That one genre you will always HATE

[Kevlar Eater]

MOBA - No other genre has made me wanna slit the throats of those I've played with (and their mothers for giving birth to the fuckers) with a chainsaw and shove their still-screaming faces onto red hot stove elements more than MOBAs. This was because I gave League of Legends a chance... I should not have ever done that. I could not uninstall that shit fast enough.

Sports - I don't play sports in real life, and sports games never interested me. Plus, each iteration (gods, I hate when people -- especially developers -- use that word) is a change in roster and a few small changes to the engine. Hardly worth it, in my opinion.

Survival Horror - Two lies in one.

 

[Kailow Krow]

Sports games because real life is better.

 

[Vykrel]

JRPG's. i just find the majority of them to be so cringe-worthy. i also dont care for sports games or simulators.

 

[Mullac]

Well I don't know if I hate them, but I strongly dislike Sport games. I have no interest in watching sport outside of games and would much rather be playing them in real life than virtually.

 

[rob_simple]

Really, really hard games. The Dark Souls kind, not the badly designed kind. I understand their appeal, and wholly admire/enjoy watching people who are good at the games, but to me it's just a level of dedication and practice that I have no desire to put in.

Other than that, ever since Burnout made me love racing games, there's no genre I'd really rule out, since there's always the chance a developer will do something crazy I'll enjoy.

 

[likalaruku]

There's no genre I outright disprove of, but there is one I don't patronize.

Brown (land) shooters & grey (sci-fi) shooters.

*I only own 3 FPS games. Every so many years one will just appeal to me, even though the genre does nothing for me.
*Haven't liked sci-fi since I was a kid.
*Grew up in a barren desert, don't like brown wastelasts. Sci-fi also tends to take place on plantless metalic wastelands.
*Most seem to be multiplayer & not very story heavy. I like the exact opposite of that.

 

[Weresquirrel]

Competetive multiplayer I will not touch with a 10-foot barge pole. Cannot abide all the vitriol and trash talking, and I just don't have the aggresiveness needed to succeed in them.

Also, sports games. Not a fan of watching real sports, don't like fake sports either. It doesn't help that the Fifa series pretty much embodies what's worst about games these days. I always chuckle inwardly when my friend rages against Pokemon for not innovating, but every year he buys the new Fifa roster update with a straight face.

 

[erbkaiser]

Hate is a strong word, but here are my least favourite genres in no particular order:

MMORPGs: The world may be beautiful, the gameplay in theory good, but it always gets refined down to a click-fest with some idiots acting like dicks ruining the experience for you.

Sports games: they're either as dull as watching paint dry, or they are just the same game year in year out with just roster updates.

Tower defense: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn. If you've played one of these, you've played them all.


And basically anything which relies on multiplayer. I use games to escape stupid humans from RL so I don't want them to ruin it for me online either.

 

[likalaruku]

Sports games because real life is better.

I'd agree if it weren't for the frequent hilarious glitches. They provide a comic gold the real world does not reproduce.

 

[The_Echo]

As of now, military shooters. I've come across all different kinds of shooting games that I've enjoyed, be it for the story or for the unique gameplay, but I've yet to find a military shooter that I enjoyed even slightly.

Yeah, I agree.

They're all basically the same thing, and none of them are all that interesting.

Also, I don't play online basically ever, so $60 for a couple hours of single-player content really isn't my thing.

 

[God's Clown]

RPG's that use D&D rule set, or at least the old school ones. To this day I cannot play Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Night and any other game similar to those. Which is a shame, because I hear they have good stories.

I also hate Strategy games. I am not one for complex thinking, so if it requires me to care about what I am doing combat wise, I dislike it.

 

[optimusjamie]

I'd say sports games other than motorsports, modern military shooters beyond ARMA or Spec Ops: The Line and fighting games. Modern military shooters largely because of the pretentions to realism (ARMA being the exception) and stupid plots (Spec Ops: The Line is the exception here), sports games because I'm not really that into sports (other than motorsports) and fighting games because the communities turned me off.

 

[Piorn]

Basically any game that requires you to place a cursor relative to your character.
Be it RTSes or MOBAs where you need to click the area around units to make them move, or top down shooters that fire where you point.
If i don't lose the cursor between all the flashy lights, constantly vercorizing my firing pattern when I move gets annoying quickly.

 

[Olas]

That one?

Racing games that aren't MarioKart, fighting games that aren't Super Smash Brothers, sports games, most RPGs especially JRPGs, I hated skateboarding games back when the whole Tony Hawk craze was in full swing but I guess that's beside the point now.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Racing games usually make me want to throw my controller against the wall. With friends they're playable, because losing to another human being means you were outplayed, but I don't think I've ever beat the campaign on a racing game. Nothing is more frustrating than being ahead all race, then crashing once and then having every single car of the bullshit AI that never crashes ever zoom past you leaving you hopelessly behind.

Hardcore top down RTS games don't frustrate me like that because I much more actively avoid playing them. Nothing about them seems interesting or fun at all to me.

 

[DanielBrown]

Is anime styled JRPGs a form of genre? 'cos that's the one type of game I absolutely cannot stand. RPGs are by far my favorite genre, but as soon as I see the cutesy envieroments/enemies/characters and the odd battle systems they usually have I lose all intrest.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I really dislike Military Shooters...I wanted to like early Call of Duty games but couldn't get into them. As for modern incarnations of those same Call of the Battlefield's Honor games, I only made it through one of them and it wasn't enough to get me to want to go back for more. I can't say I hate these games...I just don't like them and won't buy them until they're cheaper than a good meal.

Sports sims can also fuck off and die. When I say "sports simulation" I mean that as a blanket statement covering not only EA Sports like Madden but also motorsports like Forza and Grand Turismo. My big problem with most of these games are how they've choked the market and made it so that it's impossible for a lighter variation to happen at all. I would absolutely love a new Blitz or Mutant League sports title but nobody would buy those games if they had to make up team and player names so there's no way in Hell those games are going to get made. As for racing sims, I just can't stand how fickle the "realism" is to them. You get cars that handle like ass and yet if you scrape around every guard rail (made out of unbreakable adamantium) your car never gets damaged. I prefer my Burnout and, kart racers thank-you-very-much.

I'm not good at RTS games but don't hate them for it.

 

[Evonisia]

Sports, racing and Sims (specifically) games would be games I will always hate.
Sports games don't appeal because I'm not sporty nor do I care about the fantasy of it.
I'm competitive but racing games bore me to tears because racing is fine as a sub-game mode, it can't carry a game.
The Sims/God Games just bore me, probably because I don't like the feeling that I'm not the one in control after a few hours.

As for genres I actually play it would be MMSs, they've just been really grating on me, their singleplayer experiences degenerating at a fast rate and even the amount of shades of grey and brown in the game are reducing. The only Campaign that had me thinking anything from the genre in the past 5 years would be Black Ops and Black Ops II for at least trying to creative interesting theories (despite the Manchurian Candidate influence), enemies and plots. The multiplayer is starting to bore me, I've never liked many of them, but MoH: Warfighter, Battlefield 3, MW3 and so on and so forth are appalling.

 

[kyuzo3567]

While not exactly HATE per se, I can't stand any sports games of any kind at all... followed by racing games (with the exception of split/second cuz found the concept fun to use in the game)

I used to not every play FPS games cuz I'm a Console user and was shite with aiming with a joystick, only ever really good with arcade shooters. Now I don't play FPS much because I think most of the games are garbage/I don't own an Xbox to get into Halo which is supposed to be good. Only AAA FPS titles I have are Mass Effect 1-3.