#1 Favorite Genre of Video Games
| Just Name it. You can list your top 5 if you want. Just select your #1 for poll. Me: 1.) Strategy 2.) Shooter 3.) Fighting 4.) Action/Adventure 5.) RPGs P.S. I added Visual Novel to the list, since it seems so many people strangely enjoy that genre as a favorite, as well as Beat 'em Up. And also, sorry if these genres are too broad for some, it's great if you can just specify on your own. |
SkiesOfBlueSep 16, 2009 12:28 PM
| What isn't red? What isn't blue? |
| 1. RPGs 2. Platform 3. MMORPGs 4. Action/Adventure 5. Strategy I hate shooters, fighters and any sort of racing games. It was really difficult to place my last 3 as I sometimes enjoy certain strategy games over action/adventure ones and although I truly enjoy MMORPGs it's hard for me to find a good one. |
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Zyro said: 1. RPGs 2. Platform 3. MMORPGs 4. Action/Adventure 5. Strategy I hate shooters, fighters and any sort of racing games. It was really difficult to place my last 3 as I sometimes enjoy certain strategy games over action/adventure ones and although I truly enjoy MMORPGs it's hard for me to find a good one. *gasp! why? Shooters and Fighters are like the main sources of competitive gaming. |
| What isn't red? What isn't blue? |
| 1. RPG No thanks to the other genres.~ |
| 1. RPG 2. Simulation 3. Action/Adventure 4. Strategy I'd put visual novels somewhere in my list. I'm not sure which it would fit under of those, considering some have simulation elements, or RPG elements, etc. Don't like shooters, except Bioshock. Don't like racing, except Mario Kart (SNES). I don't even think about playing a sports game. |
| 1. Fighting 2. Platform 3. RPG 4. Action/Adventure 5. Rhythm Can't stand most shooters, sports, or racing games. I haven't found a single MMORPG that I've liked, but I know that if the right one comes along I could love the genre. |
SkiesOfBlue said: *gasp! why? Shooters and Fighters are like the main sources of competitive gaming. I play them when I'm with friends but other than that I just have no interest in them. When I was younger I used to play a lot of fighters, mostly Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and King of Fighters along with heavy heavy doses of Counter Strike so I got kind of good at both genres. Now I'm mostly into enjoyment (thus Platformers and Action/Adventure), storytelling (RPGs) and thinking ahead (strategy) |
I hate World of Warcraft |
| I name my genre slightly different and here is my top 5: 1) RPG (eg. Persona 4) 2) Visual Novel (eg. Clannad) 3) MMORPG (eg. Maple Story) 4) Mecha (eg. Gundam Battle Chronicle) 5) Tactical (eg. Luminous Arc 2) These are not the only type of games I buy. However, these are the type of games I would spend more on. |
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| 1) Shooter 2)MMORPGs 3)RPGs 4)Strategy 5)Fighting Took me a bit to think of it ... I just like FPS style games the most, Helps me feel like I'm in the game. I just can't find any good MMORPGs lately ... So I'm sticking to Consoles now ... until SW:TOR (Star Wars: The Old Republic) comes out of course! (I'm a big Star Wars nerd :D) |
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| 1) Platformers 2) Strategy 3) Racing 4) Action/Adventure 5) Music I cant stand RPG's anymore.. way too boring for my tastes I only a select few. Platformers has to take the top spot for me though, nothing beats a good ol dose of Super Mario Bros 3 or the original Sonic.. though i reckon most of the new platformers are really crappy cept LittleBigPlanet. I had to go with strategy over racing, way more strategy games i like then racing (only gran turismo and burnout D:) Music games are cool, i enjoy them because i can just pick it up and play for 10-15 minutes then go off and do something else without feeling like im putting something on hold, also great with mates =) |
| 1) Music (Rock Band, DDR) 2) Shooter 3) Startegy 4) RPG 5) Action/Adventure |
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| The mother of all genres Action/Adventure of course. Role-playing games comes second. Horror and FPS and then Puzzles and then fighters/beat them ups. I do NOT play Racers nor sport games. |
| 1) rpg most played genre ever, on console , pc , handheld etc 2) mmorpg never want to pay for them, but its great to paly with others 3) visual novels i love them, lack in action but great story 4) music games are always awesome :3 5) action /adventure / shooter/ rts the others |
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| 1.) FPS 2.) WRPG 3.) TBS 4.) TPS 5.) RTS "Shooter" and "strategy" were too broad for me. |
| jw whats TPS? |
| 1) Platformers. I grew up with them and still find them fun today. My favs are Mario, Sonic and Klonoa. 2) RPG. My current second favorite. I love traditional and strategy rpgs. Some of my favs are Shin Megami Tensei and Disgaea. 3) Action/Adventure. Usually the go-to genre for me. Some of my favs are Legend of Zelda and Fumito Ueda's games. If Horror counts here, I love Silent Hill games. *) Shooters. Filler genre. I prefer shmup, light gun/rail shooter and run and gun (think Metal Slug). Don't like FPS/TPS much. *) Racing. Filler genre. Some of my favs are Project Gotham Racing, Crazy Taxi, Mario Kart and recently Ridge Racer and Outrun. *) Puzzle. Filler genre for me. I don't like the logic based ones but falling block and such are so much fun for me. Some of my favs are Tetris, Lumines, Yoshi's Cookie and Puyo Puyo. |
KuronoaDec 9, 2008 11:03 AM
Firality said: jw whats TPS? Third person shooter, opposite of first person shooter. Basically, any shooter where you can see the main character's back, lol. |
Plate said: Third person shooter, opposite of first person shooter. Basically, any shooter where you can see the main character's back, lol. lol i was thinking something along the lines of strategy haha i dont really like those.. not enough of them to go around all i can name is resident evil 4 (not really a shooter) and gears of war |
| 1) Shooter 2) Strategy 3) Action/Adventure 4) MMORPG 5) RPG |
| (Everything in my top 7 I enjoy and follow. Everything not in there I neither follow nor care for) I'd go with 1) Fighters 2) Strategy 3) Racing 4) Sports 5) Action/Adventure (is this what Castleroids are classified as?) 6) Platformer 7) Shooter...if you mean vertical, horizontal, or rail shooters. Think Ikaruga, Aero Fighters, Gradius, and numerous bullet hell games. Third-person and first-person shooters are some boring shit. At the same time, where is the beat em' up genre? It's fundamentally different from fighters, but it would easily make my top 7. Probably out of everything listed here, I'd say RPGs constitute the most useless, unoriginal, and bankrupt genre out there. |
| 1) MMORPGs 2) RPGs 3) Music (DDR, Rockband, etc.) 4) Shooter 5) Racing |
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| 1. RPGs 2. Action/Adventure (this is far too broad of a genre though) 3. Platformer 4. Strategy 5. Racing |
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| Poll needs a few more options. 1. rpg (non-linear variety from the west is my preference) 2. adventure (old school point 'n click; the kind you rarely see nowadays, unfortunately) 3. turn-based strategy (don't see many of these anymore, either) 4. simulation 5. fps And then everything else. Action, platformers, racing, flight sims, interactive fiction (text adventures), even sports (with a preference for basketball, naturally).. Will play almost anything if it's good. Have a general dislike of mmorpg's and rts, with few exceptions, however. |
SchnickelFritzDec 9, 2008 9:43 AM
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| 1. RPG 2. Fighter 3. Action/Adventure 4. Platformer 5. MMORPG Shooter is too broad since I love scrolling shooters and especially danmaku, but HATE first person shooters. |
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| ALL of them, as long as the game itself is good. |
| 1. RPGs 2. Strategy 3. MMOs (depends which ones though) 4. Shooters (depends which again) 5. Sports (only NHL :o) |
Chavez said: ALL of them, as long as the game itself is good. ^ |
| My first game was an RPG and it was Final Fantasy IX and I fell in love for that genre...~ Now I have a collection of RPG games: - Final Fantasy X - Final Fantasy X-2 - Final Fantasy XII - Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus - Kingdom Hearts II - Dragon Quest VIII: The Journey of the Cursed King - Wild Arms 3 |
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| 1) Turn-based Strategy 2) RPG 3) Action/Adventure 4) Shooter Maybe Sports/Racing if I'm really bored. I got a dislike for platformers though. |
HugoF said: - Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus This game is not an RPG |
I hate World of Warcraft |
| Funnily, as much as people say it sucked, I kind of loved it. Shows how much I prefer third person shooters to first person shooters I guess. |
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| What do shooters mean, though? First-person, third person, or space shooters that are vertical-scrolling, horizontal-scrolling, and/or rail? Is Counterstrike really the same as a bullet hell Cave shooter? Completely different genres. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q29LTTo5jLE |
ShaolinRibiero said: What do shooters mean, though? First-person, third person, or space shooters that are vertical-scrolling, horizontal-scrolling, and/or rail? As Wikipedia puts it... Shooters is a subgenre of the Action genre, while shmup is a subgenre of the shooting genre. |
| Rpgs none other, mainly the final fantasy series and kingdom hearts. Fave ffs are: ff vii ff x ff ix ff iv worst 2 being ff x-2 and ff viii wasnt a big fan of those at all -_- |
Kuronoa said: As Wikipedia puts it... Shooters is a subgenre of the Action genre, while shmup is a subgenre of the shooting genre. That's exactly what I said...but it also doesn't help any when rating a genre. I love shmups, but think 1st and 3rd person shooters are epically boring. So am I fan of the genre as listed in the first post or not? |
ShaolinRibiero said: That's exactly what I said...but it also doesn't help any when rating a genre. I love shmups, but think 1st and 3rd person shooters are epically boring. So am I fan of the genre as listed in the first post or not? Well, I am in the same boat. I don't like FPS/TPSs, but I do like shmups, light gun games and run and gun shooters. So in a way I am a fan but not to all of the types in the genre. |
| 1) RPGs 2) RPGs 3) RPGs 4) RPGs No, seriously.. And 5) Visual Novel ^_^ |
| 1. rpg 2. rts |
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| Hard to say.... I play lots of Warcraft III and have played a lot of WoW, so I guess it's gonna be RPG ....... But I don't judge by genre like that really.. |
| ... Even if I took time to write alot of intelligent words of deep thought and meaning in my signature, would you really care to read and comment on it? ... |
| 1. RPG 2. Shooter 3. Music 4. Fighting |
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| 1. RPG 2. Fighting 3. Shooter 4. Action/Platform |
| 1. MMORPG/RPG only difference being online or not..not worth giving them seperate places 2. Strategy especially Day/Turn Based strategy(tactic) games like Advance Wars but Command & Conquer stuff is great too 3.Shooter Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault, bad graphics etc now but one of the best shooters I played 4.Action/Adventure Can't think of any titles now 5. Fighting Soul Calibur :) |
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| 1. RPG 2. Survival horror 3. Action/adventure 4. Fighting 5. Shooter |
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| RPG |
| MMORPGs. |
AnarchistDec 17, 2008 7:15 PM
| jRPG, RTS, FPS... Voted for RPGs. |
| Sorry for bad english... |
| Action/Adventure genre. Thanks to Legend of Zelda, GoW, RE, etc. Fighting games follow closely. It's all about SC, SSB, SF, and MK for me. |
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Excel_K said: Fighting games follow closely. It's all about SC, SSB, SF, and MK for me. I honestly don't mean to pick on you, but you realize that statement is hilarious? Fighting game fans consider MK one of the most hilariously awful series in the history of video games. A complete trainwreck. It's dreadful on every level except for what it made it famous; fatalities. Putting it right after SF would be like putting someone who has never touch a basketball in their life is on the same athletic and skill level as LeBron James in basketball. Soul Edge was a great game, Soul Calibur has a very poor reputation nowadays (thanks to both SC3 and SC4 sucking), as does SSB. But compared to MK, they're masterpieces. Focus 70 percent for RPGs and MMORPGs. Probably typical numbers for an anime forum... |
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