Discussion What's your most favorite GAMING GENRE ? **General game Discussion thread**

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Hello everyone !

As the title says, which is your most favorite Gaming GENRE ? And, what all games do you actually play, be it any genre, or a mixture of 2 genres ?

Some examples of genres: Action game, Action role-playing game, SIMs like City-building or a Flight game, First-person shooter, Tactical role-playing game, Third-person shooter, Tactical shooter, "Platform game", Racing video game, Real-time strategy, Massively multiplayer online first-person shooter game, 2D Fighting games, Stealth game, Sim racing, and Role-playing video game among others.

Mine is mostly First-person Shooters, with some third-person action Games, like Gears of War 4, Mass Effect 3, DEAD SPACE, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, JUST CAUSE. Though, FPS has always remained my topmost priority.

I'm not an actual gamer though, very casual. But I've been playing FPS games since the good old days of DOOM, QUAKE, HEXEN, HERETIC, DUKE Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein, Soldier Of fortune, PAINKILLER, HALF LIFE, F.E.A.R, Call Of Duty series, Battlefield series and few others.

These are my list of games owned by me, all LEGIT, not pirated. This list is not exhaustive though. Some are lesser-known titles though.

ALIEN RAGE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Rage

Aliens versus Predator 2.

Alpha Prime (excellent FPS, by an indie DEV studio). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Prime

Area 51. I love this shooter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51_(2005_video_game)

Battlefield 3, 4, 5, Hardline, BF: BAD company 2.

BIOSHOCK 1 and 2.

Bordelands 1 and 2.

BREED. A good old-school FPS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breed_(video_game)

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, earned in Blood, and Hell's Highway !

BULLETSTORM.

CALL of DUTY series (starting from the fist game till BLACK OPS).

CALL OF JUAREZ.

CHASER ! This is my most favorite FPS of all time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaser_(video_game)

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

Clive Barker's Jericho ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Barker's_Jericho

Contract J.A.C.K. Hell Yes, lol !

CRYSIS 1, 2 and 3.

DOOM, DOOM 2 and 3, BFG edition and DOOM (2016).

Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition.

DYING LIGHT.

F.E.A.R. series.

FAR CRY series !

HALF LIFE series.

Halo: Combat Evolved.

Hard Reset. This game is TOO tough for me, I had to use Cheats/Trainers to beat it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Reset

HERETIC, HEXEN.

MEDAL OF HONOR series.

No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way. I like Cate Archer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Lives_Forever_2:_A_Spy_in_H.A.R.M.'s_Way

PAINKILLER series.

PREY (only the first title which came out in 2006).

Project Snowblind ! This is my MOST favorite FPS. You guys must try playing this shooter.


QUAKE 1, 2, 4.

RAGE 1 and 2.

RED FACTION 2.

Section 8: Prejudice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_8:_Prejudice

SERIOUS SAM series, All the games released till now. And, yes I'm SERIOUS !

Shadow Warrior 1 and 2.

SiN Episodes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiN_Episodes

Soldier of Fortune series.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear SKY.

SWAT 4.

Titanfall 2.

TIMESHIFT ! I love this game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimeShift

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2.

TRIBES Vengeance. This game is really good. Strong STORY campaign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribes:_Vengeance

Unreal II: The Awakening.

Wolfenstein: The New Order and The Old Blood.


Thanks for reading, NICK. :)
 
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Has anyone played GEARS OF WAR 5 yet ? Don't post any spoilers though.

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stealth: hitman contracts , assassins creed 2 and 3

action: gta , call of duty 2 , Wolfenstein 2009 , Wolfenstein the old blood , Wolfenstein the new order , ravenfield , just cause 2 , far cry 2 , payday the heist , csgo and far cry 4

simulation: surgeon sim , please don't touch anything 3d and fnaf ultimate custom night

I am busy with all of these
 
I was never able to play the HITMAN series on the PC though. Not a single one in this franchise. STEALTH is needed for this game, and it requires a lot of patience and careful planning, which I lack. I only like Action/Shooter games.

You can play the newer one more action like if you want however its very hard to do it that way unless you are very good aiming.

But its a fun game if you can give it some time. Especially the interesting ways you can come up with killing people.
 
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You can play the newer one more action like if you want however its very hard to do it that way unless you are very good aiming.

But its a fun game if you can give it some time. Especially the interesting ways you can come up with killing people.

OK, thanks for your input. So are you talking about this game, HITMAN 2, or the previous one from 2016 ?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/863550/HITMAN_2/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/236870/HITMAN/?curator_clanid=34140237
 
OK, thanks for your input. So are you talking about this game, HITMAN 2, or the previous one from 2016 ?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/863550/HITMAN_2/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/236870/HITMAN/?curator_clanid=34140237

Both actually but its better to buy Hitman 2 and then get the first season added into it as it has more weapons, better graphics and more stories. The items from Hitman 2 can be used in Hitman 1 levels as well.

Just an example though:

 
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No. Not yet. I'm just waiting for the Game to get cracked, haha....Just kidding. Anyways, have you played this game ? Is it similar to Quantum Break ? I don't like the female lead protagonist though.

There has been too much hype surrounding this Game. I'm more interested in Gears 5.
Haven't tried it yet but was interested in both the story and how it ran on mid range hardware... then TH came out with this article which helped a bit.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/control-graphics-performance-comparison,6319.html
 
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Yea when it comes to Steam I may consider buying it on sale. Will not buy it through Epic and I may not buy it even then due to the games CEOs reaction to people being unhappy about the Epic timed exclusive.

Yeah, even I'm against this Epic Games store/EGS. I don't understand why all Game developers are going for EPIC exclusive deals. Just because of Money, since the developers are going to get a greater share/profit from EPIC, unlike STEAM. This sucks.

But why drop support for STEAM ? This is ridiculous. We have to wait for 6 months or even a YEAR to play the EGS-exclusive on STEAM, when it releases on this platform. I"m skeptical to try EGS. I won't support this recent move from developers.

STEAM has always been the main PC gaming platform. Not releasing the Game on STEAM is a very bad and selfish move from the publisher/developer, IMO.