Sports games. They usually have pretty dodgy physics, and If I wanted to play football(Soccer) id go outside and play it. The only kind that is MILDLY appealing, is the manager type games
The genre you never really cared for
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I have a few genres I never really cared for, actually.
Sports games - I play sports in real life. I go to video games for escapism. I have played one of the Madden football iterations for about 20 minutes, got bored, and was declared the worst quarterback ever.
Real time strategy - just never found a game that would appeal to me. This may change, as a friend on here recently recommended a game in this genre that sounds intriguing.
Racing games - sort of. My love for Mario Kart 64 is unparalleled, but other than that, racers aren't my cup of tea.
And then every other genre falls into the "there's at least one or two games in the genre I really love."
Sports games - I play sports in real life. I go to video games for escapism. I have played one of the Madden football iterations for about 20 minutes, got bored, and was declared the worst quarterback ever.
Real time strategy - just never found a game that would appeal to me. This may change, as a friend on here recently recommended a game in this genre that sounds intriguing.
Racing games - sort of. My love for Mario Kart 64 is unparalleled, but other than that, racers aren't my cup of tea.
And then every other genre falls into the "there's at least one or two games in the genre I really love."
Fighting Games because they are made for two people and I prefer single player games or with competitive games ones with variety. It's not like the games are bad, but once you have played it for an hour, you have pretty much done everything there is to offer.
Sports games for the same reasons I dislike sports in real life. I find them boring. I have owned a Tiger Woods and an NHL game, but having played them I don't really see the appeal in playing more. It's not like each one adds anything significantly different.
Racing games. For similar reasons to fighting games. Once you have done a couple of races, you have pretty much done all the game has to offer. It's just an exercise in repetition.
I imagine many people will love to quote me in how other games could be just as simplified, but you needn't bother seeing as I am not going to explain what genres I do like and why.
Sports games for the same reasons I dislike sports in real life. I find them boring. I have owned a Tiger Woods and an NHL game, but having played them I don't really see the appeal in playing more. It's not like each one adds anything significantly different.
Racing games. For similar reasons to fighting games. Once you have done a couple of races, you have pretty much done all the game has to offer. It's just an exercise in repetition.
I imagine many people will love to quote me in how other games could be just as simplified, but you needn't bother seeing as I am not going to explain what genres I do like and why.
Since I have a fairly narrow range of interests, it would probably be faster to name the genre I did care for, as opposed to vice versa.
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Sports Games - The only way I can hope to derive any sort of enjoyment from sports is from playing them physically. I never cared to watch other people play sports, and find watching major league sports to be incredibly dull and futile (No offense intended to those who like sports, they're just not my thing). And I find playing sports games akin to watching sports.
FPS Games - I generally suck at any kind of shooter game, and I often find that shooters are incredibly boring beyond belief. My dad's friend got me Mass Effect 2 for Christmas when he found out I had not played it, and I played it a few times since he was nice enough to get it for me, but I found it painfully boring beyond belief and was dying to reach a save point so I could turn the game off.
Racing Games - I really don't even like games like Mario Kart very much. They're not the worst thing ever, but they aren't really fun to me either.
RTS Games - I suck at them, and generally find them to be quite boring. I would literally be bored to tears if I was forced to play a game like Age of Empires or Civilization.
Simulation Games - I don't really find them to be enjoyable. The most fun I've ever had was back when I was around 7, and hanging out with my friend (also 7) and he was playing The Sims. The fun part was when I would convince him to gather all of the sims into a fixed location like a pool, and then detonate some dynamite and kill them all, and then watch the Grim Reaper come to reap their souls. ...I was a bit morbid now that I think about it. He just brought them back with cheats anyways. ..He was a pretty weird kid too now that I think about it. He had a mod to uncensor the sims when they were in the shower, so they would be nude and uncensored... And he was 7 years old. I had strange friends.
WRPGs - I just don't really like them. I think they are a bit boring. I prefer JRPGs because unlike a lot of people, I actually like melodrama and find them to be more engaging overall. (I'm ready for my beating now)
Fighting games to an extent. There are some that I like, such as Persona 4 Arena, and Skullgirls. And SSB if that counts.
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Sports Games - The only way I can hope to derive any sort of enjoyment from sports is from playing them physically. I never cared to watch other people play sports, and find watching major league sports to be incredibly dull and futile (No offense intended to those who like sports, they're just not my thing). And I find playing sports games akin to watching sports.
FPS Games - I generally suck at any kind of shooter game, and I often find that shooters are incredibly boring beyond belief. My dad's friend got me Mass Effect 2 for Christmas when he found out I had not played it, and I played it a few times since he was nice enough to get it for me, but I found it painfully boring beyond belief and was dying to reach a save point so I could turn the game off.
Racing Games - I really don't even like games like Mario Kart very much. They're not the worst thing ever, but they aren't really fun to me either.
RTS Games - I suck at them, and generally find them to be quite boring. I would literally be bored to tears if I was forced to play a game like Age of Empires or Civilization.
Simulation Games - I don't really find them to be enjoyable. The most fun I've ever had was back when I was around 7, and hanging out with my friend (also 7) and he was playing The Sims. The fun part was when I would convince him to gather all of the sims into a fixed location like a pool, and then detonate some dynamite and kill them all, and then watch the Grim Reaper come to reap their souls. ...I was a bit morbid now that I think about it. He just brought them back with cheats anyways. ..He was a pretty weird kid too now that I think about it. He had a mod to uncensor the sims when they were in the shower, so they would be nude and uncensored... And he was 7 years old. I had strange friends.
WRPGs - I just don't really like them. I think they are a bit boring. I prefer JRPGs because unlike a lot of people, I actually like melodrama and find them to be more engaging overall. (I'm ready for my beating now)
Fighting games to an extent. There are some that I like, such as Persona 4 Arena, and Skullgirls. And SSB if that counts.
MMOs, especially the ones with monthly fees.
I just don't get it, why play the same damn game for years while so many other, fantastic, innovative stuff is passing you by? Play a game, experience a game, then go on to a new adventure! I just don't see the appeal. Then again, I don't get how some people can put hundreds upon hundreds of hours into the multiplayer of an FPS either...
I just don't get it, why play the same damn game for years while so many other, fantastic, innovative stuff is passing you by? Play a game, experience a game, then go on to a new adventure! I just don't see the appeal. Then again, I don't get how some people can put hundreds upon hundreds of hours into the multiplayer of an FPS either...
I have pretty broad tastes and willing to try any genre really. I can find a game I enjoy from almost any genre, though there are a few I just have little interest in. I don't care for sim games, sports games, and any racing game that isn't Wipeout....everything else is fine with me.
OK I got no problem with people not liking fighting games, fine; they ain't for everyone. But to call the genre shallow is so horribly and factually WRONG it leaves me damn near speechless. Fighting games are one of the deepest game genres to exist up there with strategy games. It's a whole lot more then two dudes punching each other until one of their health bars is depleted.
What?Cry Wolf said:
OK I got no problem with people not liking fighting games, fine; they ain't for everyone. But to call the genre shallow is so horribly and factually WRONG it leaves me damn near speechless. Fighting games are one of the deepest game genres to exist up there with strategy games. It's a whole lot more then two dudes punching each other until one of their health bars is depleted.
JRPG's for two main reasons; I can't stand turned based combat since I like a game where I feel like I have full control over my characters actions so I could do stuff like say dodge an attack or get a safe distance away from my enemy and kill them from afar, and also because their stories are horribly written most of the time and contain some of the most unlikable characters I have ever seen.
Right, because you can now give me an example of a fighting game that is deeper than its mechanics. Simply taking a position to the contrary does not make me wrong. As for shooters, those that are purely about the glorification of violence I still oppose. The difference is I can think of shooters that aren't about the glorification of violence. As for fighting games...-Seraph- said:
Yeah, no.
I love fighting games. Currently punishing myself with King of Fighters '96.
But OT, I hate strategy games and sports games. I really like having direct control of a character in game, and these don't allow for that. I'm also pretty much off first person shooters, (minus DX:HR and HL2).
But OT, I hate strategy games and sports games. I really like having direct control of a character in game, and these don't allow for that. I'm also pretty much off first person shooters, (minus DX:HR and HL2).
The depth of a fighting game lies entirely in its mechanics, just like strategy games, and hell even sports games. Not every game or genre for that matter needs to have an expressed depth in its story or characters and all that jazz because that is not the purpose of the game. These are games purely about 1 on 1 challenge, everything else is merely a secondary focus, because really...why are you playing a fighting game for the story? Those are nothing more than glorified tutorials and flavor text to give characters some personality.Cry Wolf said:
The only real fighting game that actually glorifies violence is Mortal Kombat. Most other fighters put more focus on the spectacle of fighting and the competitive aspect of having two people outplay each other in what is essentially virtual boxing/wrestling ect..
You are still wrong in calling them shallow because you focus too much on the "violence" of the game, and not the mechanics at play. Really, calling Street Fighter or Smash bros "violent" is true on a superficial level, but people don't actually PLAY them for the violent aspect of them. These are games after all, where mechanics are generally the most important aspect of the game while everything else is generally a secondary purpose.
I'm really not into fighting games, even Smash Bro's can grate on me.
The sims. I find nothing about this game interesting, except setting up psychological horror stories for the characters. once a year.
Most RTS games, I play a few, but the vast majority of them always boil down to Throw your dudes at their dudes.
I don't want to get alot of hate for this, but I never really liked dark souls/demon's souls. I beat the fire giant thing in dark souls, and like 90% of the gargoyle things in the lake of fire afterwards, but I kinda just went back to tales of the abyss.
The sims. I find nothing about this game interesting, except setting up psychological horror stories for the characters. once a year.
Most RTS games, I play a few, but the vast majority of them always boil down to Throw your dudes at their dudes.
I don't want to get alot of hate for this, but I never really liked dark souls/demon's souls. I beat the fire giant thing in dark souls, and like 90% of the gargoyle things in the lake of fire afterwards, but I kinda just went back to tales of the abyss.
Probably racing games. Really the only ones I enjoyed were the Mario Kart series, Diddy Kong Racing, and Crash Team Racing.
Can't enjoy fighters, not enough depth. I dislike pokemon (that's big enough to be a genre, right?) and find it annoying that people go so crazy about it and assume you don't play games unless you play pokemon games. Not too fond of adventure games either, some of them are just so illogical.
I like RTS, I just can't do them. I'm not fast enough.
I'm proficient enough at military war shooters, I just don't like them.
I'm proficient enough at military war shooters, I just don't like them.
Fighting games because they bore me to tears.
Sports games because they bore me to tears (except for racing games).
Sports games because they bore me to tears (except for racing games).
I think the last Military shooter with swimmable water would be Battlefield 3. But I couldn't say for sure.xPixelatedx said:
I do like FPS's and play them a lot but I would love to see shake ups in the genre and things doing their own thing, Resistance 3 is a particularly special game to me...
OT: Ummm I struggle to get into RTS, but it's not unheard of I do enjoy Company of Heroes. Though it set me back 2 missions by not saving properly so now I cbfa.
I don't generally dive into western RPG's very well, except for things like TES that appeal to my love of exploring and sheer raw role-playery inspite of shitty combat.
I don't mesh well with 3rdPS because I generally find them to be like FPS's with a big dumb brown haired generic faced white guy blocking part of my damn view these days (fuckin' nathan drake...)
Racing games I don't do well with because I suck unless it's like Sonic & All Stars or Mario Kart, same with fighting games though I used to be GODLY at Tekken, I'm out practice and now I utterly suck at it unless it's Smash Bros.
Genres I like? FPS, JRPG, RPG, TBS, Platformers 2d and 3d, hack n slash, survival horror, etc.