If you could do away with 1 gaming genre, what would it be?

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SimuLord

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Mumorpugers. Then I would find all the players, zap their brains, and make them into rabid Madden fans. All those of you who want to whack sports games...I want to shove you into lockers.
 

joshuaayt

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Ugh, FPS, please. Just so I can stop having people tell me "Yo, dude, Wii is gay- Go get an Xbox and play Halo instead"
EDIT: Actually, the poster above me made me remember- Sport games. Christ, I'm sick of digging through thirty copies of Madden to get to that single copy of that one, really obscure, game my friend saw on sale before.
 

Sinclair Solutions

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Let's get rid of something useless, eh? How about Cooking games? Or exercise games? I like my exercise and my video games to be separate thank you very much. I'm not that pathetic.
 

Leemaster777

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Hmm, this topic is quite interesting.

Seems like the general consensus is split between Sports, FPS, and RPG.

While I'm just going to toss another vote onto the Sports pile, this kind of data about gamers could be informative. If I was a smarter chap I'd be able to figure out HOW.
 

havass

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Turn based combat. Come on, which idiot will stand there and willingly let another person hit him.
 

strum4h

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Cynical skeptic said:
Console shooter.

It has completely corrupted and oversimplified the fps/tps format while ensuring the industry does nothing but spin it's wheels.
that. Also maybe sports games.
 

Capt. Crankypants

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SimuLord said:
Mumorpugers. Then I would find all the players, zap their brains, and make them into rabid Madden fans. All those of you who want to whack sports games...I want to shove you into lockers.
It's truuuuue. Never been a Madden fan, but FIFA 10 with 2 or 4 players is solid gold. Trouble is though, whatever genre anyone picks to say, there's gonna be people who really enjoy those games...

Except for maybe excercise games...I'd get rid of those in a heartbeat, if that actually counts as a genre. If not, sorry Racing.
 

cocoadog

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Ubermetalhed said:
cocoadog said:
Ubermetalhed said:
FPS. Oh please let FPS die, the good games have all gone and now we are left with shit franchises focused upon online play and full of bitchy toddlers.
And yet they are still more fun than every other genre of games.
In your opinion they are, in my mind however the good FPS games have gone.I'd take games like Bayonetta or Okami over COD or Halo anyday.
Besides theres only so many ways you can shoot someone you know.
Well that's true the originality in both those games is amazing and they are very fun. But I still play call of duty 4 because the mechanics are great and the multiplayer is amazing. It's a given that there are a lot of shitty games in all genres, but fps' like halo and cod are still great.
 

Lullabye

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The guitar hero/rockband genre. I mean, go learn to play a real instrument for fuckgoodness sakes.
 

Arcanist

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Lightslei said:
FPS's.

I like turn based combat if it's done well and requires you to actually be intuitive and think the strategy through fully, not the mindless HOLD X FOR ATTACK AND WIPE FLOOR WITH EVERYTHING.

FPS's just because it'd be nice to see people try to use their imagination more then COD7012 and Halo4251
This tells me two things - either you suck at playing first person shooters, or you've only played insipid Halo knockoffs. Or both. Most likely both.

More on topic, I'd get rid of turn based combat. It's just... so... fucking... boring. Don't give me any of that shit about having to 'think through strategies', because creating strategies are only fun if there's some quick pacing to back it up.
 

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I would get rid of the Guitar Hero/Band Hero genre. The whole thing just strikes me as nonsense. It's basically Dance Dance Revolution with better music. I'm not about to pay $40 for a plastic guitar replica with four or five buttons on it.
 

havass

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Garak73 said:
havass said:
Turn based combat. Come on, which idiot will stand there and willingly let another person hit him.
I don't think you understand the concept of turn based combat.

It's like slowed down combat so you can use strategy if necessary and watch every move play out instead of a battle happening too fast to either plan or watch.
"A turn-based strategy (TBS) game is a strategy game (usually some type of wargame, especially a strategic-level wargame) where players take turns when playing."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-based_strategy
 

Lightslei

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Arcanist said:
Lightslei said:
FPS's.

I like turn based combat if it's done well and requires you to actually be intuitive and think the strategy through fully, not the mindless HOLD X FOR ATTACK AND WIPE FLOOR WITH EVERYTHING.

FPS's just because it'd be nice to see people try to use their imagination more then COD7012 and Halo4251
This tells me two things - either you suck at playing first person shooters, or you've only played insipid Halo knockoffs. Or both. Most likely both.

More on topic, I'd get rid of turn based combat. It's just... so... fucking... boring. Don't give me any of that shit about having to 'think through strategies', because creating strategies are only fun if there's some quick pacing to back it up.
And that tells me you're a Halo fanboy. See, it's easy to generalize when you don't know someone ^_^.