/vr/ - Retro Games

I've been playing a lot of Quake lately, and I think I've realized it's most fun when you only have these weapons. The super nailgun and rocket launcher give the player too much power and range, which lets mappers start doing stupid shit that's not as fun as close-quarters brawls with the grenade launcher and double shotgun. Lightning gun is also fine as a panic button, because cell pickups are so much smaller than nails, you have to really pick and choose when to pull it and when to settle for the regular nailgun or grenades. When you can just rip apart a Shambler in seconds with the SNG and then get 100 nails around the next corner to refill so the map can hit you with another two Shamblers and a Vore, those sorts of encounters just become busy work.