Genre spacing

[Mundus33]

Do you ever find yourself spacing your genres out. Since there are so many action games that come out I have found myself trying to space it so that I get non action games as often as possible. Examples TBS/4x/Stealth/Turn based RPG. Do you ever find yourself doing the same maybe with other genres.

If so what genres.

 

[TehCookie]

Nah if a game's interesting I get it. Sometimes I get into mood where I want to play a certain genre, but I still buy the other genres since I know I won't be able to find those games later.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Nah, I'd miss out on some great games if I dismissed them due to genre.

 

[Mundus33]

for me its not so much as dismissing them as much as it is that I will postpone playing it. For example I finished playing an fps and next week a racing game and a tbs come out it is more likely I will chooses the tbs and then play the racing game at a later date. I hope that makes sense.

 

[DustyDrB]

I have to do this with sandbox games. I'm totally burnt out on ones that are set in a major city: GTA, Saint's Row, Mafia, The Saboteur, etc. I'm so sick of driving in games that I just don't want to play games where it's a major component anymore. I got pissed off at LA Noire when it punished me for making my partners do 90% of the driving (I'm referring to the "find the landmark" mission. If you haven't found them before you start that part, then it's excruciatingly tedious). Oddly enough, some sandbox games are immune: Bully, Red Dead Redemption, the last two Assassin's Creed games (which I guess are really a hybrid Action-Adventure-Platforming-Sandbox games). But that's because those games have so much great gameplay outside of travel.

I used to just have to put a lot of time between big city sandbox games. But then I hadn't played one for a year and tried to play Mafia II and didn't get very far. It wasn't a bad game. I just think I don't like those kind of experiences anymore at all.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Ya it's a bit like food, you eat what you crave and then you get the perfect balance, sometimes it needs to be something hefty, other times something light, something sweet, something salty,...

 

[trooper6]

Do I put off buying the game? No.

If I just played an FPS and an FPS and RPG come out the same week and I want them both...then I get them both. As a consequence I have a huge backlog of games to play.
When it comes to *playing* games I try to mix up my genres in a way.
I've started alternating my 360 games with my xbox games...because I figure I really should finish all of my unplayed backwards compatible xbox games before the next generation comes out. I don't tend to play two sandboxes in a row. I can play RPG after RPG after RPG...but I tend to mix up time period or style. I'd play Fallout and then follow that up with Mass Effect and then follow that up with Dragon Age...no problem. I'd probably not play Dark Messiah right after Fable 3 right after Dragon Age 2. Too much sword and sorcery in a row.

So I mix it up, but I'm not too dogmatic about it.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Not in terms of buying preferences. When it comes to playing order though (yes, I have a playing order), I understand perfectly. For instance, perhaps I don't want to play three RTS games in a row, so I'll mix them up in the playing order (unless they're part of the same franchise) to keep variety going.