What is your favorite style/type of video games to play?

[Torgo]

I've always liked 2-D shooters the best.  Games like the Gradius, Darius, Thunder Force and R-Type series have always been my favorite style of games to play.  I like the fact that these games can be picked up for only about 10 minutes or so for a blast of pure twitch era gameplay that nothing else really matches IMO.

 
Gradius V


Gradius V


R-Type


R-Type


G. Darius

My 2nd favorite type of games would probably be old school RPG's like Lunar, Chrono Trigger, SNES era Final Fantasy and Phantasy star.

[indianasmith]

My top two games of all time are Elder Scrolls III and IV:  MORROWIND  and OBLIVION -  huge worlds, freedom of action, cool monsters, and interesting storylines, and numerous sidequests and guild quests you can enjoy, as well as a wide variety of characters you can play.  I also enjoyed Warcraft III, although the custom scenarios on that game are more fun than the main storyline!

[CheezeFlixz]

On the console I play what ever my kids want me to play with them, even if I hate it. But given the choice I must admit I like Zelda and Mario, call me old school.

On the computer it pretty Civilization III or IV with mods, on rare occasions I'll play Civ II.

[Mr. DS]

If I had to rate my favorites I'd say first person shooters are up there.   I also enjoy a good fighting game like MK, SF and so on.  Lately I have been getting more into the interactive games like Guitar Hero. 

I am a huge retro-80s fan though and whenever I come across vintage games from in an arcade I usually freak out.  They're almost like comfort food to me. 

[Andrew]

I've always liked the overview type of strategy games, stuff like "Star Control II" and also "Starcraft."

[Ash]

This is what I have been playing religiously since December '06.
It is the best WW2 FPS shooter I've ever played.

Call of Duty 3
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzK50QaKsrs

Check out the first battle of the game:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggSlrrFK5SQ

[CheezeFlixz]

In the shop I have an old Tempest, Galaga, and pinball machine ... those are some time killers.

[asimpson2006]

It really depends on what I am in the mood for.  Someday I just want to play racing games, others it is just fighting, and someday's I just want to play some arcade games and have some real fun.

[Ash]

About those side scrolling shooters...

I used to play those all the time when I was a kid and still like a few of them.

Remember U.N. Squadron?
I used to ride my bike down to the local convenience store where they had an arcade machine with that game.
I dumped countless quarters into it.

U.N. Squadron
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAqXmt0Y0Jk

[BlackAngel75]

I always been a fan of action/adventure games and action RPGs.  Anything that can gets me real involved in the gameplay.  And since Halo, I've bought a few FPSs too.

[Poogie]

Started with Mario and Zelda, now it's Call of Duty, Metroid, Splinter Cell, Gun.....mostly shootem up and anything that has puzzles to solve. 

Now we have Wii so we have a lot of spazz attacks while playing, love it. 

[flackbait]

I'll play just about anything that takes my intrest, sports, racing Fps and rpgs. I like a little of everthing. Althouh I probably play FPS the most epescially timesplitters 1,2 and future perfect and call of duty1,2,3.

[raj]

Sid Meier's Civilization series.

[Mr_Vindictive]

I'm a huge fan of the FPS genre.  That's mainly what I play.  Usually a bunch of Half-Life/Half-Life 2 mods like Brain Bread, Counter Strike Source, The Professionals, Day Of Defeat Source.  I also play Quake 4 (Can't wait for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars!).  Anything that has a ton of guns and explosions is right up my alley. 

I also love RTS games.  I've always been a big fan of the Warcraft series of games and still play Warcraft 3 on occasion.  I also play a good bit of Empire Earth II.  I love the fact if you are good enough, you can have tanks and air strike capabilities while your opponent only has sword/sandal type technology.

Here lately, I've been playing a good bit of World Of Warcraft.  I play it on occasion and then will cancel my account for a few months.  I get easily sick of the game, and the people who play it but I keep coming back for some unknown reason.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I like non-fantasy RPG games and first person shooters best.  I also started playing with some tactics games, lately I went through Freedom Force 1 and 2, I found them for 2.99 each!!