I could never get into

[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?

Driving Simulation.

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

Except you can't because it doesn't feel like you're driving a car. That's also the reason I can't get into sports games, they just feel like a poor representation of playing a real sport, something that I am both practiced in and can be doing.

 

[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.

Except you can't because it doesn't feel like you're driving a car. That's also the reason I can't get into sports games, they just feel like a poor representation of playing a real sport, something that I am both practiced in and can be doing.

I agree, that's why I rearely (if ever) play basketball games (NBA live, NBA 2Kx), because I have a basketball and I have a nearby court.

If being in the NBA was part of the fantasy for me, I might play them, but it's not.

For me, I will probably never drive a really, really expensive car, let alone on a track at high speeds.

I want to do this.

The closest I come is these games. That's why they sell well.

Sure I can go carting but it's not the same. Just as driving my normal car around a track, or test driving a really, really expensive car isn't the same. Forza is closer to something I want to do than anything else that I can do.

 

[evilneko]

I could never get into...

Fighting games. From Street Fighter to Mortal Kombat and everything else.

Sports games. I don't like sports. I don't watch them or play them. Well, Wii Bowling was kinda cool when I played it at a friend's house...

 

[Krinku]

CoD and Halo. Just never found em fun.

 

[cameron196789]

Normal racing games, so bored so quickly.

 

[Monkeybald]

Pokemon Black/White. I wanted to love it, but I felt like I ruined the experience by obsessing over any info trickled from scans taken from various
japanese gaming magazines, and eventually the release of the actual game in japan. (Watching youtube vids of the game's storymode didn't help either)

By the time the games made it over here to the states, I didn't have much interest in them because I'd spoiled the experience... and also some of the new poke designs looked awful. (I'm looking at you, Gears)

Maybe after a year or so, I'll have new interest in them. Maybe.

 

[Jacking]

Man, you're really missing out on Earthbound, it's a hell of a game.

I can never get into tower defence games, I tend to think there's very little strategy involved or some other excuse.

Also, never really clicked with Oblivion either.

 

[Nicholas Woodruff]

Anything RPG Bethseda makes. Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Whatever. If they're involved, and it's an RPG I cannot play it.

 

[Griffolion]

I never got into Mass Effect *raises flame shield*.

 

[MorsePacific]

I couldn't do Bioshock. Wasn't my cup of tea. Never actually finished a Zelda game. Of course they're good, but I don't see how it deserves ALL that fuss.

In a non-gaming related topic, though, I can't get into My Little Pony. I don't dislike it, I just don't get it.

 

[Ruiner87]

Any game that has a lot of cutscenes (FF13, MSG4 etc.). If you can't explain the story in the dialogue that plays during gameplay, then the story is likely an overly complicated, convoluted wankfest. I want my video games to actually be games, which I play. Nothing annoys me more than sitting down and having to watch the game play itself out, not being able to skip cutscenes for fear of not understanding the story.

Video games should be video games. Not interactive movies.

 

[Zacharias91]

God Hand's my shame of choice. After seeing how well Clover did with Okami, I had hoped this game would be a respectable follow-up, but... I just can't bring myself to bother with it. The camera is god-awful, but even that wouldn't save it. I've seen people say it's fair, but I fail to see how. Prime example: every enemy has a block. You don't. If raising their arms is good enough to stop me from hitting them, why can't I do the same?

 

[Zacharias91]

Whoops. Looks like I done gone and double-posted. My bad. That's not something I could really get into either.

 

[SquirrelPants]

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?

Out of curiosity, what about something like Burnout? It's not the over-the-top cartoony stuff like Mario Kart or whatever, but a large portion of the game involves destroying the opposing racers in order to win.

 

[RangerSERE]

Borderlands and BioShock. They just sit there collecting virtual dust on steam. I look back and wonder how they won praise.

 

[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?

Out of curiosity, what about something like Burnout? It's not the over-the-top cartoony stuff like Mario Kart or whatever, but a large portion of the game involves destroying the opposing racers in order to win.

Yeah, I actually somewhat enjoyed burnout, but I usually enjoyed the destruction challenges more than the races.

 

[Scrustle]

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?

Same for me about JRPGs. I want to like them so much but I find the turn-based combat to be so dull and slow. It's such outdated game design and I feel like I have so little control. I can't dodge if I want to, I can't run away or avoid a fight if I want to. I feel like I'm being made to fight whether I'm prepared for it or not. It gets really frustrating really fast.

 

[vault69]

I could never get into, brace yourselves, Minecraft.

Also both Fallout games after 2. I wish Fallout 3 had been released instead of cancelled

 

[Jamie Doerschuck]

I couldn't do Bioshock. Wasn't my cup of tea. Never actually finished a Zelda game. Of course they're good, but I don't see how it deserves ALL that fuss.

In a non-gaming related topic, though, I can't get into My Little Pony. I don't dislike it, I just don't get it.

I find it humorously ironic that when you said that someone with a My Little Pony avatar posted under you...

Andddd, I thinkkkkk.... I think most AAA games. If they're getting 9+ scores in all the gaming magazines, then I never really end up liking them, even though I try.. Like I bought Assassin's Creed and didn't like it, I bought the God of War COLLECTION and hated them (I don't know how ANYONE finished the first one. It's so. Confusing. Half the time I don't even know where it wants me to go.), Call of Duty... But then I don't want to say it's any specific genre that I don't like, because those are all pretty varied games. And I like other games of the same type. Likeeee.. Ratchet and Clank. And Army of Two (I only play it with my girlfriend though, so I kind of skipped the annoying AI). And I actually liked Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.. I seem to just have more fun with games that sit around the 8 score mark than I do with the 9's.

I just find it strange...