Hey everyone. This is my very first blog.
The various styles of games I've played vary from the wide variety, which I'm sure most of you know what most of those styles are. Simple action games, to highly strategic games.
I am personally amazed on how far the gaming industry has come along since the very basic title pong. Look at the then and now it's kinda scary, considering the huge graphical and sound department and overall gameplay has changed dramatically. Not to mention the story department. Not that I'm complaining, but it also seems that some gamers, can't seem to go back to some of the older games. But, either way, a lot of gamings most famous icons from the old days are still going strong today. Mario is doing great and as strong as ever when he made his gaming debut, which in turn saved the Gaming Industry as a whole. But also other titles, like the Legend of Zelda series have really benefited from the jump to 3D.
I have however noticed that some of the styles of gaming have kinda faded from the scene, but are now coming back in recent years. The point and click Adventure games, which were originally sorta text Adventure games, because you had to move yourself around with the arrow keys and type in various commands to do stuff, like pick up "blank" or use "blank" on "blank" which that alone really did make certain things a bit difficult, since a miss spelling or a different use of a word can sometimes drive you batty by typing out various commands only for them to not work, but that's where the point and click and inventory system really made things that much easier, while also making far better and more interesting puzzles to solve. That style of gaming had faded away around the early 2000's but are now coming back with games like the Back to The Future, and Jurrasic Park games by TellTale games, and the remakes/ports of the Monkey Island games, a classic PC point and click Adventure series with humor and wit that can make anybody crack up.
My personal Favorite style of gaming, is the 2D platformer style. The style was redefined by games like Super Mario Bros, Castlevania, and Contra, ect. The Mario series making use of your platforming skills, Castlevania your action and platformering, and Contra your shooting and platforming. But the series that really made impacts on it were Metroid, and Mega Man. Metroid for exploring, and borrowing from Mario and Zelda for style of platforming and item collecting, and secret hunting. While Mega Man introduced strategy, since you gain powers and weapons from the bosses and can use them on the bosses, and some of them can even help you traverse a stage easier.
All of the before mentioned series have only gotten better over the years, although some have had some slight stumbling blocks, but nothing too major. The other kind of styles I like are Action RPG, Third Person Shooters, and some, and I repeat, some, First Person Shooters. The FPS style of gaming, really tends to look the same now a days, and there are hardly anything to make them stand out from the rest except for a handful of titles. Say Halo, which was originally supposed to be a Third Person Shooter originally believe it or not, Left 4 Dead, and only a few handful of other titles.
My favorites series are Mario, Zelda, Mega Man, Contra, Castlevania, Metroid, Kirby, Sonic, and the occasional Marvel or DC comic character/series games. The list is long and wide.
I enjoy games and gaming, and I have a youtube account where you can view some of my playthroughs of certain titles. If you have a question on a game series I may very well be able to answer it. I know and have played a handful of obscure Japanese only titles too.
