Your exception to the rule.

[Supernatural Girl]

I really dislike zombie based FPS games, but I like Left 4 Dead quite a bit.

 

[Captain Karma]

Deepest apologies if this has been discussed to death. It is something that interests me and I was looking to see what other people had to say.

Looking around, it is obvious that people tend to be partial to certain genres. After all, tastes will differ. But it seems that with most people I talk to, there are genres they do not care for either.

For me, that genre is FPS. I have played a lot of them from Doom to Quake 3 to Half-Life and on. While at times they were mildly entertaining, they never grabbed me like a good puzzle game or most fine RPGs do. It was not that I was bad at them, I just got a very limited amount of satisfaction from them. So when my brother suggested I give Fallout 3 a try, I was dubious. The only real reason I decided to dive in was because the story and setting was very interesting to me.

Pretty much immediately I was immersed into it. Unbelievably, it has become one of my favourite games. One of the best Christmas presents I got was the Game of the Year edition. Granted, there are some RPGlike aspects to it, but it is decidedly FPS in my book.

So! What games defy your own preferences? People who do not care for RPGs, is there an RPG you love? Sim haters, is there a sim title you can sink hours into?

Have you tried system shock of Stalker? I think you would like both of those if you enjoyed Fallout 3.
Btw, F3 is more of an rpg with shooter elements.
For me I have to say I absolutely hate real time strategy's soooooo much, but recently i happened upon Sins of a solar empire, and I've finally found an rts that actually is somewhat interesting.

Yeah, I understand that Fallout 3 classifies a lot more than just another FPS. However, I think it counts because the things I dislike about the genre usually (first person perspective, running around with a gun, ammo hunt) I not only did not mind, I actually enjoyed.

System Shock never did anything for me, but Stalker is not one I ever got to try.

 

[MR.Spartacus]

I have a general hatred of racing games but I played the hell out of Carmageddon. I'm not sure what it was about it but I had some fun with that one.

 

[bad_dog14]

I don't really care for RPG's and I never played them, but one day I bought LOTR: The Third Age cos I thought it was gonna be a hack n slasher. Turns out I was wrong. It was an RPG. An RPG with a good combat system, great story, great characters and great graphics. It's still one of my all-time favorite games ever.

 

[necromanzer52]

You have no idea how much I loathe turn-based combat systems and yet I love pokemon.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Well I generally don't like turn based games at all, but Mario and luigi I absolutely adored. For serious racing games, which I usually find insanely boring, f-zero gx is one of my favourite games ever.

 

[ThePantomimeThief]

I don't really like survival horror games (I get too frustrated at the 'find the magical yellow gem to fit into the hobo's shoe' stuff), but I really like Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

I usually have quite a disapproval of sports games, yet I absolutely love Blades of Steel for the NES as well as the Virtua Tennis series.