GRcade

I'm not talking about being a fan of Mario or Halo etc. and buying a game in a series no matter what because you're a fan. This is about gaming things or features that you are inevitably drawn to, bringing joy or frustration into your life.

I got the platinum for Onrush last night and realised I'm completely obsessed with arcade racers that offer medals or rewards for doing things in-race such as a certain amount of tricks, a quota of takedowns, a drift of a certain length, etc. It has to be an arcade racer, and it has to be challenges on top of a gold, silver, bronze for where you finish. Burnout, Split/Second, Drive Club, Danger Zone, Pure, Onrush amongst others; if they have this feature I'm strawberry floating all-in and I won't move on to the next track until I've completed the things you need to do in addition to winning the race.

Another one: fishing side-games.
I've no interest at all in owning a pure fishing game, but if I discover a game I'm interested in features fishing on the side, the likelihood of me getting it rises tenfold. I put this down to Ocarina of Time, back when I was a nipper. Leaving the adventure for a bit, not knowing what you might catch, chilling out. I was always going to get Everybody's Golf on PS4, but when fishing was revealed for it, I knew it was going to be like crack.

For worse: Open-world.
Pretty much goes like this: game announced as open-world. I think of the exploration and adventures I can have, and can't resist. Get game. Have a great few first hours. My family and work commitments mean I can't do play this properly or to completion. Stop playing. New open-world game announced. Repeat.
I just can't help myself.

Anyone else care to share?

Strategy games that look interesting and people are saying interesting things about but I'm no good at. All kinds of them. Grand-strategy, turn-based, real-time. Just gooseberry fool at them. Love buying them thinking it'll be different this time but it almost never is.

Cuttooth wrote:Strategy games that look interesting and people are saying interesting things about but I'm no good at. All kinds of them. Grand-strategy, turn-based, real-time. Just gooseberry fool at them. Love buying them thinking it'll be different this time but it almost never is.

This.

In the 950+ hours I've sunk into Civ V I've probably only won around 10% of all the games I've started.

Civ VI, Galactic Civilizations II and Stellaris are all similar stories, I'm fairly good at the exploration and expansion stuff but I'm terrible at the warfare aspect and usually just abandon the game when someone inevitably declares war.

Dunno if this counts...

I love kerploding enemies who are wearing grenades or who have gas tanks on their backs. Cannot ever resist aiming for the explosive even when other methods are likely easier. HZD's bellow backs

Saint of Killers wrote:Dunno if this counts...

I love kerploding enemies who are wearing grenades or who have gas tanks on their backs. Cannot ever resist aiming for the explosive even when other methods are likely easier. HZD's bellow backs

I like shooting the flamethrower enemies in XCOM2 for the same reason, even though the explosion draws in other enemies.

Advance Wars-like games. Led me to trying out Tiny Metal which is as close to as an Advance Wars clone as it gets but it's trash - unfortunately. There were aspects of it I liked, like the art. Not so much the 3D graphical elements. I'll eventually try Into the Breach which I've heard it get compared to, and have heard good things about it regardless.

Used to be drawn to open-world games too but after playing a fair few of them now I'm not so bothered by them anymore.

However I can still get tempted by the above if it's tied with a pretty art style/set of characters. Ditto with the latter combined with other genres I'm cautious about getting in to, like JRPGs.

Kriken wrote:Advance Wars-like games. Led me to trying out Tiny Metal which is as close to as an Advance Wars clone as it gets but it's trash - unfortunately. There were aspects of it I liked, like the art. Not so much the 3D graphical elements. I'll eventually try Into the Breach which I've heard it get compared to, and have heard good things about it regardless.

Into the Breach is great but it's only really like Advance Wars in how it looks.

The best AW clone I've played is Field Commander on the PSP, also the upcoming Wargroove (Switch/PC) looks like it could satisfy that Advance Wars itch.

I do love a skill tree system, I will sometimes buy a game just because it has a skill tree

Saint of Killers wrote:HZD's bellow backs

Snapmaws!

Next gen systems.

They're just so shiny and new .

Survival games like DayZ, The Long Dark and Subnautica (although I'm yet to delve too deep into this one yet).

The genre is over done sure but I just can't get enough of them, the looting, keeping an eye on your food intake and particularly what you're wearing (in the long dark) is a draw to me.

I can completely understand that people find these games boring, in The Long Dark I've been stuck in a barn for ages waiting for a blizzard to clear and in DayZ I can be trekking about in the countryside for hours at a time but with DayZ in particular I know that at any moment I could run into a real human player who may shoot or may chat, both have happened and it's exhilarating.

Ironhide wrote:

Kriken wrote:Advance Wars-like games. Led me to trying out Tiny Metal which is as close to as an Advance Wars clone as it gets but it's trash - unfortunately. There were aspects of it I liked, like the art. Not so much the 3D graphical elements. I'll eventually try Into the Breach which I've heard it get compared to, and have heard good things about it regardless.

Into the Breach is great but it's only really like Advance Wars in how it looks.

The best AW clone I've played is Field Commander on the PSP, also the upcoming Wargroove (Switch/PC) looks like it could satisfy that Advance Wars itch.

Fun fact - the first time I used the name "OrangeRakoon" was on Field Commander

It was a deliberate spin on "Orange Star" from Advance Wars

I can't resist a bargain.

If I know the game was originally £12.99 rrp, but it's now £1.69, so I'm getting an approximate 90% discount on something I wouldn't have bought in the first place, well sorry but I'm buying that, and let's just let future-me count the cost.

I guess this is why I have so many games of computer mahjong and alternate versions of bobble bubble.

I feel weird but I do love gore genre all the killing stuff and monsters(zombie). I love Resident Evil, Silent Hill, COD, The Last of Us, and more.

I like my gore also,you can't beat a shotgun to a zombies head. I'm also a sucker for a steelbook version.