That's true to a point. But one has to keep in mind, that V is also... 19, was it? Barely out of his teens anyway, and just an upstart merc in NC, so it's also kinda unreasonable to expect him to be a full on combatant by nature (if the player happens to be a pro at FPS gaming). Unless you can put your starting skills already at a hefty level in character creation.
The reticle definitely shouldn't take half the screen (or be the size of China), that's very true, but it would be reasonable to have it somewhat wide and have the focus close in slower the less you have skill. The idea being that the player can reliably run'n gun (to what ever extent the game requires that) only at higher skill levels when aiming and focusing is reliably fast and accurate. But before that, pulling off accurate shots and bursts should require some commitment from the player (because the character can't do it well).
Most games are about damage progression, so I'm not really diametrically opposed to it. But it works better in games that are more abstract by nature or which are simply built around that kind of thing -- think, isometric games, or FPS' like Serious Sam. Less so with games that have an in-your-face presentation and want to also be taken "seriously". I think the accuracy factor has bad rep for bad reasons, and few (if any) games that've tried it have actually built their combat to support it properly. They still work with damage being the key factor, so of course it feels bad. When you combine enemies that need 10-50 shots to put down and that you miss 30-40% of your shots, it feels absolutely terrible because your scored hits are so minuscule in their impact. But it's a whole other story if you need around 1-10 shots on average to bring an enemy down, even if you still missed several times. With every shot you manage to hit, you get a much more satisfying result every time. And when you are all skilled up, you might still miss on occasion, but combat is way, way smoother than before; and you don't need to counter that with enemies starting to get loads more HP to keep the challenge up. Just keep the rate of progression at a reasonable level that won't put the character in the position of Rambo when merely half the game is done.
That's my opinion on this. Or, the basics of it.
Perhaps. It's even likely. But I hope they lean more towards accuracy progression than damage. And have the balls to make the systems actually count for something.
