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[don_tomaso]

Well its kind of hard choosing which genre is your favorite, Ive played many great games and different games over the years.. But I chose RPG, because of my eternal fallout-love.. Loved the setting and the mood in that game.. Also, Jagged alliance you could almost call an rpg, because of the personalities and the stats, and thats one of my favorite games too.. So, yeah, defenitly RPG

[mesenberg]

Where's the smarts these days.... Everyone knows FPS's are the best genre.

[Born 2 Kil]

RPG for sure.

[LollyN00b]

Adventure; by the title of this genre, you'd think something along the lines of Banjo Kazooie, but really, an adventure game can be anything that involves a good story, some good action, and an expansive landscape on which these things take place.

[cbdman25]

Adventure; by the title of this genre, you'd think something along the lines of Banjo Kazooie, but really, an adventure game can be anything that involves a good story, some good action, and an expansive landscape on which these things take place.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No I think along the lines of Monkey Island, Dark Fall, Myst, Grim Fandango etc.

[minimidge]

Another reason I think RPGs are so popular is because they have a high replay value.

Unlike a FPS shooter, you can play it again without following the same path.
I really like RPGs that let you choose to be evil or nice, after beating it as evil, you have to play again to so what happens when you get a nice rating. (eg. Fable)

Edited by minimidge, 05 June 2006 - 01:36 AM.

[cbdman25]

How many RPGs allow you to play as evil and nice? One?

[Soul_Rage]

and when fable 2 comes out... 2

RPGs are definitly my fabourtie RPGs, you can play them for hours and hours and there will always be something more to do, the amount of secrets in all teh final fantasy games gets you playing for hours, when really most of the ff games can be finished in about 25 hours, i played ff7 for over 100 hours and still wasnt bored, then i lost my game and never played it again

and whoever said teh story hardly changes... i agree partly but mainly disagree: i agree because you get the main character that goes off to beat the bad person who plans to destroy/take over the world (a bit dramaic yes) and in all final fantasy games they have chocobos, moogles and an engineerer named cid. but apart from that they are all
alot different, i mean they made over 15 final fantasy games, they are all the best games ever in my oppinion, and alot of people share the oppinion because the shops usualy run out of stock on teh first day they are released

[Nailog]

How many RPGs allow you to play as evil and nice? One?
. . .
and when fable 2 comes out... 2

What, too young to have played Fallout 1 and 2? Baldur's Gate 1 and 2? Or even Knights of the Old Republic? Plenty of RPGs have given you choice. You just have to find them amidst the other "game-a-minute" crap.

[cbdman25]

You just named 5 RPGs, that's not the majority.

Anyway I don't care.

[gamecreator500]

I think one of the things that make an RPG so attractive is the storylines. Many people who love to read (like myself) find themselves amidst in wonder as they play for hours on end to find out whats going to happen next. Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross are two very good games in that manner. Chrono cross has had me gaping in awe at the suprise of some connection of some sort that was just made.

RPG definitally. Adventures just dont have the Story down well enough.

BTW: Another game where you can be evil or good is called Jade Empire, where you can follow the way of the open palm or the way of the closed fist.

[cbdman25]

What are you on about? Adventure games have the best storylines, RPG storylines are basically the same thing (with exceptions).

But when it comes to story lines for adventure games it has to be clever, interesting and it has to fit together with the game and has to make sense.

No RPG could possibly have the intellectual qualities of an Adventure game.

ASAP

[Charruss]

SPORT!!!! football/soccer rules world cup starts on friday! best games evr are footy/soccer

Edited by Charruss, 07 June 2006 - 06:34 PM.

[fasteddy_jones]

Wow, I thought stealth would have a little more. I love the Splinter Cell series. And the Metal Gear games are stealth.....Who doesn't like Metal Gear?

fasteddy

[Sovereign]

I choose other because I enjoy the sci-fi action shooters such as Wing Commander, Freelancer and the old game Protostar (does anyone remember that one?). I guess some of the latter, especially Protostar, fall under the Adventure category because it's more of a thinking persons game rather than an all out action game such as Wing Commander. It's so hard to fit a game in one genre these days...

As for the RPG thing, they are so popular because of the large worlds, ability to play and grow as a different person, and open ended option to do what ever you basically want (well, some rpgs allow this). And there are a lot of games that allow you to choose good or evil. I can not name them all nor could anybody here, but it's not really a new idea. (I believe) all the Elder Scrolls games allowed this. The only problem with RPGs these days are they all seem the same: the same races, weapons, lands, so on and so forth. I just go tired of them and left the ground completely for space.

Anywho, I thought I'd chime in with this. Peace.

[Zsprites]

FPS, I have been playing them since marathon and dark forces, well as close to playing as I could at that age and they have alwais been the best. Both because much more raw skill is involved than any role playing game, aswell as the fact that it is much more of a personal feeling as opposed to basecly every game type where you not only spend the entire game looking at someone else (who you are controlling) but are thrown into their situations and their plots, and although fps doesn't entirely eliminate this, it helps. Also any fps offers more exciting situations and expriences in comparison to tbs or puzzle games, where what you expirience is litteraly cut out for you already. So yeah, FPS, but that doesn't necisseraly(sp) mean Halo, I'll settle for Halo, but I wont root for it...

[sparks_crackers]

ooh, platforms easy, they're classic

[Kidwarrior66]

I picked platforms because the first game I ever played was Super Mario Brothers for the NES, which had already been out for five years by the time I was born. It's certainly not the only kind of game I like: RPGs (More specifically, Legend of Zelda, Chrono Trigger, FF games), RTSs (Warcraft) and... I can't really say FPSs except for HL1+2, only because they're two of the few FPSs that have involved, deep backstories.

[fajerkaos]

im happy to see that soo many have chosed adventure, the most varyating (is this a word in english??) games made.

[sonicx7]

Platforms!Sonic rulz!