Games that make you feel insulted to be the target audience

[-Drifter-]

I don't like JRPGs at all, I positively loathe them; they cause me to wonder why people would enjoy them, but I'm not really the core target audience and once again, I'm not really insulted.

Again, that is generalizing quite a bit. I'm sure if you took the time to look you could find one you enjoy.

 

[-Drifter-]

I've noticed a few people are saying JRPGs in general. Try to be more specific. Name games, not genres.

 

[Guy32]

If someone can tell me a JRPG with these qualities I will play it, no question:
-real-time combat (but not a button masher)
-great story, that's not conveluted or overboard.
-characters that break the Japanese archetypes and are original.
-Not impossibly complex to play, but hard enough to take practice.
-Challenging difficulty, but not frustrating.
-good action, strong emotion, and decent writing/translation.

Is there such a JRPG? Cause I'll play it.

Well, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 on PSP comes to mind in terms of gameplay. I thought the story was pretty good too, but I'll admit that It had a lot of dialouge and cutscenes(You won't get much gameplay in until a hour or two in). And it's the Final fanasy 7 prequal, so the characters aren't original now, but they were in 1997.

Kind of non-JRPG: Theres also Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, which posessed almost no story, but If you had a friend with a gamecube-GBA cable, then the multiplayer was awesoooome

 

[Dottie]

I almost blew chunks when I saw this at my local game store recently and I was extremely offended.

 

[Aesir23]

Any Hannah Montana games and games specifically marketed to girls. It makes me ashamed to be female.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Try being a girl gamer in to days markets, its just SAD!

Like that? I'm a guy, and I feel bad...

 

[FROGGEman2]

Have you ever played, seen, or heard of a game that made you feel insulted to be the target audience? For example, Ninja Gaiden really pisses me off, because I feel like they think I'll buy the game simply because it full of blood, gore, and of course, ridiculously huge tits.
EDIT: Also, please state why. Don't just say the name of the game.

GEE YOU TOTALLY DIDN'T STEAL THAT OPINION HMM HMM WINK WINK

Anyway...

New Super Mario Bros. I know, I know, but halfway through I realized that this isn't a kids game, it is a game aimed at me. A relatively hardcore, fully-grown gamer.

Drove me nuts, it did. <---- Not Yoda, British Child.

~EDIT~

Oooh, 690 posts *chuckles*

 

[Aesir23]

Try being a girl gamer in to days markets, its just SAD!

Like that? I'm a guy, and I feel bad...

*eye twitch* Wonderful, I think I'm going to vomit just from looking at that picture. And it doesn't help when I already have the flu.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

*eye twitch* Wonderful, I think I'm going to vomit just from looking at that picture. And it doesn't help when I already have the flu.

It's like they didn't even try... I'm pretty sure that no one who works at Sony has ever met a girl.

 

[Chicago Ted]

6 replies and I have yet to see Kingdom Hearts... I'm amazed.

Ah yes, we all have no excuse for not mentioning that one...manipulating us with our childhood memories...

I liked them... I liked them a lot... I feel like I'm in the wrong place now.

 

[Chicago Ted]

Try being a girl gamer in to days markets, its just SAD!

Like that? I'm a guy, and I feel bad...

*eye twitch* Wonderful, I think I'm going to vomit just from looking at that picture. And it doesn't help when I already have the flu.

My god... As if you didn't get enough flak already.

 

[Aesir23]

*eye twitch* Wonderful, I think I'm going to vomit just from looking at that picture. And it doesn't help when I already have the flu.

It's like they didn't even try... I'm pretty sure that no one who works at Sony has ever met a girl.

Or at least they didn't try to get the opinion of anyone besides their 13 year old daughters.

Try being a girl gamer in to days markets, its just SAD!

Like that? I'm a guy, and I feel bad...

*eye twitch* Wonderful, I think I'm going to vomit just from looking at that picture. And it doesn't help when I already have the flu.

My god... As if you didn't get enough flak already.

What's sad is that there are girl gamers who will actually play those things.

 

[badgersprite]

Singstar. <_< I suppose I'm technically in their target market, but, seriously, I hate those games with a passion. And I resent certain members of my family for even considering buying me that.

And anyone who mentions anything about Barbie and a horse adventure is getting a shuriken to the face. =P

Give me Painkiller over 'Girl Games' anyday.

 

[Poopie McGhee]

That and Rumble roses and BMXXX (or whatever it's called)

 

[Axeli]

If I were japanese, I'd definately say JRPG's. I'd be embarrassed to say that my ethnicity is located within the achronism that represents such a terribly rotten genre. I have to say, I think JRPG's will someday be punishable to death, and death at the hands of a blue-haired, obnoxiously large sword-wielding, 12 year old boy.

 

[KurtzGallahad]

I was playing a "Free Online MMorpg" when to my surprise half of the players were bots walking around spruking P0rn sites, It's kind of offensive to think I'm in a demographic that is assumed to be obsessed with procreation.

 

[-Drifter-]

Have you ever played, seen, or heard of a game that made you feel insulted to be the target audience? For example, Ninja Gaiden really pisses me off, because I feel like they think I'll buy the game simply because it full of blood, gore, and of course, ridiculously huge tits.
EDIT: Also, please state why. Don't just say the name of the game.

GEE YOU TOTALLY DIDN'T STEAL THAT OPINION HMM HMM WINK WINK

I'm not sure where you think I stole the opinion from, so quit winking. It's making me more nervous than anything.

 

[-Drifter-]

If I were japanese, I'd definately say JRPG's. I'd be embarrassed to say that my ethnicity is located within the achronism that represents such a terribly rotten genre. I have to say, I think JRPG's will someday be punishable to death, and death at the hands of a blue-haired, obnoxiously large sword-wielding, 12 year old boy.

Agreed.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Evony wins hands down. Fuck Evony and fuck it's shameless exploitative advertising. They think I'm going to play it because the advertising has tits?!

Evony would be the game where all the advertisements are basically a woman's cleavage and something saying, "I'm waiting for you my Lord," correct?

Shameful is it not?

More than I thought, apparently.

Spoiler

Spoiler: Okay, come on. Really?

Theres actually one where she is fully naked except with her hands covering her breasts and you can't see her downstairs

 

[Jandau]

Try being a girl gamer in to days markets, its just SAD!

Actually, girl gamers have much more reason to be insulted because they're NOT the target audience, at least beyond the Barbie games, so it's essentially a double insult! Basically, they are mostly ignored by developers (insulting) and when they are targeted, it's an insult in its own right!