I could never get into

[Dudemanword]

JRPG's that didn't show my character duking it out with the enemy. I could really never get into Earthbound or the Phantasy Star series.

Also I couldn't get into shooters without health bars

Are there factors in certain genre's that really turn you off in a game?

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I could never get into racing games that don't let me screw with my opponents in some way. If I can't knock them around, or destroy their car with a missile, or make them slip on a banana peel then what's the point?

 

[Strain42]

A lot of things...that I can't think of right now.

But for the earlier dude, yeah. I love the Cart games over the real car racing games any day.

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

I've tried Dead Space twice and have thus far been unimpressed. I usually finish games I start, but this one I'm not sure about.

That, and Siren...

 

[WayOutThere]

I can't get into Hank n' Slashers. I have God of War 1, 2, Devil May Cry 3, and Prince of Persia Warrior Within but have only played all the way through GoW 1 and can't convince myself to play through it again. I'm at an odd point with this genre that I can't take enough interest either to get into it or forget about it. I suppose I'm intimidated by them. That would make sense as the real reason I feel I didn't enjoy GoW more was not because I thought it was a bad game but instead because I felt I was bad at playing it.

 

[Signa]

Racers and sports games for me. As mentioned above, shooters without health bars are a turn-off and cart racers are an exception. I would also like to throw in cover based combat in FPS games. It was cool in Time Crisis, but it didn't belong leaving the rail-shooter genre.

 

[Neverhoodian]

FPS games that require the player to spend lots of time crawling around in ventilation shafts. It's one of the major factors that kept me from enjoying Half-Life. I also have little patience for fetching keys anymore, particularly if your character is carrying a powerful weapon. Can't I just blow the door open with my rocket launcher instead of scouring the entire level for the one officer corpse that I forgot to search?

EDIT: Forgot to mention this one:
Fighting games that have overly-complicated combos. Games like Super Smash Bros. proved that you can still have depth in a fighting game without having players resort to memorizing 20 pages' worth of moves.

 

[SeriousSquirrel]

I could not get into Jade Empire, despite the fact that KoTOR is and was one of my favorite games ever (I would also go on to love Mass Effect, but this was before I had played it). The combat system annoyed me, and I hated that your companions didn't actually follow you.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Nowadays it's anything that requires shooting guns in a first person perspective.

It's just so boring.

 

[Cogwheel]

Multiplayer that requires lots of practice and wiki research for you to accomplish anything, where everyone else is vastly more skilled.

See: TF2, League of Legends and others.

 

[OrokuSaki]

I can't get into the Assassins Creed series. I beat one and two but that took years of ignoring them until I felt a little ashamed of them. I just can't understand why I have to kill 7 people just to get to the final boss. They aren't protecting him, I SHOULD be able to stealth right into his house and out the bastard.

Otherwise I can't get into JRPG's that over complicate simple processes. Like "The Last Remnant" I stared at the tutorial for 2 minutes before I understood that I was in a combat screen where I attack specific limbs. They changed so many small words like "attack" and "arm" and "sword" that I couldn't tell if I was trying to kill the troll or ask it for a potion.

 

[Wintermoot]

Multiplayer that requires lots of practice and wiki research for you to accomplish anything, where everyone else is vastly more skilled.

See: TF2, League of Legends and others.

with TF2 you gradually become better.
OT
the COD MP it,s like trying to punch a brick wall.
with everyone having experience from the older games it,s IMPOSSIBLE to get into it also I can,t see the difference between my teammates and the other team.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Racing games like Gran Turismo, Need for Speed etc.

I'm so bad at them and just find them boring, I much prefer racing games where you can shoot missiles (Crash Team Racing and Jak X).

 

[King Toasty]

Anything where the main gameplay is wave after wave after wave of generic enemies. Looking at you, Uncharted. Hated that game.

 

[Cogwheel]

Multiplayer that requires lots of practice and wiki research for you to accomplish anything, where everyone else is vastly more skilled.

See: TF2, League of Legends and others.

with TF2 you gradually become better.
OT
the COD MP it,s like trying to punch a brick wall.
with everyone having experience from the older games it,s IMPOSSIBLE to get into it also I can,t see the difference between my teammates and the other team.

I suppose so. It's still a bit too much for me.

Coop is much better, though. If it's not versus (or L4D), most people are a bit less serious about winning.

 

[gideonkain]

Tactic games, it seems like a good idea to add some strategy with a 3d chess board, but it always seems to end up being walking to a square a cardinal direction away and attacking - if they just had wider and stranger attacks I'd be all about them.

Also RPGs that don't show the protagonists, Dragon Warrior Shim Megasi (or whatever) etc

 

[Wintermoot]

Multiplayer that requires lots of practice and wiki research for you to accomplish anything, where everyone else is vastly more skilled.

See: TF2, League of Legends and others.

with TF2 you gradually become better.
OT
the COD MP it,s like trying to punch a brick wall.
with everyone having experience from the older games it,s IMPOSSIBLE to get into it also I can,t see the difference between my teammates and the other team.

I suppose so. It's still a bit too much for me.

Coop is much better, though. If it's not versus (or L4D), most people are a bit less serious about winning.

I,m not about winning but about having fun I don,t see getting continuously back-stabbed and shot from the other side of the map as fun.

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

Anything made by Bethesda. I recently tried to get into Fallout 3 for the 8th time, and I by the time I'm 5-6 hours or so in I'm already bored with it. Ditto Oblivion, and to a lesser extent Morrowind. Dunno why, because they're all very well made games. I just can't get interested in them.

 

[StBishop]

I could never get into racing games that don't let me screw with my opponents in some way. If I can't knock them around, or destroy their car with a missile, or make them slip on a banana peel then what's the point?

Driving Simulation.

I will probably never drive a Pagani Zonda around the Nordschleife in real life. In Forza I can.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Multiplayer that requires lots of practice and wiki research for you to accomplish anything, where everyone else is vastly more skilled.

See: TF2, League of Legends and others.

the COD MP...also I can,t see the difference between my teammates and the other team.

Ain't that the truth. I was playing with some friends last night, and I spent a full 20 seconds staring into the back of an enemy's head before I realized he was an enemy. He was using ghost, and staring at the back of my teammate's head at the same time so my teammate's name popped up over his head. Once he killed my teammate and the name disappeared I realized he was an enemy and shot him for a very anti-climactic final kill.