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What genre in gaming do you prefer?

Started by Silverlion, April 17, 2006, 05:04:32 PM

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Silverlion

(As in: Fantasy, Superheroes, Historical...)
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The Good Assyrian

I like most of the genres listed, but in the end, Pulp is my personal favorite.  It is the one where I have the most good memories playing and have helped to create the most good memories for friends as a GM.
 

Sobek

Fantasy is my favorite.  Horror (WoD or CoC variety) and SciFi are high up, too.  Really, though, I haven't played in a genre I actually disliked.
 

gleichman

Sorry, can't really answer this as give.

I rotate between genres, not really likely one over the other. It's all a matter of what I happen to be interested in at the time.
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While I enjoy reading scifi much more than I enjoy reading fantasy, fantasy RPGs are far and away my favorites.
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Bagpuss

I'm the first Other...

Horror genre, mainly in a modern day or historical setting.

Sci-Fi and/or Fantasy Horror is okay as well I suppose, although in those settings you usually have the resources to defeat the horror so it doesn't work as well..

I like doomed characters fighting against impossible odds, so original Call of Cthulhu and All Flesh Must Be Eaten are favourites, more so than say something like Buffy or D20 Modern. Although I have enjoyed playing Vampire:tM in the past.

I also kind of like historical and modern day games in generally, like Flashing Blades, Millenium's End or Conspiracy X.

While I do enjoy Sci-Fi gaming, generally near future appeals more than things like Star Wars or Star Trek.

Fantasy gaming I'll have fun with but it tends to bore me after a while as well it's all a bit silly really.
 

Roudi

Modern.  I play games that might be shoehorned into the "horror" category, but are more correctly identified as occult suspense/mystery.  My second favourite is military, and my third favourite is sci-fi.

Zachary The First

Fantasy is far and away #1, with SciFi/Space and Historical having sort of a Neptune/Pluto thing going on--every now and then, Historical ends up being #2, but usually is #3.
 
However, other genres tend to pop up now and then in my Fantasy games--horror and pulp make guest appearances, as well as even supers and military now and again.  Fantasy tends to be a big tent.
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Maddman

Modern Horror.  Buffy, AFMBE, WoD, stuff like that.  Next fave I guess would be fantasy but I really need something out there to get my attention.  It feels like pretty 'been-there, done-that' after all these years.
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Akrasia

It's all about fantasy for me (Middle-earth, Hyboria, Wilderlands, Mystara, Warhammer Old World, Dying Earth, etc.).

I also like 'modern fantasy' (Angel/Buffy), but rarely get a chance to play it.

I used to like some science fiction back in the late 1980s (Traveller, Star Frontiers, Gamma World, even some Space Opera), but haven't had a chance to play any in almost 18 years -- and would likely never GM any.

So fantasy, eh!  The darker and grittier the better!

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Silverlion

I can't believe I actually left Horror off the poll *DOH*!
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Though I have an enduring love for SF, Fantasy is my main course.
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Teflon Billy

Superheroes by a mile.

It can easily be the rest of them combined.
 

mearls

Fantasy. It's been 25 years, and I still love exploring dungeons that may or may not contain dragons.
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Sigmund

Fantasy for me as well, followed more or less closely by sci-fi, then modern-day espionage and supers. I'm never really all that picky though.
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