MOBAs, since they are entirely devoid of fun and liked by people with Stockholm Syndrome. Some others include MMOs, sports games, and JRPGs.
That one genre you will always HATE
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Racers because there are only so good you can get at holding down one button then occasionally holing down a second so you don't hit a wall.
Otherwise the Circus Genre can really bite it....i sucked at it (Charlie's Circus for the NES, look it up)
Otherwise the Circus Genre can really bite it....i sucked at it (Charlie's Circus for the NES, look it up)
This. If I want to play some sports, I'll call up some of my friends and coworkers and we can play. pretty easy since most of us like basketball in one form or another.Kailow Krow said:
Racing games also annoy me to no end.
I don't hate MMORPGs, but I do have a bunch of trouble getting into them.
I haven't really found a MOBA that I really find fun. Played LoL during the beta, got bored with it. Tried again about 6 months ago, still found it boring. Probably in large part due to the fact that I prefer playing with friends, and most of my friends are either A) not interested in MOBAs, or B) not fun to play competitive games with.
Most simulation games (Except for flight sims if done well) annoy me.
Captcha: Loaf of bread
No thanks, captcha, already did my grocery shopping this week.
Sports game. I've never understood the obsession with it in reality and I understand it even less in games. I mean, with sports in reality at least you're getting exercise, even if the money spent on them globally in a professional sense is frankly mortifying (imagine if we spent a year using that funding for, say, medicine). Not helping is the fact that many sports games are basically the same as last years, with a slightly updated graphic set perhaps and new roster. Unbelievable.
It's looking like a lot of the FPS's we've seen for next gen (KIllzone: Shadow Fall, for example) are gonna have much more wide, open areas with more freedom in how you tackle problems, which is only a good thing, the genre has been stuck in corridors too long!Neronium said:
OT: Hmmm. Well I generally find simulators hard to get into but thats too broad... I guess I'm not big on racing games, and not very good at fighting games and thus dont enjoy them often, but there's no genre that I have absolute hatred for.
No interest in MOBA's or MMO's though.
The more I think about it the more I realise that I am actually very very picky indeed.
Fighting Games; occasionally a passable distraction on split-screen, but to play solo, not a chance
Sports Games; once again, occasionally ok on splitscreen. My main issue with the genre is the people who play them; simply the most horrible communities in the gaming world, in game and in real life.
Racing Games; I just find them dull. The exception in combat-racers like Mario-Kart or Jak X, however I consider these to be a different genre.
MMORPGS; abhorrent communities, bland, grindy gameplay
MOBAs; abhorrent communities, overly long games and unegaging gameplay
Fighting Games; occasionally a passable distraction on split-screen, but to play solo, not a chance
Sports Games; once again, occasionally ok on splitscreen. My main issue with the genre is the people who play them; simply the most horrible communities in the gaming world, in game and in real life.
Racing Games; I just find them dull. The exception in combat-racers like Mario-Kart or Jak X, however I consider these to be a different genre.
MMORPGS; abhorrent communities, bland, grindy gameplay
MOBAs; abhorrent communities, overly long games and unegaging gameplay
Yeah stick some more money into Bioware that they can continue to waste on shitty games and shitty endings. EA put their money where it counts, and people pay for sports games, they are basically always top sellers, especially Fifa. And they ARE real games, whether you like them or not.Anthony Corrigan said:
Fucking elitists on this site with their "hur dur sports suck!"
Mech-related games.
I am not a fan of giant robots, having them as vehicles for humanoid players is fine but I don't like the idea of being exclusively a giant robot, I wish I did like them because I know some of them are good but I don't want to spend an entire game in a giant humanoid robot suit, I would rather play a human in a human suit.
Captcha: narrow-minded
I am not a fan of giant robots, having them as vehicles for humanoid players is fine but I don't like the idea of being exclusively a giant robot, I wish I did like them because I know some of them are good but I don't want to spend an entire game in a giant humanoid robot suit, I would rather play a human in a human suit.
Captcha: narrow-minded
JRPGs. Turn based combat means it's mostly luck and stats as opposed to skill. The character archetypes are annoying; it's always a damn child/childish-looking protagonist because "transition from innocence" and all that. There's at least five incarnations of the final villain, and the last one is always some giant incarnation of "Evil" or something. There's not one single JRPG I've enjoyed.
I don't really *hate* any one genre. I can usually bring myself to get some enjoyment out of every type of game.
I don't really care for a lot of elements of modern game design though, health regen, 2 weapons, hand holding, absolute avoidance of any trial and error. That kind of crap.
I don't really care for a lot of elements of modern game design though, health regen, 2 weapons, hand holding, absolute avoidance of any trial and error. That kind of crap.
RTS. Strategy is meant to be able to sit back and think it over. Have a coffee. Or shower. Or sex and/in shower. Lol.
Real strategy is for spider-like types of personalities, patient, plotting, devious.
RTS - an insult to call it strategy at all - is like badminton compared to chess. Lol. And yes, it's very satisfying to reload and kick some Mongol horde ass in Europa Universalis, if things go wrong.
Real strategy is for spider-like types of personalities, patient, plotting, devious.
RTS - an insult to call it strategy at all - is like badminton compared to chess. Lol. And yes, it's very satisfying to reload and kick some Mongol horde ass in Europa Universalis, if things go wrong.
Rape Sims
Because they give video games a bad image for those who don't know any better about how anything else has some ridiculous and bad application as long as there's people willing to do it.
Click-flicks
Because they spread an idea of video-games being lesser forms of entertainment and try to seek external approval as if the media needs that.
It's like that mother that makes awful food for their kids just so she can save the good stuff for when her pseudo-friends come over, or that teenager with self-image issues and so eager to not be seen as childish that keeps on doing the childish-est thing to do: care too much about what others think of him/her.
Because they give video games a bad image for those who don't know any better about how anything else has some ridiculous and bad application as long as there's people willing to do it.
Click-flicks
Because they spread an idea of video-games being lesser forms of entertainment and try to seek external approval as if the media needs that.
It's like that mother that makes awful food for their kids just so she can save the good stuff for when her pseudo-friends come over, or that teenager with self-image issues and so eager to not be seen as childish that keeps on doing the childish-est thing to do: care too much about what others think of him/her.
I would say Military Shooters, but as I've never actually played one I can't really say that. So I don't really hate Military Shooters in and of themselves, what I hate is the over saturation of them. That and the fact that publishers feel that every OTHER genre needs to be turned into a Modern Military Shooter. What's next? Call of Tetris: Modern Blockware?
I usually find some games in a genre that I like, but there are two exceptions:
JRPG's. I despise this genre with the fury of a thousand supernovas. The drama, the angst, the annoying characters, the visual design, the gameplay, there is NOTHING redeeming about this genre. The fact that my wife loves them only makes it more annoying.
MOBA. Tried them. Once. Hate it.
JRPG's. I despise this genre with the fury of a thousand supernovas. The drama, the angst, the annoying characters, the visual design, the gameplay, there is NOTHING redeeming about this genre. The fact that my wife loves them only makes it more annoying.
MOBA. Tried them. Once. Hate it.
RTS. When a strategy game can be won simply on who has the better mouse and keyboard, then it just seems like something is wrong. Strategy is about outthinking your opponent, not buying better equipment so you can perform your moves 0.5 seconds faster on average. Not to mention, the games tend to go one of three ways: 1). You get dominated so bad you have no hope of figuring out how to improve, 2). Even match that comes down to who has the better equipment, and 3). You dominate so much that you can just stare at the screen glaze-eyed in absolute boredom.
Tower Defense Hybrids. I don't mind regular tower defense games where you overlook your base and set out units to defend it, but all of these tower defense games that try to infuse elements from the FPS, action-adventure, and/or RPG genres are just awful in my opinion. The mechanics from the other genres generally aren't that good, and it very often goes into either the "unfairly difficult unless you play co-op" or "so easy you can pound your face into the keyboard and still win" camps.
Tower Defense Hybrids. I don't mind regular tower defense games where you overlook your base and set out units to defend it, but all of these tower defense games that try to infuse elements from the FPS, action-adventure, and/or RPG genres are just awful in my opinion. The mechanics from the other genres generally aren't that good, and it very often goes into either the "unfairly difficult unless you play co-op" or "so easy you can pound your face into the keyboard and still win" camps.
Any genre which gratuitously abandons single player in favour of competitive (or, in many cases, co-op) multiplayer. MMOs, MOBAs, 99% of FPSs... I'm a solitary gamer at heart. I like my games to have a worthwhile single player experience. Those are three genres that have actively shunned that idea in favour of having all content and worth generated by their online communities, which a) doesn't appeal and b) are usually toxic sputum. Don't get me wrong, I've loved FPSs in the past, but most of them now have little to no interest in single player storytelling. RTSs are just about on the right side of the line for now.
I'm okay with sports games, although I concede that they could perfectly scale down to alternating each year between actual new developmental progress and a roster-updating expansion pack (if it wasn't for the fact that they currently print money).
I'm okay with sports games, although I concede that they could perfectly scale down to alternating each year between actual new developmental progress and a roster-updating expansion pack (if it wasn't for the fact that they currently print money).