I'm 30, and while I used to be almost exclusively into JRPGs, these days genre (as it's defined in the poll) isn't as important to me as a good story.
Poll: What is your favourite genre of gaming and why?
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RPG, JRPG
FPS
RTS
There's really no difference in how much time I devote to each of them.
Also, third person shooters, but they're basically FPSs anyway.
FPS
RTS
There's really no difference in how much time I devote to each of them.
Also, third person shooters, but they're basically FPSs anyway.
1. RTS - Starcraft, Warcraft III , Dawn of War, Red Alert 2
2. RPG / JRPG - LoZ: Ocarina of Time, Neverwinter Nights, Fallout 3, Final Fantasy 9
3. Platformer - Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis), Sonic 2, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, Little Big Planet
I'm 24 years old.
2. RPG / JRPG - LoZ: Ocarina of Time, Neverwinter Nights, Fallout 3, Final Fantasy 9
3. Platformer - Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis), Sonic 2, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, Little Big Planet
I'm 24 years old.
i play RTS the most but i enjoy a good storied FPS.... horror though, just bores me.. if you've seen as much horror in real life as i have, its not scary when simulated lol
I'm 19, and I prefer FPS and 3PS, though I'm also quite partial to RTS and RPGs. Mainly JRPGs, to tell the truth. Generally though I don't mind, except for sports games. With the possible exception of PGA Tour games, I hate sports games with a passion.
What about Open World games. Or "sandbox" games I've heard them called. You know the GTA's and Saints Row type of stuff. I guess those fall under Role Playing Games.... but all games are role playing when you think on it.
RPG followed by FPS. I love the choice and intricately crafted worlds and stories in RPG's (sometimes) and the way you get to be who you want (sometimes). FPS I have always been a fan of, from doom when I was probably 7 or something to doom 3 when I was 13, to cod4 since its release, to TF2 and half life 2 since a few months ago when I bought the orange box
Well i guess i love RTS's so much because they were pretty much the first games i played. The first game i remember playing is Warcraft and after that i could only remember playing RTS's. I do love RPG's but RTS is my favorite!
I picked RPG because out of all the genres up there, the games I tout as my favorites tend to belong in that genre. But I have a love/hate relationship with the RPG. I can't stand JRPGs (basically I view them as Action games with turn-based-combat). And even some western RPGs have really been disappointing me lately. I used to adore the Elder Scrolls series, but Morrowind was really the peak and Oblivion was just a flat-out disappointment. Fallout 3 was, too (Oblivion--now with mutants!!), but it's slowly growing on me as I look at it less like a Fallout game and more as an end-of-the-world shooter-RPG hybrid. The Fable games are more simulators than RPGs, and while I tout Mass Effect as the best game of this console gen, it still has a lot of elements of a third person shooter.
Don't get me wrong, I think the combat of ME was a great improvement over the turn-based combat of most other BioWare titles (and this from a girl who lists Baldur's Gate as her favorite game ever). The problem with turn-based combat is that it's a throwback to the old tabletop days. But much as I love my pen-and-paper D&D, a video game is not a tabletop title. If you can take advantage of real-time combat, you should. It's more immersive.
I think the point of this rant is to say I play a lot of RPGs, and the ones I like, I really like. The ones that disappoint me, though...I tend to loathe.
Don't get me wrong, I think the combat of ME was a great improvement over the turn-based combat of most other BioWare titles (and this from a girl who lists Baldur's Gate as her favorite game ever). The problem with turn-based combat is that it's a throwback to the old tabletop days. But much as I love my pen-and-paper D&D, a video game is not a tabletop title. If you can take advantage of real-time combat, you should. It's more immersive.
I think the point of this rant is to say I play a lot of RPGs, and the ones I like, I really like. The ones that disappoint me, though...I tend to loathe.
I mostly like RPG. The story is what is most important to me, and also, the setting, which in RPGs are mostly a fantasy settings. In a close second is the F/TPS.