Your favourite style or naunced type of game/sub, sub, sub genre?

[G2ThaUNiT]

LegitHyperbole said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

Hmmm, that's a tough one since I enjoy playing a variety of genres, but I would have to say FPS games. And I don't mean modern live service FPS. Although I still enjoy playing multiplayer from time to time. But I mean single player story-driven. Your Halo, Half-Life, System Shock, Wolfenstein, Doom, Crysis, Titanfall 2, STALKER, Bioshock, Killzone, Resistance, Prey, Metro, CP2077, or the original CoD Modern Warfare 2007-2011 trilogy where the campaigns were these awesome action blockbusters.

Majority are very distinct from each other, whether they're Action-Adventure, RPG, Immersive Sim, etc. but they all still feature FPS gameplay that I tend to have a lot more fun with because it just feels more engaging to me.


Other biggest genre I love that I was fighting on whether it would be first or not is Real-Time Strategy. This was the first genre of games that I was ever introduced to as a kid with Command & Conquer: Red Alert which over the years led me to the likes of Myth, Age of Empires, StarCraft, Warcraft, Rise of Nations, Empire Earth, Homeworld, and Total Annihilation, games that I still go back and play to this day. There's even been some great RTS games that have released in recent times, but just nowhere near the way they used to be.

Great choice. For many years story driven FPS was my fave too but they died with the orange box, it never got better even though CoD Modern Warfares campaign was really fresh but those are short affairs and after that, nothing. We still get doom and what not but that, thankfully cause it's cool AF, focuses on gameplay. Half Life 2 and it's episodes were the height of the genre and nothing has even tried to compete.

You mention Woldenstien but that series went full emo, having Blaskowitz talk like Alan Wake the whole time make them a pain to play. If you want one that is light hearted and good fun with a pretty damn good story may I suggest Shadow Warrior 2013 (not it's sequel, it sucks as open world), it does doom with a story and is so muvh fun.

I guess CP 2077 counts, technically but I'd prefer a linear affair. 

DEUS EX was another franchise I had in mind as well! But yeah, like RTS games, story driven FPS took a nosedive lol. There is still some optimism to have hopefully with the likes of Perfect Dark, Judas, or just here in a couple of months, Metal Eden that was announced at the recent State of Play.

There's also been some greatness coming out of the indie scene and some more indie games that are releasing. Within the past couple of years there's been Selaco, Fallen Aces, Trepang2, and Atomic Heart. There are also some upcoming indie FPS games I'm looking forward like Mouse: P.I. for Hire, Chemical-Burn, Core Decay, Deep State, and Twisted Tower. 

I was also watching a video that Valve is now in the polishing phase of their next Half-Life game based on data leaks. Whether it's Half-Life 3 or another spin-off, doesn't matter, it's at least confirmed that it will be a single player FPS and that's all I need to know!