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[Supertoad25]

Platformer.
My first genre too!

[Lolligirl]

RPG, unequivocally.

I love Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, and Diablo I and II, but then I enjoy myself with a little Starcraft action as well.

Adventure games are good.

And the FPS genre... I've just never been very good at it. Whether that's because I don't play them often or if it's the other way around, I'm not sure.

Edited by Lolligirl, 19 May 2011 - 02:52 AM.

[JamesA]

DotA is RPG and many Warcraft 3 players play DotA.

DotA is a map in Warcraft 3.. DotA is NOT an RPG.. It's just a map you can play in Warcraft 3 that has a different goal than the normal maps in it.. >.>

[NikaB]

I prefer FPS ! But I like Mario-kind and RPG (not WoW !!!!) games too !

[amiel]

I knew it,RPG,
Final fantasy

[MorganVogel]

3rd Person Shooter Rocks! Example: Battlefield Heroes(I´m addiceted )

[Dinomar]

I actually like some of those genres of games, but my favourite at all is platform: it has the highest playality than any videogame genre (if the game is decent). In Super Mario 64, for example, you can go everywhere (aside few levels). In Sonic, not really much, but its arcade-like games (like the latest Sonic Colors) it is really fun: maybe some characters like Knuckles or Amy could have been included, but finally there is no more Shadow, Big or other characters in the way (especially Princess Elise: those characters and the plot of that game could have been awesome, the only character who ruined it is just one, with his friends and "unfriends": Sonic). No more a Vegeta ripoff, please, SEGA!

Returning on-topic, other games like Crash or Spyro were great (until their new unneeded versions) and this is why i love platform games!

sometimes i wish some massive industries could create new character instead of always relasing Mario, but that's buisness matter and i do not want to talk about it here (even because it's not allowed at all)

[Osmium]

RPGs.

[metalblessing]

I would have to go with traditional RPG, although I do love open world exploration games but thats not a genre in itself, more a gameplay element I suppose.

Like Starflight, Fallout 3, Elder Scrolls

[Fuzzball]

I had to go with Adventure games because even though I like platformers, most of the 2D ones (and even some 3D ones) have gotten stale and I only really liked the ones like Spyro and Banjo-Kazooie because of the adventure elements.

Plus I love classic PC adventure games and Zelda.

Simulation games (Harvest Moon, Spore, Black & White, Sims) and (SOME) RPG games are also fine by me. (By "some" I mean the ones that don't contain samey boring turn-based fighting, I prefer a fighting style like Dark Cloud 2 had, and I mostly stick to action WRPGs like Two Worlds 2 and Oblivion even if they are bugged all to hell.)

I like seeing new ideas though, Flower is one of my favorite games, and I generally appreciate any game that tells a story through art and interaction much more than a game that only serves to offer a challenge. It's not that I don't appreciate a challenge every once in a while (Within my genre. Puzzles are fun, bosses and fast-paced jumping/shooting/dodging are not, unless the boss is a puzzle like in Shadow of the Colossus.) but I don't play video games to get frustrated, at least not without a reason. In a game like Flower, it tells a story, one that managed to invoke deep feelings in me with no narrative outside the artist's ability to drive home a point with visual story telling. Or a game like Cave Story which is very old-school but still manages to have a deep meaning behind the plot, it gives you this sense of purpose through a story that I consider very sad, but that still manages to maintain a rated E feeling. I won't spoil anything for people who haven't played but the sacrifices the characters make for the protagonist, all toward one ultimate goal of saving millions of people, really makes you want to keep going and put an end to all the suffering. It paints the picture of a bleak situation and desperate measures, I think it's a perfect example of excellent writing.

[soandso2]

Shouldn't 'sidescrolling shooters' have 'Metroidvania' as an example? I might be the only person who was actually searching for that exact word... Ah whatever.

[WyGames]

I'm getting discouraged in finishing my puzzle game because of only a few votes for puzzle games as their favorite genre. By the way...First post! Yay for 12 year olds! Anyway my favorite game genre is probably RPG. They have high replay value (for me, that is since all RPG's that I've played have been played again at least twice), and have lot's of decisions to make.

Edited by WyGames, 02 September 2011 - 10:24 AM.

[Sabrynithia]

I said other though there will always be a special place in my heart for most of the Elder Scrolls and for all of the Myst games. However, I have never considered Myst an RPG game. I count in in with the puzzle category. I voted other because of the examples for puzzle games. I have never enjoyed Tetras but games that are more of a blend of RPGish and puzzle such as Myst, the Nancy Drew games, etc. I also have a tendency towards life simulation games. If I'm feeling really quirky I play dating sim games.

[Raymoclaus]

I'm getting discouraged in finishing my puzzle game because of only a few votes for puzzle games as their favorite genre. By the way...First post! Yay for 12 year olds! Anyway my favorite game genre is probably RPG. They have high replay value (for me, that is since all RPG's that I've played have been played again at least twice), and have lot's of decisions to make.

Hehe...I noticed this guy joined the GMC just to make that post based on the fact that he joined and posted on the same day.

RPG is definitely my favourite genre especially because of Final Fantasy 12 but I have no idea why it didn't have huge popularity? FFX was actually more popular but it was crap compared to 12...Why?

[VerdantRain]

Oh man, this was really hard. I love so many genres it's scary. Had to go with fighting though. I love going one-on-one with a friend in a fictional brawl of epic proportions. Probably why I'm a big fan of Mugen. But I absolutely love Flower, Fallout 3, Modnation Racers, Zelda, Mario, Monster Rancher, etc.

[aro19]

Other-action adventure puzzle
E.G. Legend of Zelda
I Also like Platformers, but i like Zelda a lot.

[theALCH3MIST]

I enjoy a lot of genres - Adventure, shooters, racing, RTS. However my love of RPGs packs me into the Adventure genre. And Myst III is one of my all-time favourites :D

[theweirdn8]

Wow, its amazing to see that RPGs are the favorite, and yet the GMC has so few RPG games.

[Nocturne]

Wow, its amazing to see that RPGs are the favorite, and yet the GMC has so few RPG games.

That's probably because they are so difficult to create (and create well)...

[RacerBG]

Racing games is my vote.