What types of games do you like and why?

[NQ 952]

I'm just curious, but what do the farms think are fun games and why do you like them?

For me, I love rogue and roguelikes (nethack specifically). Not talking about the indie games that have "random weapons xD" and call themselves roguelikes, though. I enjoy sitting back and trying to figure out the best course of action, given a myriad of things I could do.

Of course, I also love the extention to roguelines, dungeon crawls. Diablo and its clones, etc... Sometimes mindlessly killing the shit out of things is just fun.

 

[UglyOldJafar]

Jump n Runs, bits of action plattformers and JRPGs.
Reason: Don't know. I just like colorful and slightly cartoony stuff, I guess.

 

[OwO What's This?]

Games that let me customize the fuck out of my character(s) really draw me in no matter the genre.

I guess it's because dressing them up and adjusting their sliders and what-not lets me connect with them more. Or something.

 

[Ntwadumela]

I love fighting games, racing games and first person shooters because of their fast pace action and competitive nature.
I also love playing sidescrollers, open world a la GTA, and games like MGS.
Every once in a while I'd play board games and puzzles to a lesser extent.

 

[Overcast]

Whatever game really resonates with me I guess. Kinda hard for me to pick a specific genre.

In general, I tend to play JRPG's, Platformers, and FPS's.

Although I also enjoy stuff like MGS3 and the Team ICO games.

 

[Chicken Nugget Scoon]

Platformers, they're enjoyable, and I find them to be the most fun because of the (usually) colourful, imaginative worlds and the gameplay that involves traversing them.
Turn Based RPGs, because they're comfy, I can play them while doing something else without trouble.
Team Based FPS games, as they're about cooperating with other players to destroy the other team. Classes are always a fun thing to work with, too.

 

[UrbanDecayLover]

I'm a life simulation person, its just my cup of tea.

*cough cough*
sims.

 

[Mimic]

Dungeon crawlers are definitely my fave, and by extension mystery dungeon and roguelike games. Outside that I love management games, sims, fighters (even though I'll never be tournament worthy), and racing games (arcade over sim, but I'm broadening my horizons).

Slowly getting into classic FPS too, like DOOM, Shogo, Hexen...

Edit: Whoops, forgot to say why. I like dungeon crawlers because it's fun to explore and map them out, not knowing what you're up against until it's glaring at you. Management sims I like because it's fun to see how your planning and strategy will eventually culminate into something, be it success or failure. Fighters are just fast paced and fun, same with racing games.

 

[AnOminous]

I'm just curious, but what do the farms think are fun games and why do you like them?

For me, I love rogue and roguelikes (nethack specifically). Not talking about the indie games that have "random weapons xD" and call themselves roguelikes, though. I enjoy sitting back and trying to figure out the best course of action, given a myriad of things I could do.

Of course, I also love the extention to roguelines, dungeon crawls. Diablo and its clones, etc... Sometimes mindlessly killing the shit out of things is just fun.

Roguelikes in general. Although I'm pretty loose about that definition, and it goes from stuff like FTL to more recently Dwarf Fortress (thanks to a succession game that's sometimes going on here). Nethack is probably the oldest of these that I still play sometimes.

 

[Coldgrip]

Brawlers, I love brawlers, also fighting games and older JRPGs.

God I wish they'd re-release some of the older ones like Night Slashers or Ninja Baseball Bat Man.

 

[Bluey]

JRPGs
SRPGS
Fighters.

Games like the Yakuza series as well.

RPGS have been a staple in my life and growing up as well. I have fond memories playing FInal Fantasy VI on the SNES and on the GBA. Fighters such as Tekken and Soul Edge/Blade are also part of my childhood as well.

 

[LucasSomething]

I always loved metroidvania games but i hate how the indie games completely banalized the term just like they did with the term roguelike. It's hard to find a legit good metroidvania these days.

 

[Picklepower]

I love fighting games like Street Fighter, old Megaman games, old arcade games like Pac man and galaga, games that are simple to pick up and play, but hard to master.

 

[Hypodermic Johnny]

I love any kind of FPS with a big, interesting world to explore. Fallout series, Borderlands, Bioshock, The Elder Scrolls...just dump me somewhere with a weapon and a bagful of weird shit to collect and I'm usually happy.

Also, horror games, especially of the point-and-click variety, have always had their charms for me.

 

[Bluey]

I always loved metroidvania games but i hate how the indie games completely banalized the term just like they did with the term roguelike. It's hard to find a legit good metroidvania these days.

Aria and Dawn of Sorrow are personal favourites of mine. Infact, Dawn of Sorrow is in my top 5 DS games.

 

[The Fair Lady]

-RPGs of any kind

-Survival horror.

-Simulation, mainly stuff like Harvest Moon, and otome games.

-Point and click.

-Pretty much any game that includes character customization.

 

[MrTroll]

Open-world action-adventures, 2D and some 3D platformers, TPS's, FPS's, puzzle games, survival and first-person horror. I don't really do strategy games but I've been messing around with Invisible, Inc. which is fun in short bursts. I don't have the patience to play 100-hour-long dialogue-heavy RPG's so I never touch stuff like Elder Scrolls or The Witcher.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Anything with a good atmosphere, like RPGs or Simulations - especially when they offer some sandbox elements. Gothic, Mount and Blade, Elite Dangerous, stuff like that.

When it comes to action, I also enjoy FPS games, such as Half Life and Stalker.

For some reason, I really detest modern shooters such as Battlefield or CoD... When there's popups with "XP BONUS HEADSHOT", it just kills my entire interest for any game instantly.

 

[DumbDosh]

Anything with a good story or atmosphere.

Or anything with some level of skill or challenge or progression that can keep me engaged.

My favorite games are fun and challenging, stuff like Metal Gear or Silent Hill or Another World/Out Of This World are puzzling and challenging, but the level of attention to detail and the atmosphere make those games more exciting and fun than something like Silent Hill Homecoming.

But when it comes to stuff like CS:GO or Rocksmith, or Rocket League or even the Lego games, there's not really a ton of story or atmosphere there, but there is a level of progression and getting better or further along that is fun. Even something like Punch Quest which is literally just a game about efficiently raising the stats of your character and really doesn't involve a lot of gameplay is fun for me because I have to figure out if it's better to save up and buy gym equipment or pay a fee every time I want to use the gym, which is better for my stats, am I going to be screwed if I do this or that.

What I don't get is when games where you get better or progress just are boring. Like League of Legends or WoW, like I can see why some people like those games, but I just don't see why I would waste hundreds of hours on a game where for a lot of people it's just frustrating or you can't just hop on for an hour and have fun and then get off. Like CSGO or Rocket League I can play a match for an hour, have fun scoring goals or shooting guys and then leave. Where as in WoW I have to worry about doing quests, leveling up, joining a guild, doing raids so that eventually I'll have a higher level character that means nothing to me, at least when I get better in CSGO or Quake I not only had fun constantly when playing but I'm better at playing as a result. I just see League of Legends from what I've seen of friends and people who've played it as "it's frustrating but I play it because everyone else is playing it" That's just not fun to me.

 

[c-no]

Games that allow a bit of sand-box appeal to me such as Oblivion though I also don't mind games that let you do different builds such as Mount & Blade: Warband, Fallout, Wizardry 8, Gothic, Morrowind, and any of the souls games (save Bloodborne since I never played it).

I'm also into FPS games such as FEAR, Blood, and SHOGO (all of which were made by the same developer, Monolith). Also like the sort of games that do have a sense of atmosphere giving you a sense of feeling such as STALKER and Shadow Tower. Also like stealth based games such as Metal Gear Solid and Thief. The former in how you deal with enemies while the latter tries to make you play like a Thief, sneaking past guards and, with the difficulty in mind, keeping your kill count at bare minimum to zero.

Not much a fighting game fan but I enjoyed Def Jam: Fight for NY and Bloody Roar 2. Those are the fighting games I enjoyed most due to the former letting you customize your own fighter while the latter pretty much has a kick-ass beetle as one of the fighters. There's also Dong Dong Never Die which I love due to how broken Sheng Hua Nan and Violent Dong Dong are.