The genre you never really cared for

[Artina89]

I have never been a fan of MMORPG's mainly because of the time that you usually have to invest in the game to get good at it, which I have never had the time or the patience for really. I like to play a game, get swept along in the story and end it.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

I don't like sports games and I'm generally not a fan of fighting games. I've lost interest in RTSs too, prefer TBS stuff now. The only MOBA I've tried was LOL, and I didn't like that much either. So if they're all faiiirly similar then I probably just don't like MOBAs.

 

[Frokane]

whatever genre minecraft is

 

[freaper]

Sports and Racing. As a kid I did play me some Fifa and Need for Speed, but compared to other genres those two don't come even close.

 

[iwinatlife]

Woo for being the minority my favorite Genres being fighting(especially Soul caliber and Tekken), Turn based JRpgs, Action WRPGS,RTS, Grand Turn based strategy,Certain Sim games(sim city, harvest moon, The sims etc) MMOs, and MOBAs

OT:Not big on horror, Realistic Racing(I love Burnout), annnd sports

 

[felbot]

Ridiculously punishing games a la Super Meat Boy. Where's the fun when I'm just permanently dead?

you wouldn't be dead if you where better at them, just saying.

also there is a lot of people here who don't like fighting games, which is really weird to me, I know the escapist is filled with a bunch of casual gamers and such but I figured fighting games would be perfect for them.
apparently not.

anyway on topic, I would say rts but I kinda like some of them, I suck at them horrible but I still like wc3. I actually do despise sports games a bit but then I don't like real world sports anyway so its hardly a surprise.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

MMOs and simulation games are probably the big two genres I have no interest in. They both just cannot grab my attention in any meaningful way.

 

[Daveman]

Ridiculously punishing games a la Super Meat Boy. Where's the fun when I'm just permanently dead?

you wouldn't be dead if you where better at them, just saying.

Well obviously, but I also wouldn't be dead as much if they weren't so ridiculously punishing. Hence I dislike the genre.

 

[Fishcactus]

Horror. Horror, horror, horror, horror, HORROR. How anyone get get enjoyment out of it... *shudders*

The enjoyment is from not enjoying yourself

OT
Sports games: Sport has never appealed to me...ergo sports games do not appeal to me

MOBA's: The whole levelling during a match thing never appealed to me, and the lack of maps too

JRPG's: I hate turn based fighting, and most of Yahtzee's complaints about the genre mirror my own feelings

Modern realistic military shooters: I can see why people might like them, but...zzzzzz

To buck the trend, I don't mind fighting games. They're fun to play with your mates at the arcade...people still go to arcades...right?

 

[Robot Number V]

Sports games. Probably because I don't care about sports. Also, JRPGs, though to be fair, I don't have a whole lot of experience with them. And almost anything turn-based.[footnote]Except Civ 5, which is pretty awesome.[/footnote]

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 cup 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 from 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*

Far Cry 3 had swimmable water. As did Dishonored. And Skyrim.[footnote]You shoot bows and magic, it totally counts.[/footnote]

Just sayin'.

 

[Snownine]

There is only one genre I dislike and that is sports games like football and baseball. I find sports incredibly dull as is and the games based on them more so.

 

[SomebodyNowhere]

I'm not terribly fond of simulation racing or military shooter games, but probably because I'm horrible at them.

 

[romxxii]

I like fighting games. I'm not good at them, but practicing combos can be relaxing, and trash-talking with your friends while drunk is pretty fun.

What I cannot stand are RTS games and their bastard offspring, the MOBA.

 

[Snownine]

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.

Actually video games originated in the United States, not Japan. Though Japan has long been a big player, even before the video game crash of 83', and it was Japan that breathed new life into the hobby and is largely responsible for how most games are today.

 

[Dalisclock]

Sports games and Racing games. I don't hate them, but have no interest in either at all(Okay, except the orignal mario kart).

For the record, I don't care about sports on TV either so that might have something to do with it.

 

[Mr.Philip]

Turn-based rpgs, or really any games with turn-based combat, it's just boring.
Also games with an anime like art style, I don't like looking at them.

 

[Tyelcapilu]

2d platformers along the lines of mario and sonic (although 2d/2.5d shooters/fighters are exempt, such as castle crashers and terraria)
3d jrpgs
bullet hell
fps's attempting to be 'realistic', especially at the cost of user-friendliness (arma 2 is awful, why are people hyped about arma 3?)
sims games (if only because they cost way too much)
sports games
puzzle games
mobas (or should this genre be kept for the hate thread?)

 

[prophecy2514]

Real time strategy games. Whilst i'm not a huge fan of jRPGs or fighting games (which seem to be the couple of overwhelming choices of genre on here) I have enjoyed games in those genres in the past.

RTS - nope. the concept of it has never appealed as enjoyable to me at all.

 

[Captain Billy]

I've actually never been a huge fan of first person shooters. It's weird, I know, but I've never really found them entertaining.

 

[KerryBamBerry]

The only games it takes me a while to get into would be racing games or any sports game.
They just cant hold my concentration.