Tunaphish6:
I like the sniper rifle for some many reasons. When using a sniper rifle, it's almost a game in itself, like Where's Waldo but with heads. You also then have the luxury of picking off enemies before going through an area so you don't get your ass handed to you. Also, if the game is advanced enough, you get the pleasure of watching the NPC's or whoever freaking out.

Shotguns are only fun when you have a bunch of on shot kills coming at you.

I hate rocket launchers. You always have a limited amount of ammo, there usually slow and miss the target and, quite a few times, I'll end up killing myself with it.

Nope, I'm sorry for quoting this but it's still just, "Use gun on man." especially the way you seem to play snipers. I usually play some sort of assault class and when a sniper kills me, I just go sniper and kill them my next life, I don't see the skill in that; especially if they can't stop me from sniping them, and they usually don't. So I see people who play snipers most of the time as people who couldn't win playing medium to close range and then decided that if they played long range would minimize the risk of getting owned and maximize their enemies weakness. Which anybody can do. And as for the rocket launcher, didn't you play quake at all?

My favorite weapon is any sort of railgun, Red Faction had it perfect(oh so many modders ruined by that gun) Second favorite would have to be a nice accurate rifle or just a damn sturdy handgun like from Stalker.

Semi-auto rifles (M1 Garand for example), a powerful hand gun, or where appropriate i.e close quarters fighting, a good shotty.

Duck Sandwich:
Much like Swenglish, I prefer a good handgun, ala Halo 1. I hate how in most games, they're just an underpowered sidearm. If I had a choice between wimply starting pistol and a slower firing, but rightly powerful magnum, I'd go with the magnum.

Me three on this. I get an inordinate amount of pleasure from pistol-sniping in particular.

My favorite weapon type to use would have to be sniper rifles. To me, it feels like i've accomplished something when i kill someone, it's a better experience than running up on someone with a SMG or some other automatic weapon and spraying away.

Do4600:
My favorite weapon is any sort of railgun, Red Faction had it perfect(oh so many modders ruined by that gun) Second favorite would have to be a nice accurate rifle or just a damn sturdy handgun like from Stalker.

You say you hate snipers and then go on to say that RF railgun is your favourite gun?

My favourite weapon has to be the shotgun, especially Red Factions. What really annoys me is how most games seem to potray shotguns as needing to be right next to your enemy to be effective.

Always the sniper rifle. If not that, something like the semi-scoped rifles from Vegas.

Any rifle is the obvious choice w/ lase scope and grenade launcher( maybe scilencer )

With this in mind I would also like to say customizable ammo is good because ya never know what you run into.

If a game has it, M1911 A1. The look of the gun is so pleasing and being a 45 cal, it lacks enough kick to not keep a relatively steady aim. That or the P90, I love the fast firing rate; with just a short burst you've taken care of your enemy (dependant on how realistic the game is). I also love the sniper rifle class, not knowing much about the weapons themselves all I know is the usually 50-60 cal shots (Desert Eagle standards) deliver quite a punch, in most games being a one hit sanction anywhere on the body. Very useful on some maps.

All time favourite on every game is the AK47 kalashnikov rifle. Developed in 1947 by Mr. Kalashnikov, when injured and left to his own devices, has proven that some weapons can be almost perfect from the beginning. There has been little need for any modification or adaptation to the design itself. The reliability and simplicity of this weapon is nothing less than extremely pleasing. Its sheer power is astonishing but due to fluctuations of the barrel it has a low accuracy. So I would say use from mid short to mid range. That's convenient, considering most of the online games I play don't have massive maps. xD

Things that A splode.

Heavy Assault rifles, things like the BAR or G36C are cool

Definitely the shotgun, and customizing it with a sniper scope and short fire in Crysis was a dream come true. Sniping people with a shotgun blast to the face was brilliant. Blowing some poor Korean to bits off the edge of a cliff never gave me more satisfaction.

The Team Fortress 2 weapons are also brilliantly designed - a grenade launcher that depends on your skill with angles and distance, a flamethrower, a sniper rifle that charges up the longer you're zoomed, a needlegun and a motherfucking baseball bat.

Well my favorite TYPE o' weapon has to be a sniper rifle, i get great satisfaction from killing enemies from far away when they aren't expecting it.
Second favorite is submachine guns, 'tis fun emptying so many rounds of ammo in such a short period of time.

Either the railgun from Quake III Arena or...

The rench from Bioshock. Smacking the gick out of a Big Daddy mere seconds away from a healing station was the most two hours of fun ever.

Depends on the game. Half-Life, Crowbar. Call of Duty, SMG. Call of Duty: UO, Semi-Auto Rifle (cos I use it as a sniping rifle on Kursk). Call of Duty 4, My precious, precious M4. Halo 3, I don't know.

Melee weapons. Admit it, you feel far more awesome when you kill the giant monsters/demons/aliens that inhabit most games with the generally under-powered melee weapon. It's like crack for me in TF2, for instance.

I usually like the "weird" kind of weapon.
Things like the JUDAS device in Machines (although it's not strictly speaking an FPS), the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, The Zero Point Energy Manipulator, the Dynamically Synchronised Particle Collector Cannon (multi-purpose weapon mod for Unreal).
Generally more devices than actual weapons, things that let you do stuff.

Oh, and almost every weapon from TRON 2.0, especially the Disc Primit (with Primit charge, Megahurtz and Power Block of course) and the Power Glove, since the other weapons are just "digitised" versions of usual weapons.

Axolotl:

Do4600:
My favorite weapon is any sort of railgun, Red Faction had it perfect(oh so many modders ruined by that gun) Second favorite would have to be a nice accurate rifle or just a damn sturdy handgun like from Stalker.

You say you hate snipers and then go on to say that RF railgun is your favourite gun?

Yeah, I hate snipers, I never stood still with a railgun, I liked it, because once you got good with it, you could take out anybody with any weapon if only you were accurate enough make that shot count if it was three feet or fifty feet. It only had like 2X zoom compared to the sniper rifle in that game that had 12X. I used the Shotgun and Assault rifle a lot, but nothing beats the stopping power of the rail gun, that's why I like it, that and people can't take cover behind walls and camp with det packs or HMG.

the golden gun in golden eye... cant remember the name... then the chainsaw in doom 1 jejeje good times

Sniper rifles and shotguns... the far and close.

Sniper Rifle

I like being stationary.

Call me lazy.

Apologies abound.

1. the flying vehicle with mounted turret
2. grenades
3. flamethrower
4. katana/anything melee

Disk Launcher.

I MA the Mcfuckin.

Sniper Rifle.
I remember in a Medal of Honor match, my entire team got blown up by the usual grenade spam in the start of the map. They only got 1 opponent down. So there I was, with a sniper rifle and only a handful of bullets, with only 2 actual ways out of my current position, with 5 people (1 sniper, 2 MG's and 1 SMG and 1 rifle) trying to find me.

Took 2 down with my sniper rifle from afar, then a headshot in close quarters in a small house. Had to shut the door as I saw someone coming from outside when I was under fire of someone in the damn house. He had a friggin' MG, I had 2 sniper bullets left. Then I ran out of bullets. Switched to my pistol, got another one down in the sewers of the map. Last one was easy though, since I stole the sewer guy his MG.

Right after that, 3 people asked me to join their clan. Good times alright.

But anyhoo.

Sniper Rifle if it's capable of hurting people enough and the game isn't ADHD-paced (I'm looking at you, UT)
Pistols if they're not utter crap. (F.E.A.R. just has imbalanced ones... unfortunately you have to spam click your mouse)
Rifle if it's a WWII game.

I'm with swenglish on this one, there is no greater feeling then taking a Colt .45 and seeing someone's head explode with that perfectly placed shot while he is spraying around you with a MG . Its also a lot more satisfying to sneak up behind snipers and double tap them close range.

I couldn't name one type of weapon I like above all else, really.

so here's a few broken down by game:

Half-life: Shotgun
F.E.A.R: Dual handguns
Quakes: railgun (except for Quake Wars, where I'm a shotgun/nailgun man)
Deus Ex: the Dragon's Tooth (or the energy sword in Invisible War)
TF2: the bat. BONK!
Gears of war: the Torque Bow
Dystopia: the Ion Cannon. failing that, if I play Medium, I use the Assault Rifle.

Generally, I go with whatever feels really satisfying to use.

Tri Shot

nuff said

L4Y Duke:
Still, nothing beats getting a kill with something not designed to kill. Y'know, like crushing them with barrels and such.

In Team Fortress Classic (that's the one running on top of HL1), medics had a medikit weapon that they could use to heal allies and spread disease to enemies (a communicable damage-over-time effect).

Half-Life 1 use the "(player name) (weapon icon) (player name)" format for displaying kills. You'd see like "Alice [sniper rifle] Bob" or "Alice [poison icon] Bob" when a player died.

The medikit also did a few token points of damage when you hit someone with it.

... Thereby making it possible to get "Alice [medikit] Bob."

There's just something wonderful about beating a guy to death with a plastic lunchbox.

-- Alex

OK, while sniper rifles and shotguns are great, if I have absolutely no clue what I'm going to face, and I have to pick one weapon, I'll grab an assault rifle. Assault rifles are reliable and effective at a variety of ranges. You can mow down weak enemies or keep your fire focused to bring down a single tough one. And they often come with fun extras - grenade launchers, scopes, chainsaws.

Sniper rifle is second place. I'm a devious bastard who will never let my enemy get a shot off at me if I can help it. Also, there's nothing stopping you from using a sniper rifle at point-blank range if some guy ambushes you.

You need a truly meaty assault rifle with an underslung grenade launcher. Something truly satisfying about landing a grenade in the midst of the enemy.

Almightyjoe:
Sniper Rifle

but only when it is a real challenge.

Being the god in the high places, the hand of judgement...

so, so beautiful, the art in tracking, marking and slowly and calmly pulling back that trigger, feeling the kick of the controller, and the little digital life snuff out...

Its good when the people you are playing against are competent anti-sniper players, and you need to be a dedicated part of a team, the elected sniper, the trusted unseen support...

creeping into position, lining up the shot, making turrets into a kill zone, turning open ground into a heart thumping terror, not camping, but being in an unknown location, those little people running about, spinning looking for any sign of you, then, the body slumping as the perfect headshot cracks their skull...

Sniping is an art-form, and when you can take on people close up unscoped, just to aggravate them when they finally get their targeted ass and brutish shotgun up close... pure bliss.

Halo, COD, TF(2), HL, Resistance (single player sniping is surprisingly fun), even UT, you just have to be sneaky and a good shot

i love them all... its beauty...

Totally

Generally, I like pistols and sniper rifles (when playing against the AI). But if I were to get into an actual firefight against human players, I prefer to know I have an assault rifle with me.

And let me make another thing clear, I don't camp when I'm sniping (unless I'm shooting at enemy snipers or my team is pinned down and needs help). I actually run around the map until I see a visible target, zoom in real quick, then shoot. That's why I love call of CoD4...I can carry a P90 and a semi-auto sniper rifle together at the same time.

Either the Redeemer or the BFG4K.

I don't like giving those suckers a chance.

Otherwise it's Sniper/Shotgun.