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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: scott on April 29, 2012, 03:43:53 am
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What game or games started your love of your favorite genres? We all have genres that we gravitate toward more than others, and its caused from early experiences with those genres and the great games within them. So, what one(s) brought about your love of them?
For me I'm big into shmups, rpgs and platformers.
Platformers is an easy one, and its all because of Super Mario 1-3 and Castlevania III.
Rpgs: My free copy of Dragon Warrior thanks to Nintendo Power, along with Chrono Trigger & Final Fantasy III.
Shmups: 1943 on NES and Centipede at the arcades. Then years later I rediscovered shmups with Gunbird 2 and it all just snowballed from there, causing me to build a mame cab dedicated to them.
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Shining Force II - SRPGs all day long!
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RPGs: Final Fantasy
Shoot'em Ups: Tiger Heli
Fighting: Street Fighter II
Platformers: Super Mario World
Beat'em Ups: Double Dragon
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Action - Gunstar Heroes
Shmups - Timepilot on the Colecovision!
RPGs - Faxanadu. Took it to the next level with Shadowrun... JRPGs with FF VII and Wild ARMs.
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RPG - Chrono Trigger
Shooter - Goldeneye 007
2D Action Platformer - Megaman X / Super Metroid
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RPG - Its split between Miracle Warriors, Phantasy Star, Dragon Warrior, and Final fantasy.
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Platformer: Super Mario World
Adventure: The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
Arcade: Pac-Man
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2D and 3D Platformers:Super mario 64,Sonic cd pc & Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters
Point and Click Adventure:Nancy drew games
FPS:Perfect dark on a emulator
Tycoon:Mall Tycoon
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FPS - I was always a PC gamer until recently. Started and played through all of the early games and was a huge Doom addict. I played through pretty much every FPS but landed hard on Counter-Strike. Spent years of my life playing casually and competitively. The genre has lost a lot over the last few years but I still enjoy it.
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Let's see...
Platformers: Mario
RPGs: Mario RPG (I didn't really "get" RPGs before that... but after I became a fan)
Racing: Mario (I think I see a pattern here)
Fighting: Street Fighter 2
FPS: Wolfenstein 3D (I think)
Shmup: Gradius 3
Adventure: Monkey Island
Action Adventure: Zelda
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jRPGs: Final Fantasy II
First person RPG: Skyrim (I hadn't really experienced good ones before)
Racing Simulation, Gran Turismo 3
Fighting: Mortal Kombat
FPS: COD: MW2 (not so much love but I really got into the game, there was no evolution in the genre so I stopped playing)
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not so much love but I really got into the game, there was no evolution in the genre so I stopped playing
try some the old first person shooters like soldier of fortune
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My very first RPG was Earthbound, which I'd now state as my favorite game, so it was very natural to fall in love with RPGs after that.
As far as Simulation games go, my cousin gave me a copy of SimCity for Win 3.1. Sim games became a love for me. And then I found Harvest Moon...
I played some RTSes back with Civilization II and Alpha Centari, but I really got into them with Age of Empires II, running a CAT 5 down the hallway to my sister's room. Adding a live opponent made all the difference.
And Action RPGs, Ocarina of Time, easily. I actually never played a Zelda game until that one, and just fell in love with everything about it.
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NHL '94 my brother and I played the heck out of all of the NHL games but 94 was our favorite and I still enjoy playing sports games today.
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Action: Super C
RPG: Super Mario RPG (First true rpg I ever played)
Adventure: LoZ
Arcade: TMNT 2
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Platformer-Donkey Kong Country, first game I ever beat
Fighting- Tekken 3, Killer Instinct, King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, Competition in the arcade was so much fun!
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I guess Utopia on Intellivision got me into world building types of games, that continued with SimCity and Civilization II. Although I've enjoyed JRPGs, I've always preferred western RPGs. After watching my neighbor play The Bard's Tale, I purchased The Bard's Tale II, though I never finished it. My neighbor's love of AD&D got me into the Pool of Radiance game which I finished a few times. Wasteland is another great RPG on the C64 that I played through a couple times.
Starsiege Tribes got me into online gaming, and then I played Tribes 2 probably more than any other game ever :o Those two games make it very difficult to enjoy most other online shooters, there's just no comparison with the freedom of movement and large maps. Dynamix was ahead of everyone else when it game to online shooters. T2 had a built-in community with news, email, IRC, team pages for recruiting and getting tags, in-game demo recording, and one of the best server browsers I've come across. They made an attempt at in-game voice chat too, though that didn't work out so well they were thinking ahead. I did later play a decent amount of Battlefield 2, and had tried BF 1942. There are some similarities, but I need a jetpack and spinfusor when I game 8) I've played some Tribes Vengeance, and am now dabbling in Tribes Ascend, though neither is as good as the Dynamix games.
Everyone's just making lists and here I am going on and on ::)
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I love adventure, Survival horror, and puzzler games. What got me interested in these was the 7th Guest, 11th Hour, and Phantasmagoria. I thought they were the greatest games when they came out. For the puzzler side it was the Incredible Machine. even though the others had puzzler influence it got me to appreciate games like adventures of Lolo and the such.
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Platformers - Super Mario Bros. 3
Though I started with SMB 1, 3 was really when I knew I'd be playing alot more of these sorts of games.
Fighting - Street Fighter II
yeah.
Shooters - Space Harrier
I only had one opportunity to play Space Harrier in the arcade as a kid.. it was something I wouldn't have traded for anything. Space Harrier is the primary reason I love the 32X to this day.
RPG - Suikoden
I tried to get into FF3 in its day, but just couldn't for some reason. When Suikoden came out, I really got into its story of political intrigue, rebellion as well as gathering up (most) all 108 heroes.
Racing - Outrunners (arcade)
I'd walk the long way home from school, to the arcade, just to drop a few quarters in this machine everyday.
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Pretty much got me into gaming in general. (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4979400/doom-logo.gif)
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Shmups: First Gradius on the NES, then "Lightening Force" (Thunder Force IV) on the Genesis and Gradius III on the SNES, and Mars Matrix on the DC really helped cement my love for the genre. Also Jamestown on Steam is really good!
2D Fighting: Pretty much the same as everyone: SFII. I first played it at a pizza shop, then SFII:Turbo/Championship on the SNES/GEN. I also really enjoy Alpha 3 and Capcom vs SNK on the DC, and Night Warriors (Darkstalkers) on the Saturn.
3D Fighting: Soul Calibur, Power Stone… and does Super Smash Bros/Melee count?
There are tons more, but I don’t want to go on forever, but other notable games are Contra, Super Mario 3, Ocarina of Time, Portal, Goldeneye 007 and Warcraft 2/Command & Conquer/Civilization II.