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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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Eli the Vile

#15
April 18, 2006, 12:41:33 AM
I love me some Plasma Deathrays and Grav Sled Chases. But Cyber-Punk is the wasy to go!
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Zombie Hunter Woz

#16
April 18, 2006, 02:55:11 AM
as a player hands down my favorite is Werewolf:the apocalypse, followed distantly by generic (D&D) fantasy.

As a GM, however, i tend to lean more towards the Sci-Fi / cyberpunk genre.  Ive been told im pretty good with Shadowrun, and i run a mean Solaris VII MW campaign off and on...

so i put other, since im undecided:ponder:
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Eli the Vile

#17
April 18, 2006, 05:06:56 AM
Quote from: Zombie Hunter Wozas a player hands down my favorite is Werewolf:the apocalypse, followed distantly by generic (D&D) fantasy.

As a GM, however, i tend to lean more towards the Sci-Fi / cyberpunk genre.  Ive been told im pretty good with Shadowrun, and i run a mean Solaris VII MW campaign off and on...

so i put other, since im undecided:ponder:

I love Shadowrun, Through I am not to update on the current storyline. I tend to play Pe Dunkezel Assasination
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Bagpuss

#18
April 18, 2006, 09:08:22 AM
Quote from: SilverlionI can't believe I actually left Horror off the poll *DOH*!

Well more I can't believe you left off Modern.

Horror strikes me as more of a sub-genre. IE: You can have modern horror, fantasy horror, sci-fi horror.
 

Cyberzombie

#19
April 18, 2006, 11:11:06 AM
I love me some fantasy.  If I'm not playing D&D, I'm probably playing Exalted.  No hate for any of the other genres (though neither horror nor supers do much for me), I just like fantasy RPGs.
 

Technicolor Dreamcoat

#20
April 18, 2006, 01:35:13 PM
Other: Contemporary Settings, i.e. Urban Fantasy or similar.
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flyingmice

#21
April 19, 2006, 11:13:56 AM
SF all the way. Even my putative fantasy game is really SF in disguise.

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Name Lips

#22
April 19, 2006, 11:14:10 AM
This is a bit biased on my part. I voted Fantasy, but I've never played anything else. Perhaps if I did have a good Star Wars campaign under my belt, I'd vote differently.
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kanegrundar

#23
April 19, 2006, 11:29:29 AM
Fantasy, though lately I've been more interested in playing Sci-Fi or Supers.
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Aelfinn

#24
April 19, 2006, 01:07:14 PM
Quote from: Name LipsThis is a bit biased on my part. I voted Fantasy, but I've never played anything else. Perhaps if I did have a good Star Wars campaign under my belt, I'd vote differently.

I don't see why that would change your vote. Star Wars is still fantasy.
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#25
April 19, 2006, 01:21:46 PM
I like any genre as long as it's done well.

That said, I have a deep and abiding fondness of fairy tales (as seperate from fantasy -- Dunsany writes fairy tales, Tolkein writes fantasy), post-apocolypse, and horror.  But none of those were listed so I just put "other."

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Marco

#26
April 20, 2006, 04:54:49 PM
My favorite is modern-day horror. The weirder the better. I also like playing normal people without special combat skills in modern surreal horror games!

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Maddman

#27
April 20, 2006, 04:58:39 PM
Quote from: AelfinnI don't see why that would change your vote. Star Wars is still fantasy.

Nonsense!  Look at the differences between D&D and Star Wars!

In D&D the characters are warriors and wizards who go into dungeons and kill orcs with long swords and magic missiles.  In Star Wars it's totally different - you play smugglers and Jedi Knights who go into space stations and kill Stormtroopers with lightsabers and blaster rifles.  It's TOTALLY different.  :p
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Silverlion

#28
April 20, 2006, 05:49:43 PM
Quote from: BagpussWell more I can't believe you left off Modern.

Horror strikes me as more of a sub-genre. IE: You can have modern horror, fantasy horror, sci-fi horror.

I don't consider modern a genre--no common tropes, its a time period where genres occur, Modern Fantasy, Modern SF (Alien invasion, Psychic Phenom, etc), Modern Horror..:). But it doesn't have a common set of thematic elements it shares to be a genre of its own.

To /me/ that is..
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#29
April 20, 2006, 08:14:49 PM
Quote from: SilverlionI don't consider modern a genre--no common tropes, its a time period where genres occur, Modern Fantasy, Modern SF (Alien invasion, Psychic Phenom, etc), Modern Horror..:). But it doesn't have a common set of thematic elements it shares to be a genre of its own.

To /me/ that is..

Hmm. That's an interesting point. It could be one reason why d20 Modern hasn't done any better than it has. I guess it's done well enough, but I thought it would be more of a blockbuster than it ended up being.
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