Did your game playing genres changed over time?

[8th lutz]

Mine did. Before I owned a Sega Genesis, I was a sports,shooter, platform,beat'em up game player. After getting a genesis I became an action-adenture, platform, rpg, rpg-strategy,action rpg gameplayer with will my other genres mention. Since the32 bit era, sports games is not a major part of my game playing.

[Happy_Dude]

I play fun games.

I don't care what genre it is as long as I enjoy it.

and I think I'v always been like that.

[JB]

My tastes've definitely shifted.

 

I used to be a glutton for RPGs and easy games I could play for ages without trying.

Now my tastes tend towards faster and more hostile titles.

[nester]

Well I remember when we got our Super Nintendo for Christmas back in '91 we got Final Fantasy 2 along with it. That game made absolutely no sense to me. After a couple months of frustration, I let my cousing borrow it. By the time I got it back a few months later it was my favorate game in the world and the RPG was my favorate genre. I guess I just had to grow into that sort of thing.

[Gregory DG]

I'll play just about anything, so long as it's fun and doesn't bore me. Sports, puzzle, action, RPG, shooting...

 

Guess the only one I don't like is the Dance games. I can't be bothered to get out of my seat to play a game.

[Tanukitsune]

It's the genres themselves who have changed and not my preferences...

 

-All platafomers seems to have bloody skateboard or racing levels...

-Adventure games have become bad Myst clones, I never really liked Myst anyway...

-Japanese RPG are too full of teen angst and are too frustrating...

[jetset]

I always like games that didnt have the need for instructions.

 

Once I have to open the manual, I wind up bored with a game. Pretty much why I never cared for sports titles. Too complicated.

[~llama]

I used to love racing games, starting with Top Gear on SNES. Now the only one I can stand is Grand Turismo 2 (well, the only one which I have, anyway).

 

I also used to like RPG's, and now they kind of bore me. I guess somewhere in the transition to 3D they lost their charm for me.

[classicgamingguy]

I was really into the text-based gaming during the time it was popular..Zork, in particular, then the rest that came along behind it. Sorcerer's get all the Girls was another one I remember I enjoyed.

 

Then came along D&D, and the computer games that appeared on the computer got a good portion of my attention (the gold box editions really had me hooked, since as I got older we stopped playing the pen and paper version). I switched over to RPG's at that point.

 

After school I got into first-person shooters and strategy games. Now I play all of the above except the text-based. The graphics variety of adventures (Myst) don't thrill me all that much.

 

Steve

[madmjennifer]

I don't think my preferences in game genres have changed over the years. I don't know what that says about my maturity level I still enjoy the same games I enjoyed when I was younger and still dislike those that I didn't.

[Pinball Wizzard]

Interesting question, I thought on that few days early -- while my musical tastes evolve as I find new genres of music (like, in 2002 I was into heavy metal, in 2004 it was disco, and now I like electropop and Hi-NRG), my preferences in games haven`t changed much through the years - I still like games that feature fast paced action.

[Lord Thag]

I still like most everything I used to. I'm still totally ambivalent towards sports games. My one big change is that I now HATE those japanese Final Fantasy style RPG's. I absoluetly cannot play them anymore. Long, tedious, boring leveling interspersed with lame, predictable plot elements that usually boil down to:

 

'sixteen year old wunderkind decendant of something-or-other gets hometown destroyed by strange para-military group and joins group of big-breasted bimbos and taciturn swordsmen to save the world from leader of said para-military group, who is an effiminate megalomaniac bent on unleasing some kind of ancient, sealed power to become the next big dark lord/god which ALWAYS turns out to look like a giant spider-blob thingy.'

 

Sheesh. Man those games suck. I love the occasionaly (open ended) RPG like Morrowind or a more action oriented game like Phantasy Star Online. I don't like the Diablo style 'Champions or Norrath/Baldur's Gate' games either. I find I play more FPS and Fighting games these days.

 

And Atari. Always playin' that....

 

 

 

I still love all the same old classic games.

Edited December 29, 2005 by Lord Thag

[KoffinKorner]

A little, I got into Sim racers in the 32bitt area. That's about it? Always been an arcade style player.

[n8littlefield]

Mine have changed a little bit too. I never really liked any type of RPG, now I can tolerate some of them - as long as they are either action RPG's or standard RPG's that don't require me to sit there watching movies forever (like Final Fantasy games do).

 

I've strayed away from fighters because I don't have the time I used to have to really master a specific character - I still enjoy them though. I also don't really play the platformers I used to because they are so much more indepth now that you really need to have a few hours to play to get anywhere.

[silverpoodleman]

Definately have changed over time. In my second go around with Genesis, I find myself seeking out puzzle games (recent ones I am hooked on include Shove It, Pac Attack, Mega Bomberman, Junction, Klax, Zoop and Zoom!).

 

Sure, I play other systems and genres - shooters, Sports, Platformers, etc., but I'm satisfied to find a good puzzle game that will drive me nuts trying to figure it out. For example, I spent an hour last night playing Shove It. I've been stuck on puzzle 21 for three sessions. For the life of me, I couldn't figure the damn thing out. This morning, I "accidentally" solved it by making what I thought was a mistake, but turned out to be the key to solving the puzzle. Each puzzle provides me with knowledge of yet another tactic I hadn't needed/attempted/figured out, etc.,

 

I've also been stuck on Pac-Attack, puzzle 19 for a few days. The thing is that I know I will solve it eventually, without help (yes, I know there are cheat codes out there and I do have the Game Genie as well), and will feel as though I accomplished something while giving the problem-solving portion of my brain a good workout! To toot my own horn, I haven't needed to use the Game Genie yet and I've owned it for four months. I figure one of these days, I'll break it in, but for now, it is collecting dust.

Edited December 29, 2005 by silverpoodleman

[JimmydelaKopin]

Yeah, my tastes have changed.

 

I used to like home adaptations of arcade games as well as spinoffs/knockoffs/generics of such games.

This lasted until the advent of SFII: Hyper Fighting.At that point the arcade games became too hard to bother with...until the advent of widespread puzzle games.

So i went from shooters to fighters, to puzzles...and now that I'm into retro-gaming, I'm doping shooters, fighters, and puzzles again--sometimes multiple genres on one disc!

 

So I guess I really haven't changed my genres as expanded the ones I prefer. Hmmm...

[n8littlefield]

Definately have changed over time. In my second go around with Genesis, I find myself seeking out puzzle games (recent ones I am hooked on include Shove It, Pac Attack, Mega Bomberman, Junction, Klax, Zoop and Zoom!).

 

Sure, I play other systems and genres - shooters, Sports, Platformers, etc., but I'm satisfied to find a good puzzle game that will drive me nuts trying to figure it out. For example, I spent an hour last night playing Shove It. I've been stuck on puzzle 21 for three sessions. For the life of me, I couldn't figure the damn thing out. This morning, I "accidentally" solved it by making what I thought was a mistake, but turned out to be the key to solving the puzzle. Each puzzle provides me with knowledge of yet another tactic I hadn't needed/attempted/figured out, etc.,

 

I've also been stuck on Pac-Attack, puzzle 19 for a few days. The thing is that I know I will solve it eventually, without help (yes, I know there are cheat codes out there and I do have the Game Genie as well), and will feel as though I accomplished something while giving the problem-solving portion of my brain a good workout! To toot my own horn, I haven't needed to use the Game Genie yet and I've owned it for four months. I figure one of these days, I'll break it in, but for now, it is collecting dust.

990809[/snapback]

 

I love Pac-Attack. I have the version with the Pacman Collection on the GBA - it's a blast. It does get really hard pretty quickly though!

[silverpoodleman]

I love Pac-Attack.  I have the version with the Pacman Collection on the GBA - it's a blast.  It does get really hard pretty quickly though!

 

That's my only complaint. Unlike Tetris, which in IMHO is one of the top games ever for any system, the pace of Pac-Attack gets way too fast, way too soon. That leads to fairly short games. Tetris allows you to correct mistakes on a regular basis, but you have to wait for a Pac-Man drop or Fairy drop in order to fix mistakes.

 

Still, it is very addictive and I find myself continually going back for more punishment. I also like the puzzle mode, though I'm not exactly sure what the exact rules are - I have the manual, but frankly, it is not terribly helpful. I guess I'll have to look up some FAQ's, Game Guides, or Game Genie Codes.

Edited December 30, 2005 by silverpoodleman

[Famicoman]

Only as graphics improved.

[sega saturn x]

Well for starters I have lost the interest I had for shooters a genre at one point I couldn't get enough of, I might pick up the new one for the game cube soon but a part of me knows that it will be JUST LIKE every other shooter I have ever played. Shooters and arcade games in general were the reason I started collecting the classic and not so classic systems. But after playign dozens of shooters I have had enough.

 

To little changes from game to game, it seems like most of the time developers were more focused on creating as many ships and laser attacks on screen as they could, and not real concerend with making a fun game. I buy a few here and there, butt he collecting has pretty much stopped.

 

Two genres I have never been real fond of are fps and rpgs, not so say I don't enjoy some but both are very tired and uninspired genres. How many cookie cutter japanese rpgs and ww2 shooters do we really need?

 

Also a genre I still enjoy but don't really care for the direction they seem to be headed in are survival horror. They seem to have switched gears to the gore and action that made me love the genre in the first place to simply making the ring and the grudge knock offs. I for one don't find japanese horror scarry, unsettling perhaps but never really scary(barring the movie infection). I didn't think fatal frame was the least bit scary, if anything it was just boring. I still think I should give silent hill another try, but man the second one bored the hell out of me. Walking around in fog so thick you can't see anything isn't my idea of fun.

 

But resident evil still make horror games the way I like them, violent and blood smeared. It also rejuivinated a genre that needed it VERY badly. It isn't as if I don't think horror can be anything but a quick attack from the dark, but in a video game unless you're going to actually try to weave a truly scary story just go with the thing reaching out from the dark. If they could make a japanese style horror game that wasn't boring and was actually somewhat scarry I would be shocked. And pleased, since I like japanese horror, but lets face it many many japanese horror flics are down right tepid in comparison to most other countries horror movies. For every audition there is twelve the eye 2s. That's just how I feel anyway.

[Foxsolo2000]

My first two loves were always RPG and first person shoot em ups. Time has not changed those loves but being married has severely dented them

[shep]

Its always been the same for me, no sports titles or racing sims