Favorite and least favorite game genres.

[Nintega Grafx-16]

Fav:

Shooters ("Shmups" sounds like a dirty word. Thunder Force FTW BTW)
RPGs (Dragon Warrior/Quest FTW)
Action/Platformers (like Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, etc)

Least:

First Person Shooters (They get me dizzy and they lack originality. I swear 95% of them take place in WWII)

Sports (If I want to play a sport, I'd just go outside)

FMV games (like the crap you see on Sega CD, 3DO, etc)

Non-Games (aka Monkey Island and Snatcher-type digital novels. I rather read a book thank you.)

[buzz_n64]

Fav:

Platformers (Mario,Sonic,Crash,Gex,Pitfall II,Sparkster)
Action (Metal Slug,Contra,Castlevania,Blaster Master)
Side scrolling Beat-em ups (Double Dragon, River City Ransom, Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Simpsons arcade)
Classic FPS (Unreal Tournament,Duke Nuke Em, Quake III Arena)

Least:

Turn-based RPGs -Role Playing Games (Sorry, but if I'm good enough, I shouldn't have to be hit, and I hate being passive in games)

FMV (Same reason as RPGs, but most of these are even less interactive, but there are a few exceptions)

Strategy/Simulation (Online farmville crap, WOW, Halo Wars...)

Sports (Madden games, well basically any modern sports game doesn't catch my interest at all)

[kupomogli]

Favorites

-RPGs, TRPGs, and SRPGs (Tactics Ogre, Arc the Lad, Ogre Battle, Wild ARMs, Final Fantasy, Tales of)
-Strategy (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Kessen 2, Advance Wars, Warcraft,)
-Action Platformers (Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, Mario, Contra, Mega Man)
-Action Adventure (Gurumin, Brave Fencer Musashi, Threads of Fate, King's Field, Demon's Souls, Evergrace, Shadow of the Colossus)
-Driving/Racing (Test Drive Unlimited, Need for Speed, GTA4, Driver, Chocobo Racing)
-Third Person Shooters (Armored Core, Gundam, Robotech Battlecry, Zone of Enders, Resident Evil)
-Stylish Action/Beat em up (Devil May Cry, God Hand, Yakuza, Urban Reign. Have to be really well done though.)

Least Favorites

-Shmups
-FPS (Good at the genre but hate playing games from it.)

[dreamcaster]

Favourites:
Racing
Puzzle
Fighting

Dislike:
RTS
MMO

Somewhere in between:
FPS
RPG

[tom]

Fave:
Puzzle (Zenji, Dice Puzzle, Shanghai...etc)
RPG (Usa style only)
Reality/Building (Master Builder, Sims, Theme Hospital/Park... etc)
text adventures/graphic adventure
Barbie games
platform (as on real game consoles like VCS, Coleco, SMS)
Shoot em ups (As in Scramble, R-Type, Star Raiders ...etc)
Strategy (SSI, SSG...etc)
Sports (Driving, Tennis)


Least Fave:
RPG (Japan style, they suck so much)
Sports (Anything besides Driving, Tennis)
FPS (except Doom)
Zelda

[allyourblood]

Well, there is always that one exception here and there, but for the most part:


Favorites:
Shooters -- Thunder Force, MUSHA, Einhander, tons more. Can't get enough! The iconic style, weapons/vehicles and boss battles are totally my thing. I just suck at them. Utterly.

Pre-1997 RPGs -- Ys Book I & II, Shining Force II, Final Fantasy III, etc. In all these years, I still firmly believe that the older RPGs are much better than the stuff from today, even after having played them recently.

Platformers -- Super Mario, Tomba, Sonic, Castlevania, Mega Man, Decapattack, etc. Classic pick up and play control with tons of room for creativity. Wish they'd release some new ones today on disc, rather than DLC.

Hybrid/Action/FPS RPGs -- Zelda series, Crusader of Centy, TESIV: Oblivion, Fallout 3. These four games (or in the case of Zelda, series) are probably all in my top 10. I adore them. Leveling or strengthening your character like a traditional RPG, swapping out weapons and abilities, but fighting and exploring together in real time. Wonderful.


Least Favorites:
Sports -- by far. I really can only stomach novelty sports titles, like Mutant League Football, NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, and a handful of SNES baseball games.

Realtime Strategy -- My wife can play Civilation III or Civ Rev for hours. It blows my mind. I tried Starcraft a couple times and couldn't get far without becoming bored. There are a few from this genre that I've enjoyed briefly, but none for very long.

Rear-view Shooters -- Space Harrier, Star Fox, Afterburner, Galaxy Force, Star wars Rogue series, etc... I typically hate these types of games!

MMO -- I play fine on my own, thanks. If they make the next Elder Scrolls game massively multiplayer, I'll be absolutely devastated.


On the fence:
Driving/Racing -- I usually find these too repetitive. Laps are negative fun for me; I already saw that stuff -- don't want to drive by again in two minutes. Makes sense -- I hate driving in real life and can't wait to get out of my car! And I can't stand the fuzzy logic in most racing titles, especially the old ones. However, some titles like Road Rash and Cruisin' USA have managed to captivate a bit of my time now and then.

post-1997 RPGs -- The scope of most newer (J)RPGs is just too big for me. Grinding and over-the-top, time-consuming spell-casting, along with the constant desire to reinvent the wheel -- which results in having to learn numerous ridiculous battle systems -- has soured me to the genre on the whole. There have been a few glimmers of interest for me over the past decade, but not many. There's a lot I haven't tried yet, though, so this one doesn't get a full yay or nay from me.

Puzzle games -- Tetris, Columns, Puyo Pop, Lumines, etc... Unlike so very many people out there, I can't usually play puzzle games for very long before I get bored with them. The usual "Learn how the puzzle works and then just perform the same action over and over, but faster" formula wears me out in no time. I can get caught up in Tetris Attack and Columns from time to time, though, and Bookworm kept me going for quite a while. I just need more variety than what most puzzle games can offer.

FPS -- These can be fun, but I don't care for online multiplayer (local only here), so my enjoyment is usually brief.

[jms5118]

Favorites:
Platformers
RPG'S
Racing/Driving
Shooters(although they are way too many now)

Least Favorites:
Music/Rhythm games
Educational games
Fighting games
Early FPS's(Doom, Wolfenstein etc, Almost all of them give me motion sickness)

On The Fence:
Sports - Enjoy some of the nba games but as said before just go outside and play.
Strategy games - never really got into them but i don't hate them.

[The 1 2 P]

Favorites

FPS
Third Person Shooter
Action/Adventure
2-D Shooters


Least Favorite

Sports
RPG's

Honrable Mention

Racing--Burnout and Split Second are great but most other ones suck

[k8track]

Favorite:
• Breakout-style games (Woody Pop, Arkanoid, Super Breakout)
• Basically any paddle game, period
• Boulder Dash-type games
• Fill-in-the-squares (Amidar, Pepper II)
• Extend-and-retract (Go! Go! Mile Smile; Oil's Well)
• 2-D Metroid games
• 1970s to around 1984 Arcade-style games

Least Favorite:
• RPGs
• Fighting/Button-Mashing Beat-em-ups
• Most sports titles (with a few exceptions)


EDIT: I thought my answer seemed vaguely familiar--I answered similarly in a thread from seven years ago (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13707)! (However, it's been so long that I wouldn't expect anyone to dig it up and resurrect it. Carry on.)

[Baloo]

Favorites:

Platformers
Beat-Em-Ups
2D Fighting games
Arcade (Not sure how to classify this category, but shorter, simple games, where you just rack up points like Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Mario Bros., Defender II, Ghouls N' Ghosts, Donkey Kong, et al)

Least favorite:

Racing
Sports (Save for NBA Jam and a few baseball games on Genesis)
RPGs (Also with a few exceptions)

[j_factor]

I like:
Adventure
Action
Action-adventure
2D Platformer
3D Platformer
Beat 'em up
Run and gun
Scrolling shooter (shmup)
Turn-based RPG
Action-RPG
Strategy-RPG
Turn-based strategy
Racing (arcade/classic-style)
Puzzle
Fighters
Vehicular combat
Rail shooters
Extreme sports (despite Tony Hawk being done to death)

Ambivalent:
FPS - There are a lot of them that I like, but I don't like the same ones that "FPS fans" generally like.
Sports - Depends on the sport, but I don't like football or baseball. I do like some basketball games, and the occasional tennis or multi-event game.
Music - I used to LOVE music games, but I hate the current Guitar Hero / Rock Band fad
FMV games - I actually like a few of them, namely Night Trap, Double Switch, Gabriel Knight, and The X-Files.
Minigame collections - They have become the shovelware du jour, but there have been some good ones.
Pinball - I like a lot of pinball games, but they have to be semi-"fancy" for me to enjoy. Pinball for NES doesn't cut it.
Card battle - Zero interest in Yu-Gi-Oh or Eye of Judgment, but I loved Card Fighters' Clash.

Dislike:
Party games (Mario Party burn in hell)
Flight sims (snore)
Train sims
Raising/breeding/pet care (Tamagotchi etc.)
Roguelikes
Racing "sims" (such as Gran Turismo)
MMORPGs (or anything massively multiplayer)
Real-time strategy (with a couple of exceptions)
Text adventure (just don't have the patience)
Golf
Pool/billiards
Casino
Trivia / Game show (except You Don't Know Jack)
Brain training
Dungeon-crawling RPGs (Evolution etc.)

[jonebone]

Favorites:

FPS
RPG
Strategy
Action
Football / Basketball Sports

Dislikes:
Racing (but like vehicular combat, Twisted Metal for example)
Shmups

[BetaWolf47]

Favorites:
Fighting
Platformers
RPGs
Racing
Adventures

Least favorites:
SRPGs (mainly the overcomplicated ones)
Sports

Don't like Dragon Force on that regard.

[Snapple]

You know what games bug me? Those first-person dungeon crawls where every corridor looks exactly the same. I'm glad we've moved on from those.

(I take exception to Monkey Island being called a non-game but I'll leave that alone)

[OldSchoolGamer]

Simple for me since I can respond without even thinking about it, I know this is not a popular choice but:

Favorite: Survival Horror

Least Favorite: MMORPG's

[hbkprm]

like rpg, tps, action, horror, social
hate sports (theyre hard to follow for a new version every year) and sometimes fps

[Eyedunno]

Favorites:
Puzzle (preferably with actual puzzles to be solved, like Sokoban or the Lost Vikings, although I guess some Tetris-type games are okay too)
2D Fighting
JRPG

Least Favorite:
FPS (except Portal, cuz that can be put in the "puzzle" category above :P )
Sports
2D Shooters (mainly because of how much I suck at them)

Platformers, beat 'em ups, and others fall somewhere in-between, I guess.

[nebrazca78]

Dislikes:

Kid's games / simple learning games
Boring flight sims


Likes:

Everything else

[bartre]

Likes:
pre "next gen" RPGs: pretty much anything after shadow hearts: from the new world has completely bored me

Arcade games: metal slug, street fighter, etc. they're just good to play when you've only got half an hour or so.

platformers: Keio Flying Squadron 2, Mario, Sonic, Skyblazer, same kind of reason as arcade games, but they usually hold my interest long enough to finish them

Adventure: zelda, Metroid, not even going to explain

earlier FPS games: quake, duke, doom, turok they were actually CREATIVE with these

dislike:
new RPGs: seem to all have very samey stories, plus, i get tired of the ridiculous amounts of hair gel required for the hair, and the amazing amount of zippers involved.

new FPS games: CALL OF DUTY CALL OF DUTY CALL OF DUTY CALL OF DUTY CALL OF DUTY CALL OF DUTY CALL OF DUTY CALL OF DUTY CALL OF DUTY!!!!

simulator games: sports, the sims, ace combat, racing games i just get the feeling that i'd rather go do it myself.

[tom]

I forgot, I like sex games:
http://www.videogamecollectors.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=194847&g2_serialNumber=1

and japanese dating sims

[starsoldier1]

Favourite: Action/Adventure

I know it's cheating picking two themes but there are several great games like Metroid, Guardian Legend and Xexyz that mix the two well together and I love that idea.

Least fav:

Colouring book simulator. Color A Dinosaur.. nuff said.

[Game Freak]

Fave:
Third Person Shooters (i.e. Resident Evil 0-3, Metal Gear Solid)
Shmups
low-level RPGs (Pokemon, Dark Cloud, Legend of Zelda)
Niche games (Ape Escape, Elite Beat Agents, Cooking Mama, Trauma Center)

Hate:
First Person Shooters (with few notable exceptions, mostly Valve, Battlefield 1942)
Sports games
Beat-em-ups (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Double Dragon)

[Haoie]

Fav: Horror, both actiony and pure survival

Least: Sports, and racing [but not driving, eg Out Run]

[bartre]

I forgot, I like sex games:
http://www.videogamecollectors.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=194847&g2_serialNumber=1

and japanese dating sims

that goes without saying :wink 2:

[sixwayshot]

Here's some of my favorites and least-favorites, with examples:

Favorite Genres:

Run & Gun (Metal Slug, Contra, Gunstar Heroes, Bloody Wolf)
Fighting (Street Fighter, Soul Caliber)
Beat 'Em Up (Final Fight, Golden Axe, TMNT)

Least Favorite Genres:

Turn-Based RPGs (With the exception of Super Mario RPG and Chrono Trigger)
Dating Simulators
FMV Games (Corpse Killer, admittedly, IS not that bad of a game)
Hyper-Realistic Flight Simulators (Falcon, MS Flight Sim)

[bunnybum]

Favorite genres:
Point n' click adventure
90's RTS
Visual novels (Non-eroge)
Platformer
JRPG
Survival horror

Least favorite genres:
Shoot 'em up (Vertical/horizontal space-pew-pew shooters)
Sports (Any and all)

[DevilRy]

Likes
platformers
classic RPGs
classic arcade games
manic shooters
puzzle games

Dislikes
MMOs
dating sims
FPS
stealth action (Metal Gear series, etc.)
new RPGs

[SpaceHarrier]

Favorites:
Action/Platform
RPG
Driving/Racing

Least:
Sports
War FPS

[Arkhan]

LIKE:

RPGs of any variety (First person, console style, hybrids)
Action platformers like Castlevania or 8 - eyes
Side scrolling adventure games like Faxanadu or battle of olympus
strategy games like Shining force!
Digital comics...

DONT LIKE:

Sports, racing, historical.

[DDCecil]

What I Really Like:

2D Platformers (Mario)
Beat'em Ups (Final Fight)
Horizontal Space Shooters (Parodius)
Music Games without a fake instrument (Gitaroo Man)
Most JRPGs (Dragon Quest)
Fantasy Sports (Super Baseball Simulator 1.000)
Fantasy Racing (Mario Kart)
Mahjong Games with "rewards" (If you know what I mean... :)) (Super Real Mahjong PIV)

What I don't care for:

Dungeon Crawlers (Eye of the Beholder)
Realistic Sports and Racing (Madden)
Complicated Simulation (Koei NES/SNES games)
Flight Sims with or without combat (Top Gun)

[TheClash603]

Favorite: Fighting Games, Platformers, Beat-Em Ups, Action RPGs

Least Favorite: Only genre I really hate and can't get into at all is RTS. Total garbage.