Talk:Tank (computer gaming)

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I am not sure I agree with the comparison of Meat Shields to Human shields (although I am not sure enough to change it.) Human shields are always non-combatants, whereas Meat Shields are always combatants, even if they are weak, useless ones.

I disagree that "human shield" always means non-combatant, but I guess it could evoke some wrong ideas. I changed the wording to "brute force" to maintain the article's meaning with less chance of misunderstanding. --Mrwojo 23:28, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Move this to Tank (computer gaming)? 2 Jocularly? 3 GW "tanks" 4 meat shield? 5 Wall?

[edit] Move this to Tank (computer gaming)?

In light of the recent redirects and such, now Tank (role-playing game terminology) (recently created) redirects here. While I don't mind this article being called Meat shield, perhaps we can take a moment and think of where it might better fit into the gaming substructure?

The article does talk about both RPGs and FPSs, and I assume the appelation tank applies to paper RPGs as well (though the article doesn't mention pen and papers).

Possible moves I can see off the top of my head:

1. move to Tank (role-playing game terminology) (with or without the - in roleplaying, depending on how similar articles are titled)
2. move to Tank (computer gaming) (which would cover RPGs AND FPSs, but not pen and paper)

Any thoughts? --Syrthiss 16:12, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Moved as per your suggestion #2. --Muchness 07:03, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jocularly?

If I heard somebody calling me a meat shield, I'd see how they liked taking a few hundred damage to their soft squishy body. Who's a meat shield now, clothie? Iceberg3k 14:19, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

By jocular, I meant to convey that "meat shield" is generally a tongue-in-cheek term. A google search doesn't suggest that meat shield is generally intended as an insult, so I'm rephrasing to clarify. --Muchness 15:29, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GW "tanks"

In Guild Wars, in the long run, warriors also deal the most single-target damage (it's just the easiest to mitigate). Is this worth pointing out? 130.58.235.187 05:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] meat shield?

i would disagree that meat shield is synonimous for tank. though they are both designed primarily to distract damage away from more offensive allies, the name tank impies that its a qualty character that has so much armor and/or damage reduction and/or health that it can take a lot of damage without dieing, that its hard to kill, takes damage better then any other character, while a meat shield means that its a cheap character thats only good in dying. i think thats a more then significant difference, in a way, even eachothers opposites. Lygophile has spoken 01:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wall?

In some turn-based RPGs, particularly the Pokemon series, tanks could also be referred to as a "wall". Should this be added? Totema1 18:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC)