Genres you?re intrigued by but could never really get into

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

Any game that requires me to play it with strangers. I have no objection playing multiplayer stuff with my friends, but I just don't care to do so with people I'll never meet

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Haha, yeah that's how I felt loading up my save one objective into the Croatia level of C&C: Tiberium Wars. I look up a gamefaq walkthrough or youtube clip and there are often comments like, "It's easy. Just do (continues to rattle off a three or four paragraph diatribe of instructions)."

I think the key to success with RTS seems to be learning as many hotkey commands as possible so that all you have to do with the mouse is literally direct traffic for all your stuff.

Oh boy, that mission's a doozy. It's kinda weird, because the mission after it is a pushover, and then we get another really tough one.

Hints I can give are:

*Don't take any risks with your base.

*With the MCV, don't rush it. Enemies shouldn't attack it straight away, so take your time in getting it to your base.

*Take out the Nod bases in the order of south, west, east.

Granted, it's been ages since I've played the mission, let alone the game, but that worked for me.

Thanks for those. I've seen someone beat this one without even assisting the MVC at all, just taking out the Nod bases. It even took almost a half hour and nothing happened to it. Wonder if it was an oversight even after the nine or so patches the game had.

 

[Eacaraxe_v1legacy]

I utterly despise what RTS games have become in the past fifteen years. SC's success in the esports arena thanks to Korea, and hero units in WC3, established the trend towards necessary, intense micromanagement that shatter my ability to enjoy the genre. I had real hope for SC2, but alas, Blizzard's inane decision to turn the macro game into micromanagement hell broke it for me. I was able to moderately enjoy DoW because I loves me some WH40K, but as a strategy game I hated its mechanics...CoH is all but a WWII-themed DoW mod, and I find the prospect of playing it nothing short of emetic.

I love the grand strategy genre, but Christ almighty is Paradox's business strategy radioactive. Bundle ya damn games at reduced price points, already. $300 for a "full" seven-year-old game and its content, and that's counting the bundle discount, is just bonkers.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

The Soulsborne style, most strategy games and isometric RPGs (with some exceptions) do nothing for me whatsoever.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Whatever kind of game the total war series is. I don't think its quite grand strategy but its certainly not rts. I suppose just strategy. I've played 3 different total war games but haven't gotten into any of them enough to finish a campaign. I'll probably still get Total War:Warhammer 2 when it gets cheaper since Lizardmen, but I have a feeling it will end up like the other games. 8 hours played then never touched again.

The Total War series is hybrid and the only franchise that is (RTT/TBS). There was the game Imperial Eagles, I think that was the name, which had similar gameplay with (from what I've read) better mechanics, but looked kinda shit (and it's super dated now), but it was an isolated release IIRC, so in a way, TW is its own genre in some ways. The games in the series can play very differently from each other and you need to relearn gameplay (and strategic/tactical approach) depending on which title you go from/to. Like cavalry is king in Med2 and Rome (depending on faction of course), but borderline useless in WH1/2, while expanding quickly in the former is encouraged, but self-sabotage in the latter as you need to level your characters appropriately. Eh...

Which titles did you play, out of interest?

OT - Weirdly, I can't play RTS's well despite loving the TW series, because the RT aspect messes with my OCPD (except the DoW series... 'cos 40K... -_- ).

JRPG's constitute the main genre I really wanted to get into but just couldn't/can't. Maybe platformers as well... I've only played/completed GRIS, but I got that game for psyke reasons, not for game reasons...

 

[Worgen]

Whatever kind of game the total war series is. I don't think its quite grand strategy but its certainly not rts. I suppose just strategy. I've played 3 different total war games but haven't gotten into any of them enough to finish a campaign. I'll probably still get Total War:Warhammer 2 when it gets cheaper since Lizardmen, but I have a feeling it will end up like the other games. 8 hours played then never touched again.

The Total War series is hybrid and the only franchise that is (RTT/TBS). There was the game Imperial Eagles, I think that was the name, which had similar gameplay with (from what I've read) better mechanics, but looked kinda shit (and it's super dated now), but it was an isolated release IIRC, so in a way, TW is its own genre in some ways. The games in the series can play very differently from each other and you need to relearn gameplay (and strategic/tactical approach) depending on which title you go from/to. Like cavalry is king in Med2 and Rome (depending on faction of course), but borderline useless in WH1/2, while expanding quickly in the former is encouraged, but self-sabotage in the latter as you need to level your characters appropriately. Eh...

Which titles did you play, out of interest?

OT - Weirdly, I can't play RTS's well despite loving the TW series, because the RT aspect messes with my OCPD (except the DoW series... 'cos 40K... -_- ).

JRPG's constitute the main genre I really wanted to get into but just couldn't/can't. Maybe platformers as well... I've only played/completed GRIS, but I got that game for psyke reasons, not for game reasons...

I think there are a few other games that kinda play like it, but I can't remember any of them right now.

I played a tiny bit of rome. I played shogun 2 and almost finished a run with the big sword guys, the emperor had declared everyone come get me, but by that point I had wiped out most of the clans or whatever could really threaten me. And I played Total War Warhammer, tried the dwarfs and vampire counts but just couldn't really get into it, might have been because I got it during a big sale and had other games I wanted to play more.

 

[happyninja42]

The 4X genre. I love the idea of such a massive scale game, but when I actually sit down and try and play them, I get really bogged down, and deflated by the insane amount of micromanagement needed to play them.

Games like Stellaris for example. Setting wise, it's right up my alley. Actual execution of it just makes my brain melt, and it just doesn't feel like fun for me. Too much work in my game I guess. *shrugs*

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

After playing some more of Tiberium Wars I think I know why I keep setting it aside. Even though I?ve gotten better at micromanaging all the different units along with base defense/repairs, it all just feels so....scatterbrained and impersonal. I like the idea of orchestrating a plan and seeing it being carried out well, but I?d still ultimately rather be one of the pawns down there on the battlefield than playing god from above.

 

[Kwak]

Point and click adventures or similar puzzle/narrative-based games.
Well, I've played and enjoyed them years before, but now I always scroll past and dismiss new entries because there's no real 'gameplay'. I think the increasing pace of modern culture has given me attention deficit disorder or something.