Ah yes, I forgot to mention Medal of Honor. I think I’m the only girl in this hemisphere who plays Medal of Honor, let alone has all the installments. I didn’t like European Assault as much as the others, though. Having to command a unit when I was trying to worry about myself was pretty tough, and what’s up with them letting you finish a level without telling you you haven’t completed objectives? (Yeah, i know it’s supposed to be a "challenge, but c’mon). Other than those issues, there were elements to that game that I really liked that the others didn’t have; the narration of the WWII vet in the cut sequences was great, and the addition of elements that one would have suffered in real battle, like shell shock.
I don’t like shooters because the controls are awkward and I don’t like the perspective. I only like them as multi-player games.
I like surival horror, especially Silent Hill. Does anyone have opinions on SH3 vs SH4? I only played 1&2. I like racing simulators such as Gran Turismo 3 but tuning the cars was too tedious on that one.
I sold my PS2 a year ago but I owned only sports games. NHL Hockey, Madden, a couple Tony Hawks (including THUG, so fun), Dave Mirra BMX, etc.
I don’t like fantasy stuff at all, it doesn’t interest me in the slightest. Same for shooters, don’t care, not into aliens, monsters etc. Sports games are fun and not too hard and almost anybody can pick up a controller and figure it out pretty quick to play with you.
Back in my childhood, the days of NES and Sega (the two systems we had) I dug Mario, Tetris, Skate or Die, Boy and His Blob, Excite Bike, Days of Thunder, Street Fighter, Sonic the Hedgehog, and NHL, NBA, Pete Sampras tennis, etc.
Ugh, the game I play the most is Everquest II. I’ve been playing it for a year. I hate games that end. I always want more. Before EQII, I played EQ for five years. Crack, I tells ya, crack.
Other than that… hmm. I like a good RPG. Also, I tend to like some really cutesy games: most of the Harvest Moon series, Animal Crossing, Pokemon, etc. I just finished Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and am almost done with Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, and I liked both of those quite a bit. I’m still working on that damn Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - I keep putting it on a back burner. But I like it so far. I’ve had it for over a year. Maybe two years, actually…
I HATE twitchy games, but it seems that’s all there is now! I miss old-skool adventure games, like Grim Fandango and the Monkey Island games and such. I don’t like fighting because I’m no good at it. I play games where you have to fight because I get interested in the story, I’m playing Morrowind now, but I wish it were better at letting you dial down the combat difficulty. I enjoyed Halo because I never got stuck with the combat (never did see the rest of Final Fantasy VIII because I got stuck) and it would help me out with navigation when I get lost. I get lost a LOT. I think if you buy a game it ought to come with a mulligan key, so when you get stuck and you don’t want to fight this stupid battle anymore you can skip it and go on to the rest of the game.
I also love sim games - I adore Civ in it’s various incarnations, although I haven’t played 4, but I don’t like warfare. It bores me and I’m no good at it. I find it frustrating. I’d much rather manage my own little sandbox, thanks so much. I love the Sims and things like SimTower and Zoo Tycoon.
I don’t like horror games because they scare the living crap out of me. I really enjoy Eternal Darkness on my Gamecube but I couldn’t play it at night and I’ve put it down for a while because, surprise surprise, I got stuck at some fight somewhere and my last save wasn’t good enough to recover from.
I really, really hate that everything’s all real-time and twitchy now. Remember those old AD&D games, where once you got into combat everything went and gridded itself all nicely and you could figure out what was going on and you all took turns like nice boys and girls? I can’t stand this crap in Morrowind where something’s hitting me and oh crap and I don’t know where it is and oh no I moved the camera and eek! I’m dead! It’s not enjoyable to me. But I want to see more of the story!
I do like that games are putting more co-op modes in. Nothing less fun than watching somebody else play a video game for hours on end, unless it’s being squished constantly in multiplayer because they’re always so much better than you. Co-op saved at least one friendship for me.
SH3 and SH4 are pretty complex and the two are quite different from each other. SH3 ties up a lot of loose ends from SH1, but SH4 begins a new story line that doesn’t have much reference to the first two games. The controls in SH4 are a little more awkward; fighting is clumsy and slow. Both have a great macabre feel, but SH4 is even more sinister. Overall I liked them both and recommend playing them if you enjoyed the first two.
Absolultely the “level” type of game like the Super Mario Bros. games.
I hate racing games, but I’ve become heroin-level addicted to Mario Kart for DS…racing over wi-fi with friends/total strangers in my own home, with my ass parked on the couch…when I was 10 if someone had told me that’s where video games were going, it would have been too much to comprehend.
I like action RPGs. Like, with at least SOME element of action. Choosing choices from a menu is boring. A good plot and nice graphics help too. I also like sidescrolling platformers. The indie scene is looking gooood for me at the moment.
I like adventure games, as in the Myst series and similar games, but I downloaded a demo of The Longest Journey and couldn’t stand even the intro. Give me good graphics, a great story and challenging puzzles, and I’m happy.
After that I like turn based strategy games, though most of my experience is limited to Civ III.
And, I can’t help it, I love me a good platformer. Bubblegum for the mind. There’s no heavy thinking necessary, mostly just good reflexes. I read somewhere that Sonic is coming out for the PSP; I can’t wait!
“Action RPG’s” is a good way to describe what I like, too. I get a high from the escapism of it - I can be a farmer where life goes just as predicted so long as you keep up with everything (Harvest Moon) - I can be Spiderman, where it’s this close to believable that I could swing around Manhattan faster than any car, or effectively any helicopter, and fight bad guys because my Spidey sense allows me to dodge bullets - I can be Mario, where if I train no more than a person with ADD can manage, I can kick butt…
I also like sports games, but I’m troubled by my recent understanding of how EA Sports treats employees/contractors…
Heh, I gave up on Splinter Cell when someone kept finding my bodies in the CIA level. I prefer my shooters to be more straight forward, Quake, XIII etc.
Same with RPGs, I’ve never played any other than the Zelda series, stuff along the lines of Ultima or Final Fantasy is just too long and drawn out.
Mostly just to have a bit of a blast on the Gamecube/PC, nothing where I need to dwell too long on unenjoyable aspects of the game. Same with RTS games, something nice and straightfoward like Starcraft and Total Annihilation.
Where I do like a bit of complexity is in games like Civilization, Sim City etc When I do have a bit of time to sit down and zone out infront of the PC, its better to have something rewarding for my wasted time
Have you tried the Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic games? The stories are very engrossing, if more linear than stuff like Morrowind, and the combat dynamics are excellent: not “twitch” at all, it’s the old d20 + mods, turn-based fighting, except that you key in a sequence of actions for a combat round, then watch the fight play out in real time, with the advantage that you can always take back what you’ve selected and queue up some new choices for the next round if your opponent gets in some good hits. Line up your Force powers and lightsabre attacks, and then sit back and watch the fight {and if you go over to the Dark Side, you get to choke people and blast them with Force lightning: tremendous fun to sit back and watch}.
KotOR 2 has some drawbacks with the storyline - i.e it wasn’t properly finished, since Obsidian were forced to rush it out incomplete in order to meet a deadline, and so in the latter stages of the game the plot stops and starts incessantly before finally fizzling out - but the gameplay is deeper and more open-ended than the original, and the combat is even better: you can select a variety of offensive/defensive tactical options for each party member, ranged weapons are finally useful {they were hopeless in the first game}, and you can select a variety of lightsabre techniques - from aggressive to defensive - depending on how many and how tough your opponents are. Oh, and your cloak swirls.
I expect a chorus of laughter in response to this, but I like simple, inoffensive little games; probably the most representative example of these would be a little freeware offering called Seiklus. There is no ‘GAME OVER’ and the main character cannot even die; the graphics are absurdly simple, yet the quirky atmosphere and the puzzle element of the gameplay makes this game a real gem.
Keep in mind I haven’t played a computer game in a couple years, but I like racing games – I liked both Project Gotham and Nascar Thunder on my buddy’s Xbox.
I also had a job once where we’d play Quake III over a LAN and I got real good at it.
I just play chess on the computer now. But, that’s not really a computer game, even though computers are great at it.
Both games are worth playing. Silent Hill 3 isn’t great, but it’s available on the cheap now and a good purchase. For my money, Silent Hill 4 is the best of the series. They finally found a good balance in the game play aspect and broadened the story out nicely.
BrianJedi, you should try to find Alien Hominid. It’s out for all of the systems and based on a Newgrounds game. It’s a great little 2d throwback and worth the $20 or so to purchase.
I 'm primarily a fan of the Final Fantasy series, including the Kingdom Hearts spin-offs. They consitituted the bulk of my gaming in recent times. Whole ages of Urth ago, I very much enjoyed the **Shining Force ** series on Sega…have to see about one of those emulator thingies. Thanks to the spawn of my loins, I have lately become somewhat enamoured of the Sly Cooper series. We finished I and are now in the middle of II. I usually hate platformers, but Sly is so easily controlled that there aren’t any frustratingly hard jumps. It also has well realized and beautifully drawn characters. Inspector Carmelita Fox has the best rack in the history of videogames.
I like shooters with a bit of a story, but with the focus on action - Half-Life, Max Payne and No One Lives Forever and their respective (and superior) sequels are among my favorites. Realism, but not too much realism, and a good, immersive environment.
But my favorite games, without a doubt, are the Total War games. I think that over the past 5 years, at least 50% of my gaming time has been dedicated to Shogun, Medieval and Rome, the latter of which I’ve been playing more or less nonstop since December '04. I love the strategy, I love the depth, I love the fact that good tactics win battles, I love the feeling of commanding thousands of battle-hardened troops. Most of all, I love the feeling of writing history. I generally dislike strategy games (especially the RTS which have you recruiting troops in real-time in the middle of the battlefield - I just can’t suspend disbelief, but the TW games are something else entirely.
I play video games exclusively for relaxation these days, so I’m not going to bother with a lot of the more intense games out there. I’m not a fan of any sort of real-time games, with the exception of space flight sims like *Tie Fighter * or X-Wing Alliance. On the whole, I much prefer turn based rpgs (Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy X, Darklands), or RTS games where you can pause and make decisions (*X-Com, UFO Aftermath, etc.). * Of course, there are some rts games, like Warcraft, that are just fun, especially with mods.
Gameplay trumps graphics every time for me, and I will admit that I just don’t have what it takes coordination-wise to play newer FPS games. Doom 1 is the last FPS I remember excelling in. Once they added ‘looking up and down’ to the control scheme, I was lost.
If I play newer ones, I usually do it with god mode and all weapons on, and go on a killing spree.
I play PC games and found heaven in Final Fantasy XI, the MMORPG, a couple years ago. I was a sucker for the incredibly rich imagination of the environments, the music, the immersiveness, the danger, the friendships.
The first PC game I played was the original text game Adventure (in 1972) in the computer lab of my university. Later, Atari games.
In recent years I loved Myst/Riven when they were current. Again, the rich environments, spooky music, feeling of danger. Later I played Amerzone, Lightbringer, Legacy of Time, all adventure games.
Most recently I tried Longest Journey, and for the life of me can’t see why people love it! It should be something I like, but it feels stiff and wooden to me, the girl is annoying, and maybe it’s the graphics. Now I’m playing and loving Fable The Lost Chapters, a fun RPG with a nice look and feel.
I’m looking forward to Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. If it weren’t coming out so soon I’d be playing Morrowind for sure. I also am watching for the new Neverwinter Nights 2, which might be up my alley. Also Dreamfall: The Longest Journey sounds promising.
Give me visuals, immersive environments, stuff to do, things to fight, and some goals and I’m a happy camper.
