Who here enjoys popamoles?

[baronjohn]

Be honest, do you enjoy popamoles? A popamole is a pseudorealistic linear cinematic manshooter with waves of enemies that spawn behind cover on a trigger (either once or until another trigger).

Games like Call of Doody, Bad Company 2, OFP: Red River, etc

 

[Admiral jimbob]

That is not what popamole means

 

[MetalCraze]

Didn't you love OFP: RR?

 

[MapMan]

This thread is a faggot and OP sucks.

 

[Joghurt]

What the fuck? Do you even know what popamole stands for?

 

[Jack]

Bitch please.

 

[Micmu]

Fuck no.

I used to play them, as a kid, on those arcade machines with light guns.
The only difference was, the background was static and you couldn't look around in 3D.

 

[Edward_R_Murrow]

I don't mind good popamole. Vanquish and (get this) Gears of War 2 both did the cover shooter pretty well, taking away the ability to stop and play whack-a-mole BUT WITH GUNZ, through good encounter design or, what was mostly the case with Vanquish, mechanics that made cover only a secondary element.

Linear, tightly scripted, "realistic", "cinematic" corridor FPS like Call of Duty or such...those I don't really dig too much.

 

[Peter]

I probably wouldn't mind popamole if it hadn't somehow creeped into every video game released in the last couple of years. Games with shitty gunplay, like the GTA series, have actually benefited from it. Overall, though, no, I don't enjoy the popamoles, but largely because chances are that if a game has cover shooting, it is pretty shit to start with.

I guess I'm losing all my Kodex Kool Kredits now?

 

[laclongquan]

For Fuck's Sake.

 

[Zeus]

Be honest, do you enjoy popamoles? A popamole is a pseudorealistic linear cinematic manshooter with waves of enemies that spawn behind cover on a trigger (either once or until another trigger).

 

[Raapys]

I enjoy multiplayer in CoD Black Ops every now and then. Doesn't hold a candle to my good old CS, but it does help quench my multiplayer-fps urge. It's rather easy though, pretty much everyone playing it sucks.

 

[ortucis]

I voted yes but there was no mention of Mass Effect & GOW in the OP's post. Bad Company like games aren't popamole.

 

[Excidium]

My experience with popamoles is just the Mass Effect series as the rest of them is normally confined to consoles so "no".

 

[Hobo Elf]

I sure do.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I love popamole once in a while.

 

[deus101]

I know that pop-a-mole was a term describing cover shooters, but can't it be describe as most games that qualifies for people thats into "pro gaming"

 

[DriacKin]

I'm somewhat ashamed to admit it, but I kinda enjoyed the Rainbow Six Vegas games -- guilty pleasures, I suppose.

 

[Joghurt]

I know that pop-a-mole was a term describing cover shooters, but can't it be describe as most games that qualifies for people thats into "pro gaming"

Don't really understand what you mean here. By saying "pro gaming" you mean games like Counter-Strike or Quake 3 for example? Fuck no CS is not popamole. It's opposite of popamole because it's pretty much based on reflexes and precise aiming in the head. Q3 is even more based on reflexes. Probably the twitchiest game ever. That's no popamole.

 

[Raapys]

Yeah, CS was anything but popamole. Granted, they did make it more popamole over time by limiting player speed and implenting the whole spray-and-pray thing, but originally it was all about aiming and dodging.

 

[Whaddafux]

I love the popamole

Because I'm 2011 new frequently asked question.

 

[Metro]

I like mop-a-poles. : x

 

[ChristofferC]

I only ever tried two popamole shooters and those were AP and ME2. Couldn't stomach more than an hour or so for each game.

 

[ChristofferC]

Btw I wouldn't consider ME1 popamole because you don't have to use the cover mechanic a single time in that game.

 

[commie]

Hell I don't mind popamoles as they are fun enough in a fast food way when you just want to blast some fuckers to unwind and the experience barely lasts for 4 hours at best, so no great investment. Of course it helps that I NEVER pay for the privilege of playing such stuff and if 'they' stopped making them and concentrated on quality I wouldn't shed a tear, but having said that, one or two throwaway COD style games a year wouldn't be a problem.

To rile up Skyway I have to say that I'm enjoying OFP:RR at the moment; shitty AI and linearity et al. It's better than DR because it's lost that pretentiousness that it's more than what it is. It's now happy as a GRAW type of checkpoint spawn semi-'complex' shooter and is all the better for it. Reviews tend to be shit, but the game is no worse than the GRAW games which everyone beat off to.