Poll: Your "Pet" Genre?

[Najos]

I said WRPG, but it is more of a fascination with sandbox games. I love the GTA series, Elder Scrolls, Just Cause, Saints Row, etc. Ultima Online was one of my first sandbox experiences and I spent a huge portion of my life playing it.

Hm is Just Cause worth playing on the PC? I remember borrowing playing Just Cause 2 at a friends place for a while only to realise that the game had been crippled by consolisation: a lock-on feature was garnered mandatory because aiming with the mouse had a full-second delay; and the gimmicky double-weapon wield seemed obtrusive and unnecessary. Didn't go down well for me.

I haven't played the first one on PC, but I don't think my opinion would matter with you because I actually like the second one on PC a lot. It isn't as responsive as an average PC shooter, but the scenery and the uniqueness of the grappling hook thing are just awesome to me. I also like that I can blow all kinds of shit up.

 

[Zorak the Mantis]

Other: Combat Flight Sims, specifically sci-fi ones

 

[nico74]

Maybe sports, but baseball only, specifically the MLB series on the Playstation. It's the only sport I like, and it is the only sports game I like. I will pour hundreds of hours into those MLB games. I can finally bring the White Sox back to their 2005 glory every year.

I was a fan of the 2005 season as well. Except for a major difference...I am an Astros fan. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

/looks at his own user name... then back to you.

Take a guess. I love sandboxes. Being able to play with my toys in any way I choose seems like the pinnacle of game-playing to me.

 

[WorldCritic]

What, no love for the platformers? Whatever, my pet genre is the entire genre of RPGs, both W and J.

 

[chronicfc]

I also have a bit of a gripe about your separation of JRPGs and WRPGs. I understand that they have some rather different formats and that considering your choice you might not want have been mistaken liking all types of RPGs, but come on!
Surely JRPGs are not so different from other kinds of RPGs that they get a separate vote and platformers do not. If you're going to coop up all the different kinds of shooters in with action games, then surely you could have done that with the RPG genre.
Or what about Action-Adventure? That's just a hybrid between two of your other posted genres, not to mention that you did not specify Adventure games to only be "point-and-click" adventure games.
And what about sandboxes? Did you hypothesise that sports games are played more than sandboxes are?
I just think this poll isn't very representative of genres in general.

1. I wanted to see which branch of the RPG was more popular, without wanting to start some sort of flame war
2. I classify sandboxes and shooters as more of a game mechanic, example, Fallout 3 has a sandbox world and first person shooting
3. Action-Adventure is that very weird hybrid genre, apparently some people use it, as evidenced by the fact that 17 people have voted for it (I guess they were voting for the likes of Drakes Uncharted and Lara Croft)
4. Some WRPG fans really don't like JRPGs, conversely some JRPG fans really don't like WRPGs, it was just my attempt at addressing that issue

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

I love survival Horror. Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Resident Evil, Amnesia...all excellent. Always looking for more!

 

[s0p0g]

T/FPS; favourites until this day: Q3A (great mechanics, great wepons, great voice-over, great maps, great modding capability, awesome in both multi- and single-player, and of course QUAD DAMAGE!!) for FPS, closely followed by UT classic (1000 points inst-gib ftw!) and Goldeneye 64 (no comments necessary) and Perfect Dark (title says it). when it comes it comes to m0ar-players online dakka, BF:V

best TPS is Max Payne. can't touch this. other - also great - TPSes come waaay behind it; it's the Baldur's Gate 2/Planescape: Torment of TPS

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1. I wanted to see which branch of the RPG was more popular, without wanting to start some sort of flame war
2. I classify sandboxes and shooters as more of a game mechanic, example, Fallout 3 has a sandbox world and first person shooting
3. Action-Adventure is that very weird hybrid genre, apparently some people use it, as evidenced by the fact that 17 people have voted for it (I guess they were voting for the likes of Drakes Uncharted and Lara Croft)
4. Some WRPG fans really don't like JRPGs, conversely some JRPG fans really don't like WRPGs, it was just my attempt at addressing that issue

Chaos! Panic! What is this!?
a voice of reason, here, on our most beloved forum evar?

no, seriously, i think that sounds quite reasonable. also, someone certainly would've said something if you had thrown them both together, so i guess when it comes to RPGs there is no correct way to handle them

 

[firelightning1]

Has to be western RPG, I loved Fallout 1,2,3 and New Vegas was also a fan of Oblivion and contrary to everyone else I actually enjoyed Alpha Protocal to an extent but did find it lacking.

 

[Garth Gaffney]

Action Adventure definitely, especially if a well structured story with underlying themes is included.

 

[Farther than stars]

4. Some WRPG fans really don't like JRPGs, conversely some JRPG fans really don't like WRPGs, it was just my attempt at addressing that issue

I know. That's what I said, but I do feel that it was a very biased choice. What about the people who like playing fighting games (action), but despise playing FPSs. I feel there's a far greater conflict of gameplay over in that corner than between JRPGs and WRPGs (just to name an example).