Brainstorm by your PC to answer "what to play"

[Lunasole]

Hi again, guys & girls.

What do you think about such way of finding interesting games to play? :)
http://geocities.ws/lunasole/data/%24randomgame/l

Tried similar years ago to search for movies/anime and generally liked the results.
Daily also made such for PC games + loaded "online version" of it for fun.
As for me things like this (random-based) are really comparable to "brainstorm" performed by PC.

[tj1010]

I don't think there is any real solid way to do this.

I just go by value(mechanics, visuals, audio, animation) and hope it's not got RTS because I have to go to work a lot.

I'm not one of those people who say they shouldn't make games I don't want to play though. I can't stand FPS or shooter games, and am annoyed that they consume most of the market, but as long as they fund other projects. Same for all the other "professional gamer" type games.

Companies like Quantic Dream and Rockstar seem to make valuable games with consistency. EA and Ubisoft will put something out every once in a while.

Mafia II
Anno 2070
GTA Series
L.A. Noire
Quantic Dream games '99 to present
Read Dead Redemption
Civilization III and V and BE
Skyrim

Obscure: Car Thief, Red Code, Shenmue I and II

[Lunasole]

Companies like Quantic Dream and Rockstar seem to make valuable games with consistency. EA and Ubisoft will put something out every once in a while.

Rockstar is still good, but for me with lot of years playing games it is not enough to play few titles they [or some other nice and well-known companies like Valve, Blizzard, etc] made. Playing only mainstream is like watching only monotony hollywood blockbusters, that's a huge reason to search something else and less "marketed"/less predictable, etc.

I can't stand FPS or shooter games, and am annoyed that they consume most of the market, but as long as they fund other projects.

Btw you are wrong about FPS consuming "most of the market", there is following statistic from that DB (which generally represents whole game industry):

Arcade: 23%
Action/FPS: 16%
RTS: 15%
Quests/Adventures: 13%
Simulators: 10%
Anime: 9%
Logical: 7%
RPG: 7%

First place is taken by arcades, they are everywhere, almost every modern mobile or console game is "arcade". PC probably is only platform where they are "not everywhere" [because it traditionally brings something more nice and complex than 1-button interfaces and "press X to win" gameplay, hah], but also at 1st place as seen from collected, and it greatly trends to simplification and targeting "averaged user" too. But what you said about shooters "funding others" was really actual from 2000-2005 to 2008 or around it [and maybe still remains for few companies making only AAA-titles].

I don't think there is any real solid way to do this.
I just go by value(mechanics, visuals, audio, animation) and hope it's not got RTS because I have to go to work a lot.

It is OK if you finding something basing on them, for me that's mostly futile because such criteria are formed by "averaged player" too. I almost never find some nice original plot/scenario for example, basing on such ratings. So it becomes more effective to just randomize incoming data :)
At least doing this I'm not wasting time and not getting much tired of scrolling lists/ratings, etc, manually.

However, that data is not fully random. The games present on torrent databases can't be "completely crap", because if someone steals them and there are enough ppl to seed, it says that game is valuable enough. That's some filter like "user ratings" by fact [probably even more objective], but well, another story

[tj1010]

I get away with being picky with games because I'm usually at work or doing CS or EE stuff. I diversified a lot in my teens and early twenties but I also got nothing done..

I wouldn't get the modern gaming market though.. The games I see at competitions and hear people talking about at local shops are all boring shooters or "grinder" RPG games.

[Lunasole]

I get away with being picky with games because I'm usually at work or doing CS or EE stuff. I diversified a lot in my teens and early twenties but I also got nothing done..

I wouldn't get the modern gaming market though.. The games I see at competitions and hear people talking about at local shops are all boring shooters or "grinder" RPG games.

Well that's OK, I'm not tracking it all seriously too and probably never tracked, as well as didn't liked cybersport, etc.