What makes a game "fast paced?"

I don't consider COD games fast paced, all you do is camp in the corner, lol.

"I hear some KIDS saying"

There's your problem.

More like cinematics based than fast paced.

COD MW4, now with even more cinematics rather than gameplay.

You should get hands on Warsow ... that is what I call fast paced if first place :) http://www.warsow.net/ that movement style and speed not machable in any other games :P

unreal tournament 2004 is fast paced and very fun, though i prefer ut3(why nobody plays that, please guys buy the game)

true words, Tribes FTW

For me a fast paced game is when I'm sweating and I don't have time to deal with the outside world.

Go play Half Life 1(pr Black Mesa Source, the new remake) and then play something like CoD or Battlefield.

HL is a fast paced game while those games are not.

Games with IRON SIGHTS are 99.99% of the times NOT fast paced!!

Most RTS games I consider to be fast paced. They engage all senses when playing well. (Assuming it's a good RTS game, like warcraft 3)

Any game is fast paced if you are playing it whilst travelling at very high relativistic speeds.

Play Quake 3.

What makes a game fast paced... Lots of Pew Pew.

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Fast games are fast.

The overall feel of it makes it fast-paced or not.
A lot of factors need to come together for a game to feel fast paced. The game needs to make you feel like whatever it's trying to get you to do is important and must be done fast. It needs to have fluid movement, fluid mechanics, fluid gunplay (if that's the case).

One of the most important elements is that it needs to have an adrenaline-pumping soundtrack. You can't feel fast if you're not in a sense of urgency, and it's very easy to convey that feeling through music. Look at Half-Life 2, the kickass tracks that play in the most fast-paced moments: running from the helicopter in Water Hazard, the turret battle in the Antlion tunnels in Episode Two, etc. etc. That is fast paced.

Another factor that can contribute to the feeling, in my opinion, is how hard the game, or the part of the game, is, and this is normally connected to a timed objective (the timer sometimes being your in-game health getting lower and lower)
For instance, playing through a L4D campaign on Expert, and being in the finale with low health, low ammo, low chances to survive. Even without a kick-ass soundtrack (which it has) you would feel a sense of urgency, your heart would be pumping as you rushed to the escape vehicle. You would feel the adrenaline as you ran from the zombie horde that you knew would instantly kill you if you didn't escape in time. That is fast paced.

that feel when i'm the only serious answer

fast paced games are games that need you to react quickly in order to play well.

The fastest paced game in history is none other than PONG! :D

to me, a fast paced game is based purely on its emphasis to shooting and how its story is paced. cod games tend to have poor pacing of its story and just be purely about shooting sequences that require you to hurriedly move and shoot move and shoot and thats basically all the game as able to provide. this is opposed to games that have a strong emphasis on story and atmosphere.

Mh, I always considered CoD, MW or CS pretty slow-paced.
Fast-paced games are Quake or UT.

Been playing Serious Sam TSEHD all day. Those kids are wrong and you should shun them.

When plot progression occurs quite quickly (isn't drawn out).

Call of Duty fast paced. I lol'd.

speical ops is pretty fast paced.

COD is slow as fuck, problem is Battlefield is even slower (but requires more strategy and such)