Games that you just won't play?
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Eh, nothing wrong with it. Personally i can find value in both over the top japanese aesthetics, and more grounded western visuals as well. I can play Tales of Xillia or Dodonpachi Saidaioujou, then turn around and play The Last of Us, or God of War. Not everyone else can, and thats fine. It would be boring if everything were the same anyway.NearLifeExperience said:
Fair enough.Zhukov said:
Personally, I love Okami, but it's also very heavily steeped in Japanese mythology, so it may very well not be "for you". Dunno if I'd really recommend it to you considering your preferences, but I do think it's worth giving a shot just in general.
I stay away from sports and racing games mostly because they don't interest me.mohit9206 said:
I specifically stay away from COD on principle - BLOPs was the final straw for me because I hate the militaristic bollocks and general infantile apologism of that series. And given some of the crap they apparently did for BLOPS 2, and what it looks like Ghosts is gonna be like, I feel somewhat vindicated!
I liked Modern Warfare 1, but after that the whole franchise went down the sewer as far as I'm concerned.
Also, GTA (and the mirror-image in the form of Sleeping Dogs). I don't really have anything against them, but could never get into the gameplay - and the attempts create character development and a story seemed kinds of futile. If I want an utterly absurd crime sandbox game I'll play Saints Row, and if I want a more serious one I'll play... iunno, Far Cry or Stalker or something. GTA has always struck me as too compromising to be very good at anything.
Entirely agree with this, though with the caveat that it isn't all Japanese games, it's just that particular overdone anime-ish aesthetic (which also covers more westernised stuff like Kingdom Hearts). I liked Shadows of the Colossus precisely because it was understated - which makes it somewhat frustrating that you don't see more games like that because they seem to get elbowed out of the way by Final Fantasy CMXIV or whatever.Zhukov said:
- MMO's and other strictly online games
- Racing games
- Sports games
- Pokemon
It seems the only prominent titles to come out of Japan these days are the crazy for the sake of crazy games, like Bayonetta or Suda51's stuff. I honestly can't think of a single current gen Japanese game that has made a long lasting empression on me. Except for Metal Gear Solid 4, but that was for the opposite reason entirely.
- Racing games
- Sports games
- Pokemon
If you had said this back in the PS2 era I would've said you were crazy, but currently...Zhukov said:
It seems the only prominent titles to come out of Japan these days are the crazy for the sake of crazy games, like Bayonetta or Suda51's stuff. I honestly can't think of a single current gen Japanese game that has made a long lasting empression on me. Except for Metal Gear Solid 4, but that was for the opposite reason entirely.
ANY game with "glitch hunting" as a feature. A good story and/or solid and simple gameplay mechanics is how I judge the quality of a game, but above all else, the game must f*cking work. I don't like buying broken products. So, most modern sandbox games immediately enter the *NEVER BUY THIS* category.
That and games that require button mashing, arthritis makes action games like God of War, Bayonetta etc. shooters and fighters a tad hard to play.
That and games that require button mashing, arthritis makes action games like God of War, Bayonetta etc. shooters and fighters a tad hard to play.
Sports games, as in the realistic kind like madden, mlb, fifa, etc. Those are incredibly boring to me, just like the real life counterparts.
Grand Theft Auto, I have no interest in those games. I'm not going to say they are bad, I just have zero desire to try them.
MMOs of any kind, I prefer single player far over multiplayer, and I considering most if not all MMOs are on PC, I don't have the ability to play them anyway.
Grand Theft Auto, I have no interest in those games. I'm not going to say they are bad, I just have zero desire to try them.
MMOs of any kind, I prefer single player far over multiplayer, and I considering most if not all MMOs are on PC, I don't have the ability to play them anyway.
For me, its mostly the following:
-sports games
-MMOs (I've always been more of a singleplayer guy)
-Dota-styled games (I tend to prefer using a controller over a keyboard and mouse)
-Multiplayer-only shooters (see MMOs)
-most military shooters (besides playing my friend's copy of the newest Call of Duty via split screen multiplayer)
-sports games
-MMOs (I've always been more of a singleplayer guy)
-Dota-styled games (I tend to prefer using a controller over a keyboard and mouse)
-Multiplayer-only shooters (see MMOs)
-most military shooters (besides playing my friend's copy of the newest Call of Duty via split screen multiplayer)
Actually, Resident Evil 4 did popularized the over-the-shoulder camera. CliffyB, before he left Epic Games, said that title was why Gear of War had the over-the-shoulder third-person camera.Zhukov said:
I don't like competitive games. I do sometimes play them, though.
DOTA and the like are not my thing, though.
FPAnything for the most part.
DOTA and the like are not my thing, though.
FPAnything for the most part.
DOTA style games
I've played a bit a LoL when i was still a student. While some aspects of it is fun, ultimately I couldn't get the fun out of it: Matches are always long, often drawn out, it requires constant playing to keep your skill level afloat, the community is probably one of the worse i've ever witnessed, may the players be good or bad it doesn't matter. Ultimately, even after I won some games it still left me bitter.
Also I don't know why exactly but a lot of AAA stuff across the board: the gears series, uncharted, god of war. I don't like most of microsoft stuff but it's weird, I like a lot of sony game but their main triple A line doesn't really appeal, except maybe that new infamous. Also last of us was really good for me and killzone is getting more interesting too.
I've played a bit a LoL when i was still a student. While some aspects of it is fun, ultimately I couldn't get the fun out of it: Matches are always long, often drawn out, it requires constant playing to keep your skill level afloat, the community is probably one of the worse i've ever witnessed, may the players be good or bad it doesn't matter. Ultimately, even after I won some games it still left me bitter.
Also I don't know why exactly but a lot of AAA stuff across the board: the gears series, uncharted, god of war. I don't like most of microsoft stuff but it's weird, I like a lot of sony game but their main triple A line doesn't really appeal, except maybe that new infamous. Also last of us was really good for me and killzone is getting more interesting too.
Never really played any of those either. DotA and LoL style games often seem to suffer from asshole communities, Minecraft is too loose and open for me (though I did like Terraria) and TF2's style isn't really my thing.mohit9206 said:
Other games I just won't play:
- Never saw the appeal of Pokémon games.
- Brawlers. I don't like twitchy reflex and memorize combo games.
- Subscription based MMO's. I don't want to keep paying for one game.
- Sports games. Just not that into professional sports, plus most of them look cheap and crappy.
- Racing games, though I used to play them a lot when I was about 12.
I can certainly understand where you're coming from, even though some of my favorite games are Japanese. There are a few exceptions, like the ones you mentioned, but the past years (hell, the past decade) Japanese games have been a bag of fail in general.Zhukov said:
I have never played a COD game in my life, not even for five minutes or so around a friends house. I stopped enjoying FPS games set in the modern era around the time the original Operation Flashpoint was going out of fashion. I knew COD originally as the "other" series of games that were always centred around World War 2 but never had any interest as I played Medal of Honor back then and it seemed to just be the same kind of thing.
Then I was late to the Xbox 360 party and everybody was playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare but by that point the setting was no longer interesting to me. I never played it, nor any of the sequels. I suspect I may have done if the friend I played on the Xbox the most with was into it, but they weren't terribly excited by the multiplayer and we had Halo 3.
Since then I have learnt that apart from being in a setting that doesn't interest me, it also has a community of the worst kind, and that's just the icing on the cake for reasons not to go near it.
Then I was late to the Xbox 360 party and everybody was playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare but by that point the setting was no longer interesting to me. I never played it, nor any of the sequels. I suspect I may have done if the friend I played on the Xbox the most with was into it, but they weren't terribly excited by the multiplayer and we had Halo 3.
Since then I have learnt that apart from being in a setting that doesn't interest me, it also has a community of the worst kind, and that's just the icing on the cake for reasons not to go near it.
I won't touch an MMO. Especially MMORPGs! I know that I would really enjoy them, and get hooked... but then get sucked into playing it all the time and neglect other aspects of my life, so I don't want to try!
I'm with you there. As a kid I didn't quite mind Japanese games as much, but as I got older I just couldn't take them seriously anymore. There's just too many things about Japanese games I can't stand, so I don't even bother touching them.Zhukov said:
I'll also add the Modern Warfare series. I'm not really a fan of games that try taking place in post-WWII conflicts, especially since most of those games have Tom Clancy-level cliches in their stories. I did like Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising though. While it was a tad dull, the background story was pretty plausible.
I'm pretty sure they're the ones who did it, yeah.Zhukov said:
I played every game from SH1 to Shattered Memories (minus Homecoming) sometime between 2009-2010. With the exception of the very first game, which is an aberration of graphics, storytelling and gameplay, I thought they all stood the test of time pretty well. SH2 and SH3 in particular remain very, very good.