Why always red and blue?

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#1 IronShiggity
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Why is it that in online shooters, it's always the red team against the blue team?

Halo 1 2 3, Quake 3, Team Fortress 1 2

Why?

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#2 XaosII
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Its mainly done for the psychological effect. Red and blue are at the opposite ends of the color spectrum of human visiual perception (well...until you get into violets, but thats blue + red). To humans they are perceptually opposing so you subconsciously see a blue and red team as opposite as they can be.
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#3 Cilindro
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They use red and blue because white versus black would be too screwed up.
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#4 capthavic
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Because they can be easily picked out quickly.
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#5 Legendaryscmt
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Because black people would get offended if it was black vs white.
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#6 Trav57
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They use red and blue because white versus black would be too screwed up.Cilindro
yeah that would be messed up
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#7 EmilioDigsIt
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Because of Bloods and Crips.

Other good choices:
Green vs Purple

Green vs Orange

Light Blue vs Orange

Yellow vs Red

Yellow vs Green
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#8 FreshDimSum
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its because of tron.
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#9 11Marcel
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Different sides of color spectrum, no camouflage advantages, not offending to anyone, simple colors. That together I think.

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#10 qwertyoip
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RED white BLUE

Patriots!

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#11 nopalversion
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Because black people would get offended if it was black vs white.Legendaryscmt

I know I shouldn't laugh at this, but I did *shrug*.

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#12 KimLenon
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its the US color lol, national haha!
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#13 Thiago26792
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Easy to identify, I guess.