Poll: What game genre/style are you most tired of seeing?

[josemlopes]

The Medal Of Honor/Battlefield/Call of Duty puddle of mud, I dont dislike modern day FPS but make them stand out, I dont complain about the Arma series because it tries to be something on its own. These 3 games just borrow so much from each other that they loose identiry, especially Medal Of Honor.

Medal of Honor should have kept the now unexistent WW2 themed FPS, Battlefield should have gone to the "realistic" type of gameplay with effort on teamplay (commander mode, better classes that have a more focused purpose, etc), and Call of Duty could keep that arcade-ish madness that it created after COD 4.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

I'm actually going to say I'm just sick of seeing old school RPG's/any RPG before 2005 ALL being held as the pinnacles of gaming and god's jizz. I don't want to hear about how much you loved Baldurs Gate, or how crap Pokemon has gotten after the one that came out when you were 6, or even how Interplay's Fallout was better than sex, with the NEW fallouts being massive piles of shit. I'm basically talking about games that require you to know a book load of info to play them, manage hundreds of items and calculate complex division before you can attack anyone. Now everything is shit because it's a bit less needlessly complicated. Now, feel free to attack me and call me a retard and insult my mother because I don't like RPG's that are as complicated and hard to use as a jet.

hard to use...as a jet?

but...jets are awesome...


I understand what you mean, but most rpg's do streamlining in the wrong way, it should be an easy game to pick up with a hard game to master, but most of them just make it too simplified to the point it's not an rpg, or they try to mask it with a couple rpg elements and it's an action and/or adventure game besides that. I'm not saying the old time rpg's are superior, it's just there really hasn't been a modern day counterpart for em


OT: either the over emphasis on making bland shooter (i'm fine with shooters, but when you make a shooter just to have it as a shooter to appeal to a wider audience, then i'll probably sigh and pass on your game.) or as mentioned, overly simplifying RPG's into making them accessible for a 5 year old is getting a tad bit overdone.

I see your point, and I'm not talking about people like you. Let me give you a hypothetical situation. The next new Baldurs Gate game is announced, everyone rejoices. But then they learn that say, the inventory management has gotten better/more user friendly. Then they say that the whole game is ruined and only being made for kiddies, when it's not, it's being made for a bigger audience than 30 year old hardcore gamers.

 

[Raika]

Hey guys, I hate shooters because they're popular. Am I cool yet?

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Third person shooters with chest high walls. Didn't like them before, don't like them now.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

Hey guys, I hate shooters because they're popular. Am I cool yet?

Yep, you are fitting in with the rest of the crowd. Now, go on my child and hate on the new fallouts, mass effect 3 and nintendo! If you don't then you are a mindless kid drone who likes to suck the "corporation's" dicks.
[/heavy, heavy sarcasm]

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I'm actually going to say I'm just sick of seeing old school RPG's/any RPG before 2005 ALL being held as the pinnacles of gaming and god's jizz. I don't want to hear about how much you loved Baldurs Gate, or how crap Pokemon has gotten after the one that came out when you were 6, or even how Interplay's Fallout was better than sex, with the NEW fallouts being massive piles of shit. I'm basically talking about games that require you to know a book load of info to play them, manage hundreds of items and calculate complex division before you can attack anyone. Now everything is shit because it's a bit less needlessly complicated. Now, feel free to attack me and call me a retard and insult my mother because I don't like RPG's that are as complicated and hard to use as a jet.

hard to use...as a jet?

but...jets are awesome...


I understand what you mean, but most rpg's do streamlining in the wrong way, it should be an easy game to pick up with a hard game to master, but most of them just make it too simplified to the point it's not an rpg, or they try to mask it with a couple rpg elements and it's an action and/or adventure game besides that. I'm not saying the old time rpg's are superior, it's just there really hasn't been a modern day counterpart for em


OT: either the over emphasis on making bland shooter (i'm fine with shooters, but when you make a shooter just to have it as a shooter to appeal to a wider audience, then i'll probably sigh and pass on your game.) or as mentioned, overly simplifying RPG's into making them accessible for a 5 year old is getting a tad bit overdone.

I see your point, and I'm not talking about people like you. Let me give you a hypothetical situation. The next new Baldurs Gate game is announced, everyone rejoices. But then they learn that say, the inventory management has gotten better/more user friendly. Then they say that the whole game is ruined and only being made for kiddies, when it's not, it's being made for a bigger audience than 30 year old hardcore gamers.

that's fine (i'll admit there are some ridiculously mundane inventory systems "back in the day" that made learning how to use it/what it even meant was a pain in the ass) and i'd agree, there are some people who take it too far.

 

[TehCookie]

The brown realistic anything. I play games to escape reality I want it to be fantastical. Taking middle earth and adding magic and a few dragons isn't that fantastical, but it's a lot better than the war shooters.

 

[porpoise hork]

OP you forgot to add CoD to the list...

 

[hoboman29]

I say any game that keeps rehashing itself because that just wastes time, money, and effort that could have been put into an original idea that would probably be much better than the same game with different wallpaper

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Modern Day 'brown' FPSs. I'm so sick of those I could puke.

I'm actually going to say I'm just sick of seeing old school RPG's/any RPG before 2005 ALL being held as the pinnacles of gaming and god's jizz. I don't want to hear about how much you loved Baldurs Gate, or how crap Pokemon has gotten after the one that came out when you were 6, or even how Interplay's Fallout was better than sex, with the NEW fallouts being massive piles of shit. I'm basically talking about games that require you to know a book load of info to play them, manage hundreds of items and calculate complex division before you can attack anyone. Now everything is shit because it's a bit less needlessly complicated. Now, feel free to attack me and call me a retard and insult my mother because I don't like RPG's that are as complicated and hard to use as a jet.

You exaggerate, and when I say you exaggerate, I mean you make Chicken Little look like a clam and rational tell-it-like-it-is sort of... uh bird. Most of those older RPGs weren't really all that complicated, all you really needed to be able to do is recognize which number is bigger, and often times the game would tell you that too; so all you really needed to be able to do (aside from read) is recognize that green = good, red = bad. So if you could handle that, you would be fine. Ok now I'm exaggerating.
I will admit that the fanboys of these games can and will be a bit assholeish, but countering them by being equally assholeish is not going to solve anything. Someone has to break the Cycle of Asshole(Trademark)

 

[Jynthor]

None really, I just ignore genres/games I don't like.

 

[babinro]

Voted for exclusively motion sensor only because the controls aren't there yet for probably 95% of the games I've played.

I'm all for motion controls enhancing the experience, but it shouldn't be forced until it feels as effortless as a controller/mouse/keyboard.

More on topic though, I'm not sick of seeing any game type. I'd rather have the choice of 1000 brown FPS games a year than only 5.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Gotta also go with the oversaturated genre of shooters, especially modern-day multiplayer-focused military FPS games. That's not to say I hate all shooters. I just want less of them.

Poll needs "pretentious indie 2-D platformer with one (1) gimmick."

This works just as well. And he's right, this should be an option.

 

[Jitters Caffeine]

I'm getting pretty tired of seeing what most developers seem to think is called a "Dark Fantasy" game, which usually means a generic fantasy game with tons of swearing, racism, and nudity.

 

[xplosive59]

I was never a fan of FPS games but if they had an intersting idea and were enjoyable I'm fine with them. However after saying that most FPS games don't bring anything new to the table and are copying CoD, a franchise that became stagnant years ago.

 

[Tayh]

I voted for annual sports games, but

Action games masquerading as rpgs. Mindless/linear/arcady FPS/TPS...

is a close second.
I hate how much the "RPG" term is misused to fit just about any game released these days.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

Modern Warfare...soon to be WRPG set in middle earth or something similar....set these places elsewhere!

 

[WoahDan]

Not really sick of any genre, why would I be? I've never really got that mentality, if you don't like FPS's (or-insert-overly-popular-genre-of-your-choice) then simply don't play them, gaming is diverse enough that you can safely ignore them and carry on having brilliant experiences of your own without interacting with them.

That said I'd really like it if we could have a moratorium on elves.

 

[Grimh]

I'm not really tired of any of them. I just ignore the games or genres I'm not interested in.