I dislike classic shooting genre, i guess very repetitive. Only one title took my attention: Axelay.
Worthy mentions:
Genesis - Thunder force 3, Gaiares
SMS - R-type, Sagaia
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I dislike classic shooting genre, i guess very repetitive. Only one title took my attention: Axelay.
Worthy mentions:
Genesis - Thunder force 3, Gaiares
SMS - R-type, Sagaia
I don't end up playing games in a lot of genres, but that doesn't necessarily mean I dislike them (point 'n click adventures, FPS, Rhythm games). However, there are a couple of genres that leave me cold. Sports simulations and visual novels are the ones that spring immediately to mind.
There's probably more.
Hmm good question - I guess if I had to pick something it'd be FPS or Racing games (except for Road Rash series, Hang On, Outrun series) - never big into racing games.
If we are talking modern games definitely FPS (except Half-Life 2 that's amazing) and games like League of Legends - utter trash. :yuck:
Heavy simulation games (think Romance of the 3 Kingdoms), MOBAs (think league of legends), MMOs (with exceptions, like Guild Wars 2), Sports games, grind heavy RPGs with crappy battle systems, Text-based games, Digital Comics (except snatcher).
I mostly dislike sports games (like football/soccer/baseball etc) and JRPGs. Not really interested in the guitar hero/ rock band style games either.
MOBA: They seem like watered down RTS games to me.
MMOs: Too time-consuming.
Hack & Slash: Ninja Gaiden Black is the only game I've enjoyed from this genre.
FPS: I was never a big fan of FPS games to begin with, but I lost all interest in the genre in the past decade or so. I think that TimeSplitters is the last FPS I enjoyed.
Sim Racing: I absolutely love arcade racers like OutRun, Daytona, Scud Race, F-Zero and Burnout, but games like Gran Turismo and Forza bore me to death.
Sandbox shooters, they bore me to tears. Also puzzle and rhythm games are genres I've never had any time for.
This is for actual play time. As far as collecting goes, I'm easy.
Dislike:
Sim games. I'm speaking here of construction and management simulation, and those awful life simulation games.
Puzzle games.
Strategy games. (Some RTS's I can make time for)
Sim games.
Dance/rhythm type games.
Text adventures.
Management type sports games.
Most types of RPG's. Never really understood the appeal. I'll possibly make an exception for a few action RPG's.
Have I mentioned Sim games? :p Hate those with a passion.
How do people hate sim games?Quote:
Originally Posted by Thierry Henry
Rollercoaster Tycoon? I wasted like years playing that game... SimCity?
I agree that the SIMS is stupid... I go to work and pay bills in real life I dont want to do it in a game thanks.
- Strategy, and I don't care of what variety. I do not use strategy in my life, and I do not like games based around it.
- Sports. If you wanna play a sport, you could go outside a play. It's possible. Not for me, I don't know anything about sports, I'm a fuckin' nerd.
- Oldschool style RPGs where the gameplay consists of 90% menu navigation, generic hallways, and the only animation being character sprites that shake during battle. LAME.
- MMOs of any variety, especially sandbox. Ugh, give me some direction! Give me a goal! This is boring.
MOBAs took the one thing I liked the least about RTS (extensive micromanagement) and distilled it into a new sub-genre. In a sense I should be thankful for it since it removes much of the need to pander to that kind of demographic in the traditional RTS space.
FPS games, always hated them, always will. They're a disgrace to the game industry.
Then theres other genres that I don't hate, I just don't play them. Turn-based RPGs, hack-n-slashes, fighting games.
MOBAs.
I can't believe how popular these are. I gave DOTA2 a try a few times, and just couldn't get in to it. The reputation for toxic players in DOTA and LOL make me just want to stay away.
Modern military shooters
I like first person shooters, but I can't stand modern shooters anymore. The last 4 or so Call of Duty entries have been set in the present, or near future. I think CoD2k15 is going to take place in the near-ish future too! Battlefield and medal of honor have all been modern as of recently.
I like first person shooters, I just can't stand all of the modern military stuff.
Side note,
My electricity went off when I was typing that, but all the text was still there when I started back up. Hooray!
Doom? Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, Half-Life? I think not sir, I think not!Quote:
Originally Posted by azonicrider
I tried really hard to think of something and to be honest I like just about everything. The only exception I can think of is games like Guitar Hero. I dislike playing those because I play real guitar and find it much more satisfying to play my favourite songs with an actual guitar.
Other than that I think I like all genres, but obviously not all games.
I hope so. I want more "Seven Kingdoms 2" and less "Starcraft" as far as gameplay goes in RTS games. I want to use STRATEGY not compete in mouse dexterity.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeckoYamori
JRPGs.
In my opinion (yes, my opinion!) they are the most boring experience known to man, they have the same boring whimscal music that their fans claim is an 'amazing soundtrack', fucking children taking on the task of saving the world, artifically pad the length so it takes you half a pissing year just to get through the game, and normally every character has the same overwritten cliche of whiny little bitch who suddenly becomes awesome at swinging a sword so long as you happen to stand near a rat or something.
No fucking thanks.
Modern FPS and Guitar Hero and rhythm games are all I can think of that I have no love for.
Yes, I do have more respect for the classics.Quote:
Originally Posted by WarmSignal
I want to like all games genres and I'll give any game a try. Still though some I really can't get into. I love JRPG's but add that grid and turn it into a strategy RPG and I'm out. Just can't do it.
Not a big fan of beat-em-ups generally. Many are just variations on a stale formula: walk right, punch 2 baddies to death, walk right, punch 3 more baddies to death, rinse, repeat. I can think of a few that I liked (Streets of Rage and Golden Axe series are excellent of course) but many more that become monotonous as hell halfway through (Maximum Carnage, Double Dragon, etc.) Just generally not my cup of tea.
Even Shining Force?! :eek::eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Iron Lizard
Especially Shining Force. I keep trying but I just can't get into them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chimaera
There is an exception to literally every genre that I dislike. I'll list the ones I dislike most followed by both the exceptions and the most despised.
Life Sims:
-Good Example: Animal Crossing, and to a lesser extent, Harvest Moon.
-Bad Example: Farm Simulator 2015, most of those horribly dated flight sims across the years, The Sims for being too frantic.
Rhythm Games:
-Good Example: Space Channel 5 and it's sequel. And to a lesser extent, PaRappa and Lammy, although it was mostly for the style and music.
-Bad Example: Bemani and Guitar Hero.
Sports & Racing:
-Good Example: Mario Tennis, Mario Kart, OutRun
-Bad Example: Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, Madden
Puzzle:
-Good Example: Fixed solution games like Sokoban, Lolo, Lemmings, etc. (less replayable, but still enjoyable imo).
-Bad Example: Tetris and its derivatives, and to a lesser extent, Puyo Puyo
MMOs:
-Good Example: Real life, Uninstaller program on your PC
-Bad Example: All of them
Ugh, life sims...I'd forgotten about them, It seems everything these days has a 'sim' game based on it. What's next, Sewer Worker Simulator?
I dislike most sports games, particularly football; though I have enjoyed the occasional sports title (NBA Jam and World Series Baseball come to mind).
What I ubiquitously dislike is the gimmicky shovelware Nintendon't is known to spew. It's the kind of stuff that made me lose hope for current gen gaming for a very long time.
Stealth games.
Non-arcade/early sports games.
Many sim-type games.
Not crazy about puzzle games.
RPGs. I tried some of them, but the endless grinding and repetition, with little reward beyond story text makes them not worth my time. The actual gameplay seems paper-thin. If I want a good story, I'll read a book. I do enjoy SRPGs like Shining Force. They at least keep your mind active.
I also don't have interest in MMOs or League of Legends type games either.
Beyond that, there aren't too many genres I turn my nose up at. I tend to appreciate games that challenge your dexterity more so than your creativity/strategy.
Sports games and 'serious' racers like Gran Turismo and the like. I like my racing games to be arcadey and more so, fun.
That's not true. Take football, for example. Played it in school, loved it. But it's a very organized sport requiring at least 21 other guys, referees, etc. You have to be really good for a chance to play in college. And you have to be amazing to get into the NFL. Even then, most guys only last a season or two in the pros. Believe me, I would rather play in the NFL than on my Sega Genesis but it's just not possible. I have played flag football as an adult but it's not even close to the same thing. But okay, you admit knowing about sports, I appreciate that.Quote:
Originally Posted by WarmSignal
Types of games I don't care for:
RPG's
Puzzle games
Rhythm games -- not just the music stuff, I'm talking about anything requiring a lot of "tapping" like Track & Field
Top-down space shooters -- again, a lot of rapid button pressing, just not my thing
NBA Jam / NFL Blitz type games -- only because they always include "catch-up" logic for the computer if you get ahead, causing you to fumble or the computer to make impossible plays just to keep the games close. If these kinds of games played fair, I would probably like them okay.
But my #1 most disliked of all: kart racing games. I just about get ill when people call these things the "best racing game ever". :mad::mad::mad:
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Originally Posted by Bones Justice
:mrgreen:
How do you guys feel about quirky games like Seaman or Panic? I don't even know what genre those are in but I love those weird games.
I love turn based RPGs so long as the characters aren't JRPG to a fault - aka Final Fantasy (has super lame whiny kid characters imo). It's why I always loved Phantasy Star so much more - it's somehow not childish and I might be forgetting but I don't remember any whining especially from the main characters
I'm not mad keen on turn based RPGs, I only have one - Pier Solar. The only other one I have, and really enjoyed a lot is Panzer Dragoon Saga; not worth its ridiculous price tag, but I'm glad I shelled out.
^ This, my sentiments exactly. I hate those darn RPG's that fights take 1 or 2 hits at the time :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by Thierry Henry
The only turn-based games that I have played a lot are Tactics Formula (Saturn) and UFO (Playstation). Both are great games. A friend of mine had this game called Renegade Legion for his computer that was fun, too.
I can remember playing several boardgames as a kid that would probably be fun as videogames. One of my older relatives had an old racing game called LeMans that was great. It was from the sixties or something. :mrgreen:
The worst:
-JRPGs
-Anything that relies heavily on cinematics, cut scenes, QTEs, set pieces.
-Almost anything that has anime aesthetics. Especially "waifus" and little children with skimpy outfits. Or overcomplicated outfits and ridiculous hairstyles.
My favorite:
-FPS games with the DOOM/Quake 1 school of level design (labyrinths, complex architecture, key hunting, traps, getting lost, etc)
-Metroid/Metroidvanias.
-Survival Horror (Silent Hill 1,2,3, Old skool RE, Alien Isolation)
Modern Millitary Shooters
Exception: Gears of War
Weird indie garboil
I dislike most fighting games and sports games, except NHL games.
I tend to dislike most sports games (I do like more arcade-y ones)
I tend to dislike most 1st person shooters (I do like some of the older ones, and I tend to like the more far out ones like FC Blood Dragon or Drunken Robot Pornography). I used to really like platformers, but they're so overdone nowadays with the super difficult aesthetic that it's started to turn me off.
My favs are really good puzzle games and SHMUPS (when I was a lad, we called them "shooters"). I really enjoy twin stick shooters of most stripes. I dig racing games, rhythm games, good RPGs (they have to have a hook) and pretty much anything with arcade style action. Fighting games I can really take or leave for the most part... but again, if there's a strong enough hook, I'm down. I do dig quirky games (as long as we're talking good quirks). I like strategy games and tower defense games when they're good.
I don't really play a ton of RPGs or sims anymore simply because I don't have a ton of time.
Seven Kingdoms 2 is such an amazing game. A shame there are hardly any games that follow that formulaQuote:
Originally Posted by Kamahl