by Spurgun Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:29 am
My favorite game genres are:
RTS. My love for this genre mostly from the C&C series, my favorite game in this genre is Red Alert 2. The "Age of ...." games are also good. I played pretty much only games like this before, but i haven't had the patience for them lately. Never actually played against other players, only against the computer (partially because i didn't have internet when i was first playing). I've been considering getting SC2 and see if it's as good as people say it is.
Turn Based Strategy. HoMM3 IZ BEST GAME EVAR! (HoMM3, Heroes of Might and Magic 3). Kind of the same thing a RTS's, i used to play them all the time but i haven't gotten into them as of late. Games can take ages (especially if up against a human opponent). So usually you have to save the game and continue later, which can be a bit frustrating. Still really rewarding when you manage to outsmart your opponent (Although you usually have to outsmart the environment more than anything else). I halfheartedly count FFX into this genre as well.
RPG games. In my opinion it's kinda hard to say what belongs in this genre, but generally i count games that have some sort of story that you can influence, or a class system, or some way of "defining" yourself in combat (choosing whether you want to use stealth, or magic, or guns, etc). But it's still kind of a loose term. Anyway, my favorite games in this genre are
Dark souls, FFX, Dishonored, Baldurs gate and the Pokemon games.
"Story games". Games that are mainly driven by their story and the story is their main selling point, as in, they have subpar gameplay and mechanics (granted, they may still have great gameplay, but that's not what they focus on). Kingdom hearts 2 comes to mind (It did have still have decent fighting though), Journey and the Elder scrolls games (and when i mention the elders scrolls story i don't mean the main quest, i mean all the little side quests, the small easter eggs, the hilarious stories you come across when you encounter bugs, the story you make for your own character, etc. I don't think anyone plays Oblivion just so they can hack their way through another cave with 20 skeletons in it).