[Fighter_Phil]

Just checking what game type is the favourite

[weasel]

I'll play just about anything, unless it's a sports game.

[Revvy]

If it's a game then I'll download it.

[Torte]

If it's not sport, I can play it.

And does this really belong here?

[Pyro1588]

the_end: only if he's talking about mzx games.
and hasn't this topic been done before?

[Val]

Comedy.

And yes, this topic was done to death already

[ZzCrook]

guy, on Jun 19 2004, 12:47 PM, said:

Comedy.

And yes, this topic was done to death already

How would you know? You've been here like two months.

[Zenith Nadir]

three genres isn't very much

what about rpgs and puzzle games, for a start

and "adventure" is extremely vague and can mean anything

anyway i like anything depending on what kind of mood i'm in as long as it's good

[Tixus]

I like comedy games, but BELIEVE ME, there aren't a whole lot of games that come out nowadays that're actually funny. I mean, a lot of people try to make them, but comedy's just something not everyone can do.

[Micah]

I voted Comedy, in the MZX sense, but only if the humor is good. But concerning games in general, action sidescrollers make me all happy and stuff. There's nothing like jumping around and blasting stuff.

[Dr Lancer-X]

I don't mind comedy if the game is actually funny, but I don't recall having played a single funny MZX game.

Top-down shooters are decent if done well; multiple weaopn systems are fairly easy to create, and really add a lot to these kinds of games. Shooting and bombing gets old pretty quickly.

Sidescrollers are very much a hit / miss genre with me; I find sidescrollers that are a) too frustrating, b) too awkward (unnatural jumping etc) and c) just not fun a chore to play. Sadly, I've seen very few sidescrollers that I actually enjoy. For a start, a sidescroller is one kind of game that honestly NEEDS to have 2x2 characters to improve playability, and even then some games with this (such as T-Bone's SM4MZX) are painful to play because the control is so awkward.

Adventure games / RPGs I really enjoy when they are done well, but dislike when they aren't.

[zombieguy]

To me, I usually find games that have stuffed all basic genres possible into one mzx game pretty fun. Though they should definately be blended pretty damn well.

This post has been edited by ZoMbIeGuY: 22 June 2004 - 05:39 AM

[ShloobeR]

Lank: There are some funny MZX games :-(

[Val]

Rayne, on Jun 19 2004, 06:29 PM, said:

guy, on Jun 19 2004, 12:47 PM, said:

Comedy.

And yes, this topic was done to death already

How would you know? You've been here like two months.

I know because although I'm new, I have LOTS of time on the comp because its summer vacation for me, and i like to read through old posts in various forums.

[Dr Lancer-X]

Tecki, on Jun 22 2004, 12:35 PM, said:

Lank: There are some funny MZX games :-(

I don't deny this.. I've just never played them.

[Skylark]

Heh.

I like action games, but no-one else seems to. :(

[LogiCow]

I like action games

[Micah]

Action is my fav overall.

[gofer-chan]

Megazeux or otherwise? Regardless, probably action. I like things that are kind of a combination of all of those things, actually. Like, I enjoy comedy games as long as they're actually funny. I don't a caverns-style action adventure either, as long as it has something that sets it out from the crowd, some sort of engine. For example, an action game with lots of areas and respawning enemies (not built-ins, robots) that give you experience or gold or "bounty points" or something for killing. And you can go in a town and buy upgrades for things like your speed, your rate of fire, your range, your max health and ammo, and your attack power using whatever you got from fighting the enemies. And you could either go to areas you have to go to, and do missions and stuff, or just wander around and fight enemies and maybe find the occaisonal optional treasure or something. So I don't mind action games as long as they're not like "SHOOT THE GOBLINS AND TIGERS" stuff.

Comedy games are good, but like I said, I'm not talking about a "fart jokes" game, I mean something with either a lot of personality to it and good characters, a cameo game with in-jokes that don't seem too in-jokey, or a really well done "parody" game, like Es and Tixus's THE NEW BEYOND THE ETERNAL HORIZON WEIRDLAND CHRISTMAS or whatever it's called. I wouldn't reccomend for anyone to attempt the latter, because games that pull it off without being annoying are one in a million, and even then there'll be a few people who hate it.

Adventure games are fun, but they require a good plot and good characters. Unless it's something sort of like some ZZT adventures, like Kudzu, where there's little-to-no interaction with NPCs and no real plot except "here are some puzzles, solve them" an adventure game need to not only have good puzzles and gameplay, but an interesting plot and characters who don't seem annoying or boring, so the player actually has a reason to continue on. Games like Kudzu that don't really have either of these survive on atmosphere, and while it's hard to pull off, a few games can do it.

But for an adventure game to usually work, the plot needs to be something that hasn't been seen before in a bunch of other games, it can't be horrible cliched. Also, the characters, especially if it's a game based around talking to people and all that, need to be likeable. Even the villians and antagonists should be likeable, not as in "what nice guys " but as in "whoa, what a cool badguy". The main character shouldn't be a jerk either. He shouldn't be so talkative and overbearing that he just becomes a pain in the ass after a while, but he also shouldn't be void of emotion so that he just ends up being boring. Personality is the key for characters.

And yeah, that's basically how I feel about those three types of games. I like them all (although I voted action since an addictive, easy to get into action or puzzle game is probably the type of game I'll spend the most time playing) but as long as they're GOOD games of that genre. And I just mentioned what I think makes each of those games good.

[Razerboy]

If this is relating to Megazeux: Inventory-Based.

If it is not: Beat 'em Up.

If it is relating to any type of game: Puzzle.

[barbarian]

Mario Twins.

Good guys. They look so god damn like the same person. I would say to them, "you want ice cream cone?" Both of them say yes. How in the hell?!

NO SERIOUSLY though, the choices in this thread reek. I give it this:

[Dr Lancer-X]

Or, of course, you could do something constructive and suggest some possible choices for the poll.

[barbarian]

Lancer-X, on Jun 25 2004, 04:19 PM, said:

Or, of course, you could do something constructive and suggest some possible choices for the poll.

K! IT'S TOO LATE FOR THAT!

My list of genres would've included:

1 Adventure
2 Educational
3 Fighting
4 First-person shooter
5 MMOGs and MMORPGs
6 Platform
7 Puzzle
8 Racing
9 Retro
10 Rhythm
11 Role-playing
12 Serious
13 Fixed Shooters
14 Shoot 'em up
15 Simulation
16 Sports
17 Strategy
18 Survival horror
19 Third person shooters
20 Traditional

http://en.wikipedia....deo_game_genres

Dropping bricks on cars from tall buildings would've been more productive than this poll.

This post has been edited by barbarian: 28 June 2004 - 07:10 PM

[zombieguy]

Guys, this is actually in MZX General...

[Dr Lancer-X]

What is 'Traditional' or 'Serious' exactly.. any game that I can think of comes under the category of something else.

[barbarian]

I have no idea.

[djtiesto]

My favorite genre for MZX has always been solidly designed action/puzzle games, with developing stories and characters. The Zeux games, the Engine games, stuff like that. Inventory based games also work pretty well, as well as really basic puzzle games (Calmness by Darren Hewer was short and easy, but worked really well in MZX). Sidescrollers I have yet to play a really solid sidescroller with good control, like someone said, sidescrollers just feel unnatural in MZX. Some comedy games can be funny, Snarfoogle for instance, but they're far from my favorite genre... Straight up comedy games are pretty boring (with the exception of Rangest, I found that game to be hilarious), they're better when they're combined with another genre (like Inventory based games). RPGs in MZX are a painstaking process to create, I can think of very few non DOZ RPGs that have been made that have been any good (The Doomsday Dream Legends series was cool).