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[ProgenitorCastle]

Hey GAF. Was wondering which in game/games you enjoy the grenade tossing mechanic in the most. For me, I have a clear cut winner:

Resident Evil 4's grenade tossing mechanic:



It feels perfect for me to aim and I feel like the trajectory of the grenade is predicable enough to pretty much always hit any enemy/enemies you are targeting the grenade toss at.

I'm not a fan of how later third person shooters, like Gears of War series for example, shows you the arc of the grenade and has hyper-realistic physics for the grenade toss...the arc tends to confuse me as when I try to toss a grenade along the arc, it tends to bounce off somewhere else anyway, rendering the arc useless I feel.

So GAF, what are your favorite grenade tosses in video games?

 

[Birdo]

Crackdown.

On a rooftop full of bad guys.

 

[Psajdak]

 

[SpartanN92]

Gears of War and Halo 3

 

[Space Runaway]

Does dynamite count?

 

[EightBit Man]

Grand Theft Auto III and Quake II come to mind.

 

[Fuz]

Half Life M16 grenade. It always felt "right".

 

[Iced Arcade]

Halo has some intense throws into gravity lifts and pinging people off

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Timesplitters: Future Perfect

 

[V4skunk]

Halo /thread.

 

[Naked Lunch]

Halo. Its as essential to the game as shooting itself - and one of the main reasons the game has so much depth on the multiplayer end. A fine art learning how to bounce them properly.
Gotta give runner up to Metal Slug. Spamming those nades at bosses.

On the flip side, games like Battlefield's nade toss feels so slow and clunky. I also HATE when pressing the nade button, the game will stop and show you a trail of exactly where the nade will traverse - so lame.

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

Does dynamite count?

That's pretty badass!

It's techically not a grenade, but pretty much performs the same function so I'll make an exception for it

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Blow my mind!!!

 

[Belmonte]

I like how the Gears of War grenades are like a morning star which explodes. When you are aiming, the character rattle it, and it is so badass that it and feels like it doesn't even needs to explode to do damage.

 

[KàIRóS]

 

[SlashBringingHasher]

definitely not Brink. its awful

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Gears for me, you get either a nice predictable arc, or you bash that Locust bastard in the head and stab the grenade spikes into it.

 

[struggler_guts]

Titanfall 2. I disagree that any of the RE's have good grenade throws, having to guess how they throw made it hard to accurately throw if they were anywhere besides right in front of you

 

[stranno]

Just Cause (1) mid-air grenade explosions were fun. I think it was the only mechanic properly done in the entire game (that was a disaster in most areas).

Call of Duty 3 smoke grenades were also fun, but pretty useless in the campaign.

 

[Antwix]

SOCOM 2

 

[Deleted member 738976]

Uncharted 1 motion control grenade tossing was by far the worst nade tossing I've ever experienced.

As for recent games I'm becoming a fan of heal/damage grenades such as the one used in Overwatch.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Halo: CE is still unmatched.

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Keihart]

I really enjoyed grenades in R6S, i even made a small compilation at some point


Flashes and smokes used to be able to roll before activating the fuse, but so few people even used the feature that it eventually got removed, one of the many changes that the game suffered because of proleague supposedly.

 

[Fake]

IMO nothing beats Crysis 2.

 

[Dane]

Black, you can throw and shoot at it.

 

[Havoc2049]

 

[Come On Tars]

To me a good grenade mechanic is only as good as its effect on enemies. You need some good ragdollin. Also I don't like games where you ha e to select grenade then toss it. Always prefer a quick dedicated throw grenade button.

 

[Sp3eD]

I loved Quake 2s mechanic for it. I know lots of games let you cook Granades before throwing but it felt right in that game. Used to beat servers with just them if they were dumb enough to let me keep doing it

Halo 2 and 3 would be next. Just the feel is good enough in those games.

 

[Rockondevil]

I came to just say Halo however couple of the other answers reminded me about Crackdown and Gears of War both of which have great mechanics in their own right.

 

[Ornlu]

Stickies in Halo were the shit. Nothing topped sidestepping a warthog trying to run you over, then casually sticking one to the tire as it drives on into oblivion.

 

[sublimit]

Rope Molotov Coctails in BB. So good in PvP!

 

[Starlight Lotice]

Resonance of Fate has an epic grenade toss.

 

[mcz117chief]

Rope Molotov Coctails in BB. So good in PvP!

Lol, such Thug Life style

 

[Wimbledon]

Plasma grenade -any halo game. It's fun sticking people as soon as you die and they blow up soon after , or sticking them from a distance when your going on a rampage.

 

[Musky_Cheese]

As always, the answer is Duke Nukem

 

[Gargus]

Going to say halo. And even though it isn't a grenade, the knife throw in destiny felt so damn good. I could plant that thing anywhere I wanted every time.

Although I only liked halo 1, and disliked all the destiny series but they had some grest gameplay mechanics.

 

[DeceptiveAlarm]

It doesn't have a cool animation, but the most satisfaction from a grenade was Starsiege Tribes. Felt so good blowing someone out if the air with a gernade.

 

[Naked Lunch]

No clue how I forgot about Team Fortress Classic. All about nade and conc jumping - an amazing gameplay mechanic that has completely vanished from gaming.

 

[petran79]

 

[Cranberrys]

Halo, Gears & Destiny for me I think.

 

[Videospel]

Half Life M16 grenade. It always felt "right".

Half-Life's sound effects feel so good, especially the primary fire of the MP5.

 

[Shifty]

Earth Defense Force

The heavy grenades that require your dude to do a big HUAAAAAARRRRRGH windup before flinging them halfway across the map. Priceless.

 

[Mista]

Halo grenades especially the plasma. Can't find a gif

 

[EverydayBeast]

I don't view grenades as top weapons in games, cooking a grenade and throwing them at players is a great feel and I do prefer grenade launchers

 

[Bryank75]

 

[The Alien]

Gears of War

• Grenade can be aimed and thrown for accuracy.
• Grenade can be casually lobbed for closer combat.
• Grenade can be stuck to walls.
• Grenade can be stuck to opponents.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[martino]

i came for this.

 

[Kev Kev]

nothin better then landing a sticky grenade in halo