What are you a connoisseur of? Gaming Wise?

[Pipotchi]

Lets say you've been playing games for a fair few years now on a variety of consoles and PCs. what genre or genres to you consider youself well versed in.

Are you one of those flightsim people that invests in Joysticks with scary amounts of buttons and hold valid conversations about Yaw and Newtonian physics? Do you prefer fighting games and buying chinky Mad Catz arcade sticks and memorising 20 button combos.

To get the ball rolling I consider myself pretty educated in scary games. Dead Space, Resident Evil, Amnesia, Ravenholm, System Shock 2, that Orphanage level in Thief 3, The Seafront hotel in Vampire Masquerade, I like to think I've been about and played my way

On the flipside I can't play fighting games for shit anymore, I was pretty good at SF2 Turbo and its been downhill ever since, dont have the reaction times any longer.

So over to you Escapists? What genre of game can you enthuse upon like there is no tomorrow and which leaves you cold

 

[Strain42]

I don't think there is any specific genre that I consider myself well versed in, since every genre has things I like and things I don't.

I do consider myself quite well versed in iOS titles though, as well as MegaTen, Pokemon and Ace Attorney.

 

[Terminate421]

First Person Shooters and Pokemon I have pretty much down to the period.

Same goes for Metroid games.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

I'm into action-heavy platformers and beat-em-ups. Devil May Cry, Mega Man (especially the Zero series), and Contra are among my favourites.

 

[Pipotchi]

I don't know if I can enthuse upon any particular genre or game but I am like a walking gaming and movie wikipedia. I have a mountain of useless information pertaining to both subjects.

Thats true, a lifetime of playing games where you use automatic weaponry has left me know way more about rifles and SMGs that I should. I mean I live in a country where I cannot even own a gun, I shouldnt even know what an M14 is let alone be able to discus why I prefer a red dot or holographic sight on it.

That said the Total War games have given me quite a history lesson

 

[teqrevisited]

I could talk at great length about Final Fantasy I through to X. I,II,V and VI are my least well known of the lot, since I've had far less time to play them. I know III, IV and VII upwards inside out though. Secrets, rumours, theories and strategies.

I also know Tomb Raider 1 to Chronicles like the back of my hand.

They're narrow veins of information, but they're there nonetheless.

 

[TakeyB0y2]

It changes for me every 2 years or so, but as far back as I can remember, it kinda went like this;

Resident Evil -> Silent Hill -> Final Fantasy -> Persona -> Non-Persona MegaTen games -> Mass Effect -> Trauma Center.

Basically I'd become obsessed with one game series at a time and play the hell out of it before discovering something else and moving on.

 

[purplecactus]

If I had to pin it down, I guess I'd say RPG type games. At the very least, I could go on and on and on if someone got me started. Yeah I'd probably be talking a lot of crap, but hey, it works for me when put into actual gaming action.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

I used to be all about the JRPGs, those and platformers were pretty much the only games I played. Not so much these days, now I pretty much play everything, and I wouldn't consider myself an expert in any of it.

 

[krazykidd]

Mostly jrpgs . I could talk about them for HOURS . Mainly the Final fantasy series and the SMT series .

I own a madcata arcade stick but i got into fighting games with the release of UMVC3 in november . But i like how owning a stick apparently makes me a connoisseur ... Yay me!

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Hard to say, I don't really specialize in any genre. This also means I'm not particularly good at, or knowledgeable about, any of them. Sort of a jack of all trades, master of none. I just like my gaming eclectic.

Maybe cult games. By which I mean I am an avid collector of the gems that flew under the radar.

 

[TheFinish]

Point and Click Adventure games from the Golden Days of Lucasarts and Sierra.

And First Person Shootahs.

 

[Starik20X6]

Nintendo. Anything Nintendo is my chosen subject.

I'd also say I'm a connoisseur of the odd. Games like de Blob, Zack and Wiki, Boom Blox... I tend to be drawn to the weird, strange sorts of games that nobody knows about. And now I sound like some sort of gaming hipster.

 

[bluesession]

RTS. I think I've played almost every rts ever released.
Turn Based strategy second.

 

[hoboman29]

Major fan of fighting games.
I know the rudiments to a lot of different games and I know how different characters work with different playstyles and other such nerdy things.

 

[Goody]

Thats true, a lifetime of playing games where you use automatic weaponry has left me know way more about rifles and SMGs that I should. I mean I live in a country where I cannot even own a gun, I shouldnt even know what an M14 is let alone be able to discus why I prefer a red dot or holographic sight on it.

That said the Total War games have given me quite a history lesson

Games do not give a good idea about any real information on guns, speaking of which I can usually point out when games get things wrong about guns, with Call of Duty being the worst offender for this type of thing.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Nintendo, specifically your Zeldas, Metroids, Advance Warses, and Marios. There will always be one that is just "better" to me than all the others. No Zelda is as good as Wind Waker, no Metroid is as good as Fusion. no Advance Wars will be as good as 2, and no Mario is as good as Sunshine. However, even though I know this, I buy and play every thing that gets put out. Actually, the Wii U might be the very first Nintendo system I skip out on. It just seems doomed from the outset. I still haven't taken the plunge on a 3ds.

Also, the Nintendo art style series of downloadable games. I have almost all of them. I even wrote a long note on facebook reviewing every Art Style game I own, breaking them down and trying to describe each one's gameplay.

 

[Razentsu]

Fighting games are my thing. It's my favourite genre, and it's the genre I'm most knowledgeable about. I play a large variety of fighters, from the slow, methodical style of Street Fighter, to the fast and fluid style of Melty Blood. I love my mainstream fighters and my poverty fighters, and I love my honest fighters, and my broken fighters. I think I could even enjoy the hated and mishandled Street Fighter X Tekken. I'm not good at every fighter I play, but I love pretty much all of them.

I'll play nearly any fighting game so long as there is competition. I mean, if anyone wants to start playing Vanguard Princess, then please PM me. That game is legit. Or if anyone wants to try out IaMP with me, that would be cool too.

What genre I don't understand is racing. I can't tell between my Need for Speeds, Gran Turismos, Burnouts and whatnots. And historically, I've been pretty awful at racing games.