Poll: Which Genre has the worst games?

[Uncle_Brainhorn]

JRPGs

 

[PureIrony]

Strategy games. Not only do a lot of them suffer the same bland writing as JRPGs (usually when they're from Japan, of course), but when the gameplay sucks, it sucks hard.

And then there's the voice acting...

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Missing poll is missing is misleading.

OT: Sports

I'm sorry but they are just glorified roster updates for $60 a year.

 

[dogenzakaminion]

I think it's comes down to numbers. Since the FPS genre does well, you will find many more bad clones and copies, making it the genre with the MOST bad games. Same might go for RPG's. For every Morrowind or Baldur's Gate, theres a Two Worlds or Ego Draconis.

Conversely, the genre with the best games must then be Sim games. Can't think of a lot of bad versions of Civilization or Simcity. (though I'm sure you all can)

 

[mireko]

FPS. No, I'm not trying to be contrarian and say 'OH HEY COD&HALO SUCK', but an awful lot of garbage is churned out in that genre every year.

I'm starting to wonder if all the easy-to-use development tools and engines are giving awful developers that extra push to release their awful games.

Wait...=S...So we have a thread almost every other day either complaining about there being too many shooters, the lack of good shooters, the fact that everyone is trying to copy and go with the bland "realistic" war shooter that again everyone complains about, and then somehow the most said thing in a worse genre discussion is JRPG?.........what?

Something along the lines of "Things I've never played make me SO MAD!!!".

 

[Steppin Razor]

Which genre has the worst games? Point-and-click adventure games. Seriously, go to your local store that sells PC games and take a look to see if you can find some of the horrendously bad games. For every Sam & Max there are at least 15 Big Rigs equivalents.

Wait...=S...So we have a thread almost every other day either complaining about there being too many shooters, the lack of good shooters, the fact that everyone is trying to copy and go with the bland "realistic" war shooter that again everyone complains about, and then somehow the most said thing in a worse genre discussion is JRPG?.........what?

Don't question it, you'll just get confused. Besides, I'm about 90% certain that most of the people saying JRPGs have only ever played one or two FF games and watched some Yahtzee videos.

 

[Light 086]

Sports games hand down, I think they just suck and I can prove it!!!
They spit out a new game every year just to keep you entertained, indicating that it has no replay value.

I like playing basketball and soccer, but when I played it on a video game, I hated it.

 

[EGtodd09]

MMO's, they only got one good one, every other MMO has just been a clone until just recently. But the ones that aren't clones are shit... well, at least not nearly as good. and if you dont know what MMO I'm talking about then GTFO the escapist.

 

[Zantos]

RPGs, mostly of the J description. There are some excellent ones, but it has frequently gone wrong, and when it has it's gone so so wrong.

 

[Twilight_guy]

That's a loaded question. The quality of games is subjective (shut up, it is) so and since people who have one genera they like (or don't like) tend to like the games in it for a certain feature that is fun to them all the games in that genera are games they will probably like even if others say they suck. On the same note if there is something in one genera people don't like they will hate the whole genera because every game will have that thing. This doesn't boil down to what genera has the worst games so much as "what genera do you not like." You're not going to get anything useful out of the question. Not to mention that people only have partial expose to most genera since people will mostly play games from their favorite genera and not have a lot of background on generas they don't like since playing games they don't like from a genera they don't like would be dumb.

 

[Vibhor]

RTS

They have only had one good series, Civilization. I never did care for starcraft.

EDIT: Civilization was turn based, never mind, there has never been a good RTS.

Civilization is turn based.
And the thread is about the worst game in the genre, not the genre you couldn't get into.

Edit: I also forgot to add something for discussion.
For me it would be racing genre. I like a lot of racing games (road rash,NSF MW etc) but some of them just aren't enjoyable.
All the other racing games do is make some tricky tracks and tell the player to reach the end of it first.
Almost no racing game has evolved from the basic principles of the genre.

 

[jawakiller]

JRPG (think final fantasy)
Simulation (try, well sims)
and my least favorite, MMOs (everybody knows about those)
Bu the worst of all is... Anything involving motion control. All of those games I find really lame.

 

[Zyphonee]

To not be trite, Third Person Shooters. The problem is that the tools and expertise needed for making these are widely available, so every year, we can see at least 30 A-games shaped after the uncreative and insipid figure of cover based third person shooting oublished by companies who'd rather not take a risk and just make something that will put food on the table, then get lost in the tide of generic and bland garbage.

 

[Grey_Focks]

RTS

They have only had one good series, Civilization. I never did care for starcraft.

EDIT: Civilization was turn based, never mind, there has never been a good RTS.

...because you're not a fan. As an RTS fan, I can safely say there are PLENTY of good RTS out there. You are aware there are more RTS in existence than Starcraft, right?

OT: MMORPGs, easily. That is assuming you count free-to-play-but-filled-with-micro-transactions MMO's to be "real games". If not? Then I nominate movie games/ games based on a pre-existing license to be there own sub-genre.

EDIT- Apologies to you Sober, apparently you've already admitted that you are aware of more RTS than starcraft. Good for you, I suppose.

 

[Blemontea]

Bad Gameplay: Geometry War shooters, seriously there are only so many times i can play a game like that before it gets boring

Bad Concept: Porn games, I shall refer you to GameFap for more information.

 

[000jinx]

Gotta go with RTS. I haven't found a decent one that kept me interested since Age of Empires 2. The Civ series keeps me going but it isn't really an RTS, as mention several times above.

 

[AgentBJ09]

Licensed Games -

The only good ones in this category I have played are...

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
The Warriors
Zoids: Battle Legends
Many of the Digimon games. (World 4, not so much. I am not counting Pokemon here, even though the games are fine.)
All of the LEGO games