The genre you never really cared for

[DeltaEdge]

Since I have a fairly narrow range of interests, it would probably be faster to name the genre I did care for, as opposed to vice versa.
OT:
Sports Games - The only way I can hope to derive any sort of enjoyment from sports is from playing them physically. I never cared to watch other people play sports, and find watching major league sports to be incredibly dull and futile (No offense intended to those who like sports, they're just not my thing). And I find playing sports games akin to watching sports.

FPS Games - I generally suck at any kind of shooter game, and I often find that shooters are incredibly boring beyond belief. My dad's friend got me Mass Effect 2 for Christmas when he found out I had not played it, and I played it a few times since he was nice enough to get it for me, but I found it painfully boring beyond belief and was dying to reach a save point so I could turn the game off.

Racing Games - I really don't even like games like Mario Kart very much. They're not the worst thing ever, but they aren't really fun to me either.

RTS Games - I suck at them, and generally find them to be quite boring. I would literally be bored to tears if I was forced to play a game like Age of Empires or Civilization.

Simulation Games - I don't really find them to be enjoyable. The most fun I've ever had was back when I was around 7, and hanging out with my friend (also 7) and he was playing The Sims. The fun part was when I would convince him to gather all of the sims into a fixed location like a pool, and then detonate some dynamite and kill them all, and then watch the Grim Reaper come to reap their souls. ...I was a bit morbid now that I think about it. He just brought them back with cheats anyways. ..He was a pretty weird kid too now that I think about it. He had a mod to uncensor the sims when they were in the shower, so they would be nude and uncensored... And he was 7 years old. I had strange friends.

WRPGs - I just don't really like them. I think they are a bit boring. I prefer JRPGs because unlike a lot of people, I actually like melodrama and find them to be more engaging overall. (I'm ready for my beating now)

Fighting games to an extent. There are some that I like, such as Persona 4 Arena, and Skullgirls. And SSB if that counts.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

That would be sports games and most racing games.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

MMOs, especially the ones with monthly fees.

I just don't get it, why play the same damn game for years while so many other, fantastic, innovative stuff is passing you by? Play a game, experience a game, then go on to a new adventure! I just don't see the appeal. Then again, I don't get how some people can put hundreds upon hundreds of hours into the multiplayer of an FPS either...

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Most strategy games. Most sports games.

Strategy because I like to actually be IN the action instead of watching it take place. Why should the AI have all the fun?

Sports because, well, I'm just not into sports at all.

 

[-Seraph-]

I have pretty broad tastes and willing to try any genre really. I can find a game I enjoy from almost any genre, though there are a few I just have little interest in. I don't care for sim games, sports games, and any racing game that isn't Wipeout....everything else is fine with me.

I'd go as far as saying I loathe fighting games. A genre of games that are purely about violence and particularly shallow game play. Seriously, guys? Why do these still exist?

What?

OK I got no problem with people not liking fighting games, fine; they ain't for everyone. But to call the genre shallow is so horribly and factually WRONG it leaves me damn near speechless. Fighting games are one of the deepest game genres to exist up there with strategy games. It's a whole lot more then two dudes punching each other until one of their health bars is depleted.

 

[Darren716]

JRPG's for two main reasons; I can't stand turned based combat since I like a game where I feel like I have full control over my characters actions so I could do stuff like say dodge an attack or get a safe distance away from my enemy and kill them from afar, and also because their stories are horribly written most of the time and contain some of the most unlikable characters I have ever seen.

 

[Cry Wolf]

I have pretty broad tastes and willing to try any genre really. I can find a game I enjoy from almost any genre, though there are a few I just have little interest in. I don't care for sim games, sports games, and any racing game that isn't Wipeout....everything else is fine with me.

I'd go as far as saying I loathe fighting games. A genre of games that are purely about violence and particularly shallow game play. Seriously, guys? Why do these still exist?

What?

OK I got no problem with people not liking fighting games, fine; they ain't for everyone. But to call the genre shallow is so horribly and factually WRONG it leaves me damn near speechless. Fighting games are one of the deepest game genres to exist up there with strategy games. It's a whole lot more then two dudes punching each other until one of their health bars is depleted.

Purely about violence? how's that different from say...shooters? That is merely a surface level thing that is not the primary focus of the game funny enough, just a means to an end. But I'll let that pass, because that is more semantics than anything.

Right, because you can now give me an example of a fighting game that is deeper than its mechanics. Simply taking a position to the contrary does not make me wrong. As for shooters, those that are purely about the glorification of violence I still oppose. The difference is I can think of shooters that aren't about the glorification of violence. As for fighting games...

Yeah, no.

 

[OblivionSoul]

I love fighting games. Currently punishing myself with King of Fighters '96.

But OT, I hate strategy games and sports games. I really like having direct control of a character in game, and these don't allow for that. I'm also pretty much off first person shooters, (minus DX:HR and HL2).

 

[-Seraph-]

I have pretty broad tastes and willing to try any genre really. I can find a game I enjoy from almost any genre, though there are a few I just have little interest in. I don't care for sim games, sports games, and any racing game that isn't Wipeout....everything else is fine with me.

I'd go as far as saying I loathe fighting games. A genre of games that are purely about violence and particularly shallow game play. Seriously, guys? Why do these still exist?

What?

OK I got no problem with people not liking fighting games, fine; they ain't for everyone. But to call the genre shallow is so horribly and factually WRONG it leaves me damn near speechless. Fighting games are one of the deepest game genres to exist up there with strategy games. It's a whole lot more then two dudes punching each other until one of their health bars is depleted.

Purely about violence? how's that different from say...shooters? That is merely a surface level thing that is not the primary focus of the game funny enough, just a means to an end. But I'll let that pass, because that is more semantics than anything.

Right, because you can now give me an example of a fighting game that is deeper than its mechanics. Simply taking a position to the contrary does not make me wrong. As for shooters, those that are purely about the glorification of violence I still oppose. The difference is I can think of shooters that aren't about the glorification of violence. As for fighting games...

Yeah, no.

The depth of a fighting game lies entirely in its mechanics, just like strategy games, and hell even sports games. Not every game or genre for that matter needs to have an expressed depth in its story or characters and all that jazz because that is not the purpose of the game. These are games purely about 1 on 1 challenge, everything else is merely a secondary focus, because really...why are you playing a fighting game for the story? Those are nothing more than glorified tutorials and flavor text to give characters some personality.

The only real fighting game that actually glorifies violence is Mortal Kombat. Most other fighters put more focus on the spectacle of fighting and the competitive aspect of having two people outplay each other in what is essentially virtual boxing/wrestling ect..

You are still wrong in calling them shallow because you focus too much on the "violence" of the game, and not the mechanics at play. Really, calling Street Fighter or Smash bros "violent" is true on a superficial level, but people don't actually PLAY them for the violent aspect of them. These are games after all, where mechanics are generally the most important aspect of the game while everything else is generally a secondary purpose.

 

[Hyenatempest]

I'm really not into fighting games, even Smash Bro's can grate on me.

The sims. I find nothing about this game interesting, except setting up psychological horror stories for the characters. once a year.

Most RTS games, I play a few, but the vast majority of them always boil down to Throw your dudes at their dudes.

I don't want to get alot of hate for this, but I never really liked dark souls/demon's souls. I beat the fire giant thing in dark souls, and like 90% of the gargoyle things in the lake of fire afterwards, but I kinda just went back to tales of the abyss.

 

[The Funslinger]

I can enjoy any genre immensely except sports games and MOBAs.

 

[Grottnikk]

Fighting games because I suck at them.

Match 3 games because they bore the living shit out of me.

Point & click adventure games because the puzzles are too often very unintuitive.

Platformers because... well, I just don't find them fun :/.

 

[scorptatious]

Probably racing games. Really the only ones I enjoyed were the Mario Kart series, Diddy Kong Racing, and Crash Team Racing.

 

[Tom_green_day]

Can't enjoy fighters, not enough depth. I dislike pokemon (that's big enough to be a genre, right?) and find it annoying that people go so crazy about it and assume you don't play games unless you play pokemon games. Not too fond of adventure games either, some of them are just so illogical.

 

[lacktheknack]

I like RTS, I just can't do them. I'm not fast enough.

I'm proficient enough at military war shooters, I just don't like them.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Fighting games because they bore me to tears.

Sports games because they bore me to tears (except for racing games).

 

[The White Hunter]

First person Shooters. Don't get me wrong I still play them from time to time, but umm, yeah, not the biggest fan, at all. They've become far too simplistic in this day and age, and just not my coup of tea. I used to absolutely love games like Turok, Duke Nukem, Doom, and Golden eye, but all for reasons outside of the fact that you were in FPS view and shooting a gun. Now that's the selling point, and aside form running in hallways and shooting other people, there isn't much going on. Hell, even putting aside the retardedly simplistic level design and lack of puzzles, I don't remember the last new FPS that had swim-able water! That's how simple and boring these games have gotten, water is too advanced and colorful for them now.

And yeah, I blame CoD since most developers admit they are just trying to copy that formula, even if they aren't making FPS games! *CoughRE6Cough*

I think the last Military shooter with swimmable water would be Battlefield 3. But I couldn't say for sure.
I do like FPS's and play them a lot but I would love to see shake ups in the genre and things doing their own thing, Resistance 3 is a particularly special game to me...

OT: Ummm I struggle to get into RTS, but it's not unheard of I do enjoy Company of Heroes. Though it set me back 2 missions by not saving properly so now I cbfa.

I don't generally dive into western RPG's very well, except for things like TES that appeal to my love of exploring and sheer raw role-playery inspite of shitty combat.

I don't mesh well with 3rdPS because I generally find them to be like FPS's with a big dumb brown haired generic faced white guy blocking part of my damn view these days (fuckin' nathan drake...)

Racing games I don't do well with because I suck unless it's like Sonic & All Stars or Mario Kart, same with fighting games though I used to be GODLY at Tekken, I'm out practice and now I utterly suck at it unless it's Smash Bros.

Genres I like? FPS, JRPG, RPG, TBS, Platformers 2d and 3d, hack n slash, survival horror, etc.

 

[Ishal]

JRPG's... because JRPG's.

Yes video games came from Japan. Yes the first game I ever played was a Nintendo Mario game. There are some good ones... but 90% are garbage. This seems to be a trend from Japan, since 90% of anime seems to be crap as well.

I do like my share of Japanese games tho, and some are even JRPG's. Chrono Trigger, Skies of Arcadia, Dark Souls, Ace Combat Series, Megaman(X), Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Various Nintendo titles..

But c'mon man, Kingdom Hearts? Final Fantasy? Those kinds of games? The characters are just painful, actually painful to behold. The way they dress, the way they talk, what they actually say when they talk, the godawful college dropout existentialism plots. Its just too much. I guess I get why some people like them, they like being completely saturated.. no, drowned by all that stuff but it just ain't for me.

Oh and Sports Games. Not a fan of sports outside of games so don't care for them in videogames.

 

[thejackyl]

Fighting Games: Why spend time getting good at them when it's still possible to be beaten by an epileptic who is falling down the stairs?. Also, I'm not good at the personally.

Racing Games: As a side part to another genre, maybe. I liked some of the racing missions in GTA. But by itself it gets boring really quick.

Realistic Sports Games: I would rather go out and play the game myself. Also, it doesn't help that don't understand most sports enough to micromanage a whole team. I like NFL Blitz, and NBA Jam, but Madden and those can disappear and I wouldn't care.

 

[Henkie36]

Fighting games. It's just randomly mashing buttons, if you want to know what I'm on about just watch Yathzee's review of Soul Calibur 4. Sports games, like FIFA and PES never make me feel like I am in full control of what's happening, more like there is an element of chance involved, and chance in games (and I quote) ''always has it's pisspipes aimed directly at your breakfast cereal.''

Then there's rhytym, but I don't care for that because I suck at it.