regardless of whether you're playing on
PC console or handheld there are a
million different types of video games
that are out there and while technically
there are more genres than you can count
they all tend to fall under the umbrella
of around half a dozen main categories
and those are the ones I wanted to look
at today to start with one that is of
course reminiscent of real life we have
sports games these ones are really
simple because to make the most popular
sports games you just make a video game
that most accurately recreates the
real-life sport the thing with games
like Madden NBA 2k FIFA and NHL is that
the developers have to change the game
every year to reflect the updates to the
sport meaning you have to buy the game
again if you just follow sports casually
you might not think that something like
soccer changes much each year but as an
example if we look at FIFA 2018 and
compare it to this year's version you
can see that they completely changed the
number next we have fighting games and
there's really two types of fighting
games ones where you try to eliminate
the opponent's HP points through nuanced
combinations and timings and then
there's Super Smash Brothers a notable
aspect about fighting games is the
comparison to combat sports and
outweighed the competitive fighting
games seating is a lot like boxing
fights are almost always 1v1 and if
you're up against someone with tattoos
that means you're but despite
being games that are literally about
beating each other up fighting game
communities are some of the nicest
around so much so that practice sessions
are called friendlies and if you ever go
to a tournament it's expected that you
always think your hosts thank your fans
say good game fist bump and sometimes
even wear deodorant sim or simulation
games come in two popular varieties ones
where you design rollercoaster theme
parks or utopian societies and ones
where you play a gyro truck driver on a
16 hour long haul through Siberia
attempting to repair breakdowns both in
the game and in your $5,000 worth of
peripherals RTS games or real-time
strategy games are generally games where
you build a base manage resources and
control an army to go and beat your
opponent who is trying to do the same
thing iconic games include Age of
Empires command & Conquer and of course
Starcraft the great thing about every
RCS is that they feature several
settings so you can always play against
someone your level whether that be
casual normal
heart or Korean being strategy games RTS
is notoriously competitive in the top
level of games you'll see pros regularly
play it over 400 actions per minute to
give you an idea of how fast it is I'm
going to type out the drill that
professionals use to warm up before a
game that was me doing two lines of coke
off the keyboard coincidentally this is
the same warm-up that most YouTube lets
players do as well multiplayer online
battle arenas or MOBAs are games where
individuals actively work against each
other in order to defeat the enemy in
fact one of the paradoxes of MOBA games
is that while every individual thinks
they're the best on the team the team is
far worse than how good any individual
thinks they are this inescapable skill
cap can be explained by how every time
you play support your carry sucks and
your team loses and every time you play
carry your support sucks and your team
loses then when your teammates try to
point out that you're the common
denominator you could ignore them
completely because they don't speak
English next we have RPGs or
role-playing games
there's RPGs where you have a huge world
to explore called open-world RPGs
there's more linear dungeon crawler RPGs
there's MMORPGs which let you play with
other people online and there's a bunch
of subgenres beyond that because they're
role-playing games they're typically set
in fictional worlds where you get to do
things you're not able to do in real
life like shooting lightning out of your
hands and taking money from dwarves
furthermore a lot of RPGs have
incredibly in-depth stories that no one
pays attention to this is unfortunately
because a lot of them have brilliant
writing as an example a lot of RPGs have
a starter quest where you find a glowing
amulet just sitting on the table and
when you talk to the person standing
literally right next to it they say wow
you found this ancient and important
piece of jewelry you should return it
I'll follow you for the rest of the game
it helped you now and usually you're
just thinking this is Lord of the Rings
shooter games are one of the most
popular genres due to their variety you
can have single player story modes
online team deathmatch capture the flag
defuse the bomb or of course the most
popular genre right now battle royale
for those unfamiliar at battle Royales
or games where you drop either solo or
with the team into a large map and fight
until the last man standing as the map
decreases in size the trick to these
games is that the companies release the
game for free in order to get
a lot of players to fill the lobbies and
then make money by selling skins and
cosmetics to customize your character
and well this means the company makes
almost no money for most players it does
mean that they make almost all their
money from our friend Rodney and while a
lot of people think that battle Royales
are a fad I think it's good that so many
young people are playing them because
even something like fortnight is a
metaphor for everyday American life a
hundred kids are dropped off by a school
bus into college campus and try to
survive as long as possible as they
avoid an encroaching circle of
unvaccinated children lastly we have
casual games but don't let that name
confuse you casual games are anything
but laid-back this is because they're
typically party games that you play with
people who don't usually play games and
that means you have to make the decision
of whether you're going to keep your
friends by showing restraint or stomp
they're casual asses on 200cc rainbow
road with a GameCube controller and like
I always say you can leave the game but
you can't leave your mediocrity once
again an adage that I found
unfortunately applies to YouTube as well
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