No Right Answer: Most Uninteresting Game Genre

[Rituro]

Blood Bowl - American Football, with Orcs, Ogres, Zombies and Demons! In turn based! Near zero reality!

Bingo. This was the first thing that flew into my mind when Dan started ranting about unreal sports. I guarantee you that nobody is going to turn off (or stand up from, since, y'know, tabletop game and all) Blood Bowl, go outside and chainsaw a mutated rat to death.

That said, as soon as that happens, boom, I'm there.

My last point on sports games: Football Manager. I am addicted to it. I love that game to pieces. I'm not sure if that helps or hinders Dan's argument but hot damn, I could scour the dregs of England for decent players all day long.

 

[MorganL4]

Kyle loses because of Top Gear on the SNES and Burn Out Revenge on the 360.
Those are awesome games
And mind you, BO: R had great (and evnetually super difficult) racing in it, without the crashing of opponents.
And that STILL was fun!!!

Dude! you had me all excited for a moment there.... I thought they had taken the show Top Gear and made it a videogame.... then I read "SNES" and went OH.... its 20 years old. NVM.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

My family is a bunch of petrol heads, they would be flipping to see that racing was considered separate from sports in this debate, they're always correcting me.

Also, as others have pointed out, Blood Bowl, Twisted Metal, Wipeout and other games cure that itch about having something different in them.

 

[Elijah Newton]

I've always wondered why iterative racing games - like Forza, which I adore despite the franchise-killing threat of DLC - don't release even a halfway decent gun mod. Speaking from the almost pure innocence of someone who has no idea what's going on under the hood it seems like something which should be really easy to implement.

And not just guns, but all the James Bond-y / Car Wars bits. Oil slicks, caltrops, etc etc.

I understand why cut-rate racing games add these items in to give themselves some depth because they can't compete as straight racers, but man I'd love to see a solid racing engine go low brow.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

I think racing games are a bit more interesting for people who don't like racing than sports games are for people who don't like sports. But racing games have become pretty dam boring. Burnout was the best racing franchise till Paradise killed it.

 

[loa]

If you wanna play a sports game you can't play in reality.
Well,
play league of legends. Team fortress 2. Killing floor. Starcraft (2).
Or any other game ever made, really.

 

[Gorrath]

But ... I like sports games. And MarioKart is awesome. Both wrong!

Greg

Don't leave us hangin' Greg, what genre or two would YOU pick to be the most boringest thing ever?

 

[mrpollio]

Deathrow was a fantasy sports game on the original Xbox and was fantastic as well. Except facing the demon or ninja teams. Jerks.

Never got the credit it deserved.

 

[Firefilm]

But ... I like sports games. And MarioKart is awesome. Both wrong!

Greg

(Sheepishly) yes sir. Sorry sir.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Check out this game http://nextcargame.com/. There's your "car game" that isn't uninteresting

 

[Rad Party God]

Hmmm... I LOVE sports and racing games... BUT... I love the unrealistic ones.

I love F-Zero GX, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (actually better than any Mario Kart) and NBA Jam.

 

[Ticklefist]

I tend to burn out on racing games quickly. Within 10 hours and well before I've completed the game's basic set of races and challenges. However, on the rare occasion I buy a sports game, I easily get 100 or more hours out of it.

 

[Shjade]

That ending might have been the first time No Right Answer got me to actually laugh aloud. Oh Dan, you and your mixed up game titles.

 

[UNHchabo]

But racing games have become pretty dam boring. Burnout was the best racing franchise till Paradise killed it.

Have you looked at Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit? Developed by Criterion, and it became my new favorite racing game after playing it, taking the position from Burnout 3.

I understand why cut-rate racing games add these items in to give themselves some depth because they can't compete as straight racers, but man I'd love to see a solid racing engine go low brow.

Aside from NFS:HP, which I would recommend to you as well, there's NFS:Shift, which uses realistic racing physics, and there are no powerups or anything, but it takes Touring Car Racing as its inspiration, so it fully encourages you to play dirty. You get points for hitting your opponents, spinning them off the road, and so on.

On that note, check out Top Gear's tribute to Touring Car Racing:
http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/50-years-of-btcc

 

[Vivi22]

Sports game of a sport that doesn't exist? Why not combine it with driving?

 

[krogothwolf]

Mutant League Football
Mutant League Hockey

Greatest Sports Games Ever Created.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Mutant League Football
Mutant League Hockey

Greatest Sports Games Ever Created.

They were much better than Bill Lambier's combat basketball, that's for sure.

 

[Agayek]

Bingo. This was the first thing that flew into my mind when Dan started ranting about unreal sports. I guarantee you that nobody is going to turn off (or stand up from, since, y'know, tabletop game and all) Blood Bowl, go outside and chainsaw a mutated rat to death.

It's a video game now too, as of 3-4 years ago

 

[Darth_Payn]

YES! CLAVINBALL! I want to play that so much now! But, if a video game were to be made of that and stayed true to the spirit of CalvinBall, it would never be finished. Or a new game mode and stuff would have to be DLC released every other week.

Damn I miss NBA Jam and NFL Blitz. I'm also remembering a game called NHL Hitz(?) and I'm guessing they probably made one for MLB and other sports as well. At least those weren't so constrained by reality.

Also, I'm kinda disappointed they didn't mention Twisted Metal when the discussion turned to car combat.

Seems like most people play video games to get away from reality, not be held back by what is "realistic".

"Realistic"- exactly what's wrong with most FPS's nowadays.

 

[Charli]

Hmmm... I LOVE sports and racing games... BUT... I love the unrealistic ones.

I love F-Zero GX, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (actually better than any Mario Kart) and NBA Jam.

I love me some All-stars Racing Transformed too, and I think on the whole I've had better experiences with racing games... I just... can't get into the sport game genre no matter where and whom I attempt with.

But both are genre's I don't usually delve into, which is weird, you'd think being a WoW Raider I'd be all over the teamwork, perfecting of stats and parts aspect... but nada.

I guess seeing the people who usually play them... (No offense meant, but hooting, gorilla-like men who look like they had testosterone Wheaties for breakfast. And look ready to pummel someone if they lose. I'm just the tiniest bit... put off when that's all I've been exposed to and had only my PC to scratch my gaming itch while I let that carry on.)