Are you more likely to play an unusual game?

All other factors being equal, are you more or less likely to play a game in an established genre but with a unique or strange setting? Like if there were an RPG where you and your party arecongressional staffersor an FPSwhere you're a kid whose weapons are school supplies? And, again, assuming it's as good as any other typicalgame in the genre as far as gameplay mechanics, plot, etc.

Depends what the game is about. I'm willing to try if the concept interests me.

I am not particularly sure of your definition of "weird" but I most certainly will give unique games a try. I love picking up a game that tries something that hasn't been done before. Keeps me guessing and gives me hope that more developers will start taking chances

I can't be a gamer if I don't play games. I'm a gamer.

Define "Weird."IppoTenma

Didn't he already in his post?

Over the past year I've played games like Katamari Damacy, Odin Sphere, and Persona 3 if that counts.

If I find it interesting, hell yeah...

Depends on what you mean by unusual. A lot people would probably consider SMT games unusual, but its my 2nd favorite series. I don't worry about what other people say though. If they think its unusual, that's fine.

Bully was weird then i guess. i loved that game and thought that that take on the open world (GTA style) gameplay was really good.

If Brutal legends qualifies then I guess the answer is yes!

I would count SMT as "weird," since it's ones of the only JRPG series I can think of along with Shadow Hearts, Earthbound/Mother, and arguably Terranigma that is set in large part in modern times. That's so rare that it's inherently interesting. Sci-fi/futuristic JRPGs are pretty rare, too, and once you actually sit down to play them, many of them are not differentiable from generic fantasy RPGs in style and plot (e.g., FF7, Star Ocean, Rogue Galaxy; Phantasy Star somewhat, but it does have a lot of sci-fi strands running through the plot; not familiar enough with .hack to say). It occurs to me that Chrono Trigger is also pretty unique, though I would have never thought of it that way, since it was one of the first RPGs I played and didn't seem like an escape from cliches at that time. Suikoden, maybe, too? But when you start picking out individual games like that, I feel like I'm nitpicking - it's the sort of thing enough that I'd read the game description, groan, and say it was just another rehash of an old plot (this is why I'd never have enough interest to pick up Magna Carta 2).

Sorry, can you tell I'm a JRPG gamer? :( But it's a genre that's plot-heavy AND cliched, unlike a lot of genres that aren't plot heavy. Though I do think shooters could benefit from being in some place rather than dark warehouses.

I was just curious, because I was thinking about an RPG featuring the U.S. Supreme Court set in 1972 during a anti-Cambodia-bombing protest where the main enemies are hippies, and was like "seriously? would anyone but me play this?" thinking about how Earthbound was cult when it first came out and wondering if people would play a game that sounds like "WTF bizarre choice of scenes there mate". I know I would probably say "whaaat?!?" and have to play anything that sounds pretty off the wall, but I didn't know how other people felt.

So I guess if you wanted to implement a test for weird, mine would be "strange enough that you do a double take and say 'really? They made something like that? Cool/weird/interesting/*adjective*.'"

I would count SMT as "weird," since it's ones of the only JRPG series I can think of along with Shadow Hearts, Earthbound/Mother, and arguably Terranigma that is set in large part in modern times. That's so rare that it's inherently interesting.

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i cant tell if this is serious or meant to be ironic, as it clearly points out either way there is nothing unique or interesting about rpgs set in modern times. note you also left out twewy, which was a pretty rad game. somebody also mentioned blazblue in here, its like lol whut? guilty gear games have been coming out for like ten years, nothing about blazblue was weird. dissidia is weirder than blazblue.

anyway, i find many 'weird' games are just often bad games that get by on 'uniqueness' and playing off gamers' desperate need to feel ahead or the curve, or end up being test beds with a single unique feature that end up being implemented well in a good game later. that said ill play anything good. the last 'weird' game i played was barkley, shut up and jam gaiden ep 1.

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I would count SMT as "weird," since it's ones of the only JRPG series I can think of along with Shadow Hearts, Earthbound/Mother, and arguably Terranigma that is set in large part in modern times. That's so rare that it's inherently interesting.

i cant tell if this is serious or meant to be ironic, as it clearly points out either way there is nothing unique or interesting about rpgs set in modern times. note you also left out twewy, which was a pretty rad game. somebody also mentioned blazblue in here, its like lol whut? guilty gear games have been coming out for like ten years, nothing about blazblue was weird. dissidia is weirder than blazblue.

anyway, i find many 'weird' games are just often bad games that get by on 'uniqueness' and playing off gamers' desperate need to feel ahead or the curve, or end up being test beds with a single unique feature that end up being implemented well in a good game later. that said ill play anything good. the last 'weird' game i played was barkley, shut up and jam gaiden ep 1.