So I'm in a bored kind of mood and it got me thinking about game genres and which ones I really like. And it got me to thinking about my go to game genre.

Personally I'd have to say RPG's, Fallout, Elderscrolls, even FF9 on the PS1.

So what are your go to genre's when you're bored or are looking for a game, what is the genre you look to for fun?

If I'm loaded on coffee, FPS.

If I'm a feeling laid back, anything sandbox.

Adventure games or anything involving puzzles.
The tagline kinda gives it away.

Open World, Sandboxes or basically anything with big maps.

I just like to stroll, drive, fly, walk, jump, swim around. And watching the sunsets, sunrises, nights, dawns, different weathers, different NPC behaviour, general exploring, fighting and sight seeing and things like that.
That whole walk in the woods thing.

RPG, usually turn-based combat. My reflexes aren't what they used to be. :/

That reminds me. I finished Zeus this morning. I need something sandbox during the Blues game.

Maybe I'll try Caesar 4.

RPG. I play any kind of RPG. Started with jprg then wrpg, now I love both, although jrpg with all it's cliche started to kill my interest
Once in a while I will go to platformer
and if I'm feeling like it, turn base strategy.

Hard to say...probably strategy, either turn based or real time.

Point 'n' Click adventure games for me. Although, I do really like
sandbox games too.

It really depends on the individual games and the mood that I'm in. Still, if I had to make a general choice ... I like several different genres, but RPGs and open world games are quite good at giving you that feeling of advancement and accomplishment even if you only play for a short while, they give you purpose and relative freedom in how or when to achieve it at the same time, so I guess they could be my go to genres. Then again, FPS are easy to get into and don't include the more exhausting elements of RPGs like having to remember the story so far, reading or listening to long dialogues, inventory management and character building. At the moment I think my go to game is Enderal (Skyrim mod), which combines all of the above (RPG, FPS, open world).

Turn-based RPGs, like the Neptunia series or the amazing Trails in the Sky. When I was younger it used to be FPSs, Quake and the likes, but with age my tastes, and the distribution of my free time :D have changed a bit.

There is no one genre of games that is the end-all-be-all for me. I like a wide variety of game genres and I might hop from one genre to the next as I go from game to game, or I might stick within a genre for a few weeks/months, or some other random whim that suits my mood at any given instant.

I love RPGs, RTS, FPS, 4X, Simulators, strategy, adventure, mystery, certain types of puzzle games and many many more. If by "go to" what is meant is "you can never go wrong" or something like that, then I could choose any number of these and enjoy myself.

PvP games. Oh, & PvE games where we can "accidentally" kill each other too ;)

Aside from those, Survival games (preferably open world) & games like the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.
Amnesia & similar.

As long as it's something really atmospheric & entertaining, I'm hooked \o/

racing games in general
rally in particular ( except dirt rally which is causing me to invent new swear words )

Early RPGs, particularly the ones that expect the player to spend time doing nothing but gaining experience and levels (or the equivalent in the game).

If I am burnt out on such games, often a 2D platformer is what I need.

Sometimes I enjoy faster paced turn-based RPGs that don't require much excess leveling, such as the original SaGa.

Modern RPGs are actually not really my thing; WRPGs are too actiony, and the real-time with pause combat in the Infinity Engine game feels like the worst of both worlds (the pause and need to order each character means it doesn't work as action, yet you don't get the nice rhythm of turn based combat), while JRPGs became too cutscene and mini-game heavy starting with Final Fantasy 6 (Final Fantasy 7 being particularly bad).

Personally, I find this not to really be the case, at least not for most games that are called RPGs.

If I want to feel like I can make progress in a short time, I look for a game like Zelda 2 (especially if it's not your first time playing), SaGa 1, or Magic of Scheherezade. Those games are quite dense in terms of content per time. Just try going back to Zelda 2 (or 1, for that matter) after playing one of the 3D Zeldas (Ocarina of Time or later).