Genres You Just CANNOT Get Into...
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Beat'em ups, just no good at button mashing. As well as I fail at remembering "super amazing combo" sequences. The thing that really get me out is that the story is not at all useful to gameplay, so why the hell make one?
RTS's. I spend a full game building up what I think might be a suitable attack force and see it crushed. I resolve to build a much stronger one, and the enemy steamrolls me in the meantime. I just never quite get the S in RTS.
Fighting games too. Is it just me, or must one spend a full year in practice mode in a fighting game to try to memorize and perfect as many moves and combos as they can, as WELL as knowing when to use them, before they can even think about challenging someone?
Fighting games too. Is it just me, or must one spend a full year in practice mode in a fighting game to try to memorize and perfect as many moves and combos as they can, as WELL as knowing when to use them, before they can even think about challenging someone?
For the life of me, I cannot get into Turn Based Strategy, no matter how hard I try. The odd thing is that I love Real Time Strategy, especially ones with a large scope (for example, Sins of a Solar Empire and Supreme Commander). The closest I've come to enjoying a TBS was Civilisation IV, at a mate's place. It looks like a decent game, but I still found myself getting bored with it after about 20 minutes.
I hate shooters. First person shooters, third person shooters, war sim shooters, stealth game shooters, they all annoy me greatly. Even stealth games that really aren't shooters but control exactly like a shooter grate on my nerves.
And I <3 RPG's. Stop hatin' on my Final Fantasy. :-(
And I <3 RPG's. Stop hatin' on my Final Fantasy. :-(
JRPGS. I've tried to play a couple of them and I see how they could appeal to some people, but I just can't find any of them which grab enough to make me stay with them. The only JRPG I've beaten is probably FFI...
Also, sports games. They just aren't fun to me. Kind of like regular sports.
And finally, racing games (with the exception of Mario Kart.)
Also, sports games. They just aren't fun to me. Kind of like regular sports.
And finally, racing games (with the exception of Mario Kart.)
Me and MMORPGs have had a bad relationship. I think a lot of it boils down to me just not picking the right one(s).
For a while I had the original Everquest and a few expansions for it. Unfortunately I didn't have all the expansions and I joined after the release of Everquest II so finding people around my level (especially people who stayed around my level, since I played very casually) was difficult and after my three months of subscription, I left.
Other than that, I tried free games like Anarchy Online. I had a brief bout with Gunz: the Duel (I realize its not a traditional MMORPG). Overall I was just finding that I didn't want to make the time investment and I found the worlds overwhelming and boring. Other than that I found I was both incompetent at the social aspect of them, and was as a result mostly playing for myself, which really didn't work.
I tried World of Warcraft at a buddy of mine's house. I really didn't enjoy it. I wanted to give Final Fantasy XI a try, but I never got around to it. I think I could have gotten into that universe a little more easily.
Who knows, maybe I'll give Dungeons & Dragons: Online a try now that it has no subscription fees...
As for other genres? I don't know. I really like a good deal of JRPGs, but I've never really played ones that weren't critically acclaimed. The only examples of ones I didn't like were ones that I played for a few hours each and dropped because of that very reason. I didn't like the Lufia series, nor the Shining Force series. I was bored by Final Fantasy VIII and the Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest series has never been interesting to me, even if I loved playing Dragon Warrior: Monsters for my Gameboy.
I couldn't ever get into sports games with the exception of Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 if that counts. The reason being (in most cases) that I've never like playing games I could just go out and play in real life, with a few buddies and have way more fun. I also didn't like racing games. I've just always found those two genres inaccessible to me.
Overall though, I think there are so many genres for that reason: because we all have different tastes. Just because you've branded yourself a "gamer" doesn't mean you have to like every game, or every genre or every game of a genre. It just mean you like playing the games you like playing, which are, in general, many.
For a while I had the original Everquest and a few expansions for it. Unfortunately I didn't have all the expansions and I joined after the release of Everquest II so finding people around my level (especially people who stayed around my level, since I played very casually) was difficult and after my three months of subscription, I left.
Other than that, I tried free games like Anarchy Online. I had a brief bout with Gunz: the Duel (I realize its not a traditional MMORPG). Overall I was just finding that I didn't want to make the time investment and I found the worlds overwhelming and boring. Other than that I found I was both incompetent at the social aspect of them, and was as a result mostly playing for myself, which really didn't work.
I tried World of Warcraft at a buddy of mine's house. I really didn't enjoy it. I wanted to give Final Fantasy XI a try, but I never got around to it. I think I could have gotten into that universe a little more easily.
Who knows, maybe I'll give Dungeons & Dragons: Online a try now that it has no subscription fees...
As for other genres? I don't know. I really like a good deal of JRPGs, but I've never really played ones that weren't critically acclaimed. The only examples of ones I didn't like were ones that I played for a few hours each and dropped because of that very reason. I didn't like the Lufia series, nor the Shining Force series. I was bored by Final Fantasy VIII and the Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest series has never been interesting to me, even if I loved playing Dragon Warrior: Monsters for my Gameboy.
I couldn't ever get into sports games with the exception of Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 if that counts. The reason being (in most cases) that I've never like playing games I could just go out and play in real life, with a few buddies and have way more fun. I also didn't like racing games. I've just always found those two genres inaccessible to me.
Overall though, I think there are so many genres for that reason: because we all have different tastes. Just because you've branded yourself a "gamer" doesn't mean you have to like every game, or every genre or every game of a genre. It just mean you like playing the games you like playing, which are, in general, many.
You know, i think if a game is good enough, it doesnt really matter what genre it is for me. Yeah I honestly cant think of a single genre... racing games, sports, rpg, rts, fps, tds, adventure, sim etc etc etc.... I can think of heaps of games from each genre I have played and liked...
I think mmorpg might be the closest I guess...but even then I still like guildwars...
I think mmorpg might be the closest I guess...but even then I still like guildwars...
Everyone's gonna say JRPGs, but I have to say strategy, real-time or turn-based (but more turn-based). The only real-time strategy game I like is Warcraft III, and that's because of the custom games on battle.net.
I can't stand fighting games.
Just the fact that you can spend years learning every super-powerful combo, and still have your ass handed to you by a monkey hitting their head on the buttons.
Or you try to play with someone and they kill you with one never-ending combo repeatedly.
Just the fact that you can spend years learning every super-powerful combo, and still have your ass handed to you by a monkey hitting their head on the buttons.
Or you try to play with someone and they kill you with one never-ending combo repeatedly.
I never go out of my way to play racers, sports games, RTS games, or fighters. I'm just not into them, it might be the competitiveness... I guess I've never really been all that competitive. Although I top the charts in shooters fairly often 
I'd much rather engross myself in a well laid out single player 'experience', although lately I will admit I've had a hard time getting into anything in particular. Although I bought an indie games pack awhile back and am rather enjoying Mr. Robot at the moment, despite the fact that the puzzles/platforming can be extremely abusive. I mean they're somewhat ingenuitive, and fun to figure out, but sometimes just barely missing a jump can erase hours of grinding RPG-esque battles, or send you back multiple rooms...
I think I just go sidetracked... sorry!
I'd much rather engross myself in a well laid out single player 'experience', although lately I will admit I've had a hard time getting into anything in particular. Although I bought an indie games pack awhile back and am rather enjoying Mr. Robot at the moment, despite the fact that the puzzles/platforming can be extremely abusive. I mean they're somewhat ingenuitive, and fun to figure out, but sometimes just barely missing a jump can erase hours of grinding RPG-esque battles, or send you back multiple rooms...
I think I just go sidetracked... sorry!
Sports games.
I play games to simulate things that I cannot do in the real world (or at least not do without severe repercussions). I can play Soccer, I can Box, I can play Hockey, and all those sports, so I really can't get into games which just simulate stuff that I can do.
Now a game where you get to box against a flamboyant Spainard who punches out bulls, a teleporting Hindu, and a Russian addicted to....Soda? Yeah. I can get into that!
I play games to simulate things that I cannot do in the real world (or at least not do without severe repercussions). I can play Soccer, I can Box, I can play Hockey, and all those sports, so I really can't get into games which just simulate stuff that I can do.
Now a game where you get to box against a flamboyant Spainard who punches out bulls, a teleporting Hindu, and a Russian addicted to....Soda? Yeah. I can get into that!