Poll: Gaming Genres
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Since fighting games and visual novels are on my list of three, I'll choose other, though my third one is RPGs.
Cool, I'm the only vote for TBS.
If I had to pick just one, it'd definitely be Turn-based Strategy. Just a few reasons - X-Com: UFO Defense, Master of Orion, Jagged Alliance, Fantasy General
SRPG would probably be my second, with something like Shining Force, Fire Emblem, or FFT up there.
Although I'm a huge shooter and RTS fan as well, I'd most likely go with some sort of simulation games coming up in third. I think that's what you'd categorize Wing Commander and any space-flight sim as. I think Mechwarrior would fall under action/simulation since it's "giant mech game" rather than a FPS or TPS or RPG or whatever, it blends elements of all of these into one. Racing games could also be filed under simulation, at least some of them (ToCA 3, etc.) and that would encompass even more games instead of me just saying "driving games" as a genre...
But honestly, there's a lot of genres I enjoy, and I would hate to have to just pick one. I'm a varied gamer with a lot of different tastes and a lot of experience, so I'm voting TBS because it's underrepresented and I love it.
If I had to pick just one, it'd definitely be Turn-based Strategy. Just a few reasons - X-Com: UFO Defense, Master of Orion, Jagged Alliance, Fantasy General
SRPG would probably be my second, with something like Shining Force, Fire Emblem, or FFT up there.
Although I'm a huge shooter and RTS fan as well, I'd most likely go with some sort of simulation games coming up in third. I think that's what you'd categorize Wing Commander and any space-flight sim as. I think Mechwarrior would fall under action/simulation since it's "giant mech game" rather than a FPS or TPS or RPG or whatever, it blends elements of all of these into one. Racing games could also be filed under simulation, at least some of them (ToCA 3, etc.) and that would encompass even more games instead of me just saying "driving games" as a genre...
But honestly, there's a lot of genres I enjoy, and I would hate to have to just pick one. I'm a varied gamer with a lot of different tastes and a lot of experience, so I'm voting TBS because it's underrepresented and I love it.
It is, it's a turn-based 4X. 4X is sort of a sub-genre of strategy, and they can be turn-based or real-time. Master of Orion is one of the greatest TBS games I've ever played, so I threw it on the list.tanis1lionheart said:
I suppose a more traditional TBS might be the HoMM series.
Master of Orion (and most 4X games really) involve strategy on a grand scale. The others I mentioned are more tactical or operational rather than strategical.
I enjoy most gaming genre's so it's hard to pin down which is my favourite. My guess action/adventure if that can count sandbox games as well. Some of my favourite games are FPS others are RTS and others are RPG, so I may be wrong.
Tricky one. I'd say I prefer RPGs and Shooters above other genres, but I can't really decide between the two. I'll go with FPS games, however, as I own more of those than I do RPGs.
I played an MMO game called Neocron for years, it was pretty amazing for the first year or so but after that the dev's screwed up the patches and all the hackers came out the wood work! It is sill around and there is talk of a sequel or rather expansion. It is a cyberpunk MMORPG/FPS... so it has massive amounts of potential if someone were to have money to throw at it!
No Platformers on the list? Shame on you. The genre is dying but it's still got a little life in it.
