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I guess I'm just a huge fan of military stuff and realistic stuff, so Project Reality is the perfect game. However, by playing so much PR and enjoying it, I've noticed that playing other more cartooney shooters is less fun and gripping as PR is.

Like, Halo: Reach. I'm trying to enjoy it, and it's a fun game, but I'm so used to wielding realistic modern weapons and battling alongside men in camo, so it's hard to get into the mood. Especially with Reach's flaming helmets.

Also Team Fortress 2. So cartooney.

People always say "fun>realism" but from playing PR, it seems like "realism>fun" in a way to me.

PR isnt made to compete with those games anyway....its like saying a reality TV drama show makes cartoons look cartoony

Glad you like PR .

I wouldn't say "realism>fun" though, as in many cases, it's gameplay that wins from realism, to keep the fun going . But I get what you mean .

I would go to say ArmA 2 makes PR look like an arcade game, but that would be disrespectful to the PR DEVs who put time into this game. So I won't. Instead, PR makes BF2 look like vanilla ice cream.

I know what you mean, playing other shooting games became almost impossible after PR.. I can only play something like mass effect but only because of it has a story. Any multiplayer shooting games are no go for me nowadays, after PR those feels like some teletubbie games..

Quikli wrote:Also Team Fortress 2. So cartooney.

TF2 is supposed to look cartoony, that's its visual style.

TomDackery wrote:ArmA 2 makes PR look like an arcade game

Looks can certainly be deceiving.

TomDackery wrote:PR makes BF2 look like vanilla ice cream.

Have you misinterpreted the term 'vanilla BF2' or do you just dislike the ice cream flavour...

Snazz wrote: Have you misinterpreted the term 'vanilla BF2' or do you just dislike the ice cream flavour...

I think he is just playing with words

Personally I think it all depends on how the game stacks up as a whole. The Battlefield series in general, in my opinion, would do much better if the original was more realistic (Though I doubt that DICE would do as good a job as the PR devs on that front). Don't get me wrong, I think the vanilla BF games are great, they just seem to.. Lack, after playing PR.

Other games, though, do much better with the lack of realism. As stated, Team Fortress is supposed to be more cartoon-ish, along with other fairly good games like WoW. If you try to add realism to those two, they would lose their charm to alot of players.

And then you end up with games like CS:S that aren't particularly cartoony or particularly realistic. But that's what you get when a game is, pretty much, designed from day one as an e-sport.

At the end of the day it's all down to taste, and mood. If you prefer a realistic simulator over anything else, good for you. It sounds like the OP has just found that sweet spot with PR.

It's a shame that there aren't many PR-alikes for other games, but hey. BF2 isn't overly dated yet, so the platform is good enough for me at least.

It doesnt make them look cartoony but rather paly and unimmersive...

Something that I've found contributes to other shooters looking 'cartoony' is their ghastly interfaces. There's bright colours and text and maps everywhere. In comparison PR has a very simple interface with just the ammo counter in the corner and very little text, it makes it easy to read and more immersive.

cortoony isn't what I'd say, I play PR for deep teamwork and realism etc, I play a game like COD4 for fast paced action and visual effects. Though since playing PR every FPS I've tried has only hooked me for 2 weeks.

The HUD is a very important point indeed. Much more annoying than the unrealistic weapon handling and the instant respawns of vehicles, to me, is all the stupid radio spam going on in BF2, and all the markers of every single enemy infantryman on the map and stuff.
While in PR you can actually hide, search, and when you spot, you actually explain what you saw and where, in BF2, it's just "enemy infantry spotted, enemy infantry spotted, enemy infantry spotted, enemy boat spotted, we got company overhead, over, enemy troops, enemy infantry spotted" all the god damn time, with red markers flashing all over the map. I can't even properly use VoIP in BF2 if I try to. Sometimes I can't understand anything over the constant spam.

lucky.BOY wrote:I think he is just playing with words

This. (Also, the ArmA 2 thing is an opinion, mainly because I have actually played ArmA 2.)

Quikli wrote:People always say "fun>realism" but from playing PR, it seems like "realism>fun" in a way to me.

Did you happen to mean that with PR, "realism=fun"?

Yea, after playing PR I just can't enjoy the regular singleplayer/multiplayer shooter. I guess I miss the deviation. "Line infantry, stop, aim, steady, steady, FIRE!"

Exept Team Fortress 2. I like the class system and quality fast paced action based on strategy. As in PR, you just can't mindlesly run around. Well, you can, but you're probably not doing any good to your team.

I can only play Bad Company 2 for about half an hour until I start wanting to play PR, and then BF2 Vanilla is plain out unplayable now, from controlling a helicopter to being a squad its all just terrible compared to PR.

PR is in a completely different category, and yes it does make all other shooters look cartoony by comparison.