Games that you will never play. Ever.

[Vigormortis]

Any MOBA - I'm just not that great a strategist.

Don't need to be. Just load up Dota 2, pick Viper, Sniper, or Drow Ranger, get some decent supports on your team, then right-click to victory.

Seriously though, I get where you're coming from. I used to be bloody awful at simultaneously micro'ing and macro'ing, years ago. It was one of the primary reasons I steered clear of many multiplayer focused RTS games back then.

 

[Zeren]

I don't play it because I don't see what it could possibly offer me that I haven't already seen in terms of gameplay and story. I've watched it be played, I've seen reviews, and I've been told over and over that I should play it, but I just don't see a reason to at this point. Everything that it's done has already been done by some other game I have already played.

Well, I'd think it could be played for the same reason one would play any solo, narrative-driven game. The story, the setting, the characters, etc.

I'm not saying you have to play it. I'm not even suggesting that you should. I was just saying it sounded odd that the reason you wouldn't was that it was no longer innovative. I know someone who gave the same reason as to why she would never play Homeworld - seeing as modern RTS games like Starcraft 2, "Offer so much more."

I mean, it's a genuine reason. I'm not 'attacking' you nor anyone else for it. It's just a reason I've heard now and again that never made sense to me.

That's one more thing. I already know the story well enough that it's not enough to get me to play it. Years of people talking about it has ruined all of the twists, made the characters seem plain and boring, and I never found the setting interesting in the first place.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Mostly Moba games, Sports, turn based (except the much older FF and Advance wars and Disgaea games).

Dark Souls especially as stated by other users on the first page, the fanbase put me right off it as well as the view on challenges, normally I don't mind a challenge but 'm in no way for brutal all the way or brutal to start with and I detest repetitive punishments, dying a lot to me means I'm not having fun, not the "I'm doing shit and must perfect myself to jump over that hardcore based challenge" feeling that some like to stamp on others.

I don't mind some racing games but I'm not for the realistic ones like Forza but more for crazy ones like Burnout Paradise and Mario kart etc.

 

[Smithburg]

Fez.

The guy who made the game was such a massive douchebag that I won't touch any of his stuff.

 

[Smithburg]

Anything that "needs" Steam, Uplay, Battle.net or Origin to install.

Any PS4/Xbone exclusive, as I won't be getting either console.

So what you're saying is that you just wont play anything?

 

[Victim of Progress]

MoBa's. Also Goat Simulator and Sanctum 2. I had the misfortune of playing the first one. That company does not deserve any second chances.

 

[Nazulu]

I refuse to play any franchise that suddenly became online only. You know the ones I'm talking about. I don't support asshole tactics, and the games look like shit any way.

I also don't want to see any game that uses the same name as the original. Some of them had received some defense and so I checked them out, but it's what I expected from current gaming trends.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I have zero interest in...

1. Sports Games
I've never had any interest, not even a passing interest, in real-life sports. So naturally I have no interest in sports games either.

2. Simulation Games
Because I totally want to work a full shift, then come home and simulate working another full shift at a second job that doesn't pay me.

3. Fighting Games
I have no interest in learning eight billion button combinations and sequences just so I can participate in a community that honestly seems more detestable than the bile-spewing 12-year olds playing Call of Duty on X-Box.

4. Puzzle Games
I suck at puzzles. No other reason. Only played the Portal games because I liked the writing.

5. MOBAs
Because the Fighting Games community totally needs a competitor for the "largest collection of humans with zero social skills" award.

6. Music Games
I love music, don't get me wrong here. But why do I want to spend hours upon hours of my life mastering a fiddly little plastic guitar for the dubious honor of being able to pretend I can play a classic rock song when I could just spend hours of my life mastering a real guitar and play the song for real?

7. "Casual" Games
Not "casual" like Diablo 3 (zing!), but "casual" like Angry Birds, Farmville, Candy Crush Saga, etc. I have no use for browser and mobile device games. I don't find them to be fun, and I find their common abuse of microtransactions to be incredibly insulting to their audiences.

 

[Zipa]

Mine used to be Dark souls however after watching Alex on LRR's stream play it as well as helping Graham Stark getting into it I gave it a go with his advice and now i'm into it.

I guess now MOBAs would be top of that list, I just don't feel the genre despite my friends raving about it like its the best thing ever.

 

[Vigormortis]

That's one more thing. I already know the story well enough that it's not enough to get me to play it. Years of people talking about it has ruined all of the twists, made the characters seem plain and boring, and I never found the setting interesting in the first place.

And that's fine. To each their own, I say.

I wasn't really quoting you because you disliked Half-Life. I was just referencing your point about not wanting to try it because it was no longer innovative.

A point I covered in my last post.

Just out of curiosity, what is your current, must-play title?

 

[Zeren]

That's one more thing. I already know the story well enough that it's not enough to get me to play it. Years of people talking about it has ruined all of the twists, made the characters seem plain and boring, and I never found the setting interesting in the first place.

And that's fine. To each their own, I say.

I wasn't really quoting you because you disliked Half-Life. I was just referencing your point about not wanting to try it because it was no longer innovative.

A point I covered in my last post.

Just out of curiosity, what is your current, must-play title?

I probably could have worded it better.

As for my current game, it's Robocraft. Building up my own robot to go kill other robots has been something I've enjoyed since I first did it in Chromehounds.

 

[lawrencein]

6. Music Games
I love music, don't get me wrong here. But why do I want to spend hours upon hours of my life mastering a fiddly little plastic guitar for the dubious honor of being able to pretend I can play a classic rock song when I could just spend hours of my life mastering a real guitar and play the song for real?

You could try Rocksmith or Bandfuse, both of which use real guitars and are a strange hybrid of game and teaching tool.

 

[Zukabazuka]

Mostly Moba games, Sports, turn based (except the much older FF and Advance wars and Disgaea games).

Dark Souls especially as stated by other users on the first page, the fanbase put me right off it as well as the view on challenges, normally I don't mind a challenge but 'm in no way for brutal all the way or brutal to start with and I detest repetitive punishments, dying a lot to me means I'm not having fun, not the "I'm doing shit and must perfect myself to jump over that hardcore based challenge" feeling that some like to stamp on others.

I don't mind some racing games but I'm not for the realistic ones like Forza but more for crazy ones like Burnout Paradise and Mario kart etc.

First time I heard about Dark Soul I thought I would need massive amount of skills to beat first map. But in short you don't, If you actually learn few things in the game it get very easy to deal with. The game offer open game, not linear like almost all other games. Levels don't matter that much since at level 9 you can use some of the most powerful weapons with the right stats. If you pick soldier you get a decent defense from the start and good stats. Not much jumping in the game, few places that has them only leads to new weapons or other loot.

Its an amazing game, its not brutal in difficulty and if someone keeps saying that they are wrong and refuse to learn. PvP is the only part of the game where skill is massive, but its not vital to the game and you can often stay away from it. So having to deal with those elitist people are easily avoided. The game is different from most games out there, So it will feel fresh when you play it. Sure beats almost all triple AAA titles.

As for games I don't touch, sport games. I had fun in them but not anymore.

 

[The Hero Killer]

Pretty much any sports or racing game. I think I'm done with Mario and Nintendo altogether too.

 

[McElroy]

The only one I can think of is Dwarf Fortress. Lots and lots of games go straight into "probably never" but Dwarf Fortress is certainly a "never ever". Maybe it needs too much imagination or something, I dunno.

 

[Inazuma1]

MMORPGs. I burned myself out on MMOs years ago as a teenager and haven't been able to play them ever since. To me, they're all the same. From the free to play Chinese garbage all the way up to Warcraft and Star Wars The Old Republic, they're all the same shitty MMO.

 

[Lunar Templar]

CoD, BF, Minecraft, Civ, anything that's a 'zombie survival' game, Bio/System Shock, Deus Ex.

There more, but that's all that's off the top of my head far as games I will never touch at all. Don't really care how 'good' they are, I'm not interested, and in CoD/BFs case, I rather hate them for their role in ruining the AAA market.

There's plenty of games I won't touch again, like FF13 and it's shit stain squeals, but more often then not I black list whole studios, Bethesda and Bioware are both on that list, Bioware because they suck at writing, characters and game play, and Bethesda cause they also suck at writing, characters and game-play, but all because they like to hide behind the modding community to do the bug testing for them instead of doing any such work them selves.

 

[CloudAtlas]

Anything that looks like anime.

I see one fist-sized eyeball, one trying-too-hard-to-be-cute underage girl in a suspiciously short skirt or one spiky haired dude with a sword the size of a fridge and I'm gone.

I second that motion. Everytime I had the questionable opportunity to play such games at friends' it was just too much too fast.

 

[Vigormortis]

I probably could have worded it better.

As for my current game, it's Robocraft. Building up my own robot to go kill other robots has been something I've enjoyed since I first did it in Chromehounds.

Huh. Haven't heard of it. Sounds interesting though - like something right up my alley.

Might have to check it out.

 

[RedBackDragon]

anything with the words "tom clancy" in it , anything with the words "sid miers" in it , any sports game by EA.... any future games by EA / Gearbox / sega / timegate / king / EABIOWARE .... fuck i loved jade empire and mass effect 1 why you turn mass effect into gears of war EA whyyyyyyy ????? ... the list goes on but you get the idea that these days i take "vote with your wallet" to mean that i will simply save my monney and time and not bother with anything these devlopment studios and publishers release to begin with.