Favorite TYPE of videogame and why

[King Mark 3,626]

poll.

 

you can pick more than one buy try to limit to 5 choices

 

As suspected my choices are in the RPG realm and single player shooter

 

I severely dislike anything that's 2D side scrolling in this era of games and not crazy about isometric view either

 

Never play sport or Racing games by lack of interest

 

Old games should be left in the past unless they re-master them to today's standards

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I'm happy playing Sonic, Mario or Simon.

[Arpy 4,145]

Cinematic: The Last of Us and Uncharted are great at delivering film-like stories and are quite immersive. It's like stepping through a window into a film; I like the ability to walk around, inspect, interact and experience a virtual world and be taken on a journey at the same time.

[Ollie 1,059]

Sports. (Golf, football, basketball)

 

Why? Because I love sports

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

5 minutes ago, Arpy said:

Cinematic: The Last of Us and Uncharted are great at delivering film-like stories and are quite immersive. It's like stepping through a window into a film; I like the ability to walk around, inspect, interact and experience a virtual world and be taken on a journey at the same time.

 

I loved The Last of Us, but I've never had the urge to replay it.

[Arpy 4,145]

Yeah, me too and I guess I won't replay it since part 2 is coming out soon. The Uncharted games have more replay value with the various puzzles and action sections.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Lots of Star Wars games. NES/Game Boy SW, Super SW trilogy (I still remember some of the passwords), Shadows of the Empire, The Phantom Menace and many others.

 

I have enjoyed so many genres of games before I just stopped playing them entirely because I'm an adult, I can't really narrow it down. Side-scrollers are to me the most classic and perfect games. Pre-NES games are overrated and mostly shit. What I'm getting at is NES is when games got really great with that good old side-scrolling format.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Most NES games were kinda clunky though, with several notable exceptions. The side-scrolling format wasn't really perfected until the SNES and the Mega Drive.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

[Holko 9,499]

Anything that's not Blizzard!

[Arpy 4,145]

Can't stand WoW nonsense! 

[Sweeping Strings 2,346]

Mostly first and third person shooters (offline ... don't need some little shit from Buttfuck Arkansas screaming down the headset that 'YOU FUCKIN' SUCK, MAN!YOU GOT THE WHOLE GODDAMN SQUAD KILLED!')  and 'cinematic' action games, the Uncharted series being the cream of the crop for me. 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

1 minute ago, Sweeping Strings said:

little shit from Buttfuck Arkansas

 

Joeinar?

[Sweeping Strings 2,346]

Hehehe. By way of origin explanation - 

 

 https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bufu&page=2

[Jay 37,317]

"Old games" isn't a TYPE of game, Mark

[Edmilson 7,394]

11 hours ago, Arpy said:

Yeah, me too and I guess I won't replay it since part 2 is coming out soon. The Uncharted games have more replay value with the various puzzles and action sections.

 

Indeed. TLOU is great, but is also too dark and depressing. The Uncharted series is funnier and has more action, although I'm not a fan of the first one (I prefer the sequels).

[Quintus 5,399]

I don't know why people still seem to automatically assume online play incurs the sound of randomers chatting shite down one's headset. I play online all the time and never hear a word nor speak a word to anyone, unless I choose to enable those features. Which I don't (unless I'm on with my regular group).

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Not voting because KM’s breakdowns are kinda weird. But, for me, I like a pretty wide variety of stuff as long as it’s fun to play. 
 

What takes up most of my game time, though, would be FPSs, third person action adventure, and open world RPGs. 

[Jay 37,317]

5 minutes ago, Koray Savas said:

for me, I like a pretty wide variety of stuff as long as it’s fun to play. 

This

[mstrox 6,647]

2d platformer, 3D platformer, open world rpg, cinematic action, lego 

[Wojo 2,453]

2 hours ago, Koray Savas said:

open world RPGs. 

 

Is Obsidian's The Outer Worlds on your radar?

 

We know it'll be a bug fest though. 

2 hours ago, Koray Savas said:

Not voting because KM’s breakdowns are kinda weird.

 

His breakdowns reflect his own preferences. Very RPG-centric but which gloss over everything else. 

[Nick Parker 3,040]

1 minute ago, woj said:

 

Is Obsidian's The Outer Worlds on your radar?

 

We know it'll be a bug fest though. 

 

Will they actually have a full, not rushed development schedule on this one?

[Wojo 2,453]

5 minutes ago, Nick Parker said:

 

Will they actually have a full, not rushed development schedule on this one?

 

I hope so!  It releases on 25 October!

[Nick Parker 3,040]

4 minutes ago, woj said:

 

 

Well here's hoping they break their "This game is great, better than its predecessors but too bad it's buggy as NYC studios" curse!

[Wojo 2,453]

There are some articles online that discuss them breaking their history of buggy releases. I will read them in the coming days. Tonight or tomorrow, I'll be buying Pine. 

[Bespin 8,480]

other: with nudity.

[Wojo 2,453]

You're old enough to have played Custer's Revenge in the arcade. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

5 hours ago, woj said:

Is Obsidian's The Outer Worlds on your radar?

 

We know it'll be a bug fest though. 

Yep, looking forward to that one. The advertising is really playing up the Fallout spiritual successor vibe, so I’m all in. 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,506]

My favourite video game is the one played on the telly, with a white line on each side of the TV screen, and a white square, moving between them. It made little "blip" noises. Brilliant.

[Bespin 8,480]

6 minutes ago, Richard said:

My favourite video game is the one played on the telly, with a white line on each side of the TV screen, and a white square, moving between them. It made little "blip" noises. Brilliant.

 

Pong!

 

[Quintus 5,399]

Richard: Check out my naive old fart routine everyone, isn't it convincing?

 

Everyone: No it isn't!

[Nick Parker 3,040]

2 hours ago, Quintus said:

Richard: Check out my naive old fart routine everyone, isn't it convincing?

 

Everyone: No it isn't!

 

 

:' (

[Quintus 5,399]

Richard just likes to act like he's out of touch with new fangled tech, but I bet he knows plenty really 

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

That's like a baby's toy.

[King Mark 3,626]

I made this thread to see a picture of what people are playing here

 

I thought some categories would have more votes like online shooters. Also it seems to confirm I'm sort of alone with JRPG's (apart from the big name ones like Zelda and Final Fantasy)

 

 

[Romão 2,274]

Graphic Adventure games, like the ones made by LucasArts during their golden age

[Arpy 4,145]

Anyone play Jedi Outcast? I remember the battle mode and the awkward lightsaber swings and jumping...

[Jay 37,317]

37 minutes ago, Romão said:

Graphic Adventure games, like the ones made by LucasArts during their golden age

 

That might actually be my answer, in terms of what I got the most enjoyment out of, but it's also a genre I haven't played in 20 years other than Oxenfree so I dunno if it's the right answer

[Holko 9,499]

4 hours ago, Arpy said:

Anyone play Jedi Outcast? I remember the battle mode and the awkward lightsaber swings and jumping...

I used to play multi against bots a lot because I couldn't figure out you had to push E to activate buttons and so never got past the first area of single player!

[Quintus 5,399]

The specific question posed by the poll means it doesn't really reflect a true picture of what people are playing anyway.

 

For instance, I enjoy certain 2D and 3D platformers, racing games and puzzle titles (Portal 2 is in my top 3 GOAT), but generally these genres aren't necessarily my 'go to' experiences, or my "favourites".

 

Anyone else also occasionally partial to RTS war games? Huge genre not on the list.

[Romão 2,274]

7 hours ago, Jay said:

 

That might actually be my answer, in terms of what I got the most enjoyment out of, but it's also a genre I haven't played in 20 years other than Oxenfree so I dunno if it's the right answer

 

Thimbleweed Park was pretty great. And the recent remasters of LucasArts classics are all worth playing (specially Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango)

[Wojo 2,453]

7 hours ago, Quintus said:

 

Anyone else also occasionally partial to RTS war games? Huge genre not on the list.

 

I truly love strategy games, whether they are real time or turn based. KM does not play those and he doesn't see the distinction, so he just lumped them in with top down or simulation categories. That's why I won't vote meaningfully. 

 

Unless... 

[Nick Parker 3,040]

7 hours ago, Quintus said:

Anyone else also occasionally partial to RTS war games? Huge genre not on the list.

 

_Huge_ fan! Been years since I've played one, though, some of them have gotten so complex, where you're not just managing troops etc. but entire economies and societies (dare I say civilizations). I've been on the lookout for a good, more streamlined one that captures that deliberate, almost nautical tactics feel for a while.

[Oomoog the Ecstatic 314]

I'm not into most puzzle games. My favorite genre however by a landslide is story-puzzle games, such as Majora's Mask, Monkey Island series, Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, perhaps maybe the newer kind like Heavy Rain. Gameplay that is truly explorative and worth exploring, always changing in figuring out every moment, gameplay that actually serves an emotional/mental purpose. It doesn't have to be point-and-click, but host any theme of detectivey investigation and solving scenarios of the world and others lives, clever gameplay-story synthesis as its core gameplay, unforgettable adventures and lessons, places and characters to really immerse in and explore and interchange ideas and actions with, to truly relate to the gameplay deeper than other games. All variety of character-puzzles of back-and-forth world exploration. It's definitely a genre that the industry doesn't develop to its fullest capability because these games easily take the most effort to make, hands-down, and the industry nowadays is an artless business desert. Every second of gameplay the developers of these games have to think of a new story-mechanic to cleverly integrate with the flow of the open world, and nowadays the formula can be vastly improved, if the industry was still concerned with quality instead of advertisement/brainwashing. The 80s and 90s however have produced thousands of these games, it was the original genre. So grateful to have real games.

 

Edit: see this link. Wonderful people, wonderful forums.

 

My least favorite genre is probably anything RPG or junk-item collection-based--just repetitive hacking and upgrading nonsense. Some RPGs have had wonderful stories, but the gameplay itself is always utterly foolish and lackluster in any depth or cleverness. You keep track of numbers and junk items, repetitive equipment or recipes to find and upgrade, characters to upgrade, and you know its great gameplay when you're just killing things... It's a very mindless quantity > quality gameplay. My favorite genre is of the most quality and thought to develop and the most imagination to use, putting your imagination and creative-mind into full throttle, endless exploration that is interconnective, inspiring the mind into the integration of clever story ideas directly with the game world, weaving together deep and interconnected character-puzzles to explore around and interrogate in order to solve, not these long and copypasta carbon-copy games. The industry is pretty awful nowadays in my opinion, they've really twisted young minds into embracing brainless and valueless activity.

[Quintus 5,399]

29 minutes ago, Borodin said:

My favorite genre is one of the most quality and thought to develop and the most imagination to use, putting your imagination and creative-mind into full throttle, so much exploration, always inspiring and weaving to deep new scenarios to solve, clever ideas to their story to wrap your mind around, each and every place to explore, not necessarily long and copypasta like so many of these cheaply made carbon-copy games. 

 

As a grizzled and easily bored gamer these days, this is exactly what I look for in new single player experiences.

 

Out of interest, have you heard of The Outer Wilds? It's supposed to be crazy inventive and surprising. Game of the year for a lot of people it seems.

 

 

[Wojo 2,453]

Shoot, there's another fun looking game I've never heard of. Between that and Pine, I don't know how to spend my day. 

[Oomoog the Ecstatic 314]

This is pretty much the sister forum to Williams/Spielberg forums. LucasArts driving the genre to peak success, So many classics, endless memories. This forum talks about all kinds of new games that are interesting and related to adventure games.

 

41 minutes ago, Quintus said:

Out of interest, have you heard of The Outer Wilds? It's supposed to be crazy inventive and surprising. Game of the year for a lot of people it seems.

 

I will have to check that one out and see if it's interesting. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Wojo 2,453]

Hmmm. The Outer Wilds is not on Steam yet. 

 

And the reviews for Pine haven't sold me yet. 

[Jay 37,317]

On 10/12/2019 at 5:17 AM, Romão said:

 

Thimbleweed Park was pretty great. And the recent remasters of LucasArts classics are all worth playing (specially Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango)

 

Yea I got Grim Fandango and Broken Age on my Switch but haven't started yet

[Wojo 2,453]

23 hours ago, Quintus said:

 

As a grizzled and easily bored gamer these days, this is exactly what I look for in new single player experiences.

 

Out of interest, have you heard of The Outer Wilds? It's supposed to be crazy inventive and surprising. Game of the year for a lot of people it seems.

 

 

 

This is on Epic Games store on PC, not Steam. And whatever Xbox number they're up to.