Paintballs definatly hurt more, but that's not exactly a good thing. You play to have fun not to endure pain. If you compare airsoft to tournament paintball I would give it to airsoft hands down. But if you put both on the same field (I.E. Not a inflatable pylon obstacle couarse.) than I would say it's just matter of prefrence. Both games are going to get your adrenalin pumping and take equal skill and tactics. If I could play any game I would take a pump action paintball game over anything. The games were alot more fun back in the day when you had to move into position and make your shots count instead of wailing on the trigger with the spray and prey tactics that has become so popular in the past few years. The newer fully auto, and burst fire guns have kinda ruined the game, there used to be so much more movement involved in the games when you had to pump yer gun like a shotty to fire a round. Now you just get pinned behined a barrel with someone willing to fire off $100 in ammo just to get you out. But I really don't think this is even an argument, both games are alot of fun.
