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Geek Culture / Poll: Favorite Game Genre

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SirFire
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Posted: 20th Dec 2005 08:16 Edited at: 20th Dec 2005 08:17
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I'm interested to know what genre is most popular among forum members, so post your favorite or list of favorites in descending order of favorite-ness. Here is a list of genres from Wikipedia:

Most Popular:
Fighting
First-person shooter
MMOGs, MMORPGs and MMOFPSs
Racing
Role-playing
Simulators
Sports
Strategy
Third-person shooters
City-building games
Other Notable Genres:
Adult
Adventure
Arcade
Educational
Maze
Music
Party
Platform
Puzzle
Stealth
Survival horror
Traditional
Vehicular combat
Superseded Genres:
Interactive movies
Light-gun games
Retro
Scrolling shooters

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_genres for descriptions of each.

I'll start with my favorite, MMORPG

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dark coder
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i like fps`s the best but i think mmorpg`s allways have the potential to be the best by far just none of the current ones are that good.


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Lukas W
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so difficult to choose one. but i have to go with:

action-adventure-stealth (thief)
Non-Stop-Killing-Action-Strategy-Psychological Thriller (postal)
retro shooters (nano, duo and all those dbpro created retro games)


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Wiggett
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i like almost all game types, which si why if i got the choice to pick a lifestyle it'd be dr who, cause he travels to almost every genre.

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The Nerd
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I love First-Person Shooters

So I guess that genre is my favorite.

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Megaton Cat
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Didn't we JUST have this type of thread a few days ago?


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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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Posted: 20th Dec 2005 16:55 Edited at: 20th Dec 2005 16:57
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Probably my favourite of all is 2d fighting games (when done properly, like most of the efforts of Capcom and SNK)

But I am very partial to 3rd person action/platform games when done well (mario 64, max payne, re:code veronica, all different but fit the bill), and arcade style racers (esp Burnout Series, Daytona, Outrun).

When I get sucked into an RPG game I love them, especially turn based ones with a real sense of progression in your skills, stats etc. (Eg FFVII, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Pokemon Blue/Red) But I have to say, 99% of them DON'T hold my attention so I couldn't call it my favourite genre as a whole


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Undercover Steve
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TBS, which you didnt cover. vile creature!

Turn Based Strategy, like civ, seIV

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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fps and wahtever gta is classed in not forgeting need for speed and gt4

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Seppuku Arts
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The decent kind of role playing game....Like Final Fantasy, Lord of the Rings: third age, Jade Cacoon, Zelda etc. and not like Baulders Gate, Neverwinter nights etc. (Although they are good, but no favourites )

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Avan Madisen
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My favourite genre is without a doubt, Role Player Games.

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Adult

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Freddy 007
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My favourrites are all of these:

First-person shooter(Perfect Dark Zero, Half-Life, Far Cry(Xbox), Halo)

Adventure(The Harry Potter Games! Except the fourth... Blinx, and probably a few more I can't remember)

Stealth(Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is the bestest!)

Third-person shooters(Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon)

And

Interactive movies(Fahrenheit(Indigo Prophecy for the Yanks), the best 6 hours of gaming in my life )


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SirFire
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Quote: "Didn't we JUST have this type of thread a few days ago?"

If we did, I never saw it.

Recently, there was "favorite GAME by genre", which didn't ask for favorite genre, just favorite games in genres.

Then back in feb 2004, there was a thread like this one called "favourite game genre", but that was nearly two years ago.

Megaton Cat, learn how to use the search function, noob.

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JoelJ
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First-person shooter

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Jeku
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Stealth, turn-based strategy, and "point-and-click" adventure games.


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BearCDPOLD
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I like most action/adventure/rpg/strategy stuff. I mostly just don't like sports, some fighting, and some puzzle.


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Doctor Evil
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Um, Currently i like First-Person-Chewers or Eat-Em-Ups (Been playing Stubbs too much, sorry.)

But honestly, i love FPS games. Most notably Halo 1(Xbox), Half-Life 2 (Xbox) and Deus Ex: Invisible War (Xbox)

Yet i also love the 3rd person games, like Stubbs The Zombie In: Rebel Without A Pulse(Xbox) Fable(Xbox) and Destroy All Humans!(Xbox)

Who could live without The Movies(PC) though, eh?

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Cash Curtis II
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RPG, all the way, but I'm sure everybody knew that. I was raised on Ultima. And Ultima Online brought something new to the table. My heart would actually beat faster when I got in a fight. I had to quit that crap, though, it was taking all of my time.

I love RTS too. The Warcraft games...

I'll play just about anything with my son, though. I can usually give him a run for his money. We usually play NFL Street.


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- Survival Horror, baby!
- FPS', although I reckon the genre is a little over-populated
- Adventure, but only because of Indigo Prophecy. Most of the other adventure games nowadays suck.
- Third-person Shooters; I imported Pursuit Force, it's really good.


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fps
survival horror
flight simulators

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Xtreme RPGamer
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If anyone loves Splinter Cell: Chaos Theorey, whats the best stats they had on a mission. The best mission i did was the last level:

I did the entire mission without knocking out one person, or killing anyone, all the mission objectives were complete, and i got 100% success rating, on normal difficulty.

Beat that.

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Fps
fps
fps
fps
adventure
fps
stealth
fps
hunting
DRIVING/RACING

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Fps
fps
fps
fps
fps
FPS 100%


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