Poll: Game Genres You Don't Play

[hopeneverdies]

Sports games, specifically racing games. When I went over to a friend's house, we played Project Gotham Racing 3. We both embarassed ourselves horribly. Me, because I'm a horrible driver, and her because she thought she had top screen. Whoops!

Also horizontal scrolling shmups. I can think in 2D space vertically, but if it's sideways, I don't have a prayer. Which is a shame because one of my most favorite vertical scrollers has a bonus pattern where bullets come in from the sides. I can't wrap my brain around it. I could figure out the complete mindfuck that was the rest of the boss fight, but once it got to Tele-Mesmerism, my brain oozed out of my ears.

 

[ReZerO]

you left out first person shooters

 

[Kermi]

I don't play sport games because I'm not interested in sports, and I don't buy fighting games for my home console because I don't feel they have any replay value.

 

[kuyo]

shooters, rts, jrpg, Sports (with some exceptions made to fighting sports given interesting enough characters), and pretty much anything in first person due to headaches.

 

[Wayneguard]

I rofl at the poll results. fuck sports games... seriously.

 

[nokori3byo]

JRPG. Come to think of it, I rarely play J anything.

 

[DustyDrB]

I don't play First-Person Shooters. I've only played 3 or 4 games from the first person perspective that I enjoyed overall.

Age of Empires 2 is the only RTS I ever liked.

I don't play horror games period. I just can't handle them (seriously, Dead Rising scared me).

Other than that, I think I play most genres...

 

[natster43]

Sport games. The only things under that category I would and do play are the N64 Mario Golf/Tennis games, and certain racing games (Mario Kart Series and some of the Burnout Series). I also don't play many Simulation Games.

 

[cgentero]

MMORPGs, but like many genres before it, I believe its more of a case of having not yet found the game that will convert me, I'm thinking of trying Eve Online next.

 

[RoyalWelsh]

I never play music games, never saw the appeal. That and beat em up games like Street Fighter.

 

[trooper6]

I tend to like most games...though I'm not a big fan of Fighting games...they are just a bit boring and overly complex in the combos in ways that are not fun for me.

 

[Double A]

You don't have shooters in your poll. That is a big one. I hate shooters, specially FPS's.

Sorry, only had 8 options, so everything else had to go under other!

You could have made action and adventure one genre and put shooters down. Shooters are a lot bigger than a/a.

Anyway, sports. I never play sports games. If I don't like a game in real life I don't see why I'd want to play a game about it, especially when that game is the same one released every year. As a rule I also don't play any racers, unless it's Mario Kart. Simulation games are fairly broad, but I don't play many "core" sim games, I guess.

 

[Drakmorg]

Sports games, because I don't like sports to begin with, so why would I want to play a game about them?

Also, most racing games I don't play, last one I played was Burnout 3, which I enjoyed because it rewarded me for what I most want to do in a racing game, running all those other bastards off the track.

 

[Chibz]

I refuse to play sports games and RTS'. But that's just my style. Oh, and the only racing games I play are Mario Kart style racing games. You know, the only ones that work as a game.

 

[A random person]

Because they don't interest me: racing, sports, a good chunk of FPS (Half Life 2 being an example of an exception), most online games (kinda overlaps with FPS).

Because I suck at them: RTS, fighting games. The former overlaps with "not interested" as I have a bit of a chess-mentality with strategy games (basically, I like the more thoughtful pace of turn-based battle), though I could see things that would work better in real-time (like hardcore military simulation).

 

[KarlMonster]

I've actually found there is a game from each genre I enjoy, at least for a while so there isn't any I outright avoid. However, there are some genres that I don't play many games from.

Yes.
I was tempted to say I didn't play sports games, but then I remembered TECHMO BOWL and NHL Hockey '93. Those were a lot of good times. I'd like to say I avoid RPGs, but every once in a while I try them again, and get bored. Then I wanted to say I avoided racing games, but I did rather enjoy the early versions of the Need 4 Speed series - before it turned into crap. So it turns out that there is probably one exception to every genre that I "don't like."

Except JRPG. I can't stands them. I even had to stop playing KotoR because it felt like a JRPG. I gained my force powers in a cutscene... that took all the fun out of it.

 

[drisky]

I haven't done much RTS, which is ironic considering how many of my favorite games are turn based strategy. I think the reason is that I haven't been playing PC games very long. Other than that, yeah I play all of them.

 

[A_who]

What genre would farmville be, I never played it but there a ton of resource management games like that I think, what are they called?

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Probably only racing games. Only racing game I really enjoyed was Lego Racers (well, haven't really played many since then), but I can seem to get that to run on Windows 7 (if someone knows how, please tell me). Besides that, MMO's.

I have more action games than I can count (ranging from Doom to Bulletstorm and Homefront), adventure (Uncharted 2), RPGs (tons of Final Fantasy's, Divinity II, The Witcher), some music games (Guitar Hero 1/2, Audiosurf, Beat Hazard), RTS (Age of Empires, World in Conflict), fighting (both Dissidia's, Super Smash Bros Melee [need to buy original again since I got another N64]), and even some (14) sport games (Tony Hawk 2x - Proving Ground, Skate 1/2/3/It, Shaun White Skateboarding).

So, yeah... I play pretty much everything.