Favorite Video Game Genre

[pokemasta92]

What is your favorite video game genre? Post what your favorite video game is from that genre as well!
My favorite RPG is Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

 

[TY]

This is far too easy for me to answer and everyone will expect it from me:

Strategy games, i just love having a army to control and a base to create my army from. And my fave game is of course StarCraft 2

 

[Pave Low]

RPG by a long run. I just adore the whole concept of it and could play any RPG game and enjoy it. Being a character, going out on an adventure, having varying amounts of freedom, upgrading things etc. There is just so much to do in RPG and you can play them for a long time and not be bored.

 

[acatfrommars]

Action/Adventure games! I love playing through these game, and most action/adventure game cross with another genre. My next favorite would have to be fighting games, I'm a big fan of beat-em-up games and I also really like gamse such as Smash Bros, Virtua Fighter and Mortal Kombat of course. My next favorite would have ot be shooters.

 

[xseed]

RPG all the way. Everything from the story, the strategic boss fights, the characters, the music,the world, the NPCS. I enjoy it all. as for my favorite game of this genre........thats a bit of a toughie actually. I guess I will pick Paper Mario(the one of N64)as that was the very first RPG I have ever played. and a really good game at that. Almost want to play it again.

 

[Hiatus]

My favorite would definitely have to be RPG. I've been into this video game genre ever since I was five, when I first played Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages. The game was very addictive. Day after I got it, I ended up playing it for seven hours straight—from nine in the morning (immediately after breakfast), to four in the afternoon. I was called for lunch somewhere around twelve, but I still didn't stop playing it; I ate with one hand and played with the other. xD

I like shooter, too. From this genre, Call of Duty has gotta be my most favorite game. When I first introduced to it, I was quite horrible. I was able to get only one kill after, like, five or six deaths. Eventually, my skills began to improve, and I started to become better. Nowadays, I don't die as much anymore. I'm able to get ten to twelve of my opponents killed before they even get the chance to shoot me. The only thing that causes me to die is server lag. Almost every time I'm in a match, the server starts to lag me, making my player stuck on one position for eight - nine seconds. This leaves me completely open to the enemies, and makes it easier for them to kill me.

I'm an action-adventure fan as well. I have a ton of favorite games from this particular genre, and two of them has gotta be Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Assassin's Creed II. In Skyward Sword, you face a lot of challenges, do a bunch of missions, and are required to solve puzzles to get to other locations. AC II is the same, but the story is more realistic. Plus, it included some mature content, such as nudity and blood.

 

[DavidtheDeadPhilosopher]

I prefer RPG's, I just love a rich story, tactical battles, and the music and...well just about everything!

My personal favourite is Final Fantasy VII, it just hits all the right notes for me. If I had to pick a second genre it probably be Platformer.

 

[Hikamaru]

I'm gonna say platformers here since my childhood of gaming revolved around that genre. Most of my fave franchises outside of Pokemon happened to be of this genre as well.

 

[Brendino]

I guess I'll be the oddball and say that sports games are my favorite video game genre. I've got to give a lot of the credit to my dad for that though, as 90% of the games he played were those like Madden and NHL for the Genesis when I was growing up, so that's all I really had access to. Still, I have a lot of fun playing them to this day, and I'd easily say that more than half of my current game collection are sports games (though, having tested at EA in the past and getting free games for it inflates that number a bit).

 

[Raikou]

This is kind of tough for me. I adore action and adventure games that have a bit of an RPG twist to them. Borderlands, Skyrim, Mass Effect. Just to name a few that I enjoy. I'll occasionally indulge in a good racing game, too.

 

[Frazzevous]

RPG, with the reasons being mostly the same as what the others said. :3 Personally, though, I get more attached to the characters (therefore the games as well) in this genre. Nevertheless, I like the rest of the genres, especially puzzle and action/adventure; the only one that I have a love-hate relationship with are the shooting games because I horribly suck at them (except for, maybe, L4D).

 

[«Chuckles»]

Hmmm no jRPG, well RPG and jRPG are very different alot of RPG's are different to jRPG's so I think I will goooo...

 

[pokemasta92]

Hmmm no jRPG, well RPG and jRPG are very different alot of RPG's are different to jRPG's so I think I will goooo...

I know JRPG's are much different from American RPG's, but role playing games include any video game where role playing is involved and includes gameplay elements that are common to both under the same genre, so the poll choice "RPG" covers everything. ;)

 

[T!M]

I can't vote both so I just won't vote. But I love action-RPG games. Stuff like Kingdom Hearts, Guantlet and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Those are my games. I also like non-complicated fighting games. Budokai and Ultimate Ninja Storm.

 

[Spinosaurus]

What's a complicated fighting game?

I personally consider Platforming to be gaming in its purest form and most of my favorite games (Wario Land, Donkey Kong Country 2/Returns, New Super Mario Bros U, Mario 64, Crash 2, etc) are from this genre. My favorite game of all time, Wario Land 4, is of this genre as well.

pfffft RPGs

 

[Dragon]

I definitely love RPGs, but on a side note, I love playing platform games like Super Mario Bros, and some Action-Adventure games like Legend of Zelda~

 

[New Eden]

Music/Rhythm games. They can all be diverse from one another and can be community-driven with its content. It's a genre I've found myself returning to for years and years.