Your upgrade status & new poll!

A couple of weeks ago I asked what your upgrade status was, but unfortunately only three people actually responded by voting in the poll. Regardless, here are the results: one person upgraded recently, one is upgrading soon and the last one is waiting to see what kind of hardware comes next. This automatically means no one voted for 'not going to', not that I particularly expected anyone to...

I'm still waiting for my new hardware to arrive - and quite a few of my friends have either recently upgraded or are waiting for their new hardware to arrive as well. It seems that the record low hardware prices haven't gone unnoticed, as many online retailers are also indicating vast supply shortages, so clearly quite a lot of gamers are using their funds on a PC upgrade this summer. With good reason of course, because there are a lot of interesting and demanding games scheduled to be released later this year!


Anyway, on to the new poll question for the coming two weeks: 'Which is your favorite genre?'. Perhaps not the easiest to answer, but I'm sure each of you have your own preferences when it comes to gaming genres. Whether you're a fan of first person shooters or races, simulation games or real time strategy, I've included just about any genre there is. And if you really don't know, then you can always choose that option too!

As for my own choice? I'd probably go with First Person Shooters, which is what I've probably played the most over the years. Having said that: I do love Space Sims equally as much, if not more, it's just that there aren't really any of them around anymore. I also tend to play most other genres quite a bit and there are games I love in nearly every genre, so it's a tough call to make, but I'd still go with FPS in the end. Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Jedi Knight 2 and Unreal Tournament (the original) are more than enough to justify this decision, for me. Now you vote - and leave a comment with your reason for voting that particular genre while you're at it. Have a nice day!


PS: Just in case you don't know the difference between Action, Platformer and First Person Shooter: an Action game is not played in first person, a Platformer is mainly about jumping. So a third person view game like Tomb Raider would be an Action game, Rayman a Platformer and Jedi Knight 2 a First Person Shooter. Don't worry about little details like Ego Shooter versus Tactical Shooter, I'll cover that in a later poll! As for Role Playing Game versus Hack & Slash: H&S is a simplistic RPG which focuses on action and simple game mechanics. A Role Playing Game generally focuses more on storytelling, expansive and elaborate game mechanics and usually has combat take a back seat. So Titan Quest would be a Hack & Slash game, whereas Neverwinter Nights (and especially the sequel) would be more in the region of a Role Playing Game. As for games like Guild Wars and World of Warcraft, those are Massive Multiplayer Online games, so they fit in the appropriately named genre.