Your Gamer Refinement

I'm interested to find out how all of the mygaming folk started out gaming (what type of genres you played) and through all the years of gaming how have you refined your gaming taste. Have you transitioned from pc to console or the other way round? Did you first enjoy FPS's and now prefer RPG's? Single player games to Online experiences only?

I would like to know!

Your gaming taste is obviously moulded by how you've matured over the years and the ever changing evolution in gaming trends..

For instance I first played whatever I got my hands on during the ps1 days.. Those times I'd probably say that JRPG's were my favourite genre, followed by survival horror and third person stealth games never really liked racing games, even though I played the legendary GT2.

I then got a pc and tried out RTS games and it proved too technical for my young brain and then I got hooked on FPS games for a long while until recently, got a ps2 and fell in love with Team ICO games (still love those kinds of games). Then I got hooked on Nintendo games and became a devout fanboy.. became disillusioned by them and now recently returned to the arms of survival horror, online moba's,action rpg's and action-adventure style games and the odd indie metroidvania style game.

Please share how you've matured/refined your gaming tastes!

Warcraft 1 & kinda branched out from there (all the popular RTS, FPS). Recently ventured into some RPGs too (TES).

Can't say there is much maturing evident per se...more like expanding a bit. Maturing to me implies that one is better than the other which seems a bit of a bold view seeing how its very much a personal preference.

I don't touch MMOs though...that won't end well for me.

Started on console. Mostly 3rd person games. Then to FPS. Then to PC FPS, then to MMO's. lol.

Been a long and enjoyable journey.

I started out with Age of Empires 2 on my very first PC. I loved it. This is what led me to play more RTS titles like C&C, Warcraft 3 and such.

I then started moving to RPG's, which is my favoured Genre. As the years went by, I could not keep up with demand of upgrading a PC to keep up with the games, and so the console was born in my life.

I now don't have any specific genre I like, I like to try them all. I follow game reviews and trailers, and if it looks good I'll try it. If it doesn't, well I'll avoid it.

One genre I hate though is the Sports Genre. I just can't get into. Unless playing for fun with friends, I don't see the appeal.

And it seems I am slowly moving to mobile games like Clash of Clans/Dungeon Keeper etc.

I have also delved into the infamous MMO called WoW (on a local server) for about 2 years of my life. 2 years, I will never... never get back.

My gaming started very young (SNES) but it became my number 1 hobby following Christmas 2008 when my dad purchased a PS1 for us kids.

I started with games like Spyro, Crash Bandicoot etc (games primarily aimed at kids) but used to watch with a jealous eye as my dad played games like Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid. Eventually I convinced him to allow me to play these titles even though they had age restrictions, and thus began my gaming obsession :p.

I have always preferred third person games and usually avoid first person like the plague, mostly due to my preference for story-orientated games (something that is usually lacking in FPS's). I've slowly started getting into certain story-heavy first person games so I can definitely see myself enjoying the genre a lot more in future.

I've never been a console fanboy and am happy to play games on PC, and I did go through a phase where I mostly played on PC (usually simulation games like The Sims, SimCity, Theme Hospital etc).

For genres my favourite would be survival horror, but that has been severely lacking since the PS2 era, so action adventure would be my favourite at the moment. As I already said, any game with a good story and a heavy emphasis on the story is usually my cup of tea. So I enjoy all genres as long as there is a good story, interesting characters, fun gameplay and I am a sucker for exciting cutscenes.

Started on the fam com played games like contra,mario brothers 2,goonies,sky destroyer and the list goes on,then I got a game gear only had a few games for it,taz lost in space,lion king,streets of rage and wonderboy.

Then I got a sega genisis and my first game was tail spin I broke it bec I didn't switch off the console and just pulled the game out. But I also had mk 3(the original mk 3 the one without scorpion.) then I had a mate who also had a sega and we lent each other games like he had earthworm jim 1 and jurrasic park and mk 2. I eventually got earthworm jim 2 had a region cartridge for it. Oh nearly forgot the classics played all the sonics.

Then I got my first pc. My first pc game I owned was unreal but it scared the crap out of me I was 11 at the time and the graphics were so real. I remember my mother said its like a movie :p I swapped it heart of darkness. Got tomb raider 3, g-police,tiberian sun, heroes of might and magic 3(still play it to this day) and so on. My first real rpg experaince was pool of radiance ruins of mythdranor.

Keep in mind I had a friend with a pc and played doom when it was first released and other games

My pc eventually got old and slow and my mom gave me an option to get a ps 2 or gamers windows(the IT guy tried to trick my mom and I knew he was talking crap) so I got the ps 2. First game my mom got was resident evil 3 but I said lets take it back bec its an old game and got red faction first. I also then got quake 3 and silent hill 2.

I then down the line upgraded my pc and then kept on upgrading it

I got the net found mygaming a year later I won an xbox 360 from them :p gave it to my little brother and he still plays it to this day :p

I am mainly a pc gamer and a old school console player. I like fighting and platform games on console.

started on pc, stayed on pc, branched to consoles, stayed with pc :p

My first "real" game was Rise of Nations, and I was hooked to base-building games after that. Since then I have evolved to playing FPS's, MMO's and most recently MOBA's.

In order of playing basically:

• Snake|Bolo|Gorillas
• Wolf 3D|OpWolf|Blake Stone|Heretic|Hexen|Doom
• SNES and SEGA Classics - ExciteBike|Contra|Sonic|Outrun|Mario|Alien 3|Streets of Rage 2
• Duke 3D|Shadow Warrior|Age of Empires|Quake/2
• PS1 and the CS|DoD|Warcraft 3|UT and Quake Eras
• ISDN in ZA allowed plenty of Quake and CS
• ADSL Opened me up to more Quake 3|UT|BF2/2142
• NG Console got me a 360 and about 200 games later, I'm back on PC.

i started out on an ancient 286 playing Martian Memorandum :-) after a few years, i got a swanky 486SX (which cost my poor dad about 10k at the time) . Used to play XCOM and Terror From The Deep until the wee hours of the morning on that ancient thing.

i then migrated to PS1 and eventually PS2, drifting away from PC gaming. The PS3 never really gripped me but the XBOX did andhas been my number 1 gaming platform until sometime last year. then i made the plunge and bought a decent PC and begin to dabble in some PC gaming. I still hate playing FPS's with keyboard and mouse as i've gotten too used to the ergonomic xbox controller. my next purchase is more likely to be a PS4 than an xbone