There is nothing I find more annoying in a shooter than having to reload while trying to kill the same enemy. I either want hundreds of bullets and no reload time while trying to get a single kill or one shot one man damage ratios. What this means is that I tend to use sniper rifles and auto rifles in a majority of shooting games I play. IвЂ™m better at third person shooters, but in general IвЂ™m a terrible shot. Whether first person or third person, my aim is often pretty shit. The second thing I have to address is specific to shooters. I donвЂ™t want to have to go out of my way to use innate abilities to the class. This is how I want special abilities in games to work. You just attacked with magic like you would a sword, war hammer, or spear. The gameplay for mage class functioned like every other class, in a real time RPG. One of my favorite games to play the mage class is still Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning, because magic played smoothly. I just donвЂ™t want magic to be troublesome. Champion class for the win! Now itвЂ™s not that I donвЂ™t want to use magic. So I just didnвЂ™t use magic at all, save for a bit of healing magic. Having to manually target each spell mid-battle completely ruined the pacing for me. But it was terribly slow and annoying when using magic spells. That game was great when you played a non-magic class. I think about Dragon Age Origins, the best Dragon Age game, a lot when discussing this issue. RPGs that include the ability to use magic, but donвЂ™t require you to use magic, often make the gameplay slow and complicated.

Over my many years of gaming, IвЂ™ve played very few games that werenвЂ™t games about magic that did magic gameplay well. The only time I would do that is if IвЂ™m desperate for a specific weapon to save myself from imminent doom, like a rocket launcher.

I almost never change guns mid-encounter. I play one to two guns at a time and stick to them while trying to level them up. Even when I play a game like Ratchet & Clank, which I love, I donвЂ™t constantly change guns. Sometimes I will change weapons/approach in the middle of the fight when my current method isnвЂ™t working, but I do not want to have to bring up a hot wheel more than one time in a single encounter. I absolutely hate having to keep bringing up a wheel menu mid-fight to defeat an enemy. Because of this, I have a deep abhorrence for combat wheels. This вЂњlazyвЂќ approach to gaming applies to most genres I play. IвЂ™m saying they need to be as simple and straight forward as possible. I am not saying games need to be easy for me to enjoy them. What that means in simple terms is the less complicated a game is to play the better. I am a believer in the path of least resistance from the UI. The first thing I need to address is my general approach to games. The Rock Paper Shotgun article poses a valid question: Why in a game where you can use magic powers and hack technology would you choose the power of just having more guns? So I wanted to examine this question by explaining the reason I chose Soldier in my playthrough of Mass Effect. Thinking back to my playthrough of the trilogy, I chose Solider as well. Meaning an overwhelming majority of players chose Soldier. Soon after the infographic was released, Rock Paper Shotgun posted an article questioning the fact that 40% of players chose the Solider class. Some weeks back, the Mass Effect Twitter account posted an infographic sharing data on the various choices people made in the Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

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