DS Daily: Style over sense

I don't like beat em ups, but Comic Zone looked so damn cool. It was an instant purchase for the Virtual Console. Really good game that is.

As for the DS, only Hotel Dusk comes immediately to mind. Not a big point and click fan, but the look was so intriguing. Okay game but the sketchy art style, the mannerisms of the different characters, that pulled me towards the end rather than the by-the-numbers storyline.

I agree with JC, these games aren't my type neither. But I'll still check out Dark Spire cause the art style seems pretty damn cool... Maybe I'll manage to push through this one (unlike Etrian Odyssey).

Actually, I never thought Etrian Odyssey would be my type of game. I don't have the patience for grinding either. But I ended up buying it and its sequel and I've never looked back.

I like to be well-rounded so I'll try anything. My favorite genres are platformers, action, first- and third-person shooters, and RPGs, the latter which I've only been playing for about a year now but love the strategic and critical thinking component. The only genres I'm not really into is adventure, music-based games, and some sports titles.

"Have you picked up something you knew was outside of your usual area of expertise based solely on the style? Are you planning to? Or are you smarter than me?"

No, No, and Apparently. ;)

As for Etrian Odyssey: I don't normally have anything against 3D-first-person-maze-RPGs, and when I first tried Etrian Odyssey I loved it. But then I got to some enemy on the *second* floor and quickly realized two things: 1. I couldn't progress any further without defeating it and 2. I wouldn't be able to defeat it without first spending literally hours just grinding. Those two realizations quickly lead to a third realization: Etrian Odyssey sucks.

I don't think I've ever played a game based on how it looked.

I have deliberately avoided games because of their style, though.

....And how appealing can Dark Spire's text-based mode be? It looks like a DOS game. While that is completely awesome, it's actually kind of insulting to have to pay 30$ for what looks like a DOS game in the year 2009.

There's nothing wrong with keeping an open mind about genres you didn't like before. Avoiding a game just because it's the wrong genre is prejudice!

I tend to like most genres, but there are two that I refuse to dab my fingers into: sports and shooters. I've seen my cousins play these two multiple times, and I just don't like the mechanics. Sport related games look boring, and I don't like pressure intensive shooters. (nor do I like horror movies for that reason =/) I don't want my entertainment to be stressful, but fun, so I avoid shooters like the plague.
There are two genres that I've tried even through I was skeptical: music and racing. I've grown to like racing if even just a bit. But I have realized that I have no sense of rhythm and thus totally suck at music games. So I doubt I will ever really like the genre. But even so, I still want to get EBA (tried it on a friend's DS and even though I sucked I enjoyed it). And I'm not exaggerating, if you would have seen me play, then you would have understood. Even my other friend who has no interest in video games did better than me on EBA T________T