Originally posted by Charon
Having spent at least a little time running around with an M-16 and full web gear and helmet playing infantry (and by little I was 19D and not 11B) there are limits to how "fluid" you can be. In too many games you just float along at full speed putting an easy kill cross hair on target. That can be fun, but it is a bit arcadish. In real life crap's tugging at you, shaking up and down, catching on stuff poking you... Going prone is a bit of a PITA except with a combat drop. But then getting up and moving out is not totally smooth. Now it's not like wearing one of those fake sumo costumes by any means, and you overlook much of it if the adrenalin is flowing and you are focused on where you are trying to go and what you are trying to do. So I don't see a little less less fluid as a bad thing from a realism standpoint.
Where sighting is concerned and manipulating a bolt action -- again, far more realistic with RO. Frankly, you see complaints about the sights but guess what... a lot of those sights do suck. Particularly the k98k. However, I wouldn't mind a shoot from the hip circular site of a fixed size -- say 1 inch in diameter on the screen. Less accurate at a distance more accurate up close. In real life shooting from the hip is more intuitive than I find it in the game, but still not easy beyond 10 yards or so.
Edit: I see you opinion on the league aspect, but again, this is a discussion of RO and not league play with other games. Of course, those who like a more arcadish experience -- and I play plenty of arcade FPS as well -- might not like RO.
Charon
The purpose of my post was not to compare RO vs DoD outright. They are both FPS games, but their objectives in a style of gameplay are completely different. RO is attempting to replicate a realistic Eastern front battlefield, while DoD has more of a UT feel to it.
I was merely expressing my opinion of taste on the RO infantry and giving an example of what realism does to an 'arcade' game community (within that game) when I compared league play etc.
