Before I pose my question, let me fill you in with some background.

Today, I wore a Pokemon shirt to school. In Fundamentals of Art, a guy came up to me and said, "Pokemon sucks." Now before I recieve any AAP comments or prejudged posts, or before someone moves this to the AAP board, listen further. I asked him why he thought it sucked and he gave me three reasons.

1. It's old. (No arguement there, it's been around for over a decade.)

2. It's for kids. (...No.)

3. It's a turnbased RPG.

3 is what intrigued me the most. This person went on to say he preferred hack and slash RPG's and FPS RPG's over turnbased strategy ones. This got me thinking: There are many different subgenres of RPG. Which do you like more over others?

I included the following into the poll:

Turnbased Strategy
Massive Multiplayer Online
Gridbased Strategy
Hack and Slash
First Person Shooter
Rocket Propelled Grenade (Okay, that one's just a joke.)

If there are any more you think I should add to the poll, tell me and I'll do so.

What types of RPG do you tend to play and why?

I usually play the turn-based ones such as any of the Mario RPGs and Pokémon.

Normally I like Action RPGs (Kingdom Hearts) and FPS RPGs (Fallout 3). Turnbased are kind of iffy, because if it's not your turn you could be brutallty murdered without being able to do anything. Which is why I suck at gyms.

Turn-based stratagie, for the same reason as Yoshi.

This^

But Yoshi didn't give a reason...



EDIT: Also, the poll should be multi-choice because some people like more than one equally, or all BUT one.

I always found Turn-based and RTS games to be most attractive, or some of the more awkward games like Smash. I've never been too great with reflexes, though,so when I started playing some of the PS1 games like Xenogears and FFTactics, I got super hooked. And sure, Xenogears is an RPG, but I don't recall any part of that game that required reflexes.

And I just took a look at the poll. Aren't turn-based games generally the same as grid-based?

I'm more of a turn based person. Was never a fan of the Massive Multiplayer.

Mah Pokeymanz are turn-based. :3
I find most MMORPGs really, really, really boring. I played MapleStory for about a week and then realized how tedious and repetitive it was.

hack 'n' slash ftw. nothing beats a few good hours in tales of symphonia 2 or muramasa. i s'pose this genre also includes loz? if it does, then most definitely hack and slash.

Zelda isn't an RPG. It has barely any RPG elements.

I like both turn-based and action.