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What genre has grown on you?

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deoee

Member
Hey hey,

I gotta ask you guys:

What genre did grow on you in the past time that you thought you'd never enjoy?

For me it was Visual Novels. I could not imagine playing those "games" two years ago. And look at me now:

The past few months were breathtaking for me since I finished the first Ace AttorneymVirtues Last Reward, Danganronpa 1 and 2, Steins;Gate (today :) )
It became so relaxing for me to just sit down and enjoy a great great story and the game that sparked my love was 999.
 
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johnnydrama

Banned
RPGs. I used to actively avoid playing them, but ever since I played the Mass Effect and The Witcher games, it's become my favorite genre. I still heavily dislike JRPGs though. Can't stand the writing and gameplay systems.
 
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zero86r

Member
Golf games, I've really enjoyed them over the last few years, they relax me. Unless it's the new Rory McIlroy game, awful stuff.

Edit: not really fitting the whole genre requirement but meh, I'll leave it here.
 
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MetroidPrimeRib

Banned
Visual Novels I guess? Not sure if I would consider Ace Attorney or 999 VNs the same way I would with ones like FSN but I probably just want to disassociate good stuff from bad stuff. They have point and click and adventure games mechanics.
 
Bl@de

Bl@de

Member
Tactical Espionage Action

Just finished MGS2 for the first time. Batshit insane. Awesome game. 10/10
 
Baleoce

Baleoce

Member
I started playing the first Phoenix Wright a couple of years back, and after that I basically went on a mission to play every single one of them pretty much back to back with no breaks. I liked them that much. I didn't even realise it before that. So any other good suggestions from that genre would be very welcome, as I'm still jonesing for some more. I hope the great ace attorney gets localized :s especially as Shu Takumi is back at the helm.
 
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Verelios

Member
Dungeon Crawling games. I used to dislike their first person perspective and dull progression, but Etrian Odyssy was just too good. Made me fall in love with the genre.

Plus, I realized DC aren't so different from grinding in RPGs, and I love taking my time and testing systems. A surprisingly good fit.

Edit: For the people who like AA and are looking for more in that vein, I cannot recommend Hotel Dusk and its sequel enough. They're both great, pretty western in respect to AA though, but one of Cings best works.
 
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deoee

Member
Baleoce said:
I started playing the first Phoenix Wright a couple of years back, and after that I basically went on a mission to play every single one of them pretty much back to back with no breaks. I liked them that much. I didn't even realise it before that. So any other good suggestions from that genre would be very welcome, as I'm still jonesing for some more. I hope the great ace attorney gets localized :s especially as Shu Takumi is back at the helm.
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you could try Danganronpa if you can get a Vita.
It's very different but kind of the same (what a dumb description I know )
 
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Ludger Kresnik

Member
I can only think of JRPGs, and that happened nine years ago. I was lost once, but then I found Dragon Quest VIII. There was no going back after that.
 
Baleoce

Baleoce

Member
deoee said:
you could try Danganronpa if you can get a Vita.
It's very different but kind of the same (what a dumb description I know )
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Nice, I'll probably pick up this and Steins Gate since a few have mentioned it above. Thanks!
 
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Wagram

Member
Probably WRPGs. I used to find them to be terrible (and I still do to some extent), but The Witcher and Mass Effect (1st one) have shown me there are diamonds in the rough.
 
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Harmen

Member
WRPGs. Was a huge anime and JRPG lover back in the day. Even hated Oblivion and couldn't understand why people had fun with it. Boy did I eat crow years later when I randomly played it and it "clicked". KOTOR initially convinced me to play more western stuff (played it around 2010).
 
goldenpp72

goldenpp72

Member
The SRPG genre has become one for me. I used to avoid them like the plague but, Fire Emblem Awakening kind of eased me into them a bit and showed me that I can enjoy them, so I've picked up other ones and enjoyed them too. The first one I tried to play was FF tactics back when I was a kid, just didn't like it.
 
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Enter The 36 Chambers

Member
I've moved from playing mostly FPS to fighting games. I still play shooters but the short matches of fighting games means I can play for shorter bursts rather than playing long shooter matches
 
eXistor

eXistor

Member
Definitely shoot 'em ups. I still don't like bullet hell games, but the older style games like Lords of Thunder, R-type and such are pretty amazing.
 
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Jotthah

Member
For me that genre is FPS/TPS. Hated them for a long time, but grew quite fond of them with Deus Ex, Mass Effect 3 and Metro Redux
 
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gugeifer

Member
Strangely, platformers and Mario games.
Didn't really like Mario or Donkey Kong stuff when I was a kid, played everything else.

Now DKTF is a gift of gods, loved Mario Galaxy and 3D World and 3D Land. It feels like returning to the basics of gaming - playing and nothing else. Seems fun to me now, don't know why it passed me before.
 
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Tenebrous

Member
JRPGs were big for me in the 90s, dead for most of the 00s/10s, but are making a comeback again this year. They're growing on me all over again.
 
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vocab

Member
Probably wrpgs/crpgs. I really only played Diablo 1, 2, and WoW, and mainly avoided the genre as a whole. I played nothing but CS, Quake, and UT in the golden age.

I fell out with most jrpgs simply because they became too tropey, bad writing, and have too many bad characters. Now I can't get enough of wrpgs/crpgs. I recently beat anachronox, and Gothic 1 which I marathoned in under two weeks. I couldn't stop playing it. I'm going down the list to play all the good ones.
 
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Ants

Member
Fighting games.

Sure, I've played every smash bros, and I mashed buttons and set inputs to Automatic in Marvel vs. Capcom 1 back in the day, but I was overwhelmingly shit at anything that required real inputs, and usually never even bothered.

The turning point was Divekick. Divekick showed me the layer beyond mashing buttons and inputs, it showed me that fighting games weren't just something only certain people can do.

It and a surge of other simplistic fighting games boiled down to their most basic of elements (Senor Footsies, Nidhogg, Lethal League, etc) brought me back in, and now I regularly play Skullgirls and I'm planning on getting into SFV when it comes out.
 
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iceblade997

Member
Would definitely say Grand Strategy. Tried it some time ago but it didn't seem to click and I didn't give it enough time to sink in. Now however it feels a lot more gratifying to set upon a grand plan and watch it unfold, bit by bit despite the various challenges.
 
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Yawnier

Banned
In the last few years, JRPGs and Visual Novels. I guess I could also say Turn Based Strategy games too.

You wouldn't have seen me playing any of those genres 10 years ago
 
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DMiz

Member
"Western" and CRPGs. I used to be a big proponent of JRPGs and wasn't a fan of the way that CRPGs tended to be mechanics heavy, although that owed a lot to the fact that I was weaned on mostly platformers and action RPGs as a kid - games that, for the most part, have reasonably 'simple' mechanics that didn't demand investigation/trial and error.

Nowadays, though, I love playing them. Being able to mess around with a party's build and attempting to find the most optimal way to approach a situation is really fun for me, especially with the way that encounters are often built in 'bite-sizes' that I can take a chunk of at a time.
 
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SephLuis

Member
To me it would be fighting games and rhythm games.

Fighting I used to play SF2 when I was a kid and smash bros. Smash Bros I wasn't bad, but I still did not understood all the strategy behind the gameplay. I started playing SF2 online with a friend and lost so bad that I started searching the net for the basics.

Fast foward a few years, I am playing almost all fighting games I can nad even go to tournaments sometimes. I am not your MVP player, but I do not play it bad either.

Rhythm games I also played just a little when I was kid, but got hooked more recently when I learned rhythm with Rhythm Heaven. Forget what you are seeing, focus on what you are hearing. Now I mainly play vocaloid rhythm games and dj max.
 
NeonDelta

NeonDelta

Member
RPG's, never used to touch them at all, KOTOR was probably the first one I ever played and that was only because it was Star Wars, love them now, well western ones anyway, never been interested in JRPGS
 
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inm8num2

Member
Not that I didn't like them before, but 2D platformers. There's an abundance of them in today's market, especially with the rise of indie bundles, but I've enjoyed playing more and more 2D action/puzzle platformers.
 
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Unit24

Member
As of 2013, character action games. I always assumed that I would never be good enough to play them, but then I played the demo for Revengeance, and then I played it again, and again and again etc. Then I played the full game, and there was no going back.

Also, I've very recently gotten into fighting games, which is shocking because I've been trying to break through the wall for years and have only now found any success. Killer Instinct is the game that finally hooked me.
 
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