Bullets or light beams. To me it don't really matter. Its whatever floats your boat.
Bullets make alot of sense. But lasers aren't bad. Bullets will never replace phaser beams in Star Trek cause phasers make perfect sense on that show. And they look cool. But if you like bullets, they work fine too.
Its not so much what is real, but what works visually.
Its like seeing stars wizzing by your cockpit. We all know that if the camera is stationary relative to the ship, and the ship ain't turning, no matter how you film it, the ship looks like its sitting still in space. But that's boring. So we have stars wizzing past the cockpit.
its like the old show always had three cylons in each raider. Why? Not because they needed to. After all you should only need one. My PC would do fine. But you had three because as your scene edits cut from lone viper pilot, to three cylons, and back, subconciously the scene edits felt more threatening. Three against one. Don't make alot of real world sense. But it added to the fun.
Real dogfights have no sound effects in a vacuum. Ships look like they ain't moving. There ain't no god up there cranking out exciting background music during the battle. And most space battles will happen with the ships so far apart you couldn't get the two ships to appear on camera at the same time.
its not a matter of reality. Its what makes you enjoy it.
