Genres you're not fond of

[octafish]

*snip*
And for everyone who says racing and sports games, RACING IS A SPORT.

Well motor racing is more of a business than a sport, and anyway FIFA 2010 and F1 2010 are not very similar at all. I can see a lot of similarities between soccer games and basketball games and hockey games and I guess gridiron games (never played one). I can see enough of a difference to say there is a difference between racing games and other sport games.

OT: The sport team manager games top the list for me, and I have dabbled with Championship Manager in the past. A lot of FPSs bore the hell out of me, but I like them when they are done well. I like racers, but then I've always been a closet rev head. I'm not a good driver though so hardcore sims are out. I like old school soccer games, top down like VR Soccer or Sensi Soccer, not much else in the sport field. MMO's they just don't appeal but I have set up a LOTR Online Free to Play account that I have never used. Multiplayer shooters also don't have much apeal, but I do dabble in TF2 and BF:BC2 but I suck at them because I don't know the maps.

There will be a lot of hate for turn based games I expect but that is one of my favorite genres. X-Com, JA2, Silent Storm and the Civ games being some of my all-time favorite games. I also love a good adventure game. So you know, different strokes for different folks.

Spoiler: The reason I love racing, and racing games

EDIT: Looking over the other posts I noticed I didn't even think of fighting games. They didn't enter my thoughts at all, and I have to say they don't interest me at all.

 

[Gruchul]

WRPG's: I don't really hate these games but Bioware is sure trying to make me hate them. I don't mind a company repainting a game once in a while but it's been five games now where I've been playing fucking baldurs gate!

Baldurs gate in star wars
Baldurs gate in china
Baldurs gate in an Isaac Asimov noval
and finally Baldurs gate in baldurs gate but with titties and gore.

I wish. I'm not sure I'll ever enjoy another game quite as much as I did Baldur's Gate 2. Things were better in isometric!

But OT: Racing and cover-based shooters

 

[velcrokidneyz]

granted ive tried all of these but...

MMORPGs, Flying sims, Some rts, stealth, the sims, and sports such as baseball and basketball,

FIFA, and madden are fun tho. idk i like a variety of games tho, at least one from every genre

 

[spacecowboy86]

FPSs. dang things, I can never aim right and I keep getting killed out of nowhere.

 

[allinwonder]

Platformers. The only one I ever liked was Mirror's Edge. Makes sense, huh?

Racing games. I'm just plain bad at them. The only good one was Crazy Taxi.

Wow, someone exactly like me.
I was about to say "platformer" but didn't have a flameshield from Mario/Sonic/etc fans

 

[Professor James]

*snip*
And for everyone who says racing and sports games, RACING IS A SPORT.

Well motor racing is more of a business than a sport, and anyway FIFA 2010 and F1 2010 are not very similar at all. I can see a lot of similarities between soccer games and basketball games and hockey games and I guess gridiron games (never played one). I can see enough of a difference to say there is a difference between racing games and other sport games.

Motor racing, automobile racing,etc. is short for motorsport racing.

 

[Verex]

Sports and Turned Based Strategy games.

 

[Cogwheel]

MMO, tower defense, sports, racing. Often puzzles.

 

[joebthegreat]

I understand that racing is a sport.

But racing GAMES are very different from other sports games.

Especially the non-realistic ones that have missiles/green shells/ramming cars into other cars.

 

[ramses05]

Any game that has a very light single player component, but is sold on the promise of awesome multiplayer content. Most modern FPS fall into this category.

I am so very tired of games being all about multiplayer.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Sports Simulators. I'm fine with most other genres.

+1

Too much testosterone for me. Also, I suck at most fighting games (other than Soul Calibur), so I'm generally not a fan of those either. That's more sour grapes than actual criticism, though.

 

[bz316]

Sports games with the exception of the Fight Night Franchise.

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

I've had a SERIOUS falling out with the generic FPS genre. I used to be able to enjoy them a little bit, and while I'm still fond of at least Halo, I can't even play it anymore.

EDIT: Oh, yeah, and sports games. I don't ever play them; I don't get the appeal. Why not just play the real sport if it interests you?

 

[whycantibelinus]

Whatever genre games like *tower defense* are in.

That would be strategy.

I'm not the biggest fan of the racing genre. There is only so much you can do with it. Boring. Although Gran Turismo and Forza are exceptions, those games are incredible.

 

[whycantibelinus]

Whatever genre games like *tower defense* are in.

That would be strategy.

I'm not the biggest fan of the racing genre. There is only so much you can do with it. Boring. Although Gran Turismo and Forza are exceptions, those games are incredible.

No, there are lots of strategy game types. I mean the very specific category tower defense is in.

It falls under the large heading of strategy. I guess you could call it it's own subgenre: TDS

 

[StriderShinryu]

Pretty much anything that gets too close to the sim side of things. From racing games to sports games, I can enjoy the less realistic or arcadey versions but there are very few simulations I actually like playing even if it's a simulation of something I generally enjoy.

Also, RTS games. I played a decent amount of Dune 2 when it first came out but quickly fell out of love with it and haven't been able to stomach the genre since.

 

[Drakmorg]

"Adventure": mostly because I always reach a point where I can never figure out how the fuck to progress, and looking it up on the internet is the same as getting someone else to play the game for you, so I avoid them as much as possible.

Sports: because I dislike sports in real life and the prospect of buying the same game every year grew old when I bought Black Ops.

Racing: the only racing games I ever liked was the Mario Kart series, and seeing as how that peaked at Double Dash, I haven't played another one since.

Fighting: I'm not the obsessive type of person who would go through the trouble of learning all the combos in the game, plus I'm so ham-handed that I can't pull off any combos but the easiest ones, so I always just randomly mash buttons, which usually leads to an ass-beating for me.

RTS: mostly I'm just not good at the. I've never actually beaten an RTS game's campaign without using some sort of God-mode cheat.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

RTSs.

I gave them a chance. I bought Starcraft 2 a week or two after it came out.

I played it for three days, put maybe four hours into, but it never did click the way how other games did for me.

I guess I'm just a FPS nut.