games we just dont understand

[Russian Redneck]

I forgot to mention simulation games. Not like Guitar Hero; think Gran Turismo. I tried playing GT4 once and I couldn't even pass the training levels. I could probably see why people like those kinds of games but I don't understand how. Or is that paradoxical?

 

[Andrenavarro]

Guitar Hero, yes. I can't help but feel like a complete moron when playing it (note to retards: not calling YOU a moron, yes? Mmmm? Good). I think to myself: games are supposed to be fun because they allow us to do stuff we couldn't do in real life, like kill people, rob cars, save an entire society from an Orwellian future, etc. etc. But I can go learn how to play a fucking guitar whenever I want. Same reason I don't understand all the love for The Sims.

This is a more controversial one: God of War. How exactly is solving idiotic puzzle after idiotic puzzle entertaining? I get in a room, a puzzle presents itself as piss-easy to solve but actually difficult to execute, so it's a highway to frustration. And there's about three puzzles in every room. Sorry, I get bored.

 

[Graustein]

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.

It's not that I don't get the point of survival horror, it's more that I don't get how people would enjoy them, because Resident Evil completely failed to draw me in. Or maybe the Gamecube port is especially shitty. I don't really get horror in general, so yeah...

And The Sims isn't about voyeuristically watching people do stuff, the role you take is far more active than that. It's a god game on a smaller scale, which I get. I must have interpreted the OP wrong, because I understand the point of survival horror and horror in general, I suppose. They just completely fail to work for me for some reason.

 

[pieeater911]

Katamari Damacy.

I think the common gamer phrase "What the fuck?" pretty much sums up this game series.

 

[Woe Is You]

Katamari Damacy.

I think the common gamer phrase "What the fuck?" pretty much sums up this game series.

That's exactly the appeal of the series. It's so off-kilter it's hilarious.

 

[memejoey]

MMORPG's and anything Turn-Based

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

Sports Games.

This isn't an anti-sports thing mind you (though I do generally dislike sports). It's more of a... if I wanted to learn how to be a good football player, I'd go and work-out so I can actually become a good football player. When I'm playing WoW, the appeal to it is that I can't go and slay zombies by hurling fireballs from my palms. Or there's games like Tetris where you really can't have the game represented in any other way.

Basically, I don't get sports games because they're something that anyone can just go out and DO if they're interested in them.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Listen to my opinion first.

Gears of war and Halo. I like FPS's but they are repetitive and get quite dull after my third play through. I don't hate them but I never got why they were deemed so good, they're short, the humor is average, the "drama' emotes no response from me and I always got over tanking every level. I just don't see the fanboy appeal.

 

[The Anti Noob]

I think this fuorum has turned into something more like games we don't like. There a lot of games i don't get but i still find fun. I mean, I can understand people's dislike, but understanding something and liking something, while sometimes on the same page, were never really the same thing.
for instance, a game i always thought was so utterly confusing was pikmin, but i absolutly love to play it. It's got a lot of good elements.

 

[rossatdi]

Guitar Hero games. Although I get the concept there's something about playing a previously non-existent guitar solo in a Sex Pistols song that just doesn't sit right with me. Only one that got it right was Amplitude.

 

[Dommyboy]

point and click games like command and conker (or however it's spelt) dawn of war and the sims. the thing i really didnt get about dawn of war was that you didnt need to tell your minions to attack, they did it automatically so all you had to do was build stuff which i could do with play-dough and be able to be a lot more imaginative, have more fun and not have to worry that the thing i want to build wont fit in the space i want to but it.

Work on your grammar please and how to form a sentence. So you hate RTS games and your point about Dawn of War is completely flawed. You could say that with every RTS ever made if you wanted to.

 

[rossatdi]

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.

Seriously, don't get him started. Apparently your a retard if you think console shooters are even worth playing. It's mouse and keyboard or execution on the apparently affordable super computer of death. The whole argument about some people not wanting to spend x on their gaming, some people not wanting to have to bother with installations, some people wanting to play with flesh&blood friends over internet buddies, the control system not being that bad, etc, they'll just wash over him.

Plus I think his name is like 'ego' but with an extra 'g' for gangsta. Hence the cat + sunglasses.

 

[electric discordian]

point and click games like command and conker (or however it's spelt) dawn of war and the sims. the thing i really didnt get about dawn of war was that you didnt need to tell your minions to attack, they did it automatically so all you had to do was build stuff which i could do with play-dough and be able to be a lot more imaginative, have more fun and not have to worry that the thing i want to build wont fit in the space i want to but it.

Work on your grammar please and how to form a sentence. So you hate RTS games and your point about Dawn of War is completely flawed. You could say that with every RTS ever made if you wanted to.

Although Command and Conker would be a game I would play as conkers have been banned as being a health and safety issues. It would be a playground game simulator on the Wii no doubt!

 

[mark_n_b]

All sports games except Pro Evolution Soccer.
All driving & racing games.
All space simulation games.
All beat 'em up games.
All MMORPGs.
Rock Band.

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)

So what? You guys read books?

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

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!

Sorry you feel that way, I read high fantasy novels and I was entertained by the plot in Golden Sun and it was a lot deeper than other rpg games even most of this gen's rpg games.

As for skipping the plot, that's kind of the point of the whole rpg game: the plot, you fight,quest and adventure to advance the storyline, I think the game you want is a fighting game like Soul Calibur it's mostly action with no proper story.

 

[DeadlyFred]

As for skipping the plot, that's kind of the point of the whole rpg game: the plot, you fight,quest and adventure to advance the storyline, I think the game you want is a fighting game like Soul Calibur it's mostly action with no proper story.

Getting bombarded with a billion lines of dialogue/cut-scenes at a time is not the point of RPGs. The story should be told as a complement to the progression of the game, not as regular bricks of obnoxious exposition which put it on hold while you get up to speed on what's going on.

But that's my opinion.

 

[The_Deleted]

One button Hack & Slash games.


Just...



Why?!

 

[Akafrank]

Peggle

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

As for skipping the plot, that's kind of the point of the whole rpg game: the plot, you fight,quest and adventure to advance the storyline, I think the game you want is a fighting game like Soul Calibur it's mostly action with no proper story.

Getting bombarded with a billion lines of dialogue/cut-scenes at a time is not the point of RPGs. The story should be told as a complement to the progression of the game, not as regular bricks of obnoxious exposition which put it on hold while you get up to speed on what's going on.

But that's my opinion.

Who said billions of lines and cut scenes I'm talking about natural story progression for example in Golden Sun, there wasn't reams and reams of text, each major conversation was only a few minutes long at most and it's imperative to telling you what's going on.

I stand by what I said though you play rpg's for the plot: fact! personally I love beating a boss and watching a cut scene as a reward and advancing the story, the only game rpg game where it's hindered the gameplay are the flashbacks and cut scenes in Lost Odyssey, the flash backs are just text with sfx and some of the cut scenes are unnecesarily long when they could have explained the point in a shorter scene.

I can't see how you can complain really every rpg follows this format you start with a cut scene and dialogue, you get to action, cut scene dialogue, and so on and so on, cut scenes rarely ever dominate over the gameplay.

 

[Souplex]

The Pokemon series. The game is just about mindlessly overpowering your foes. Level grinding and catching them all is more of a chore than a game and that just ruins what could have been a good series.