Has your taste in games changed lately?

I don't know about you guys, but I find myself not liking the games I used to love as much as the new games I've started playing. It used to be that the only games I ever played were either survival horror or RPG, but now I'm starting to like action adventure games a lot more. I think it might just be part of growing up, but it's a good thing because now my interest in games has become more varied and I can play stuff I never would have thought about playing before.

Do you guys feel this way too? :)

I was firstly into Adventures/racing/platformers but then got heavily into JRPGs last gen which I still am. I've noticed in this gen I've gone into more action FPS/TPS now which prior to that I couldn't stand these games at all :| I've pretty much open to all genres now except sports/fighting and the odd modern FPS.

I used to would not touch anything other than survival horror and RPGs, and now that I've gotten more into action adventure games I will sometimes play survival horror but I can't bring myself to play a lot of RPGs anymore because I find the concept of them annoying. The only RPGI enjoy playing now is Yakuza 3 but it's got a lot of action adventure elements to it.

Most gamers cannot live by one or two genre alone, although I think we are all guilty of binge-gaming from time to time. I go through cycles of gaming, right now I think I'm in a third-person action-adventure thing. I'm back into "Darksiders", and enjoying it quite a bit... But eventually I'll drift back into tac shooters, and finish "Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising" on Hardcore. I noticed "Red River" has come down to about $22 used, but I'm going to finish "Dragon" on the full-simulation settings. That game is so difficult, but when you finish a level after over an hour of objectives taken & firefights/ ambushes survived, you honestly do feel accomplished in a way that few if any other FPS have managed to pull off...

... And because it's the season again, my "NASCAR 2011" will get the dust blown off it.

That's why I don't trade much in - I tend to get a TON of stuff when it hits that cut-out bin, though... Heh... Got my eye on a copy of "Conan"...

:P

... I like to go back and replay stuff on harder difficulties, and sometimes I take over a year to finish a particular game. I'm at a certain point close to the end of "BioShock", and I'm having a hard time finishing it because I don't want it to be over yet... I do THAT crap, too...

:lol:

... But I like getting a lot of different stuff, rainy-day pick-ups when I can find them uber-cheap, so that I can indulge my video game wander-lust. Diversity and finding that diamond in the rough is an awesome feeling. I love popping in a game that critics & players gave middling reviews, and you end up absolutely in LOVE with it, y'know? I haven't found a mega-ton of titles, but I've found more than a few that way... You gotta take a few chances and swim againast the current, even stuff you've set up for yourself - Liking one kind of game, but closing your mind to another...

You should always court change in your own tastes, as well as those of other's, I always say. The great part is the change and breathing this hobby has done for me since the early 1970s with pinball, mechanical amusements, and my first coin-op "PONG" encounter at the local pancake house, to present day.

I don't know about you guys, but I find myself not liking the games I used to love as much as the new games I've started playing. It used to be that the only games I ever played were either survival horror or RPG, but now I'm starting to like action adventure games a lot more. I think it might just be part of growing up, but it's a good thing because now my interest in games has become more varied and I can play stuff I never would have thought about playing before.

Do you guys feel this way too? :)

GreySun369

I used to be a huge shooter fan. I still am, but recently ive been playing alot of rpgs. Played through skyrim, oblivion, mass effect 1-2, playing fable and plan on getting mass effect 3. I think that rpgs always have the great stories that shooters are missing..

Focusing now on more story-driven single player campaigns rather than FPS multiplayer titles. It wasn't even really the repetiveness of it all that got to me but the community in general... especially with COD. Oh how quickly that attracted a cesspool of immature scum :(

I'm all over the place

Lately no but I used to only play JRPG's on the PS2 now I hardly ever play a good JRPG.

Definitely, with years my preferences changed. Being young school kid, Jrpgs were my favorite on my PS1. As time went by I build my first PC and enjoyed many old school Wrpgs and Strategy games. Today, with 50 hours a week job, lovely wife, many friends and always present family I don't find myself with much time to play more games. It helps that my wife likes to jump into our Wii and Sims, Spore on PC among few other titles not to mention Facebook. At that point, I enjoy relaxing on the bed and playing anything that comed to mind. At the moment that is Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Nope.

Yes, I am enjoying more different types of games than I did when I was younger.

I still don't enjoy most sports games, but just about everything else is enjoyable.

The more money the gaming industry generates the more potentially corrupt and hyper-capitalist it can become, I just hope mainstream gaming doesn't go down the toilet like mainstream music did.

My taste for games has changed. I don't even play much anymore. I play handheld games a few nights a week. Console games maybe 1-2 times a month now.

I still love what I love playing but recently I have found myself branching out to other genres. I think it's a good thing because I have been playing games since intellivsion and it is easy to get jaded.

Throughout my age:

• 3-7 years: adventure, platform, racing, sports
• 7-12 years: action, platform, rpg, sports
• 12-19(now) years: action, adventure, rpg

I was once rather fond of action adventure games, but now i just prefer rpg's and shooters. it's a shame nothings good anymore though.

yeah, its always changing bit by bit. the biggest thing is probably in how i view "cinematic" games. as ive gained more of an appreciation for film, ive gotten more critical of games that ape it at the cost of limiting interactivity or downplaying gameplay mechanics. its not just from experiences with bad writers, voice actors, or cutscene directors, because i dont think even a cinematic game that does all things well will ever be as good as a well made film. theres a rhythm to the editing of a good film that just cant be emulated by video games. im getting to the point where anything that doesnt compliment the gameplay systems is just fluff.

My taste for games has changed. I don't even play much anymore. I play handheld games a few nights a week. Console games maybe 1-2 times a month now.

yokofox33

my full time job, my GF, and social life take up most of my time now. it sucks but thats life

I was into Skyrim then went on a hiatus with it and ended up with Saints Row: The Third...been playing a little bit of it then got distracted by Twisted Metal and Bastion on PC. Then Steam had the nerve to reduce the price of Deus Ex: HR Augmented Edition for $13....so I'm playing through that as well as buying Super Mario 3D land and Tales of the Abyss on my 3DS. Did I mention I got back into Battlefield 3 on my PS3 as well? I have serious Gaming ADD :(

My game taste changes quite a lot. I used to hate realistic sim racers, but now I love them, moreso then the arcady street racing that I used to exclusively play. I also am into Japanese RPGs now, I played pokemon back in the day and loved that, moreso I think because of my age, and the characters, and being able to link up with friends, who all had GB's before me. I did try dare I say, Final Fantasy 7, and I think i was too young and impatient to buckle down and learn the mechanics, but I recently played the original Final Fantasy and loved it, playing Chrono Trigger right now, and am planning to work my way up from FF2 up to the one released on PS3, by then FF will be out for PS4 or 5. I still do play alot of the kind of games I have always played such as fighting games and car combat (mainly just Twisted Metal). Other then playing the original super mario bros. I've never really been into platforming games, and that still hasen't changed, even though I want to get into that genre.

I used to be diverse, a couple years ago. Now all I play is fighting, action adventure, and RPG games. When I say action adventure though, there are a lot of games included in that category. A lot of platformers like Ratchet and Clank or Uncharted, and fighting games like Ninja Gaiden.

In 20 years I can honestly say that my taste in games have not changed. I play the same genres which is everything except sports and RTS games. And I still dislike rated M games. I don't expect this to change in the next 20 years either (except for maybe The Last of Us and Tomb Raider).

honestly i don't think my game taste changed much. i mean i started gaming on the nes but the platforming genre isnt too popular these days. ive always been a type of gamer that is into everything and i still love fighting games/rpg/fps...

I'm bored of most FPS's due to the fact they release way too many nowadays.

I used to play Call of Duty a lot but have pretty much stopped playing it now. Playing a lot of RPGs and third-person action games right now.

Not really, I never really had a taste. I just play games that I thought interested me. Jack of all trades.

Back in the day i loved fighters, sports and racing games now i can't stand them.. i am also starting to hate competitive online modes in games but that is a community issue.

On the PS1 and PS2 I used to be into mild adventure games more, such as Ratchet and Clank, Spyro and Crash Bandicoot, but since the PS3 I love a range of genres from Survival Horror, RPG and Shooters.

I've accumulated a ridiculous backlog but don't have the will to play through it...