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What's your favorite and least favorite genres and why?

Started by Drohem, March 19, 2009, 01:36:41 PM

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Drohem

March 19, 2009, 01:36:41 PM
What is your most favorite RPG genre, and your least favorite RPG genre?  Why?

Most Favorite = gritty fantasy
This is my most favorite genre.  I like the possibility of player death and the low-magic nature of most gritty fantasy settings.

Least Favorite = Supers
This is the least appealing genre to me.  I just never got into comic books that much as a child.  My brother was big into it, and I would read his comics but I became disenfranchised after reading some of his X-Men comics.  I stopped reading them after they took Storm's powers away and gave her a mohawk.  I thought to myself, "they just screw with these peoples lives too much!"

P.S.- There are so many sub-genres and specialized genres now that there's no way that I was going to attempt to list them.

Benoist

#1
March 19, 2009, 01:41:18 PM
Favorite - old-school, gygaxian medieval fantasy. Aka original Greyhawk, T1-4, Castle Zagyg... that sort of vibe.

Least Favorite - I'd go with hardcore sci-fi. Think Aasimov and such (I love Star Wars, but it really isn't sci-fi to me. It's fantasy). I'm not allergic to sci-fi to read, but I don't like it as an RPG-genre, specifically.

Imperator

#2
March 19, 2009, 01:52:37 PM
Favorite: Gritty sword and sorcery.

Least favorite: Supers / Mechas. I can't really decide which one of them is more irrelevant to me.
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#3
March 19, 2009, 02:04:31 PM
Favorite: Horror - Modern, Fantasy, Sci-Fi etc. If it's horro, I love it!

Least Favorite: D&D 2+, I don't know exactly how to describe it, but whatever genre of fantasy D&D became after AD&D 1st edition. I call it "Magic" fantasy, where nothing makes sense because "it's Magic!", in which magic itself is also left unexplained.
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#4
March 19, 2009, 02:18:11 PM
Favorite: Colorful fantasy, to include superheroes
Least favorite: "grim", "historical", or "meant-to-be realistic" settings to include hard sci fi.
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#5
March 19, 2009, 02:21:28 PM
Favorite: A toss-up between SF, particularly hard-ish but not ultra-hard, and Historical, particularly post-renaissance. I have a nodding acquaintance with Ancient and Medieval, but I prefer renaissance and after.

Least Favorite: Standard Medieval Fantasy. I don't "get" it. Any fantasy world I touch inevitably become more and more renaissance and less and less medieval. I was *so* happy when Pundit introduced firearms in FtA!GN! Now I can migrate FtA! forward in time to where I'm comfortable! :D

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Soylent Green

#6
March 19, 2009, 02:30:46 PM
Love anything with a light touch, fast-pace in a modern or sci-setting.

Dislike anything angsty, overly tactical or that simply takes itself too seriously.
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Mcrow

#7
March 19, 2009, 02:39:42 PM
Favorite: Sci-Fi (Firm to hard Sci-Fi), second would be Fantasy (Tolkien style)

Least favorite: Supers, I can play it if it is meant to be a spoof but otherwise, no thanks.

Spinachcat

#8
March 19, 2009, 03:06:22 PM
Most Favorite: Deadly Gonzo

Least Favorite: Low Combat / Courtly Political Intrigue

I love merciless games tinged with crazy.   Stuff like Gamma World, Rifts, Planescape, Warhammer, Dark Heresy, Paranoia, Cthulhu.  I love it when shit explodes and if my character explodes, that's cool too.

I get bored with ongoing political intrigues that do not involve hack and slash.  I can do a wee bit of courtly stuff in L5R, but we better be slashing ASAP.  While I am a big ST:TOS fan, my fav ST RPG was when we played Klingon explorers.

Mcrow

#9
March 19, 2009, 03:08:05 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;291128Most Favorite: Deadly Gonzo

Least Favorite: Low Combat / Courtly Political Intrigue

I love merciless games tinged with crazy.   Stuff like Gamma World, Rifts, Planescape, Warhammer, Dark Heresy, Paranoia, Cthulhu.  I love it when shit explodes and if my character explodes, that's cool too.

I get bored with ongoing political intrigues that do not involve hack and slash.  I can do a wee bit of courtly stuff in L5R, but we better be slashing ASAP.  While I am a big ST:TOS fan, my fav ST RPG was when we played Klingon explorers.

Yeah, "deadly Gonzo is sweet". That's why I like Rfts and Cthulhu as well.

Ronin

#10
March 19, 2009, 03:24:50 PM
Favorite: Sci-Fi, Pulp, Steampunk/Victorian

Least Favorite: Low Combat, Courtly Political Intrigue
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#11
March 19, 2009, 03:28:54 PM
Favorite: Cosmic supers (although gritty Batman style does it for me too), Gritty S&S, and Gonzo Science Fantasy.

Least Favorite (by far): Vanilla Fantasy. I think VF might be the only genre I might be hesitant to play even with a good GM.
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#12
March 19, 2009, 03:40:12 PM
Favorite: I have no idea.

Least Favorite: Gonzo kitchen-sink type stuff (ala Rifts). I hate hate hate hate hate hate it. Especially if it's rooted in the 80's. Anything whacky in general, really, with the exception of Paranoia.

Pseudoephedrine

#13
March 19, 2009, 03:40:15 PM
Favourite: Science fantasy (Dark Heresy, Shadowrun, certain styles of Alternity, the Culture)

Least: Anime-inspired settings, especially if they're based on licensed properties
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#14
March 19, 2009, 05:33:12 PM
Favorite Space Fantasy a.k.a. Star Wars - May 1977, an imagination was sparked and hasn't ever stopped. Yes, I have tried to make it stop. Fantasy is a close second though.

Least Favorite Horror - Too many GMs treat this genre as "critter of the week," and far too many GMs can't run horror games for shit. I know that I can't. A lot of other things about the genre just leaves me disinterested.
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