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Post by caoslayer on Feb 27, 2015 17:19:27 GMT -5
The funny thing for me is that the best musou game is not made by omega force but by capcom with sengoku basara, it takes the concepts and spice it up by raising the ham, flashiness and actually making every character play in a different way.
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Post by susanismyalias on Feb 27, 2015 17:20:55 GMT -5
The only Musou game I've ever been able to stomach is the Gundam Musou series but that's just because I have more than a half chub for the gundam franchise.
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Post by bakudon on Mar 2, 2015 1:50:14 GMT -5
This might be a boring answer, but FFVII. I bought it used for the PC when I was around high school (or maybe upper secondary?), and it blew my mind to such an extent that for a while I tried getting my hands to any JRPG I could get (which at that time wasn’t that much). Living in Europe, up until then I had mostly read from the press how wonderful JRPG’s supposedly were, but been unable to play any seeing how none of them ever got around since the French and Germans wouldn’t play them in English, and no one wanted to translate the games for them either. That sure was frustrating...
After that, I sure have played enough JRPGs to become very aware of the weaknesses of the genre, but then FFVII was just so unlike anything else I had played that far.
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Post by Reiji-kun on Mar 2, 2015 2:06:47 GMT -5
I think Fatal Fury, as far back as I can remember, is what got me into fighting games, and I'll always have a soft spot for it no matter how dated it gets.
And Breath of Fire II and Final Fantasy VII were my biggest introductions to RPGs.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2015 2:29:22 GMT -5
Mushimesama Futari Black Label got me into danmaku. It always seemed like such an absurd genre when observing it from the outside, but Cave's fantastic 2D sprite work really sold the concept to me.
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Post by loempiavreter on Mar 2, 2015 6:38:03 GMT -5
Belt Scroll Action: Bare Knuckle aka Streets of Rage, the first one, while I don't regard the first one as a good example of the genre nowadays. It was the very first game that openend my eyes to the Belt Scroll Action aka Beat'em up genre... which till this day is my favorite genre.
Fighting Game: While I have fond memories of playing SFII in the arcade and renting it for the Megadrive... I truly got hooked on the tournament angle of fighters with SFIII: Third Strike. I mean there was a lot of guys cheering and standing around the SFII cab, but never saw tournaments or I wasn't aware of it. While Third Strike there was an active scene around my place, which forced me to play fighters correctly. So i give my vote to Third Strike and not an iteration of SFII.
Side Scrolling Action: The Super Shinobi aka Revenge of Shinobi, it was the height of the Ninja days, early 90s, yeah. I still love the game to bits.
Famicom Side Scrolling Action: I make a special category for this even though it's not so much of a genre but moe a style aesthetic, but never owning a FAMICOM/NES when I was younger, discovering the graphic style of Sidescrollers on the system (and I don't care for any other genre on the system on this level... except maybe the rare belt scroll titles) when I was older through means of emulation, means much to me as i truly fell in love with how side scrolling action games look on Famicom, I like it maybe even more then 16 bit and onwards. It Gun-Dec aka Project: Vice Doom which led me into this world. With his gritty Cyberpunk setting and whatnot more it led me the way to a fascination this graphical style.
Run & Gun: Gunstar Heroes I think, I'm not sure anymore haha.
Lightgun Games: Virtua Cop 3, again I played the first Virtua Cop maybe as the very first title in this genre (and 2 and a whole bunch of other titles), but I didn't start playing these games for score before Virtua Cop 3. SO I truly started with Virtua Cop 3.
Rail Shooter: Space Harrier II on a MEGAPLAY arcade cabinet, made me fan.
Crosshair shooters: Dynamite Duke (megadrive version), made me fan.
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Post by akumajobelmont on Mar 3, 2015 9:14:47 GMT -5
Morrowind turned me into an open-world RPG fan. Oblivion left me a little meh, but Skyrim cinched the deal. Apart from GTA III/Vice City, I'd never really liked any open-world shenanigans before that.
Shining Force/II and Fire Emblem on the GBA started a fire within me for SRPG's, but I'm still not into every single one. I do love Project X Zone and Fire Emblem: Awakening though. The Front Mission DS remake was brilliant too.
Grandia got me into the JRPG's formula, but I still can't say I play a lot of them that aren't called Grandia.
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Post by guninanrunin on Mar 10, 2015 12:57:41 GMT -5
Etrian Odyssey 1 (which I only just touched a few months ago) got me into the first-person dungeon crawl scene. Then let me be the first to say welcome, and be careful what others you play. Because Etrian Odyssey is super user friendly compared to the rest of a genre that died roughly the I was born. You silly person, for thinking you have to warn me about that! I know the history of dungeon crawlers. X3
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Post by The Great Klaid on Mar 10, 2015 13:09:32 GMT -5
Well good. They are just tops.
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Post by Ryzuki on Mar 10, 2015 18:41:57 GMT -5
Fighters: (Wait for it....) BlazBlue. (SHOCK!) It wasn't really BlazBlue alone though, rather it just happened to be the first fighting game I got to play online and I instantly met some cool people who invited me to player matches and taught me how to play. It took forever, but once I finally figured out how to pull off some moves, I became addicted to fighting games and it was practically all I used my tv for. Jrpgs: Persona 4. It was mentioned several times on this site and I eventually gave it a shot and fell in love with it. Because of that, I have a bunch of SMT games, but Persona 4 is still the only one that really stuck with me. I even got a Vita with P4G being the primary factor in that. (Even now Danganronpa and BlazBlue are the only other games I have for it.) Visual Novels: 999. Technically I suppose BlazBlue was my first visual novel experience, but 999 was a game that actually game me goosebumps and even made my eyes water sometimes as I read. We need more games like that. Code Zero was good but didn't quite live up to it's predecessor. Shining Force/II and Fire Emblem on the GBA started a fire within me for SRPG's, but I'm still not into every single one. Likewise. My awesome teacher in Pre-k gave me some pc games she had no use for, among them being Sega Smash Pack 2, which included Shining Force. Any time I had a chance to use a computer, that's what I'd play. It was the first, and really the only srpg I ever played until my teenage years when I discovered Fire Emblem and and found it to be the best thing ever. I still kinda stink with 'em, but I'll play 'em endlessly.
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Post by SonnieSlim1 on Mar 11, 2015 14:13:24 GMT -5
DOOM on my SNES back when I was a kid was the first FPS I ever played. But it is also really the only one I enjoyed until Halo 2. Halo is what really set me up on loving modern first person shooters.
Mortal Kombat for fighting games. Just something about the brutality of it all that makes it so much more fun to me than any other fighting game.
Morrowind got me into fantasy RPGs and is the reason why I still love them today.
Honestly it would probably take me awhile to go through all the genres. I love to play pretty much any type of video game.
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