The Landslide
[13] Hero
The strength of the Halo sniper is relative though. It is definitely the most powerful weapon in the game, but if a sniper is really giving you problems there are usually enough counters to take him down. Popping him with just one bullet and forcing him to retreat behind an obvious wall just sets them up to die from an obnoxiously powerful grenade that they won't be able to dodge. Regen in that situation wouldn't help regardless if they were camping a health power-up.
And what would health damage even DO in CoD? Make you die from one less bullet than the ONE it already takes to off you? Let grenades kill you from 500 feet away rather than 100?
On the topic of bad gameplay mechanics: unnecessary backtracking. I recently re-played Ocarina of Time, and they should rename it "Link Runs Across a Field" for the amount of ungodly backtracking it has. Amazing dungeons, great exploration, horrible timesink. Seriously, it isn't necessary for me to talk to 20 different people to get a mask to get a key to open a door 30 miles away.
Similarly, when RPGs have you in a town and nothing happens until you talk to everyone, or visit certain screens enough times, or other stupid things it makes me so mad that my eyes cross and blood comes out of my ears. After 5 minutes of wandering around it makes me want to run to GameFAQs just to read "wait 10 minutes for something to happen." I guess other gamers don't have shit to do, but it pisses me off.
And what would health damage even DO in CoD? Make you die from one less bullet than the ONE it already takes to off you? Let grenades kill you from 500 feet away rather than 100?
On the topic of bad gameplay mechanics: unnecessary backtracking. I recently re-played Ocarina of Time, and they should rename it "Link Runs Across a Field" for the amount of ungodly backtracking it has. Amazing dungeons, great exploration, horrible timesink. Seriously, it isn't necessary for me to talk to 20 different people to get a mask to get a key to open a door 30 miles away.
Similarly, when RPGs have you in a town and nothing happens until you talk to everyone, or visit certain screens enough times, or other stupid things it makes me so mad that my eyes cross and blood comes out of my ears. After 5 minutes of wandering around it makes me want to run to GameFAQs just to read "wait 10 minutes for something to happen." I guess other gamers don't have shit to do, but it pisses me off.
