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: What's your favourite game genre? and what's an example of a game in that genre? I like a cross between romance and adventure, like Final Fantasy VIII.



RPG (like Dink Smallwood, Golden Sun on GBA), Strategy (like C&C etc..) and almost anything else ;). If a game is fun, I like it (doesn't really matter what genre it is :).



Simeon

: What's your favourite game genre? and what's an example of a game in that genre? I like a cross between romance and adventure, like Final Fantasy VIII.



RPGs with bad graphics, like Dink Smallwood, Strategy games with bad graphics, like Age Of Empires, and finally: Puzzle games with REALLY bad graphics, like Pong.. LOL ;)

: What's your favourite game genre? and what's an example of a game in that genre? I like a cross between romance and adventure, like Final Fantasy VIII.



Guaranteed RPGs, strategy and tycoon-style, plus whatever Grand Theft Auto 1, 2 and 3 is.



My favorites in each categories are Final Fantasy 7, 9 and 10, Jagged Alliance: Deady Games and RollerCoaster Tycoon.

My all-time favorite genre would be adventure. All the LucasArts adventures were good (Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, etc.). There are some other good non-LucasArts adventure too, like Sierra's adventures (Gabriel Knight and Space Quest, for example) and The Longest Journey. Unfortunately, adventure games are so often overlooked by developers these days, and any sequels to adventures become action/adventure games (Full Throttle II), so the adventure genre seems pretty close to pushing petunias now.



...What a rant. ;)



My current favorite genres would be strategy games, followed by fast, frenetic shooters. I kicked a lot o' can in the recent Soldier of Fortune II multiplayer test, and I play Starcraft every so often. When Warcraft III is released, I'll likely be all-strategy for at least two or three months. That is, if I get it. :D



As for genres I'm looking forward to toying with, I'm considering pulling out the many RPGs I've never played and diving into those. I have a sizeable collection of those, including Fallout 1 and 2, and Baldur's Gate.



Well, I think I've spoken long enough, and I doubt you've bothered reading to the end of this, so....



- Tal

: What's your favourite game genre? and what's an example of a game in that genre? I like a cross between romance and adventure, like Final Fantasy VIII.



RPG, definitely. My old time favorite is Quest for Glory Anthology.

: What's your favourite game genre? and what's an example of a game in that genre? I like a cross between romance and adventure, like Final Fantasy VIII.



My favorite would be either first person/third person shooters such as Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake etc. :) RPGs like MORROWIND, Final Fantasies (especially FF7), Betrayal of Krondor, Dink Smallwood, etc. :) Adventure Games like the one's Luca's arts make like Monkey Island Series, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, etc. :)Sports Games like Madden 2002. :) Turn based games like the Heroes of Might and Magic series. :) Basically I like most of the many different game genres out there. ;)



I know I'm off going off topic, even though I'm 30+ hours in the game (Morrowind) I'm nowhere near 1/4 of the way done! Great game though ;), but the Daedras are a pain in the butt. :(



- DethLord

RPG, but spesifically the kind of RPG where you can pretty much just explore the world and do whatever you want. Daggerfall is probably the best example of such a game. It's Sequel, Morrowind, just out, but perhaps not quite as good an example of what I mean.

: What's your favourite game genre? and what's an example of a game in that genre? I like a cross between romance and adventure, like Final Fantasy VIII.

Hmm, i think i'd have to say adventure. Not action-adventure, like Diablo 2 (which also ROCKS) but adventure- like Monkey Island or Grim Fandango.:)