Deus Ex. Weapon skill affects aim. Affects reload speed. Affects change for guns to jam (because of not maintaining them) and speed at unjamming them. It's not about not putting gameplay before realism, it was just a bad call. I suppose they made it a lot better it New Vegas than it was with the original. I actually had the most fun with a damage mod that upped the lethality of weapons considerably. Shoot someone in the head with high power sniper rifle and he actually dies! Shoot at a guy with minigun from point blank range and he goes down. I hated shooting at some iroquois indian into his eye with laser rifle while he just ran up to me and started bashing me. That's not about 'making choices' or anything, it just killed any immersion to the game as did emptying clips into your enemies for no effect. Btw. How are those hot potatoes? (don't get me wrong, it's a great game - on PC with the right mods. Too bad consoles don't allow any mods to make the game better so my console version was just annoying and I got the PC version after hearing of the mods that fixed what I felt was wrong)
Want to talk clearly, or just being snide? All the things you mentioned contribute to overall DPS of the weapons btw. On some rare occasions weapons had special traits that made their lower damage justifiable. Next to broken Dart Gun for example. And I played New Vegas on PC with mods. Just so you know.
I love my console games because they have higher fps and better resolution and better controls than your shitty PC's! Also they have no viruses or 'mods' whatever the fuck those are, unauthorized crap. One genre, one device, one publisher.
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