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Not really. I've always been a fan of big, open, story driven games where I can just run around all over. It all started with Ocarina of Time, and it's never really changed.



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I still lover platformers and beat 'em up style games. Main shift was liking RPGs which when I was younger were too complex for me to understand the "meta game" of building a character or properly equipping.



Yes. I'm liking RPGs in general:
Mass Effect
Xenoblade X
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Fire Emblem Awakening



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I don't think my taste changed. I still like the same type of games, which I used to as a child. That is basically anything that Nintendo makes. Well, I probably don't play PES/FIFA as much though.



Yes, I grew out of competitive multiplayer games and RTS, even Civilization doesn't interest me anymore.
I'm more into games with a story or adventure nowadays than chasing high scores or beating the game.
With the exception of racing games, can't get enough of those.

I still like building things, but have no interest in destroying stuff anymore.



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Until I was about 13, I almost exclusively played Pokemon, with a little bit of Smash Bros, Mario Party, Super Mario, Mario Kart, and Zelda here and there. I only played Nintendo stuff at this time.

When I was 13, my friends convinced me to buy a PS3 and CoD: MW2 and then CoD:BO, which I almost exclusively played until my friends moved onto X360 to play CoD there, which was when I was 15. I probably would've moved on with them if I were able to afford a X360 at the time, but I didn't have the money.

After that, I moved back to Pokemon and Pokemon Showdown where I got into competitive battling.

At 17, I got my first job, where I was able to buy my own games and have variety, which is still where I am right now at age 19. My favorite genre is RPGs, but I also enjoy fighters, racers, action-adventures, hack-and-slashers, and platformers. I pretty much don't touch FPS anymore and kinda hate the genre. Nintendo is still my favorite video game company, but now I also play on Playstation and PC.



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What a sad story man... I'm depressed now!



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Not really, I'd say I have the same taste in games as a decade ago.



                
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When I first started video gaming I was very young, around 8-9 yo (sega megadrive or Genesis depending on where you're from) so I just played whatever my parents bought me. But when I was finally able to buy video games myself I enjoyed shooters and RPGs but as I've got older (im 31 now) I slowly began to find Shooters and online shooters a bit bland, I wanted more immersion and story from my video games so I just began only playing video games with a good story and good characters. I don't play shooters at all anymore just RPGs (whether it be strategy, western, Japanese, it doesn't matter) and adventure games. I do still like a good beat em up aswell.



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Well ... maybe.

I grew up playing platformers and beat 'em ups and such on the NES and SNES. However, I won't say that they were my taste as gaming very seldom "hooked" me back then. It was just that the selection of genres was so limited at that point that I had no real choice. It was only the rare RPG that really grabbed me.

The RPG boom during the PS1 period is what made me a gamer, really. However, at the same time, genres that weren't really viable before were getting better and better. Over the next several generations, FPS games went from giving me a headache to being one of my favorite control schemes, as well as branching out into several new sub-genres. Gran Turismo made racing games more interesting.

I feel more like my tastes have always been much the same, it's just that the gaming industry needed time to catch up.

I love where gaming is at now, for the most part. The technological limits of the early days is not something I'd want to experience again. My only real complaint would be the fall of turn/party-based RPGs.