What are your expectations for gunplay?

by stevrrr, Saturday, March 02, 2013, 19:14 (4287 days ago) @ SPQR Praetor

Totally. This is actually an interesting perspective on the shooter aesthetic... you could probably even extend this into a full article that tries to put different shooters in some sort of two- or three-dimensional space for key play mechanics, and if you include multiple Bungie titles in there, you could track their movement in this space over time and try to extrapolate where their next game will be.

If you decide to do that, or if you just want to watch someone talk about plasma rifles for an hour, you should check out this GDC talk by former Bungie employee Jaime Griesemer. He actually talks about a lot more than just the plasma rifle; importantly, how player movement speed impacts enemy projectile velocity decisions.