Video game genre you grew out of .

[Braedan]

FPS. Used to be fun, but now I just can't do it, Tools pretending that they can beat internet people up in real life, or imagining that their 56th prestige isn't just a testament to their unemployedness.

Oddly I loved Fallout 3/NV... probably because it didn't have "Fake realistic" shooting, and no people in it...

 

[Strixvaliano]

JRPG's. I used to tear them up until after the PS1 era. They are just to long, boring, grindy, repetitive and cliche enough to hold my interest anymore. How many times can we have angsty meterosexual teens with a coming of age story saving the world or [insert other cliche JRPG stories here.]

There are some that hold my interest but they have come very far and few inbetween since PS1.

Shooters are getting up there on my list too because a majority of them are just copy and paste crap of other copy and paste crap shooters.

 

[karamazovnew]

MMORPG's. I blame WoW for that. The whole concept of leveling to a max level just to raid for gear is something that I will never touch again. So far, the only MMO that managed to be different was Guild Wars so I'm keeping an eye on Guild Wars 2, although I'm not holding my breath yet.

And, if I were to extend the concept, RPG's in general. I love games in which I get better not by raising stats, but by understanding the world I'm playing in, dealing with fearful situations, surviving them and gaining confidence, feeling stronger, being more diverse and seeing opportunities. The best example would be Stalker, or even Minecraft. Morrowind also did this quite well, although you also were insanely more tough thanks to skills. Not a perfect system, but it achieved the perfect feeling.

 

[Delock]

While I still play them, I've mostly gotten out of most FPS games these days (3 guesses as to why).
Another genre I've mostly dropped out of is 2D platforming, but mostly due to the lack of must have games (yes I did pick up Outland, and yes I enjoy it, but I've not seen a lot in this department as of late). This one is probably the one I'd come back to the quickest if I saw more of it.

Fighting games have basically dropped off my radar these days. Between the fact that I don't want to have to buy the newest version of a game (or get the huge DLC for it, and definitely not the small DLC costumes). The exception here is BlazBlue, which is helped by having a good story that I actually got invested into. However, my previous favorites such as Soul Calibur, Tekken, and even MvC went down or are currently going down a road I'm not following.

JRPGs surprisingly still remain as one of my more favored genres, though it's also the genre I see the most disappointment in (doesn't help that finding reviews by people who have actually played through enough of the game to give a good overall opinion are harder to find than most of the games themselves). I'm a bit tired of Strategy JRPGs (ie same system as FF Tactics) though, but that's more because you can't toss a stone in the PSP library without hitting 50 of those.

MMOs are a genre I keep falling back into. Never got addicted to WoW, but CoH (and way before that Runescape) was a nice timesink. Guild Wars was what I played with my friends back in High School, and these days I'm trying out Champions Online while looking over at TOR (and knowing that my crappy internet wouldn't be able to handle it even if I wanted to pay subscription). It always ends up with me taking long breaks between MMOs but I keep falling back into them.

If we were to names series that are practically their own genres at this point based on their fanbase size, I've fallen out of plenty (Halo, Megaman, Pokemon, Mario, etc.).

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I used to play racing games all the time years ago, and now I have zero interest in them. Cruisin' USA and Midnight Club were my favorites, and now they just bore me, don't know what happened.

 

[zehydra]

As much as I don't want to just go along with what everyone's saying in this thread, I'm gonna have to agree with the JRPG, unless it's new and fun. I still play Pokemon occasionally because it's a load of fun and it isn't like every other JRPG on the planet.

Lol, and it's largely text based so I can practice my Japanese with it. Actually, come to think of it, that's pretty much why I still play pokemon.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I used to play racing games all the time years ago, and now I have zero interest in them. Cruisin' USA and Midnight Club were my favorites, and now they just bore me, don't know what happened.

Likewise... before I got my... last PC, I played a few racers and enjoyed them, as I recall. These days, couldn't care less. Same with fighters.

 

[cgentero]

JRPG, I just couldn't take the lack of freedom and random encounters anymore, however my interest has peaked again after playing Persona 3.

 

[SergeantAnt]

I agree alot with everyone on here.
Sadly jrpgs have been losing my interest over the years :/.
Fortunately there are a few that i still love to play. Persona 3/4, most final fantasies, tales games, chrono cross, and thats mostly it. Lost Odyssey has been ok too.
Overall though there all kind of just getting boring.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I used to play racing games all the time years ago, and now I have zero interest in them. Cruisin' USA and Midnight Club were my favorites, and now they just bore me, don't know what happened.

Likewise... before I got my... last PC, I played a few racers and enjoyed them, as I recall. These days, couldn't care less. Same with fighters.

The last one I played was ModNation Racers on the PSP and the only reason I played it was because I got it for free. It was interesting and whimsical enough for me to play it for a few days. After that? Nope, and I love whimsical things.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Getting tired of FPS games a bit now (other than Deus Ex: HR) - started playing my Medieval 2 Total War game (which I LOVE) a bit more now, would be playing Rome if it only worked!

 

[krazykidd]

Really odd thing to post by the way. Ever just got sick of a whole genre before, no I haven't. Got sick of games in the genre, but to just say no forever. I never really liked racing games before, but I won't turn my nose up like some brat to one I haven't played before. Suck at most racing games but I can't say no to them because I haven't played them all. This kind of thinking that hurts the gaming industry, not helping it. Everyone on here right now that hates a genre, go get five games from that genre right now that you haven't played. Even I don't care how you do it, use gamely, borrow them, rob a bank. Little good to get that out.

While i see your point and it is quite valid , the purpose of this thread isn't what genre do you hate , it's more of a , what genres did you like in the past but don't like or play anymore , doesn't mean you necesarily hate the genre as a whole , just that you lost interest in it. Like a lot of people said in this thread , when they were young they could invest hours playing jrpgs , but now they don't have the time to play and invest time in them thus growing out of them , without necesarily hating said genre.

 

[Jayben Tibbles]

I've grown out of racers (I just lost interest), Guitar Hero/Rock Band type games (repetitive) and GTA style games (thanks to overplaying San Andreas to achieve 100%)

 

[Jdb]

Real time strategy. At least the RTS games where the commander doesn't have a presence on the battlefield. Command and Conquer used to be my favorite RTS series. But now the idea of a faceless and nameless commander sending dozens of dudes to certain doom feels really weird to me.

JRPG. I haven't played a new JRPG in years, but I bet the winning strategy in most of them is "one guy constantly buffs, one guy constantly heals, and the other guys whack away at elemental weaknesses". Really, really tired game play.

First person shooters of the Doom variety. Similar to JRPGs, I think Doom-like shooters have tired game play. "Pick biggest gun and circle strafe to victory" is still interesting if it's mixed with other genres though.

MMOs. I played them for their game play instead of their grind, at the time not realizing the grind is the game play! Grinding has no place in video games if it isn't challenging or has a constant trickle of rewards and every current MMO has neither.

 

[MajWound]

Turn-based RPGs. They peaked for me with Super Mario RPG, then afterward everything is either too complicated or too clunky.

 

[CobraX]

FPS, I just find them either frustrating or boring now. OH well, nothing of any value was lost

 

[Klepa]

Beat 'em up fighting games. We played a lot of Mortal Kombat as kids, and a lot of Tekken during my prepubescent years, but they don't hold any kind of interest to me anymore.

I could also say platformers, but I didn't like them too much as a kid either.