Game genres you don't understand

[Sir_Montague]

Mmm... never will fully appreciate RTS in my life... Never will understand fully the appeal behind a sports game... But really I will never enjoy kiddie games... Especially learning games. Just so tired of that area and never really understood what motivated people to make those types of games... Granted, I love puzzle games and games that have an underlying purpose of fun, so I don't really know...

 

[Hyper-space]

Sports games I don't think I will ever get because I'm not a hardened fan of any sport.

im not much of a sports fan either, but still, doing complex ball passing and then scoring a kick ass goal is pretty exhilarating, so maybe you should try it out.

I guess the whole appeal of sports games is to let the player experience something that they couldn't otherwise achieve themselves, for example: Being the best player in the NBA league or win the world championship in football. Basically give you a false sense of achivement.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Racing games that don't have machine guns or some kind of weaponry in them. I just don't follow the appeal if there isn't the occasional missile involved.

That is why racers like wipeout, F-Zero, and mario kart are a boat load of awesome and exceptions to it. I hate racing games as well that are just well...normal.

I never liked sports games either...bores the shit out of me.

Only 2 genres that I can't ever enjoy aside from the exempted racing games.

Try twisted Metal 2 on the the playstation

Absolutely. Twisted Metal 2 was fantastic. The above is right, methinks. I'm sure there is some appeal in racers for some people, but I'm not one of them, unless said racer is insane. Example: Burnout. The entire series is fantastic, and the premise is inspired, from a casual, nothing-to-do-so-switch-on-the-Playstation point of view. Drive fast with nice cars, then smash them up against other cars. Pointless, brutal and, above all, fun.

 

[speedcoreXdandy]

I can understand the appeal of nearly every type of game, even if I don't like them (Eg: MMORPGs, FPSs with maybe 5 exceptions)

However there is one I have never and probably will never understand, Train simulators. I mean why? All you can do is speed up and slow down, you can't even choose which way you go!

 

[hagaya]

Confusing question. Is it what I don't understand about the genre and what makes it fun? If so: MMOs. Grind, Grind, click, click, red bull, red bull. What is so exiting? I can see how people get sucked into it, but I don't see how they can keep it up when they ask themselves if they really have any fun? Okay so maybe there are a few turn ons to it, but I don't really see what $15 a month can do to justify that.

Is it an aspect that I don't understand about a specific genre? If so: the Modern JRPG. Whatever happened to the first six Final Fantasies? They were good games and although number IV was a bit of a warning sign of the emo age, It still kept things lighthearted and not trying to kill itself with a gigantic sword. Not that there was anything wrong with the ORIGINAL Final Fantasy VII, most of its fanbase hasn't even played the original game; it is completely different than what it lets on to be nowadays. FFIX was a trip down memory-and-good-game lane because it had human beings that knew what a smile was as main characters.

Now laboriously trying to end my post without talking too much (fail); what happened to JRPGs? Well, it was about the time of Advent Children that people started saying "hey, FFVII was the best so lets all Imitate it!!" and that was basically it for the genre.

 

[Baby Tea]

jRPGs

How are people born when quite obviously, the women are surrounded by completely homosexual men.

Gotta agree. I have tried time and again to like them. The last one I touched was Lost Odyssey for the 360. I made it through the first disc because I was bored. But the moment disc 2 loaded up, my shoulders sort of slumped forward and I said "no f***ing way."

The stories are atrociously cliched, hopelessly convoluted and very very cheesy. And yes, this goes even for the latest instalments in the Final Fantasy franchise. I own both a PS3 and a 360 and I don't think I'll be picking it up for either system.

I also have a hard time understanding how people can dedicate months of their lives to playing games like World of Warcraft, where you're paying someone for the privilege of toiling in a digital slave pit.

I love Western RPGs - enjoying Fallout 3 and Fable 2 right now - along with the odd shooter fest like Call of Duty 4. I've also got a major soft spot for Epic and their goofy, dumb, but incredibly fun Gears of War series.

This to the Nth degree.

JRPGs and MMOs I'll never get. I played WoW for a while, got bored around level 43ish. All my friends who were hardcore would tell me 'The REAL fun is at the end!'. So I have to go through HOURS of crap before it gets good? Yeah, screw that. JRPGs are the same way. As DangerChimp pointed out: Cliched stories, way too mellow dramatic dialogue, and the longest cut scenes, and the least fun gameplay (for me, I guess).

Give me a good 'ol fashioned western RPG! And by that I mean: Pretty much anything by Bioware. Sweet.

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

I watch a few animes and it helps me to generally understand what's going on with Jrpg's and I have to say there are a few diamonds out there like Golden Sun and The World Ends With You (Yahtzee hates Jrpgs and even he said it wasn't terrible) so I'd suggest trying these as opposed to the mediocre ones out now.

 

[sheic99]

Simulators as in, Flight simulator, Train simulator etc
Don't get it and won't ever.

Granted I like Need for Speed, but that's not realistic a bit.

Hey there is some use to playing Flight Simulator. Some guy stole a private plane for 20 minutes, landed and took off again. The second time he tried to land he crashed it. The guy never flew a plane before in his life.

 

[Vlane]

I can understand the appeal of nearly every type of game, even if I don't like them (Eg: MMORPGs, FPSs with maybe 5 exceptions)

However there is one I have never and probably will never understand, Train simulators. I mean why? All you can do is speed up and slow down, you can't even choose which way you go!

Train simulators actually exist? I thought that it was just a joke.

 

[Axolotl]

Sports Games never really clicked with me.

Also I find that RPG's despit being my favorite genre, I hate most of them even the ones that recieve universal praise utterly disgust me.

 

[Doug]

JRPGs and MMOs I'll never get. I played WoW for a while, got bored around level 43ish.

MMORPGs - important distinction when the day comes that MMOFPS's really work, and MMORTS' extend beyond EndWar's online campaign....

At least... I hope so! Grind ain't fun! And a grindless MMORPG can exist if you make it a REAL roleplaying game, perhaps like the social MUDs of old.

 

[cainx10a]

Sport games/Guitar Hero games. I mean, wouldn't it be easier to go outside and play soccer, baseball and basketball. Or pick up any musical instrument and attempt to learn how to play them.

Sport management games on the other hand are pretty fun.

 

[Doomhammer828]

Sports games except for SSX and SSX Tricky

 

[Pyrrian]

Everyone has a genre they don't understand what's so great about it and so it doesn't bring any interest.

Personally mine are RTS, Sports, scrolling shoot em ups and Fighting games.

Okay, so on some level I love all of those you've just mentioned, barring maybe RTS.

I love sports games becuase they're so absurd. Particularly football and soccer games, and especially when I can create a team of super mutants and just aim for high scores. The associated silliness will keep me entertained for months! I also like sim racing games (sort of a sport subset) because I just like cars, and it's particularly fun to play games where your margin of error is small. Which brings me to...

Shmups (particularly vertical) are incredibly rewarding. They tend to be short, but trying to be (and maybe even succeeding at being) good at these is all sorts of fun. Just to replay some particularly hairy situations in my head is always neat, or trying to strategize around certain patterns.

Fighting games are good times, though I feel Street Fighter Alpha 3 was my own personal favorite. There's something incredibly technical there, but the combos are all much more managed, so you aren't seeing those silly 80 hit combos all over. It feels well balanced on the speed/combo side, and rounds aren't incredibly long.

It's hard to say what genres I don't understand, because there's an example of almost every genre that I like. Maybe party games and the standard JRPG would be my least favorite. There are JRPGs I like, but I almost always feel like these games are just hopped up adventure games with lamer stories, crummy (or absent) puzzles, and the added bonus of a bunch of boring combat. Party games seem... too simple. It seems like board games do the whole "party game" thing, but they offer better action and more flexible rules (if you are interesting in modifying play). Stuff like Risk, Scrabble, and Monopoly have game equivalents, anyhow, and that's the sort of "party game" I like to play.

 

[The_Deleted]

Stealth.
Apart from Deadly Shadows they all just bore the crap out of me.

 

[sheic99]

I watch a few animes and it helps me to generally understand what's going on with Jrpg's and I have to say there are a few diamonds out there like Golden Sun and The World Ends With You (Yahtzee hates Jrpgs and even he said it wasn't terrible) so I'd suggest trying these as opposed to the mediocre ones out now.

Golden Sun was one of the best jrpgs I ever played. That was one of the three Jrpgs that I have ever beaten.

Edit: Jrpgs and MMORPGs are the genres I just can't play for long.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

"Frag FPS" - Where all you do is frag frag frag/kill kill kill just to inflate your e-penis. (One reason why I hold up BF2 as the best FPS ever).

 

[xitel]

Sports games. First off, they make a new one each year instead of just updating the old version with new rosters. Second, if you're going to play a sport, get off your ass and play the freaking sport!

 

[Bocaj2000]

Never understood games like GTA or Saints Row. Yeah they're fun for 15 minutes, an hour at most then I get board and do something else. I'd sure as hell not buy any of them; they're rentals at best.

I usually enjoy JRPGs. Lost Odyssey was quite good. There were puzzles, good looking combat, and it was a good overall challenge. Hell, it was a 4dvd epic.

Sadly, most JRPGs follow the same pattern of men under 25 acquiring superpowers and over sized weapons fighting monsters so huge that they can kill you with their little toe. Finding a good JRPG is hard, but with enough searching, it can be found. If it's well done, it's well done, and only a prick would argue otherwise.

Also, I also have never understood games where you do nothing but drive. No explosions; no rockets; no land mines[Streets of Sim City =D]; just driving quickly from 'a' to 'b.' Pluh.

MMOs I enjoy. WoW isn't bad. If it was, it wouldn't be as successful as it is. Cmon, before WoW every RPG fan was thinking, "what if I could go questing with my friends... or better yet, if everybody could play with each other in the same world [of warcraft]." If it's an issue of not liking RPGs, that's one thing, but if it's the RPG with other people problem, then get out more.

 

[ZantetsukenQ]

Hentai dating sims. I guess someone had to say it. I can't see the appeal although a lot of Japanese adolecents do