Games that you just won't play?

[OneCatch]

So i want to gather your opinion on what do you think of my habit and are there particular kinds of games you just won't play for some reason?

I stay away from sports and racing games mostly because they don't interest me.

I specifically stay away from COD on principle - BLOPs was the final straw for me because I hate the militaristic bollocks and general infantile apologism of that series. And given some of the crap they apparently did for BLOPS 2, and what it looks like Ghosts is gonna be like, I feel somewhat vindicated!
I liked Modern Warfare 1, but after that the whole franchise went down the sewer as far as I'm concerned.

Also, GTA (and the mirror-image in the form of Sleeping Dogs). I don't really have anything against them, but could never get into the gameplay - and the attempts create character development and a story seemed kinds of futile. If I want an utterly absurd crime sandbox game I'll play Saints Row, and if I want a more serious one I'll play... iunno, Far Cry or Stalker or something. GTA has always struck me as too compromising to be very good at anything.

But for the most part I just see anime aesthetics, too-cool-for-school characters dressed like fucking rodeo clowns, horrendous dialogue (which, to be fair, might have something to do with translation) and horrible voice acting.

Entirely agree with this, though with the caveat that it isn't all Japanese games, it's just that particular overdone anime-ish aesthetic (which also covers more westernised stuff like Kingdom Hearts). I liked Shadows of the Colossus precisely because it was understated - which makes it somewhat frustrating that you don't see more games like that because they seem to get elbowed out of the way by Final Fantasy CMXIV or whatever.

 

[Casual Shinji]

- MMO's and other strictly online games
- Racing games
- Sports games
- Pokemon

Japanese games in general.

Yes, I know it's unfair. No doubt some of them are really good. Shadow of the Colossus was sweet, Dark Souls, for all my many many issues, did have a certain something and Vanquish could have been fun if not for a few crippling design flaws.

But for the most part I just see anime aesthetics, too-cool-for-school characters dressed like fucking rodeo clowns, horrendous dialogue (which, to be fair, might have something to do with translation) and horrible voice acting.

If you had said this back in the PS2 era I would've said you were crazy, but currently...

It seems the only prominent titles to come out of Japan these days are the crazy for the sake of crazy games, like Bayonetta or Suda51's stuff. I honestly can't think of a single current gen Japanese game that has made a long lasting empression on me. Except for Metal Gear Solid 4, but that was for the opposite reason entirely.

 

[Folksoul]

ANY game with "glitch hunting" as a feature. A good story and/or solid and simple gameplay mechanics is how I judge the quality of a game, but above all else, the game must f*cking work. I don't like buying broken products. So, most modern sandbox games immediately enter the *NEVER BUY THIS* category.

That and games that require button mashing, arthritis makes action games like God of War, Bayonetta etc. shooters and fighters a tad hard to play.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Sports games, as in the realistic kind like madden, mlb, fifa, etc. Those are incredibly boring to me, just like the real life counterparts.

Grand Theft Auto, I have no interest in those games. I'm not going to say they are bad, I just have zero desire to try them.

MMOs of any kind, I prefer single player far over multiplayer, and I considering most if not all MMOs are on PC, I don't have the ability to play them anyway.

 

[dementis]

DMC, the Devil may cry shadow. Everything about that game irritates me, the characters more than anything else.

I'll play pretty much anything else other than sports games because I just find them boring. I love fighters but I'm god awful at them.

 

[coates32]

For me, its mostly the following:
-sports games
-MMOs (I've always been more of a singleplayer guy)
-Dota-styled games (I tend to prefer using a controller over a keyboard and mouse)
-Multiplayer-only shooters (see MMOs)
-most military shooters (besides playing my friend's copy of the newest Call of Duty via split screen multiplayer)

Resident Evil

Ble... well, actually, I guess RE4 gets credit for popularizing over-the-shoulder third person shooting and thus rescuing us from fixed camera tank controls. At least i think it was RE4 that did that. Could be wrong.

Actually, Resident Evil 4 did popularized the over-the-shoulder camera. CliffyB, before he left Epic Games, said that title was why Gear of War had the over-the-shoulder third-person camera.

 

[Something Amyss]

I don't like competitive games. I do sometimes play them, though.

DOTA and the like are not my thing, though.
FPAnything for the most part.

 

[Busard]

DOTA style games

I've played a bit a LoL when i was still a student. While some aspects of it is fun, ultimately I couldn't get the fun out of it: Matches are always long, often drawn out, it requires constant playing to keep your skill level afloat, the community is probably one of the worse i've ever witnessed, may the players be good or bad it doesn't matter. Ultimately, even after I won some games it still left me bitter.

Also I don't know why exactly but a lot of AAA stuff across the board: the gears series, uncharted, god of war. I don't like most of microsoft stuff but it's weird, I like a lot of sony game but their main triple A line doesn't really appeal, except maybe that new infamous. Also last of us was really good for me and killzone is getting more interesting too.

 

[GundamSentinel]

I want to admit that i have never played games like DOTA,LOL,TF2,Minecraft,etc.

Never really played any of those either. DotA and LoL style games often seem to suffer from asshole communities, Minecraft is too loose and open for me (though I did like Terraria) and TF2's style isn't really my thing.

Other games I just won't play:
- Never saw the appeal of Pokémon games.
- Brawlers. I don't like twitchy reflex and memorize combo games.
- Subscription based MMO's. I don't want to keep paying for one game.
- Sports games. Just not that into professional sports, plus most of them look cheap and crappy.
- Racing games, though I used to play them a lot when I was about 12.

Japanese games in general.

Yes, I know it's unfair. No doubt some of them are really good. Shadow of the Colossus was sweet, Dark Souls, for all my many many issues, did have a certain something and Vanquish could have been fun if not for a few crippling design flaws.

But for the most part I just see anime aesthetics, too-cool-for-school characters dressed like fucking rodeo clowns, horrendous dialogue (which, to be fair, might have something to do with translation) and horrible voice acting.

...

Yeah... I'm gonna make some friends with this post.

I can certainly understand where you're coming from, even though some of my favorite games are Japanese. There are a few exceptions, like the ones you mentioned, but the past years (hell, the past decade) Japanese games have been a bag of fail in general.

 

[Marik2]

Can't get into MMOs, sport games, and games that look too much focused on co op. It is hard for me to get good friends together to play a game and don't really like to play with strangers online.

There are exceptions, but can't think of it right now.

 

[Lionsfan1986]

WOW because I know it will steal my soul!

 

[Legion]

I have never played a COD game in my life, not even for five minutes or so around a friends house. I stopped enjoying FPS games set in the modern era around the time the original Operation Flashpoint was going out of fashion. I knew COD originally as the "other" series of games that were always centred around World War 2 but never had any interest as I played Medal of Honor back then and it seemed to just be the same kind of thing.

Then I was late to the Xbox 360 party and everybody was playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare but by that point the setting was no longer interesting to me. I never played it, nor any of the sequels. I suspect I may have done if the friend I played on the Xbox the most with was into it, but they weren't terribly excited by the multiplayer and we had Halo 3.

Since then I have learnt that apart from being in a setting that doesn't interest me, it also has a community of the worst kind, and that's just the icing on the cake for reasons not to go near it.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I won't touch an MMO. Especially MMORPGs! I know that I would really enjoy them, and get hooked... but then get sucked into playing it all the time and neglect other aspects of my life, so I don't want to try!

 

[Ender910_v1legacy]

Japanese games in general.

Yes, I know it's unfair. No doubt some of them are really good. Shadow of the Colossus was sweet, Dark Souls, for all my many many issues, did have a certain something and Vanquish could have been fun if not for a few crippling design flaws.

But for the most part I just see anime aesthetics, too-cool-for-school characters dressed like fucking rodeo clowns, horrendous dialogue (which, to be fair, might have something to do with translation) and horrible voice acting.

...

Yeah... I'm gonna make some friends with this post.

I'm with you there. As a kid I didn't quite mind Japanese games as much, but as I got older I just couldn't take them seriously anymore. There's just too many things about Japanese games I can't stand, so I don't even bother touching them.

I'll also add the Modern Warfare series. I'm not really a fan of games that try taking place in post-WWII conflicts, especially since most of those games have Tom Clancy-level cliches in their stories. I did like Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising though. While it was a tad dull, the background story was pretty plausible.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Resident Evil

Ble... well, actually, I guess RE4 gets credit for popularising over-the-shoulder third person shooting and thus rescuing us from fixed camera tank controls. At least i think it was RE4 that did that. Could be wrong.

I'm pretty sure they're the ones who did it, yeah.

Silent Hill Err... I find them interesting but severely dated and not much chop in the horror department. I imagine I'd have liked them a lot more if I played them when they were new.

I played every game from SH1 to Shattered Memories (minus Homecoming) sometime between 2009-2010. With the exception of the very first game, which is an aberration of graphics, storytelling and gameplay, I thought they all stood the test of time pretty well. SH2 and SH3 in particular remain very, very good.

 

[porous_shield]

Many of the series of games people find most nostalgic like Mario, Sonic, Final Fantasy, and Zelda I don't enjoy and will never play. Other games I won't play are LoL, Dota, WoW and just about any other multilayer game. I also won't play military shoots or any games with hiding behind chest high walls as a major component.

 

[Ryotknife]

Horror games. Im sorry, I do not see the appeal in purposely playing or watching something for the sole reason that it will scare you. Did I miss a memo somewhere that being afraid is no longer a negative emotion? I rather be laughing or excited.

DOTA games, because the community is toxic. It was bad enough in Warcraft 3.

sports games, because I rather just play the sport.

driving games, because I suck at them.

demon/dark souls, because the combat is boring.

wow....that is a lot of games. I have a feeling my souls comment is going to get me flak.

 

[michael87cn]

I want to admit that i have never played games like DOTA,LOL,TF2,Minecraft,etc. I don't know exactly why i have never bothered to play these games inspite of their immense popularity.Maybe its because they lack a story.Yup that's definitely it.They all lack a proper story or plot that would want to make me keep playing.
You see when i was a kid i used to play games like Mario,RoadRash,Crazy Taxi,etc which didn't exactly have a plot but i never cared i just wanted to have fun.But now i only play games with a structured narrative.If a game does not have a narative of some kind i will skip it.The only games which are exception to this rule are racing and sports games.Even when it comes to indie games i will only play games with a story. Arcadey games no longer get my time.They no longer interest me.I want to experience new unique stories in every game i play.
So i want to gather your opinion on what do you think of my habit and are there particular kinds of games you just won't play for some reason?

Eh, good stories are all over the place. They're in every medium.

A good time is a way better game for me, personally.

(gameplay>story)

In fact, story doesn't belong imo. If its there okay, but I don't need it at all. I am not watching a movie or reading a book after all, so I don't really care. I just want to enjoy myself and relax.

 

[Audioviper]

Sports games, MMO's like WoW or LoL, Fighting games & almost anything that's Turn Based Strategy.

Sports is boring enough in real life, I don't want it invading the one escape from this droll life I have.

MMO's similar to the examples given above are just a disease in my eyes & I REALLY don't want to catch it.

I have next to no interest in any form of Hand-to-hand combat be it real life or virtual.

Turn Based Strategy, or any 'Top Down' Strategy game (XCOM for example) makes me feel as though every living creature in existence bides by some unspoken rule of gentlemanly-ness. I can't take it seriously.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

I stay away from Assassin's Creed as I don't like the way they decided to portray what they call "Templars", despite their announcement about being all multicultural and non-discriminatory. None of my money gets thrown at that mess of sub game routines and shoddy patchwork storyline. The first title in the series managed to somewhat impress me, then I felt it was just getting more and more silly as they tried to fill more and more mini games and random stuff into the envelope.

I stay away from Dragon Age since Dragon Age II was just about the most offensive and unenjoyable slap to my face I ever paid for. It's the only game I burnt on a pyre to make the world a better place. I gave away Shellshock 2 and Rogue Warrior, two extraordinarily bad turds from Rebellion, but Dragon Age II must not exist in a world filled with hopes and dreams of a better tomorrow.

Due to several events I consider to be unacceptable, I stay away from anything Electronic Arts. I also tried enjoying Mass Effect and have, in my childish intolerance, adopted referring to it as Ass Effect. The overflow of story I didn't enjoy mixed with the elevator rides of doom, the romancing bullshit and the general incompatibility between my hopes and dreams and expectations and what the Mass Effect series actually delivered made me loathe it quite a bit. Beyond the scope of the series, it made me wary of developer's promises and it made me quite furiously intolerant of "too much story, too little game" routines. It also made me cherish Call of Duty, which came as a bit of a surprise to me. Homeopathic dose of story, interesting scripts, awesome multiplayer.

I tend not to buy sports games as they simply don't do anything for me. The only soccer games I play, and enjoy playing are Sensible Soccer (Amiga) and the Super Sidekicks (Neo Geo) games. There were some on the Super Nintendo we used to enjoy (Japanese, Konami if I remember correctly) but I don't even remember the names of those. We still - rarely - play Pawafuru Proyakyu or Speedball 2, but that's about it.

I don't enjoy and don't buy any of the NHL XX or FIFA XX titles, and I only play them when forced or when there's really absolutely nothing better to do. I generally prefer to mow the lawn with nothing but my teeth or a nail clipper to playing sports games.

I also no longer play Minecraft, as the fanboy flavoured folks around here ruined that for me. I was absolutely into Minecraft when it came into existence, but when the Minecraft zealots started using it to blow up our school system and replacing pretty much everything else with Minecraft, sex ed and Marx, party was over and things got so ugly I still think I should seek therapy before I cut a *****.