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Favorite Video Game Genre

Poll: Favorite Game Genre

Platforming	0% (0)
Fighting	10% (1)
Strategy	20% (2)
Adventure	20% (2)
Action	20% (2)
Role-Playing-Games	30% (3)

Whats your favorite video game genre? Mine would have to be the various types of platforming. Strategy/platform, Action/Platforming,Adventure/Platforming preferably challenging. I also like a good amount of RPG games. Feel free to discuss. :P

Posted by Ghosttamer on Thursday, January 31, 2008 09:15AM - 3 comments (link) / Members say: yea +0, nay -0
Keywords: genre, favorite, game, video

Ghosttamer:

Yeah, good point. Didn't even think to add that, I seemed to have forgot shooter also.

Friday, February 01, 2008 09:25AM

Gughunter:

My favorite genre is only sometimes recognized as a genre, probably because it's only really been around for seven years (which sounds like a long time until you remember that the Atari VCS, a.k.a 2600, came out in the late 1970's). I like free-roaming games.

Grand Theft Auto III wasn't the first (even the 2600 had small-scale free-roamers, like Superman or the often-maligned E.T.), but IMHO, GTA3 was the first game that really provided a good glimpse of the variety and detail that free-roaming games could offer.

To me, the distinguishing characteristic of free-roaming games is that they don't require you to play a game -- i.e., confront challenges -- when you don't want to; and for those times when you don't want to confront challenges, the world is detailed enough that you can find pleasure in simple exploration.

Thursday, January 31, 2008 09:34PM