field of vision; after all, it's taking place a century or two from now (actually about se7en centuries, but what the hey) and you're a cyborg. That tech should be as quaint as pikes and halberds by then. Heck, the BoBs in M2 had ocular implants and could reasonably expect to have HUDs and aimpoint indicators.
I'm not questioning the game; Marathon is absurdly fun to play even after ten years. Just please, please, PLEASE, as a favour to all the soldiers eating dust and ducking RPGs as our genteel debate goes on, don't call it realistic.
-- Steve thinks that the most realistic FPS out there is the US Army's NTSC at Fort Irwin... a tad expensive for the typical gamer. Though it'd be cool to rustle up a few thousand friends for a week or two... hmmm...