What ever happened to the health bar?

Gerard

Gerard

Gerard

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Fps these days in paticular seem to almost exclusively rely on the regenerating health gimmick. Whatever happened regular health bars and health packs?

Seems to be a byproduct of devs porting games to console, cod1 and uo for example, regular health system, health bars and packs. Cod2 which just happened to go on consoles as well comes out and that regenerating health routine is in place instead.

Always thought it was a step backwards for fps games, say for example in cod1 if you toss a grenade and someones close by to the explosion they get injured, only way to fix that is find a health pack which obviously isnt always a certainty. Cod2 and 4 toss a nade they get injured, hide behind a wall for 3 secs and back to 100% health. :rolleyes:
 
In multiplayer it forces you to keep the game running at a fast pace, otherwise you get people camping and endlessly throwing grenades slowly grinding eachother's health down.

Boring.
 
I guess people started questioning how health packs actually distributed health. I suppose it makes more sense being a healing monk...

I miss health packs.
 
I hate regeneration, it usually makes the game into a sham. Wounding someone counts for **** all. Just shot a guy in the back with an anti tank sniper rifle? Well hes prone behind that crate gaining all his health back.
 
health bars are better, in cod you can get shot like a million times without dying if you hide enough (not that i ever do)

regeneration is less realistic

IMO Health bars without health packs are the best
 
Health Bar + Regen shield was way better, when they ditched it and made it Shield only it was crap :(

The mixed system from Halo 1 was actually excellent, you still could take permanent damage but quick scrapes would regenerate.
 
I agree that games need to stop with the regenerating health - Bioshock is a good example of a game that lost any tension through unlimited life. It strips games of their challenge somewhat.
 
*Chris said:
health bars are better, in cod you can get shot like a million times without dying if you hide enough (not that i ever do)

regeneration is less realistic

IMO Health bars without health packs are the best
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Hardcore..all the way ;) HAH!
 
I quite like MOH: Airbourne method, where it was split into 4 sections, and once you lost a section that bit cannot be regenerated
 
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