games we just dont understand

[Malcious Ricewynd]

Yeah i don't get them sports games either, mostly virtual Tennis.

The sims was fun, but what I didn't understand was people who gave them Ordanery persoanlities in ordanery houses and sent them off to work every day in a good mood, the point was to use your imagination and exploit the fact that these people were your slaves, put a toilet in the kitchen, place everything outside, wall your sims in and make part of the house a levitating militery bunker.

Sims 2 was an unnessesery release which I firmly belive was the result of a bad day's meeting at EA who had ran out of expansion pack idea's, though when I opened my new shiney copy of spore I found an advert for the Sims 3 grinned madly at me from its nice little perch in front of the instruction manual.

Strangly I never got Guildwars either, something short of Blashfmey in certain places.
Seriously what was the point in that game, besides the serious unspecified gameplay issues it lacked the one thing I look for in a game, enetertainment value, its not fun, its just obessivly boring, you feel the need to continue and push forward with mission after mission but in all honestly i'd rather be outside rolling in the grass or hitting my head with a radiator or something.
same goes for Eve-Online

 

[kill3rwa5p]

i never understood sports games, racing simultors, flight simulators (yet pretending i was a half-assed terrorist who never had been in a plane so i'd crash it randomly and non-accidentally was kinda fun), or MMORPG's in general, while between the ages of 10-11 I was addicted to RuneScape (AKA Shit with dick sauce) because i was too stupid to ask questions just like some brainwashed little slave

 

[Decemius]

Sports games that don't involve some kinda board, and even then they get old quick. However, I don't get games that have ball in them. People talk about JRPGs being tedious, but I just can't understand what's fun about those games.

 

[LV Solace]

I honestly can uderstand any sport game that doesnt have a twist like that old NES game where it was robot base ball and you could beat the ever-loving hell out of the base men to get the base if thy caught the ball.

the nascar game I either saw or it was a horrible nightmare. I mean honestly a fucking game centered around making leftturns. The real thing is fucking bad enough, but a game about it? really? I suppose this could apply to everyother racing game without a twist. Burnout was fun.

And colection games. Things like animal crossing or Harvest moon. I dont get it. Really if I wanted to watch someone do some farm work I''d stalk the farm owner a mile away from me. And While others may feel the sims falls under this, it doesnt thats like awesome I can kill my dude over and over and he wont die.

Flight sims. no. Just no.


I love JRPG's I like stories, and anything with a good one is cool. Also anything with massivamounts of relevent customization, I love me some relevent customization. It's why I've beaten the FF port to GBA seven times. I love customization.

One thing I like is over the top violence that doesnt even try to stop it self. taking a .50 calibur round to the head and the head explodes like a hand gernade was shoved up the poor sap's nose? Hell yes.

 

[CIA]

I never could understand why people play games like FF and Golden Sun, there is so much dialogue to skip through my bloody finger started to hurt from skipping so much. And the turned based game watching the same moves over and over again a million times when fighting a boss with a zillion health. And the story's just suck, who ever said they play for the story could be entertained by a 5 year old kids homework!

I love FF stories and you're completely right. Maybe I should read five year old's homework insted.

To respond, sports games.

 

[OuroborosChoked]

I can understand everything except DDR/Guitar Hero/Horrible Games

Seconded.

Rhythm games are more like reflex tests than actual games.

 

[Graustein]

The following games, I don't understand or see any enjoyment in:

99% of all FPS games
Rhythm games
Survival Horror
Sports games
Racing games
Most simulation games (I get The Sims, but I don't really get Nintendogs. Probably because I have a dog, but I don't have godlike powers over my family)

 

[Mariena]

i never understood sports games, racing simultors, flight simulators (yet pretending i was a half-assed terrorist who never had been in a plane so i'd crash it randomly and non-accidentally was kinda fun), or MMORPG's in general, while between the ages of 10-11 I was addicted to RuneScape (AKA Shit with dick sauce) because i was too stupid to ask questions just like some brainwashed little slave

Not to be offensive, but what's there not to understand? People who like sports or are sport fanatics want to see it in action, to be in control of the sport.

Simulators are simply a very interesting and great, safe, cheap alternative to the real thing. If done right, the immersion can be so great!

Flight simulators are a different 'breed' because flying.. is.. well.. boring, to be honest. You don't feel the G forces when you go into a steep dive, you don't feel the vibrations of the aircraft.. etc. To make it more interesting you can add the element of combat. Suddenly it has become a whole different way of flying that is really difficult to master. Flight simulators like the Microsoft series just bore me.. But it is really useful for research. I am currently using X-Plane for research.

Maybe that will help you understand them better?

Help me understand the joy of games like Frats on Fire, or Guitar Hero.. They really do not interest me and I can't see why tapping buttons in a certain pattern is *fun*.

 

[videot76]

Katamari series, tried to like them since I loved the idea - but both the graphical design and background music were frankly downright nauseating. All characters creeped me out something fierce (and I loved the graphics in Psychonauts, for comparison) and those tunes nearly made my eardrums implode and/or take an early retirement.
Can't understand how anyone can enjoy it under those circumstances.

 

[PersianLlama]

M37H07Ik again just being paranoid and checking himself. I always thought rpg's and rts's were the best and dreaded racers and sports. I never got them. So i want to know what game genre's you just dont understand.

Yup, I definitely don't understand racers and sports. Go out and play yourself. And if your too lazy and fat, why are you paying $60 every year for the new copy of Madden when it's the same damn game. (Applies to most, if not all, sport/racing games.)

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

Console first person shooters.

Do you have no thumbs or something?

I don't get rythme games (rythme mini-games sure, but a rythme game?)

I do have thumbs, but it seems you don't have a spell checker.

But I do suppose I enjoy smaller hitboxes, more capable movement/aiming, and less limited game environments (and let's not even start on multiplayer or mods).

This isn't console vs PC shooter, it's game's you don't get. And something I don't get is why you don't get console shooters. It's the same idea as a PC shooter but with a different, almost equally good control interface.

I see fine why you would like PC shooters more but if you "don't get" something because you don't like it then you're a moron. Especially if you like an almost identicle parallel.

And one last thing; Where's your eggo, Eggo? I don't see how a cat with oversized sunglasses relates to your screen-name.

 

[Lt. Dragunov]

Any WWII games. I just don't know why we can't get away from them

 

[oopsdidn'tmeanto]

Katamari Damacy. So Japanese; while normally a fantastic trait, this game gave me a headache and a future case of rheumatoid arthritis. The gameplay is repetitive and dull after the first dozen minutes or so. Most hate it because of graphics, but I find it unfair to judge a game by how it looks. Games are supposed to be FUN. Looking good is just a bonus. <-- Miniature rant.

Racing games. I'll admit I played my fair share of Mario Kart 64, but it was only truly enjoyable in multiplayer. So as an anti-social gamer, this didn't settle well.

Nascar games. Before you say it, YES, they are racing games, but all they are are left turns and the occasional drunken crash-n-burn. Burnout and Mario Kart at least possess some variety.

Most casual games. Numerous amount of this dribble are pouring out onto the masses and turning people into sniveling five-year-olds that dare call themselves hard-core.

LARGEST PET PEEVE --> Hack and slash's. "Smash. OH LOOK HE DYED!!!!!!" *Famitsu gives it a 10*

Sports games. Go outside and actually play it.

Star Wars games with the exception of KOTOR, The Force Unleashed, and a 64 game that I cannot presently recall the title of.

Nintendogs. Cute at first, (which is quite the compliment, since I use the term rarely), but then I realised that I had been neglegting my two dogs in the process of playing.

Almost all licenced games. The equivalence of crack for children who don't know any better. The mothers only buy this crap to shut them up. The Lord of the Rings games were okay, not great, but better than the majority. Took my brother four months to convince me to play them.

The game LOL. It's called PictoChat, you pretentious bastard.

As for the Sims and JRPG's, I enjoy them quite a bit. Nothing is more fun and psychologically satisfying than turning a Sim into a licensed fictional character, (NERDETTE ALERT), or despised human being and torturing them until their untimely, weepy death. I like most JRPG's as long as they are not centered around amnesia or screwing. As ironic as this sounds, I sometimes enjoy a few cliches (*TREMENDOUS fan of the Tales series and most of the Final Fantasy's. VII possessed the ability to make grown men cry.*), and I wish to become an author, which makes me a critic in every story I read.

 

[Acaroid]

I dont understand why people have to be so elitist about video games.

I dont understand what there isnt to get about all genres... this is just another "genre you dont like" thread with differnt paint on it...

 

[Technomage333]

Yeah I can't really understand sports games, not so much the football or tennis, I am confused by computer hunting, or fishing. Mostly just fishing, I mean how do you make that a game?

 

[Russian Redneck]

Ultra indie, underground, niche games. Like, think Phoenix Wright (a game I play) and multiply it by the most obscure free online game you can think of, divide by how much commercial appeal it has, and then send it to the power of ten. I've always wondered if people who play those games are fiercely biased against and have some unjustifiable pretentious hatred towards mainstream games.

 

[vede]

The following games, I don't understand or see any enjoyment in:

Console FPS
Rhythm games
Survival Horror
Sports games
Racing games
Most simulation games (I get The Sims, but I don't really get Nintendogs. Probably because I have a dog, but I don't have godlike powers over my family)

What's not to understand in Survival Horror? How can you not see how some people might find that entertaining? They're like horror games, with a twist; the character is a real person. You have to run away from the baddies or sneak past or whatever to survive. Yeah, a game about running away doesn't sound all that fun, but just think; wouldn't being stuck in a huge house with a brain-eating (or heart-eating, whatever) creature be scary and tense as hell, even though you probably don't have much chance in killing it?

Also, how can you get the Sims but not SH? Playing a game centered around acting out what you do every day in real life makes sense, but being placed in nerve-wracking, horrifying situations doesn't?

That's like saying horror films are retarded and you can't see how they're entertaining (not gore films, I mean the actual scary stuff) but watching a cookie-cutter family through security cameras, that's where the money's at.