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Old 11-13-2008, 10:55 AM   #1
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What are your favorite type of games?
Mine are sandbox games with moral desision attached to how you act. You can do pretty much anything, but it affects your character more than the police are now on your tail.

Or turn based strategy games like the Civilation Series.
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Old 11-13-2008, 11:15 AM   #2
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Old 11-13-2008, 11:25 AM   #3
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Old 11-13-2008, 12:05 PM   #4
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Old 11-13-2008, 12:19 PM   #5
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I'm kinda partial to Fighters, Wrestling and RPG/WOW.
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Old 11-13-2008, 12:29 PM   #6
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Old 11-13-2008, 12:29 PM   #7
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I have always done my best to give anything a shot, even if it doesn't seem down my alley. True racing games are about the only thing I don't play on a regular basis. I love Burnout and Mario Kart, but those don't really count.

If there is one thing I have loved since childhood, it is puzzle games, and I will try all of them. Whether its a good old SCUMM game, some ridiculous hybrid like Puzzle Quest, or some competitive games like Puyo Puyo and Dr. Mario, I love all of them. Been playing Puzzle Pirates like crazy lately...which is incredibly nerdy.

Most, if not all of my friends, cannot and will not play puzzle games like I do. They will do them casually for a few minutes, but rarely as their game-of-the-week play.

But honestly, I don't really have a "favorite". I'll play anything if it's quality. I have a hard time convincing people I know to try games out...I feel like everyone is so close-minded to games just because of genre.

The thing that bothers me the most, though, is how a few of my roommates are. One won't play console games because he likes mouse-keyboard, and the other won't play PC games because he likes controllers. I try so hard to get them to break down and try it, but they act like they can't learn how to play games solely because of the control scheme. I just don't get it.
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Old 11-13-2008, 12:43 PM   #8
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Old 11-13-2008, 01:26 PM   #9
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The thing that bothers me the most, though, is how a few of my roommates are. One won't play console games because he likes mouse-keyboard, and the other won't play PC games because he likes controllers. I try so hard to get them to break down and try it, but they act like they can't learn how to play games solely because of the control scheme. I just don't get it.
Really depends on what type of games they like. If the PC one is mostly into shooters and the console one is more into, say, sports games I could see why.

No way will a (standard) controller beat out a mouse/keyboard for a shooter in control, for example.
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Old 11-13-2008, 05:26 PM   #10
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Sports games, wrestling, and like adventure stuff (Mario, Lego series, Ratchet and Clank, etc.) And GTA.

Not a big fan of shooters.
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Old 11-14-2008, 10:07 AM   #11
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I will try anything that looks interesting. The only games I don't like are Squad Based games and racing simulators.
I love adventure games like Zelda and 2d platformers. 3D platformers when done right but, unfortunatly, the past few years nothing other than Mario has seemed any good to me as far as 3D platforming goes but I hope that Sonic Unleashed changes that.
I also love RTS when it's my kind of RTS namely C&C Red Alert or Populous:The Beginning style where I can build to my hearts content and THEN attack.

Anything with deep customisation gets my attention like Create-a-character or stage or shape your own story/fate/destiny etc. That's usually a kind of "hook" to me for a game I'd otherwise be uninterested in. Which is why I have Mass Effect despite not enjoying squad based games. I just enjoy making my guy and controling the story more than in a regular game.
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Old 11-14-2008, 11:25 AM   #12
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Point and click adventure games. Stuff like the Broken Sword series, the Discworld games, Grim Fandango and the CSI games.

And wrestling games too I guess.

Can't get on with shooters at all. I'll play split screen COD4 with my friend, but when he says 'You're pretty good, you should pick it up for online' I tell him that I can't see myself shelling out £30 for something thats second hand and not usually my type of game.
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Really depends on what type of games they like. If the PC one is mostly into shooters and the console one is more into, say, sports games I could see why.

No way will a (standard) controller beat out a mouse/keyboard for a shooter in control, for example.
But that's not the point...at least for me. Most games aren't cross platform...so why does it matter? Everyone is on the same playing field, so why not just learn to use both for each system? I understand having preferences (I prefer mouse/keyboard), but it's not like playing a shooting game on a console is all that bad either. Most games are optimized for their control schemes anyway. I'm positive my roommate who plays CoD 4 on the 360 could hang with my roommate on his PC, even though most people will say that mouse/keyboard is more accurate. But my roommates don't even attempt to try both because "they would just suck at using ____ controller". They don't even attempt to learn how to use them. They just blind themselves to all these games, even though every person on the face of this earth had to spend time with a mouse/keyboard or joystick to learn how to use it effectively.

But I'll give on that argument for, say, an RTS on a console. Mouse/Keyboard is obviously better for something like that. At least something like Tom Clancy's Endwar is optimized for voice-command usage, to help with the inaccuracies of a controller on an RTS battlefield.
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Old 11-14-2008, 06:18 PM   #14
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Anything with a deep level of customization.

Fighting games, deep balanced fun fighting games.

FPS games with great competitive multiplayer.

Creative venues of multiplayer experience (FFCC will get its due soon), and Four Swords rocked.

Epic co-op campaigns.
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