What type of games do you actually play?
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A LOT of J-RPGs with dash of action stuff and some MMO.
Last 3 games i played
Persona 4 Golden on Vita
Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory on PS3
Bioshock Infinite
Last 3 games i played
Persona 4 Golden on Vita
Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory on PS3
Bioshock Infinite
The genres that I enjoy playing include RPG, Action, Adventure, Platforming, Puzzle, and Beat em' Up/Hack and Slash.
Over the years, I've been slowly getting into the Shooter, Stealth, Fighting, and Racing genres, so long as they provide a decent single player campaign and/or unique gameplay.
I play a lot of recent and old titles on my PS3 via hard disk copy or downloaded from the PSN. I also play plenty of titles on my DS, PSP, Wii, PS2, and iPod.
Over the years, I've been slowly getting into the Shooter, Stealth, Fighting, and Racing genres, so long as they provide a decent single player campaign and/or unique gameplay.
I play a lot of recent and old titles on my PS3 via hard disk copy or downloaded from the PSN. I also play plenty of titles on my DS, PSP, Wii, PS2, and iPod.
The types that I play most (in no particular order):
-RPGs (Western or Japanese, depending on my general mood)
-Action (Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider, Uncharted, etc.)
-Turn-based strategy (Fire Emblem and Civ are my favorites; I want to try X-COM)
-Non-"realistic" FPS (Bioshock, Unreal Tournament III, Halo, Half-Life, etc.)
Games that I almost never play, barring some exceptions:
-Puzzle (except Teris Attack/Puzzle League, Puzzle Quest, and Portal)
-Fighting (except I love Smash Bros. and old-school Street Fighter)
-Racing (except I love Mario Kart and pretty much any other non-serious racer with power-ups and "combat" built-in)
-"Realistic" FPS (except the original Modern Warfare which had an excellent campaign and non-ridiculous multiplayer; COD went way downhill from there)
Games I'll never play:
Sports (If I was interested in sports, I'd go outside and play it for real)
RTS (I like them conceptually, but I SUCK at them in practice; fast-paced micromanagement and I DO NOT mix)
-RPGs (Western or Japanese, depending on my general mood)
-Action (Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider, Uncharted, etc.)
-Turn-based strategy (Fire Emblem and Civ are my favorites; I want to try X-COM)
-Non-"realistic" FPS (Bioshock, Unreal Tournament III, Halo, Half-Life, etc.)
Games that I almost never play, barring some exceptions:
-Puzzle (except Teris Attack/Puzzle League, Puzzle Quest, and Portal)
-Fighting (except I love Smash Bros. and old-school Street Fighter)
-Racing (except I love Mario Kart and pretty much any other non-serious racer with power-ups and "combat" built-in)
-"Realistic" FPS (except the original Modern Warfare which had an excellent campaign and non-ridiculous multiplayer; COD went way downhill from there)
Games I'll never play:
Sports (If I was interested in sports, I'd go outside and play it for real)
RTS (I like them conceptually, but I SUCK at them in practice; fast-paced micromanagement and I DO NOT mix)
Car combat games and FPS's (albeit those who do something diffirent or who come with an amazing setting/atmosphere).
I have ALWAYS been an RPGer. From the first one I ever played on Commodore (Fairy Tale Adventure) to the latest Elder Scroll. I grew up on absolutely loving JRPGs like the Phantasy Stars but over the years I've leaned more towards WRPGs like the Wizardry series.
I've also always been a huge fan of turn-based strategy games like Masters of Magic and the Master of Orions (first 2!) Warlock and Fallen Enchantress are decent modern day examples but I do miss the classics like the original King's Bounty?
I've never been big into platformers and have grown even more distant from them. Also never cared for the direction shooters have gone since the days of Quake and Hexen. Some of the newer ones are fun when I'm just in the mood to mindlessly kill someone, like after a frustrating day at work with morons for management. Team Fortress 2, Rainbow 6 series, others that require at least a little bit of strategy tend to be the ones I'll go to though. And then there's RTS. Loved the beginning days of Orcs and Humans and Command & Conquer, but grew cold towards all the micromanagement involved.
Adventure games are another old favorite (Lucas Arts!) but really haven't gotten into as much recently. The only one recently I can even remember loving was the more Action-Horror adventures in Silent Hill.
MMOs are another thing I will not touch. I played very little before WoW claiming I'd never get hooked on the pay-to-plays but once I experienced the alpha I knew I was a goner. Absolutely loved that game throughout the vanilla experience. But then the first expansion came out and I felt all the time I invested into that game was for naught. Going from one of the best players on the server to even keel with even the newest of noobs was very disheartening. Made even worse by the fact most players never even got to experience most of the original encounters/ experiences that made that game so great in the first place. After beating the Burning Crusade with several charecters, I decided I wasn't going to keep going with another. What was the point? Spending all day/week/month/year grinding just to lose it all? Figured I'd rather just make a life for myself in the real world and get paid for my work. Never again.
Mostly these days though I find myself playing the more casual games. Games that don't steal a lot of attention that I really can't spare with a family. PopCap and some indie games like FTL and Little Inferno are great! Especially with a three year old on my lap helping out.
And then there's Borderlands 2. I first bought Borderlands for the PS3 and wasn't impressed. It was okay for a shooter, but not good enough to keep me involved. But then I picked it up years later on Steam to play with my best friend. Ended up leaving his character in the dust, beating the game, the expansions, and then passing him by again on another character. So when Borderlands 2 came out I was definitely intrigued and have been loving that game ever since.
I've also always been a huge fan of turn-based strategy games like Masters of Magic and the Master of Orions (first 2!) Warlock and Fallen Enchantress are decent modern day examples but I do miss the classics like the original King's Bounty?
I've never been big into platformers and have grown even more distant from them. Also never cared for the direction shooters have gone since the days of Quake and Hexen. Some of the newer ones are fun when I'm just in the mood to mindlessly kill someone, like after a frustrating day at work with morons for management. Team Fortress 2, Rainbow 6 series, others that require at least a little bit of strategy tend to be the ones I'll go to though. And then there's RTS. Loved the beginning days of Orcs and Humans and Command & Conquer, but grew cold towards all the micromanagement involved.
Adventure games are another old favorite (Lucas Arts!) but really haven't gotten into as much recently. The only one recently I can even remember loving was the more Action-Horror adventures in Silent Hill.
MMOs are another thing I will not touch. I played very little before WoW claiming I'd never get hooked on the pay-to-plays but once I experienced the alpha I knew I was a goner. Absolutely loved that game throughout the vanilla experience. But then the first expansion came out and I felt all the time I invested into that game was for naught. Going from one of the best players on the server to even keel with even the newest of noobs was very disheartening. Made even worse by the fact most players never even got to experience most of the original encounters/ experiences that made that game so great in the first place. After beating the Burning Crusade with several charecters, I decided I wasn't going to keep going with another. What was the point? Spending all day/week/month/year grinding just to lose it all? Figured I'd rather just make a life for myself in the real world and get paid for my work. Never again.
Mostly these days though I find myself playing the more casual games. Games that don't steal a lot of attention that I really can't spare with a family. PopCap and some indie games like FTL and Little Inferno are great! Especially with a three year old on my lap helping out.
And then there's Borderlands 2. I first bought Borderlands for the PS3 and wasn't impressed. It was okay for a shooter, but not good enough to keep me involved. But then I picked it up years later on Steam to play with my best friend. Ended up leaving his character in the dust, beating the game, the expansions, and then passing him by again on another character. So when Borderlands 2 came out I was definitely intrigued and have been loving that game ever since.
Screw your fancy looking NES/SNES box, Genesis/Mega Drive <=That's where the cool boxes were at made of diamond hard plastic (may not be true) vs baby cardboard (also probably not true). I'm joking for the most part but on a serious note SNES boxes! So rare why'd they do cardboard it makes me sad I had to get SuperMetroid naked because the box is worth like 50 bucks itself.
This may sound stupid but I've been playing FPS games since I was a wee lad, Wolfenstein 3D, Blake Stone, Zero Tolerance, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D to Metal of Honor on PS and PS2 moving on up, so it's not just been this recent FPS craze I played a TON of different games on Sega Channel, a lot of which weren't around in the US, then got to play some random SNES/N64 games on my friend/cousins consoles so I got to experience a wide variety of fun titles.
That said, I'm mostly on PC now in terms of what gets played but the older games like PS2 and older? Totally awesome on the console. It's nice to be able to turn on something and just play for a bit without having to wait for a dl/install for 20 min on PS3.
To wrap up this monster post: When I play classic games I mainly play games that no one ever seems to know of, it's rare someone quotes me and says "I know that game!"
Phantasy Star IV- No it's not Phantasy Star ONLINE, it's an actual RPG and one of the best of it's kind, way ahead of the period and is amazing. I know almost no one who's played it, it's always Final Fantasy or whatever.
Flashback- It's getting remade! Who cares, it's probably going to wind up being better on the Genesis/Amiga/Dos/SEGA CD if the trailer is anything to go by. Uncharted? Pfff how about that but from 1993 and 2D and AMAZING. "FMV" back in '93, platforming and 2D 'realistic' gunplay AND on a cartridge? Hell yeah!
Beyond Oasis- It's LIKE Zelda only on the Genesis, so therefore nothing important 'cause Nintendo didn't make it.
Streets of Rage- Screw Final Fight, screw River City Ransom, Castle Crashers, Scott Pi- Okay that was a good one. These are still great beat 'em ups I go back to.
Breath of Fire 2 & 3 & 4- Yeah this series is basically dead, it's Capcom so probably never to see a revival unless it's as an action shooter.
Shining Force 1 & 2- Not that GBA or PS2 crap, a fun turn base strat game like Fire Emblem and -
Final Fantasy Tactics- The best turn based strat game, I'm sure you may think Fire Emblem or Total War are better but you are wrong because Tactics, the music, the huge replay value, the variety of characters to build, the heroes ahhh (Opinions may vary, and I'm not serious about it being better! Just playing around..maybe.)
GBA Games- There's more than Pokemon, Zelda and Mario on the freaking thing but NO ONE talks about it, Summon Knight 1 & 2, Lady Sia, Scurge (that's how it's spelled), Shining Force, Kirby, Sonic Advance 1-3, Drill Dozer
Stop only playing super popular games and look into something lesser known. Don't replay Final Fantasy 3/6 for the 10th time give a RPG on another console a try, screw Mario try Drill Dozer on GBA.
HUGE POST OVER
This may sound stupid but I've been playing FPS games since I was a wee lad, Wolfenstein 3D, Blake Stone, Zero Tolerance, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D to Metal of Honor on PS and PS2 moving on up, so it's not just been this recent FPS craze I played a TON of different games on Sega Channel, a lot of which weren't around in the US, then got to play some random SNES/N64 games on my friend/cousins consoles so I got to experience a wide variety of fun titles.
That said, I'm mostly on PC now in terms of what gets played but the older games like PS2 and older? Totally awesome on the console. It's nice to be able to turn on something and just play for a bit without having to wait for a dl/install for 20 min on PS3.
To wrap up this monster post: When I play classic games I mainly play games that no one ever seems to know of, it's rare someone quotes me and says "I know that game!"
Phantasy Star IV- No it's not Phantasy Star ONLINE, it's an actual RPG and one of the best of it's kind, way ahead of the period and is amazing. I know almost no one who's played it, it's always Final Fantasy or whatever.
Flashback- It's getting remade! Who cares, it's probably going to wind up being better on the Genesis/Amiga/Dos/SEGA CD if the trailer is anything to go by. Uncharted? Pfff how about that but from 1993 and 2D and AMAZING. "FMV" back in '93, platforming and 2D 'realistic' gunplay AND on a cartridge? Hell yeah!
Beyond Oasis- It's LIKE Zelda only on the Genesis, so therefore nothing important 'cause Nintendo didn't make it.
Streets of Rage- Screw Final Fight, screw River City Ransom, Castle Crashers, Scott Pi- Okay that was a good one. These are still great beat 'em ups I go back to.
Breath of Fire 2 & 3 & 4- Yeah this series is basically dead, it's Capcom so probably never to see a revival unless it's as an action shooter.
Shining Force 1 & 2- Not that GBA or PS2 crap, a fun turn base strat game like Fire Emblem and -
Final Fantasy Tactics- The best turn based strat game, I'm sure you may think Fire Emblem or Total War are better but you are wrong because Tactics, the music, the huge replay value, the variety of characters to build, the heroes ahhh (Opinions may vary, and I'm not serious about it being better! Just playing around..maybe.)
GBA Games- There's more than Pokemon, Zelda and Mario on the freaking thing but NO ONE talks about it, Summon Knight 1 & 2, Lady Sia, Scurge (that's how it's spelled), Shining Force, Kirby, Sonic Advance 1-3, Drill Dozer
Stop only playing super popular games and look into something lesser known. Don't replay Final Fantasy 3/6 for the 10th time give a RPG on another console a try, screw Mario try Drill Dozer on GBA.
HUGE POST OVER
Everybody sucks at Starcraft II. It takes dedication to not suck at it anymore. XDJacques Joseph said:I´ve also played a bit of StarCraft II but I suck too much
OT: I'll play most anything that catches my fancy. MOBAs, RTS, isometric ARPGs, WRPGs, JRPGs, action-adventure, first-person shooter, third-person shooter, fighting, racing, stealth, hack&slash, turn-based strategy, platformer, on and on and on and on...
In fact, I'll give examples!
MOBA: League of Legends, Super Monday Night Combat (third-person shooter hybrid)
RTS: Warcraft III, Starcraft - Playing them for the stories. I've got Starcraft II, which I might try out the multi-player every now and then, but I'm not moving into it until I finish the first one.
Isometric ARPG: Diablo III, Torchlight II
WRPG: Dragon Age, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, The Witcher 2
JRPG: Persona 4 Golden, Final Fantasy IX, Dark Souls
Action-Adventure: Darksiders, Okami, Batman: Arkham (stealth hybrid), Gravity Rush, Beyond Good & Evil
First-Person Shooter: Crysis, Bioshock, Halo
Third-Person Shooter: Mass Effect, Gears of War, Dead Space (horror hybrid)
Fighting: BlazBlue (Visual Novel hybrid), Super Smash Bros., Playstation All-Stars
Racing: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Mario Kart, Star Wars Racer - This genre's probably the least likely to catch my interest.
Stealth: Metal Gear Solid, Dishonored, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Mark of the Ninja
Hack&Slash: DmC, Metal Gear Rising
Turn-Based Strategy: XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Disgaea, Galactic Civilizations II (4X space game)
Platformer: Mirror's Edge, Sonic Generations, Psychonauts (Action-Adventure hybrid)
Adventure: The Walking Dead, Journey
Visual Novel: Steins;Gate
MMO: World of Warcraft, Star Trek Online
Survival-Horror: Amnesia: The Dark Descent
RTS: Warcraft III, Starcraft - Playing them for the stories. I've got Starcraft II, which I might try out the multi-player every now and then, but I'm not moving into it until I finish the first one.
Isometric ARPG: Diablo III, Torchlight II
WRPG: Dragon Age, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, The Witcher 2
JRPG: Persona 4 Golden, Final Fantasy IX, Dark Souls
Action-Adventure: Darksiders, Okami, Batman: Arkham (stealth hybrid), Gravity Rush, Beyond Good & Evil
First-Person Shooter: Crysis, Bioshock, Halo
Third-Person Shooter: Mass Effect, Gears of War, Dead Space (horror hybrid)
Fighting: BlazBlue (Visual Novel hybrid), Super Smash Bros., Playstation All-Stars
Racing: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Mario Kart, Star Wars Racer - This genre's probably the least likely to catch my interest.
Stealth: Metal Gear Solid, Dishonored, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Mark of the Ninja
Hack&Slash: DmC, Metal Gear Rising
Turn-Based Strategy: XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Disgaea, Galactic Civilizations II (4X space game)
Platformer: Mirror's Edge, Sonic Generations, Psychonauts (Action-Adventure hybrid)
Adventure: The Walking Dead, Journey
Visual Novel: Steins;Gate
MMO: World of Warcraft, Star Trek Online
Survival-Horror: Amnesia: The Dark Descent
I think you get the point.
EDIT: The biggest thing that tends to make me wary of a game is an open-world. There's very few open-world sandbox games I've actually liked, because I tend to get bored of a lack of focus. Skyrim I played for about 100 hours, but I never actually finished the storyline or anything. Assassin's Creed: BroHood and Revelations bored me so much I couldn't get more than about two or three hours into them, even after having loved II. About the only open-world game I've really taken a chance on and absolutely loved was Sleeping Dogs.
FPS titles, particularly. But none of that COD stuff. If you can combine 'em with RPGs, you've struck gold with me. I need to play more JRPG titles, besides Pokemon, because I absolutely loved Dark Chronicle, or Dark Cloud 2 in the US. In terms of fighting games, I love Soul Calibur, but I suck at them, and my jump to PC gaming means SC6 will not be within my reach when it's released. yeah, im not looking back to consoles outside of handhelds. I just find PC gaming a better experience in general. I have my emulator so I can still play my old PS2 games on PC if I want to.
Oh, I suck at RTS, too. I like MMMORPGs but the last one I played I can't even look at anymore because of some guy I played it with's...profound personality. Just...bad, unpleasant competitiveness and little fun.
Ugh...can't wait till these exams are over so I can get back to playing the vidya gaymes.
EDIT: Horror games, I absolutely must play more horror games.
Oh, I suck at RTS, too. I like MMMORPGs but the last one I played I can't even look at anymore because of some guy I played it with's...profound personality. Just...bad, unpleasant competitiveness and little fun.
Ugh...can't wait till these exams are over so I can get back to playing the vidya gaymes.
EDIT: Horror games, I absolutely must play more horror games.
At the moment I'm looking at a lot of the stuff coming out of Steam Greenlight. There are some interesting survival horror and TBS things coming up.
But more generally I'll play everything except MOBAs, Sports games and 1v1 fighting games. The genres I look for most are horror, sandbox and stealth games.
But more generally I'll play everything except MOBAs, Sports games and 1v1 fighting games. The genres I look for most are horror, sandbox and stealth games.
The game I play most is PySol Fan Club edition. It's what gets started when I'm waiting for something, like a file to copy or a chat room tech support rep to remember the definition of the word 'the.'
Aside from that it's the occasional shooter and the more common adventure game. Psychonauts, Bioshock, Portal, Grim Fandango, Nikopol, Monkey Island, Dreamkiller, Blade Kitten... Not really into the masses of murder, otherwise. Puzzle games. Mr. Robot, that kind of thing.
Aside from that it's the occasional shooter and the more common adventure game. Psychonauts, Bioshock, Portal, Grim Fandango, Nikopol, Monkey Island, Dreamkiller, Blade Kitten... Not really into the masses of murder, otherwise. Puzzle games. Mr. Robot, that kind of thing.
My most played genres in descending order are:
WRPGs
Strategy (Specifically Civ 5, Gal Civ 2 and Europa Universalis 3)
FPS/TPS (even mix)
My lesser played ones in descending order are:
Puzzle games
Visual Novels
JRPGs
Fighting Games
Survival Horror
I emulate alot of older Nintendo games (NES, SNES and 64 era) as well. I used to own all the systems but time an thieves got em eventually
I like to do a little bit of every genre but I stay away from any type of MOBA or MMO.
WRPGs
Strategy (Specifically Civ 5, Gal Civ 2 and Europa Universalis 3)
FPS/TPS (even mix)
My lesser played ones in descending order are:
Puzzle games
Visual Novels
JRPGs
Fighting Games
Survival Horror
I emulate alot of older Nintendo games (NES, SNES and 64 era) as well. I used to own all the systems but time an thieves got em eventually
I like to do a little bit of every genre but I stay away from any type of MOBA or MMO.
been in and out of gaming for the last few years, (lack of money, wife and kid) but back on it since Christmas time.
used to play far too much football manager (champ man)
really enjoyed farcry 3 and blood dragon
the walking dead episode game
bioshock infinite
then last month turned the pc into an arcade cabinet (with keyboard/mouse draw and usb inputs) and been playing MAME and pretty much every emulator available. Really enjoying some new pc games with the arcade controls (super meat boy and mark of the ninja) and some of the newer fighting games.
Oh and Ive just discovered M.U.G.E.N. in the last few days (its pretty awesome)
used to play far too much football manager (champ man)
really enjoyed farcry 3 and blood dragon
the walking dead episode game
bioshock infinite
then last month turned the pc into an arcade cabinet (with keyboard/mouse draw and usb inputs) and been playing MAME and pretty much every emulator available. Really enjoying some new pc games with the arcade controls (super meat boy and mark of the ninja) and some of the newer fighting games.
Oh and Ive just discovered M.U.G.E.N. in the last few days (its pretty awesome)
I bought all the Tomb Raider games on Steam for £45 and I guess my love for the original gameswill never die.
Aside from those I've been playing Civ since the third reincarnation (Civ V sucks though!),Halo, UT and Worms.
I guess that kinda makes me an old skool gamer; I certainly dislike the way the new Tomb Raider has these 'quicktime events' and appears quite linear though a Tomb Raider game is better than no Tomb Raider game I suppose and I fear the 2013 incarnation may be the last...
Aside from those I've been playing Civ since the third reincarnation (Civ V sucks though!),Halo, UT and Worms.
I guess that kinda makes me an old skool gamer; I certainly dislike the way the new Tomb Raider has these 'quicktime events' and appears quite linear though a Tomb Raider game is better than no Tomb Raider game I suppose and I fear the 2013 incarnation may be the last...
I'm not all that picky when it comes to game genres. My favorites are RPGs and action titles. I really enjoy platforming games (despite the severe lack of them in recent years). FPS games are fun but I will only pick them up if there's something special about the game (I have 4 FPS games in my PS3 library, 3 of them are the Bioshock games), as well as TPS's.
I've played a few RTS's and Survival Horror games. Fighting games really aren't my style, and Racing games bore me.
Oh, and the only MMO I have played is LOTRO, and only because I'm a huge Tolkien nerd.
I've played a few RTS's and Survival Horror games. Fighting games really aren't my style, and Racing games bore me.
Oh, and the only MMO I have played is LOTRO, and only because I'm a huge Tolkien nerd.
Only games I usually don't touch are horror games (there are some exceptions), tycoons and puzzle adventures.
Everything else is fair game for me.
Everything else is fair game for me.