[Someone Else]

Topic. I like any type of game except sports and I find racing to be boring except Burnout. If you'd like more specific, I really love games that let you explore a lot, though I wouldn't say any one genre is my favorite. RPGs, and action/adventure. Fast games are fun for an adrenaline rush, though I'm not that into fighting/beat-'em-up games that much. Shooter games are a lot of fun but, admittedly, I've been playing them a lot recently and I get bored of a genre fast if I play too many games of the same genre within a short time. This happened to me with RPGs in the past. =/

Turn-based games are games like Golden Sun and Fire Emblem/Advance Wars where actions are carried out in turns like a board game. Real-time games are games like StarCraft and shooters.

[Drizzy Drake]

RPG's for good storylines and character development

FPS's for just the adreniline of shooting people up, since I'll never do it in real life, or will I.

Racers and sports for party fun, or for when my cousins and **** come over. And I love the MC series.

Adventures for straight up fun beat up up, slash em games.


But ya RPG's are my fav.

[Eugine]

JRPGs and strategy are my favourite. Then the occasional action/adventure, and very distantly the FPS and sports (NBA Ballers was great).

RPGs are honestly my favourite genre though, and there are a few good western RPGs (Fable and ES: Oblivion comes to mind)

[Someone Else]

I don't really care much for JRPGs. Waaay to linear for my tastes.

Except Golden Sun of course. Golden Sun's awesome.

[Drizzy Drake]

Don't mean to sound nooby, but what is a JRPG?

[Eugine]

Japanese RPG ^^. They're great. Can't wait for FF13 x3

[Drizzy Drake]

Aren't most RPG's, JRPG's?

The FF games. Tales Of. Dragon Warrior. Sukedon.

And yes FF13 looks amazing.

[Laharl]

most online RPGs are Western RPGs and usually suck appropriately

I really dont play much anymore and it's either JRPGs or Beat 'em ups when i do

[Aquamarine]

Hm, favourite genre... Let me think.

Well, I hate sports and puzzle games, but those are the only two I dislike. Games like NBA and NHL make me sick, as do Tetris and Dr. Mario. However, for some reason, I do like Tennis games quite a bit. Oh, and I also dislike hack-and-slash.

I've noticed I like more complicated games more than I like the ones that are very fun and simple to play. By "complicated" I mean Zelda, Metroid and Fire Emblem(which aren't very complicated actually), and by fun with simple controls and not much to think about I mean Mario.

Racing games are great, but to a certain extent. I believe I like fighting more than I do racing, unlike my brother.

RPG's are also great, but I can't play a lot of 'em. All the stats and weapons and leveling up sometimes get tiring.

My favourite is probably adventure games, though I enjoy almost anything else: from shooters to strategy.

[Moonear]

I'll play anything. Literally anything. I like video games in general.

[Golden Legacy]

Aqua summed up a lot of my taste in video games. I prefer epics, whether it's the Zelda/Metroid action-adventure, the Fire Emblem strategy-RPG, or Super Mario Galaxy (which is so awesome that I think it should be its own new genre, ha). I certainly also enjoy the JRPG, with games like Golden Sun, Chrono Trigger, and Tales of Symphonia being some of my favorites.

I don't mind shooters (I was a big Counter Strike player back in the day), but they can't hold me for too long. I'm not a huge fan of sports games in general either, but the big exception here is football (soccer) - I love the Fifa and Winning Eleven games.

EDIT: on a side note, what genres do you want in a poll? I was creating one earlier, and I then realized just how many there are, not to mention some are similar (i.e. action-adventure, strategy-RPG, JRPG, etc.)

[Platinum Sun]

I'm all about strategy and turn-based RPGs. Ported Final Fantasies, Pokemon, Fire Emblem etc.

I just don't have the reflexes for much else.

[TheEnglishman]

I'll play most games. I like to think I have quite a broad taste for games. RPGs are my favourites though.

[My Best Wishes]

I find a game has to be really tops to hold my attention, so I rarely play anything other then RPG's/JRPG's or great FPS's, I get tired of racing games fast, and if a game isn't 'linear' enough I get slightly bored.

[Mallick]

i liek da nintendo ones

[Someone Else]

Skidzorz, on Dec 30 2007, 06:06 PM, said:

Aren't most RPG's, JRPG's?

The FF games. Tales Of. Dragon Warrior. Sukedon.

A lot JRPGs are linear, usually strict to the story and turn based while western RPGs are non-linear with more action oriented combat and not as much story involvement. Games like The Elder Scrolls, Diablo, Neverwinter Nights, The Witcher, Baldur's Gate are western RPGs.

[Caael]

And WoW.

In order of most liked to least liked:

FPS
Action
RPG
Racing
Beat em up
Puzzle
Sports

Everybody says shooters are all the same, but they're wrong. Theres no way in hell you can compare Bioshock to timesplitters. Every shooter is different to another, so I can never get bored of them. Each will have a feature that another doesnt have.

Action games like Overlord are great fun, and most of the time there's no boundaries so you can do whatever you want, where you want.

RPGs like oblivion are awesome. Completely free roaming, nothing stopping you from doing whatever the hell you want. Love em.

Racing games are only good with a certain amount of realism. If you try to make them too realistic, you get a game thats too frustratingly difficult to even play, like Forza 2. The perfect balance is when there's enough realism that the cars are real and the physics are all right, but none of the complicated customizing cars etc. Burnout is a good example of one of these games

Beat em Ups are only really fun with mates, as theres hardly any story, and its only button bashing really, and its hilarious with mates.

Puzzle games are kinda hit and miss with me. It depends on the context. If its quite involving and fast like meteos, then i'll love it and play it loads, however if its slow paced and takes a while to get going, like tetris, then i'll give it a miss

Sports games are just for lazy people who watch the sport on TV, but are too lazy to actually go and play the sport for real.

[Someone Else]

People constantly compare COD4 to Crysis. But they're completely different shooters. COD4's single-player is more of a linear team/squad shooter where in Crysis you're a one-man army with a "nanosuit" that gives you four different abilities, and you're placed in non-linear levels. I actually like both for what they're worth. (I care nothing for online)

[Drizzy Drake]

I really liekd COD4, but I found it too short. Online is fun though.

[Toasty]

Strategy's have to be my favorites. Followed by RPG's, Adventure games, FPS's, some platformers, and a few Puzzlers. Mainly Tetris. I got to level 15 (the highest, where the pieces literally shoot to the bottome in the blink of an eye) and stayed there in 32 minutes, and with a score of 262, or something like that. That's my best free run, where there's no time limit, and once you get to level 15, you stay there 'till your blocks reach the top.

Advanced Wars has to be my favorite Strategy, followed closely by FE (which is actually made by the same company). Super Mario Galaxy is my absolute favorite Platformer or Adventure game. GoldenSun:TLA and Contact tie for my favorite RPG's, and don't kill me, but Halo 3 is my favorite FPS. But, I also haven't gotten to play many FPS's, since I've only owned Nintendo consoles (they're cheaper), and my PC sucks, and I haven't the cash to build myself a better one.

[Someone Else]

Updated with a poll. Yay for polls!

I'm curious here. Who voted Hentai? XD

[Ironsight]

Not me

Me loves teh RPGs. There's nothing more fun than manipulating party members and screwing with morality.

Shooters are great too. Not much to say really.

Racing is D: I think its boring. Unless their is some kind of explosion or crash, I get bored with them fast.

Puzzles are really interesting to me. Sometimes I can finish them real easily. Others might take a day or two of thinking. But nothing beats the feeling of completing a really hard puzzle. Makes me feel really smart and stuff.

Fighting games are ok, but they get repetitive real fast.

Sports are double D: Why play a video game of a game? Its much more fun to go play it in real-life (unless its like, golf or something).

Dunno what Hentia is...

Every game requires strategy to some extent. So I don't really know how to answer this one, besides their "good".

[Someone Else]

Racing games are okay, but I didn't vote it. And Strategy games are like any puzzle game, Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, StarCraft, and too many others to name.

[Split Infinity]

I like first-person games quite a lot. The viewpoint really adds to the immersion, especially if there are live cutscenes, and I just adore the control scheme. It's a lot different from when I used to play Doom with only a keyboard, and it's a great way to take advantage of my laser mouse.

[Laharl]

this poll is a mockery! XP

maybe i should have voted seriously....

but none of the other genres have a rape sim XD

[Someone Else]

I'll admit I have played a hentai game once before. It was... interesting.

I uninstalled it. XD

[Split Infinity]

I got one in an email. Wanna see?

[Laharl]

almost a fifth of the board are perverts apparently XD

i played the Rape sim after one of those Jack Thompson types was busy ranting about it as an "evil game" that will never be released in the west or even translated into English >>

[Someone Else]

There's a game actually called Rape sim..?

[gsninja]

My order from favorite to least favorite genre:

-RPG
-Strategy
-Adventure
-Fighting
-Shooter
-Racing
-Sports
-Hentai

Also, I prefer turn-based far more than real time. I'm a big fan of the classic RPG battle system, which is part of the reason why I believe Final Fantasy is definitely getting worse. Real time isn't bad, but games that are turn-based from the beginning should stay that way.

[Laharl]

Wind Dude, on Jan 19 2008, 08:26 AM, said:

There's a game actually called Rape sim..?

well its called RapeLay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapelay

only in Japan.........>>;;

[Someone Else]

I see. I wondered if adding a Hentai option was a good idea... XD

[Laharl]

indeed XD

there are a lot more Puzzle games than Hentai ones XP

[Someone Else]

I thought it might be a good idea to put strategy and puzzle to one category since I consider them similar at least.

[Ironsight]

laharl the slayer, on Jan 19 2008, 12:36 AM, said:

well its called RapeLay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapelay

only in Japan.........>>;;

W.T.F.

[Split Infinity]

Wind Dude, on Jan 19 2008, 07:52 PM, said:

I thought it might be a good idea to put strategy and puzzle to one category since I consider them similar at least.

So you're saying Halo Wars is a puzzle game?

[Someone Else]

Point taken. I'll fix that.

Sorry to any of the 5 voters that like puzzle games. XD

[Split Infinity]

Heh. Wait, don't you need Moderator rights to edit a poll?

[Someone Else]

If you're topic creator you can edit the poll. But Moderators have rights to tamper with the votes.

[Nosferatu]

RPG thank you. I prefer to think about my actions, rather then just having the mindless aim and fire option.

[Toasty]

I like all except for Sports, Hentai (zomgboobehs), and almost any game based off of a movie.

I prefer raceing games that let you fine tune your car the most, and no, what you can do in Carbon/Pro Street isn't fine tuneing. NFS:Porsche Unleashed is fine tuneing, and is still the best NFS title made to date imo.

The only fighting game that I like (as far as I remember) is the SSB series. I don't mind games like Soul Calibur 2, but SC is pretty much the only exception.

I like most adventure games. Depends though.

I've liked every strategy game I've tried so far. I'm more of a fan of turn based than RTS though. Same goes for RPG's.

I haven't had the pleasure of playing many FPS, but I seem to like the non military based ones, as in CoD, Ghost Recon, etc. But CoD 4 is getting a lot of praise.

As for puzzle games, yay for Tetris!

[Nosferatu]

Sports it probably the only genre I would never even think about touching. It's just so BAD.

Anyway, in order from favourite to least favourite genre: RPG, Strategy, Adventure, Shooter, Puzzle and Hentai are tied (can't decide which goes where), Fighting, Racing and Sports.

I prefer fantasy worlds thank you, as opposed to games that you have to play just because you feel you cannot play the ACTUAL game yourself.

[Split Infinity]

What do you mean in that last paragraph?

[Nosferatu]

I mean that chances are if you're playing a sports game you're only playing it as you aren't capable of playing the actual sport yourself. But that's just my opinion.

[Split Infinity]

Well I don't really think so, but whatever.

[Laharl]

i find that most of people who play sports games are sports nuts, most of the FIFA and PES eat, **** and sleep football, then the they regurgitate it and eat it again.

RPGs are a form of escapism, which is one of the reasons they're so popular

[Drizzy Drake]

I voted Hentai as aj oke, but RPG's are definetly my favourite games. The stories are ussually(not always, but ussually) alot deeper than other kinds of games, and they are just fun to play, and have alot of replay value ussually with side quests and all of that.

[Someone Else]

Does anyone care that I missed platforming, too? It escaped my mind and I thought putting an action genre would be pointless since it's so broad.

[Drizzy Drake]

And the fact that you actualy put Hentai there, was jsut asking for people to vote for it.

[Laharl]

platformers are irrelevent to anyone over the age of 15....

[Split Infinity]

Not all platformers are for kids... Jak II for instance. There's even a few swears in it.

[Eugine]

Why would someone post on GSSF, if RPGs isn't one of their preferred genres? >>
Evil, be gone!

[Laharl]

Split Infinity, on Jan 20 2008, 05:30 AM, said:

Not all platformers are for kids... Jak II for instance. There's even a few swears in it.

True, and there was Conker's Bad Fur Day....XD

Still safe to say 90% of platformers are aimed at younger gamers

[Split Infinity]

Would GTA be considered a platformer to a small extent?

No. Just no.

[Someone Else]

How did you even get that idea? It's more of a free-roaming/sandbox 3rd person action game. And an overrated one at that.

[Split Infinity]

I was just thinking how similar it is to Jak II. Except Jak II is pretty much all platformer once you leave the city area.

[Laharl]

surprisingly enough platformers contain platforms and contains lots of the dread jumping puzzles.

like WD states GTA is 3rd person action

i grew out of platformers years a go, these days its only the Mario titles that can half hold my interest

[Saturos S.]

Hentai? What the?

Meh, I like RPG's best, then shooters, the sports games.

Real-time is better then turn-based in my opinion, makes things go faster etc.

[Drizzy Drake]

Conker's Bad Fur day was liek the South Park of video games.

[Drizzy Drake]

Conker's Bad Fur day was liek the South Park of video games.

[Caael]

I didnt choose RPG's because I dont like them as much as I used to. Well JRPG's, as they're all the same, just change the characters and setting. What I do love the most though are First Person Adventures like Bioshock and Half Life. They're my favourite type of game.

[Drizzy Drake]

Saying all RPG's are the same is like saying that all shooters, or platformers are all the same, excpet with different setting and different characters.

Alot of RPG's nowadays are very different in even gameplay, and the characters are greatly designed.


But omg, Halo is the same as Half Life because they are trying to save the world, from aliens. :ph34r:. Wow. No.

[Caael]

Well yeah, all games are essentially another game with different stuff, but RPG's have the least originality. You're always trying to save the world from a bad dude, there's usually a plot twist where a bad guy is good or vice versa, and then they save the world. I used to love them, but not so much now.

[Drizzy Drake]

What game doesn't have somebdoy saving the world from somebody else.

Mario, Halo, FF, they all have somebody saving the world, or an important object, or person, from somebody else.

RPG's actually have the best plots of all video games. Yes the plot is the same at the front and back of the book, but in the middle, is always different.

[Caael]

Yeah, but you act like they're the only games with good plot. Go play Bioshock and come back when you're done.

[Drizzy Drake]

I never said they are the only games with a good plot, and I am definetly not saying Halo and Bioshock have bad plots, but in general RPG's have better story lines than most other games.

[Nosferatu]

Earth Dude, on Jan 22 2008, 03:28 PM, said:

I didnt choose RPG's because I dont like them as much as I used to. Well JRPG's, as they're all the same, just change the characters and setting. What I do love the most though are First Person Adventures like Bioshock and Half Life. They're my favourite type of game.

Western RPGs are better in my opinion. Although one of my favourites (Paper Mario TTYD) is TECHNICALLY a JRPG, but I find it MUCH better then any others.

[Someone Else]

Nah, Caael's right. RPGs, particularly JRPGs, have barely changed over the years. To be fair, shooters haven't changed a lot either except for the recent inclusion of advanced physics engines. *hugs Crysis*

And Western RPGs > JRPGs.

[Drizzy Drake]

JRPGs>>>>>WRPGs.

[Someone Else]

I'm not saying you're wrong, but how so? What WRPGs have you played?

[Drizzy Drake]

Oblivion, Diablo 1+2, Morrowind, Baulder's Gate, and a couple more dungeon crawler RPGs.


Idk, JRPG's jsut seem to have a better story, which is what interests me most about games, well game-play, but ya, second thing I look at is story line, which most WRPG's dont have.

[Someone Else]

I don't care about Oblivion, but those are the super ancient WRPGs. Try playing The Witcher, possibly the best RPG I've played in years counting JRPGs. Seems most JRPGs have a typical "o noes good vs. evil and DRAGONS" storyline that's linear with a turn-based battle system featuring the player controlled party of 3-5 characters. It only keeps my attention for so long.

In the WRPGs I play you just generally feel involved in the story since many times you get to make your own decisions rather than have story the story told to you in JRPGs. I remember my time in FF12, sometimes I felt more like I was watching a movie than playing a game. :ph34r:

[Drizzy Drake]

Alot of JRPG's these days are straying away from the conventional turn-based style of battleing.

Meh.

[Someone Else]

FF12 has a combat system that was sort of a mixture of real-time and turn-based, which people like to call a "round-based" battle system. For all intents and purposes, it's still turn-based.

You seem to have skipped my argument on linear storylines. But I like to think I'm open-minded, so one day I intend on picking up FF12 again and a couple other JRPGs I missed.

[Drizzy Drake]

I, in all honesty, like the linear storylines. I like going through what was intended for me, and playing through, and advancing the storyline. Plus side-quests are always a good remedy for that.

I like that better than the non-story, hack & slash, RPGs liek Baulders Gate and Diablo.

[Toasty]

Nosferatu, on Jan 22 2008, 04:30 PM, said:

Western RPGs are better in my opinion. Although one of my favourites (Paper Mario TTYD) is TECHNICALLY a JRPG, but I find it MUCH better then any others.

That is one of Nintendo's best games EVER.

But I'm in between the two sides of this argument.

I haven't played many RPG's in general, but the JRPG's I've played are a lot more like interactive novels, while WRPG's are more "roam around and kill stuff" kinda games. I like JRPG's for the storyline, and WRPG's for the ability to make your own choices. If there was a JW or WJ RPG genre, I'd go with that.

As for FPS's, there isn't really much of a difference between Halo 2 and Halo 3 besides graphics and weapons, and GoW feels pretty similar. However, they feel different to me than the military FPS (CoD, MoH, etc.), though all of the military FPS's feel EXACTLY the same to me. Only difference being setting and weapons.

Crysis on the other hand, well it feels a lot different to me. In pretty much ALL other FPS's, there's only one way to take out the enemy. Most of the time it consists of running in and painting the room with lead. However, there's always more than one way to take out the enemy in Crysis (so far at least). Plus, Crysis has AWESOME physics. No one can play the game deny that.

[Lemontime]

There are hentai GAMES now?!

[redchi]

i love rpg and turn base games

[Folcon]

rpgs, srpg, jrpgs, adventure games, rts, tbs, and fighters.

[Laharl]

Lemontime, on Jan 23 2008, 09:20 AM, said:

There are hentai GAMES now?!

there has been simce the SNES days (i think), although only a handful ever see release outside Japan.

a favourite with the sexually uneducated japanese nerd

A disturbing amount of those dating sims end up being hentai.

anywa~y....

go JRPGs! :)