Your Genre Darlings

[Ivan]

Happy lazy Sunday. Just some shit for fun and maybe discover new favorites:

RPG: Fallout 1 (the death animations, the world/factions, Mark Morgan's music, the voice acting, the itemization, the pacing)

Literary RPG: Planescape Tournament ("Endure, in enduring grow strong"

FPS: Doom Eternal (makes me feel the same combat high that Platinum Games' elicit, love the health/ammo replenishment system, the bestiary and the colors)

FPS/Adventure: Half Life

Horde/Wave Shooter: Killing Floor 2

Tower Defense: Defense Grid

Room Clear/Kill Em All: Hotline Miami

Zeldalike: Unsighted

Brawler: God Hand (the best dodging/bobbing and weaving I've found in a game, adaptive/reactive difficulty, soundtrack)

Roguelike: Spelunky (love the exercise of managing resources and mapping out your route)

2D Horror: Darkwood (little hand holding, tough world, imagine Lone Survivor meets STALKER)

Metroidvania: Hollow Knight (the world design, the combat, the art)

Serious Crime Drama: Yakuza 0 (Makoto Makimura)

Platinum Games game: Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

GTA/GTA Clone: Sleeping Dogs (Arkham Combat + GTA and solid driving)

2D Platformer: Rayman Origins (silky smooth controls and excellent music)

3D Platformer: Mario 3D World (that goddamn soundtrack)

Walking Sim: Devotion

Boss Rush: Shadow of the Colossus (the silence, the world, the exploration, the unique boss encounters, incredible sense of scale)

JRPG: Undertale (whimsical, quirky American take on Mother series with a wonderful twist on traditional JRPG combat, tough as well "evil" playthrough)

Hack N Slash: Devil May Cry 3 ("This party's getting crazy!")

Shit Combat Horror: Silent Hill 2 (legendary soundtrack, monster design, storytelling)

Survival Horror: STALKER (particularly Misery 1.2, but the core experience is great throughout all entries)

Action Horror: Dead Space 2 (Resident Evil 4 without enemies that SPRINT at you only to gingerly shuffle toward you for ez potshots)

Point n Click Adventure: Blackwell Series (intuitive puzzles that serve the story and characters)

Puzzle: Hexcells

Console Stealth: Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence

PC Stealth: Thief 2

Blobber: Grimrock 2 (love the immediacy of the exploration, the puzzles)

Turn Based Tactics: X-COM 2 (loved creating your units)

Deus-Ex Like: Deus Ex (JC, A BOMB!)

Rhythm/Music: Thumper (elicits a similar high to Doom Eternal and Platinum Games' titles)

Racing: Midnight Club 3 (wonderful mix of arcadey racing, great soundtrack, and fun customization)

Soulsborne: Bloodborne (the world, the faster paced combat, the bestiary, the weapons)

Codexer: SumDrunkGuy (most sympathetic figure I've ever seen here. I hope he finishes Sekiro some day)

Don't play/enjoy the following genres:
Fighting
RTS
Visual Novel
Grand Strategy
Diablo-like ARPGs

 

[Zenithsan]

Rape Sim: Rapelay

Rape RPG Dungeon Crawler: Bunny Black

Rape Point & Click RPG: Rance 01

Best Party Game: Crash Bash

 

[Wunderbar]

RPG:

Literary RPG:

FPS:

Brawler:

Metroidvania:

Collectathon

Walking Sim:

Boss Rush:

JRPG:

Hack N Slash:

Horror:

Stealth:

Blobber:

Turn Based Tactics:

Music:

Codexer:

 

[kangaxx]

Original Deus Ex and System Shock 1 & 2 for all applicable categories.

 

[Curratum]

 

[kangaxx]

There are some pretty darn good games in there.

 

[Zlaja]

Melancoly despair: Fallout

Muh immershun: Gothic 2

Hack & Slash Loot Pinata: Titan Quest

T & A: Dead Or Alive 5

Jumpy Jump : Super Mario World

Tactical shit: Jagged Alliance 2

Walking Fag Simulator: SOMA

Scawy: Silent Hill 1

Muh Graphics: Soul Calibur (in 1999)

Souls: Dark Souls 2 (deal with it)

JRPG: Phantasy Star IV

Too stupid to finish as a kid: Deja Vu (NES)

Get triggered by: Oblivion

Get triggered by that others worship: Metal Gear Solid 3

Wanna punch: Hideo Kojima

Sick and tired hearing about: Fallout 76

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Horror: Resident Evil 1 Remake/Silent Hill 3

RPG: From Software games (mostly Dark Souls 2).

Shooter: Vanquish and more recently Control. As for FPS... Prey I guess? I don't play pure shooters anymore.

Interactive cinematic story shit: Until Dawn and the first two Walking Dead games are the only ones I've ever been able to get into.

Fighting game: I don't play these but I was really into Tekken 3. Also I appreciate DOA's t&a.

Sandbox: San Andreas I guess.

MMO: I actively hate them all.

Action adventure: I don't know. This is getting complicated. Games blend multiple genres together now so trying to categorize them always feels retarded to me.

 

[Rincewind]

What is this, some kind of new-school forum? I see very few pre-1997 classic games here.

Also, too many categories.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

What is this, some kind of new-school forum? I see very few pre-1997 classic games here.

Also, too many categories.

Most of the games I loved when I was a kid are shit and I would never be able to return to them.

Diablo. There's one pre-97 game I loved that wasn't shit.

 

[Ivan]

What is this, some kind of new-school forum? I see very few pre-1997 classic games here.

Also, too many categories.

I was born in late 90 so that may explain it. Just having fun with it/not taking the categories too seriously (e.g. Serious Crime Drama :D )

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

RPG: New Vegas

Literary RPG: nah

FPS: Fallout 4

FPS/Adventure: nah

Horde/Wave Shooter: nah

Tower Defense: Van Helsing

Room Clear/Kill Em All: nah

Zeldalike: nah

Brawler: nah

Roguelike: nah

2D Horror: nah

Metroidvania: nah

Serious Crime Drama: the codex's view on oblivion

Platinum Games game: nah

GTA/GTA Clone: nah

2D Platformer: nah

3D Platformer: nah

Walking Sim: nah

Boss Rush: nah

JRPG: lol nah

Hack N Slash: nah

Shit Combat Horror: nah

Survival Horror: STALKER

Action Horror: FEAR

Point n Click Adventure: Secret of Monkey Island

Puzzle: Grimrock 2

Console Stealth: nah

PC Stealth: Deus Ex

Blobber: Grimrock 2

Turn Based Tactics: Underrail

Deus-Ex Like: Deus Ex

Rhythm/Music: guitar hero

Racing: nah

Soulsborne: nah

Codexer: @Sukhāvatī

RTS: Sins of a Solar Empire

Diablo-like ARPGs: Titan Quest

 

[Zlaja]

Shooter: Vanquish and more recently Control

Man, I grew really sick of Control. Got so tiresome trying to explore everything properly and do the sidequests, while those constantly respawning mooks kept popping up again and again as soon as you leave one small area and enter another. Also, having to watch the protagonist's ugly face during cutscenes was also a major pain.

Horror: Resident Evil 1 Remake/Silent Hill 3

GRAPHIC WHORE!

MMO: I actively hate them all

You should try Lord Of the Rings Online. I know you don't have a gaming rig, but this one can be run on a potato and can be fun even if you don't really care about LOTR that much (I fucking hate Frodo and the hobbits and their hairy feet).

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Man, I grew really sick of Control. Got so tiresome trying to explore everything properly and do the sidequests, while those constantly respawning mooks kept popping up again and again as soon as you leave one small area and enter another. Also, having to watch the protagonist's ugly face during cutscenes was also a major pain.

I didn't mind that stuff because the combat was so good. Levitating around and lifting up fork trucks and random shit and demolishing enemies with it never got old to me. Few games give you that sense of raw power. And the shooting was fine which helps. Loved the weird story, atmosphere, physics (even though they break the game during some intense fights) and especially the combat.

You should try Lord Of the Rings Online. I know you don't have a gaming rig, but this one can be run on a potato and can be fun even if you don't really care about LOTR that much (I fucking hate Frodo and the hobbits and their hairy feet).

That's a hard pass. Every MMO I've ever tried I hated. FF14, WoW, Runescape, ESO, I hated all of them. At this point the only ones I'd still be interested in trying are Black Desert Online because I think every RPG should strive to have that game's character creator. It's the best I've seen. And also Dragon's Dogma Online but that's never coming to the US.

 

[luj1]

Darlings for me means something unpopular you like subjectively

Quake 2 (shooter)
HoMM 4 (turn based strategy)
NwN 1 (RPG)
Kingdoms of Amalur (console ARPG)
LED Wars (realtime strategy)
Trackmania Turbo (racing)

 

[Nifft Batuff]

soulslike: Tetris
roguelite: Solitarie (Klondike)
metroidvania: Mineswepper

 

[octavius]

TB Blobber: Might&Magic 2
RT Blobber: Chaos Strikes Back
Traditional CRPG: Icewind Dale
ARPG: Diablo 2
Tactical: OpenXcom
TB Strategy: Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic
Stealth: Thief: The Dark Project
4X: Master of Orion

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Kingdoms of Amalur (console ARPG)

Wtf? That game is the opposite of good.

 

[luj1]

Kingdoms of Amalur (console ARPG)

Wtf? That game is the opposite of good.

its a consoletard action RPG with a generic popamole world

but there's a ton of shit to do, the world is hand-crafted and I liked the freedom

basically it plays like a single player MMO

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

basically it plays like a single player MMO

I know. That's a bad thing, lol.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

3D FPS: Quake 2 The Reckoning
2,5D FPS: Ultimate Doom
Popamole FPS - Bulletstorm
TPS - MDK 2
Popamole TPS - Binary Domain
WRPG: New Vegas
Blobber - Strange Journey
JRPG - Persona 4
Action RPG - Drakengard 3
2D fighting game - Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 or SSF2T or SF3TS
3D fighting game - MK vs DC
2D graphics / 3D gameplay fighting game - Mortal Kombat 9
Crossover fighting game - Marvel vs Capcom 2
2D beat'em up - Punisher (1993)
3D beat'em up - Shaolin Monks
RTS - Dark Colony
4X - Civilization 2
2D Platform - Mr. Gimmick or Big Nose Freaks Out! or SMB3
3D Platform - Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
2D Run'n'Gun - NARC
3D Run'n'Gun - Expendable
P&C Adventure: Shadow of the Comet
Puzzle - Isle of Dr. Brain or Osmos
Hack'n'Slash - Diablo 1 / Hellfire
Puzzle / Platform - Heart of Darkness or Fantastic Adventure of Dizzy
Racing - Redline Racer or Star Wars Racer or Mario Kart 64
Sport - Savage Arena or NHL Open Ice
Survival horror - Hellnight
Tactical - Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines / Beyond the Call of Duty
Real Time Tactics (larger scale) - Myth: The Fallen Lords or Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat / Dark Omen
Other: Tempest 2000. Baloon Fight

 

[Falksi]

CRPG: Avernum: Escape From the Pit (PC)

Action RPG: Deus Ex (PC)

JRPG: Phantasy Star 4 (SEGA Megadrive)

Action JRPG: Tales of Berseria (PC)

Tactical JRPG: Shinig Force 2 + Warsong (SEGA Megadrive)

Tactical WPRG: X-com '94 (PC)

Adventure Game: Zelda - Link To The Past (SNES)

Hack N SLash: Dark Souls 2 (PC)

Horizontal SHMUP: Thunderforce 3 (SEGA Megadrive)

Vertical SHMUP: MUSHA/Ikaruga (SEGA Megadrive + Arcade + Dreamcast)

Overhead SHMUP: Nex Machina (PC)

2-D Beat 'Em Up: Bare Knucke 3 (SEGA Megadrive)

3-D Beat 'Em Up: The Warriors (PS2)

1-on-1 Fighter: Street Fighter 3: Third Strike (Arcade)

Platform Game: Super Mario World (SNES)

FPS: Doom (PC)

FPS RPG: Hexen 2 (PC)

2-D Action Game: The Revenge of Shinobi (SEGA Megadrive)

Run N' Gun: Atomic Runner + Contra 3 + Hard Corps (SEGA Megadrive x 2 + SNES)

Blobber: Bards Tale 4: Directors Cut

Metroidvania: Super Metroid (SNES)

God Sim: Actraiser (SNES)

2-Player Vs Game: Star Control (PC & SEGA Megadrive)

Super Scaler: Afterburner 2 (SEGA Megadrive)

Cover-shooter: Mass Effect 1 (PC)

Horror Game: Condemned 2 (X-Box 360)

Indie Game: Hard West (PC)

Stealth Game: Metal Gear Solid 1 (PS1)

Open World game: Morrowind (PC)

 

[Utfärd]

ur mum

 

[Zombra]

RPG: Vampire Bloodlines

Literary RPG: Disco Elysium

FPS: Gotham City Impostors

FPS/Adventure: Dead Secret

Horde/Wave Shooter: Zombie Army 4

Tower Defense: Kingdom Rush series

Brawler: Streets of Rage 4

Unclassifiable: Dead Rising 1

Crime/Detective: Paradise Killer

Open World Checklist: Ghost of Tsushima

Walking Sim: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

JRPG: Chrono Trigger

Hack and Slash: Middle-Earth Shadow of War

Psychological Horror: Doki Doki Literature Club

Survival Horror: Silent Hill 2

Puzzle: The Witness

Stealth: Thief Deadly Shadows

Blobber: Wizardry 8

Turn Based Tactics: Jagged Alliance Deadly Games

Immersive Sim: System Shock 2

Rhythm/Music: Um Jammer Lammy

Real-Time Tactics: Desperados 3

 

[Eisen]

FPS: Quake
ARPG: Deus Ex
2D Platform: Megaman X6(it's terrible, i know)