Genres You Just CANNOT Get Into...

[obliterate]

JRPGs also, i used to really like them. A few are still in my top games list, but i just have lost interest these past few years, the stories bore me as well as the game play.

Yeah...it's the same with me...and RTS too...just these 2 genres

 

[SimuLord]

Once upon a time I was into JRPGs but I find them so insufferably dull now that even the ones I once loved (mostly from the 8/16-bit era) have completely lost their luster. I haven't played one I've liked since 2000 (FF9). Note that I'm not counting Japanese "strategy RPGs" like Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics/Advance/A2...those properly belong to the turn-based strategy genre, which I like.

I can't get into twitch games, whether they're third-person action, first-person shooter, or fighting/beat-em-up games either. You could argue that Oblivion is the exception here (I've heard some VERY credible arguments that Oblivion is 99% action game and 1% RPG).

I've got a pretty narrow focus, really. Strategy, simulation, and sports. The three S's of gaming.

 

[Pegghead]

Jrpgs, don't feel flamed, I can't really get into any game where your standard combat has you just picking attacks to perform and them watching them unfold like say KOTOR (Spare VATS in FO3), I prefer a game with full interactivity.

 

[Hepatica]

Racing games where wrecking lots of people isn't a viable means of achieving victory. Games like Gran Turismo where you can't crash people at all are just vile to me. I can find something I enjoy in every other genre I've tried, and I've tried a lot, but a game that takes lot of high speed exploding things and doesn't let me smash them together goes against my principles as a gamer and as a human being.

 

[Abedeus]

Sport games, more traditional RTS games (DoW is the only one that I like) and horrors.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I can or want to play almost anything, even the occasional sports game (especially Blood Bowl peaked my interest) and simulation driver, even though I'm very vulnerable to rage-quitting with the latter.

I can think of only one genre I think I can never ever get into: sports management games. Football Manager, Tour Cycling Manager, games like that. I like to play sports al right (it's just gaming, but in real life), but I'm less fond of them when I can only watch them, and if I also have to work through a gazillion of spreadsheets I just walk away.

Racing games where wrecking lots of people isn't a viable means of achieving victory. Games like Gran Turismo where you can't crash people at all are just vile to me. I can find something I enjoy in every other genre I've tried, and I've tried a lot, but a game that takes lot of high speed exploding things and doesn't let me smash them together goes against my principles as a gamer and as a human being.

You just have to buy a Burnout game, you'll be on cloud nine.

 

[slipknoted]

First Person Shooters and Racing games. Although I did enjoy Burnout Revenge a lot.

omg how can you not get into fps games , most of them are hard but once you pla it and get used to it they are fine

i hate sport games and rpg's ... also anything japanese annoys me ... (i hate viking ,,, -.- pissed me off so much)

 

[tomtom94]

Personally I would say complicated fighting games: stuff like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat where you pretty much need a list of codes to do well.
I do, however, enjoy Smash Bros.

My other pet hate genre is fashion simulators but that's a given.

 

[Scaredpanther0101]

FPS games unless its S.T.A.L.K.E.R

 

[Murlin]

Japanese dating sims, boring, pointless, and a huge waste of time...

 

[RazerSauber]

FPS games on consoles. The controls are so dreary and come with a distinct lack of urgency when there's a guy rattling off bullets at you and you couldn't possibly turn any more slowly. Mouse control will always be better at FPS'

 

[TomOfTheCross]

Stealth games, no matter how hard i try. I just can't do them, I'm fine with pretty much every other genre (minus sports).

 

[Vern]

Text based games. No matter how many times I've tried, I just can't play Zork. Guessing at which combination of words will find both valid, and correct gets extremely old. "You see a hammer." "Grab hammer" "Does not understand 'Grab'" "Get hammer" "You get a hammer" "Hit head with hammer" "You suffer extreme damage from hammer" "Hit head with hammer" "You are dead". End of game. Any other genre I can't say I've never gotten into. FPS, 3rd person adventure or shooter, strategy, real time strategy, they've all had games I've enjoyed. Hell, Gran Turismo 2, Wrestlemania, and NFL Quarterback Club 98 were fun games. I can get into any type of game as long as it's made well, and almost any genre can be made enjoyable.
To go along with the thread, I've found myself less and less likely to enjoy a JRPG. The constant level grind gets old very quickly, and it's all the same story. Most FPS games have the same story, evil bad guy/group does something evil and you stop him. With JRPGs it's evil bad guy/group does something evil, you spend 40 hours hitting rats and birds to gain levels to stop them. It becomes very tiresome.

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

turn based battle games

 

[Shadowed Intent]

JRPGs and MMORPGs, I hate grinding.

 

[Bat Vader]

Racing games for me. I will make exceptions to games with racing in them but not qualify as a racing game.

GTA series for example.

 

[PhantomCritic]

Fallout3 at the moment is quite hard to get into for me, the beginning drags on a bit.

 

[speedcoreXdandy]

FPS games that aren't Timesplitters or Team Fortress 2. I just find them hard and boring.

 

[IamQ]

Turn based gameplay. I guess that would relate to Jrpgs, but I think there are other games with that sort of gameplay too.