I'll have to say, i absolutely am discusted with sports games. They just re-release the same stuff every year so big corporations, lke EA, can make more cash. What is your least favorite genre?
What is your least favorite genre and why?
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Racing. Maybe it's horrible experiences with Mario Kart's bloody cheating as a kid, but I just don't find racing that interesting. Even the ability to blow other opponents off the track barely livens it up for me. I also have no interest in tweaking a car, ogling car parts, or most anything to do with cars.
Runner up is JRPG's, but at least there might be a couple out there I'd enjoy. (Haven't played one yet, but I admit it is possible.). Turn-based combat can kiss my ass.
Runner up is JRPG's, but at least there might be a couple out there I'd enjoy. (Haven't played one yet, but I admit it is possible.). Turn-based combat can kiss my ass.
Sports games in general. I play a lot of sports in my life, but I just find it really uninteresting to do something in a video game that I could do in real life. Besides that, FPS games come in second because they're all pretty much the same game with slight variations (except for any game by Valve, which rocks.)
And I know there's going to be a lot of hating on JRPG's, but to those of you who really hate them, I have this to say; play Earthbound.
And I know there's going to be a lot of hating on JRPG's, but to those of you who really hate them, I have this to say; play Earthbound.
third person shooters! especially for online play, it's must so inefficient compared to an FPS, and online it's usually just a case of who pressed lock on and fire first, no skill involved.
then JRPG's I just....just don't like it. unless Pheonix Wright counts.
then it would just basically be all Movie based games
then JRPG's I just....just don't like it. unless Pheonix Wright counts.
then it would just basically be all Movie based games
Fighting Games. And I'm not afraid to admit that I hate them because I am horrendously bad at most of them.
sports games. It's the same crap year after year with improved grapgics and updated rosters. At most the take AWAY features from previous games.
runner up is rpgs, I just don't like them.
runner up is rpgs, I just don't like them.
Country (except Johnny Cash, of course)...
Oh! ...erm... Video games.
In that case I'd have to say RTS games. Not so much because I don't like them, I just can never get into it. I have several friends who are always ranting and such about an awesome battle in Rome Total War or C&C, but I seem to get a little bored when setting up. And then the final battle never feels very tense to me, whether I win or lose.
I do enjoy Civilization 4 though, oddly enough.
Oh! ...erm... Video games.
In that case I'd have to say RTS games. Not so much because I don't like them, I just can never get into it. I have several friends who are always ranting and such about an awesome battle in Rome Total War or C&C, but I seem to get a little bored when setting up. And then the final battle never feels very tense to me, whether I win or lose.
I do enjoy Civilization 4 though, oddly enough.
Sports games. If I am playing a video game, I want to be doing something that could not be done under normal circumstances, not just doing what could be done by calling up your friends and going to the park. Heck, that is a lot more fun than a sports game, too.
I'll agree about sports games - go outside and throw around a damn football for real, alright?
Also racing games - I understand it's quite a bit more difficult to get behind the wheel of a nice sportscar and find miles of open road to speed down in real life, but they're still boring as hell.
And then RTS - I'd probably like them better if I didn't totally suck at them, but I do.
Also racing games - I understand it's quite a bit more difficult to get behind the wheel of a nice sportscar and find miles of open road to speed down in real life, but they're still boring as hell.
And then RTS - I'd probably like them better if I didn't totally suck at them, but I do.
RPGs. (with very few exceptions)
I'm a form of person that while I can have a very long attention-span (Heck, I did "beat" Oblivion, Diablo 1 & 2 etc.) I'm the kind of guy that only like to play games for a short ammount of time.
I love FPS-games for this sole reason. I somehow feel that RPGs require way too much time and effort to be fully enjoyable.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that RPGs are shit. I'm just admitting that RPGs just don't fascinate me in any way.
I really don't understand the concept of long RPGs for handheld consoles. I thought teh entire idea of handheld consoles was to pick a fast easy-to-play game that can be turned off and shut off instantly. RPGs for my NDS have extremely long movie-sequences that I have to sit through for a long time before I can actually *DO* anything.
I could have played 5 rounds of Street Fighter II by the time the intro was done for Pete's sake.
Also, don't even get me even started on MMORPGs. I really don't see the reason in playing a game you cannot ever finish, requires a monthly fee and has like Yahtzee says - grind up the arse. (WoWers in the back, sit down)
I don't like the kind of RTS's that require too much management of your base/village before anythign actually happends. Lots of RTS's fall into this category like Settlers and AoE to some degree. I like RTS games that are more fast-paced. Westwood studios gets thumbs up with every RTS they've released in my books. I really don't like managing food, crops and labour in my own village before/between/after battles to make sure everyone in my base is happy.
Sure there's a bigger element to strategy that way, but I concider that taking out all the fun out of a RTS game.
Imagine a FPS game where you had to maintain your freckin rifle after every battle and fondle around with bullets cartridges all the time. See what I mean?
Realistic Racing games/Car simulators.
I like racing games. I like fast-paced racing games. I absolutely LOVE arcade-style racers.
But the kind like Grand Turismo just bore me out of my mind.
I can see why people like Flight Simulators and shit, but CAR simulators?
And hunting simulators/fishing simulators... I don't think I need to say much about that...
I'm a form of person that while I can have a very long attention-span (Heck, I did "beat" Oblivion, Diablo 1 & 2 etc.) I'm the kind of guy that only like to play games for a short ammount of time.
I love FPS-games for this sole reason. I somehow feel that RPGs require way too much time and effort to be fully enjoyable.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that RPGs are shit. I'm just admitting that RPGs just don't fascinate me in any way.
I really don't understand the concept of long RPGs for handheld consoles. I thought teh entire idea of handheld consoles was to pick a fast easy-to-play game that can be turned off and shut off instantly. RPGs for my NDS have extremely long movie-sequences that I have to sit through for a long time before I can actually *DO* anything.
I could have played 5 rounds of Street Fighter II by the time the intro was done for Pete's sake.
Also, don't even get me even started on MMORPGs. I really don't see the reason in playing a game you cannot ever finish, requires a monthly fee and has like Yahtzee says - grind up the arse. (WoWers in the back, sit down)
I don't like the kind of RTS's that require too much management of your base/village before anythign actually happends. Lots of RTS's fall into this category like Settlers and AoE to some degree. I like RTS games that are more fast-paced. Westwood studios gets thumbs up with every RTS they've released in my books. I really don't like managing food, crops and labour in my own village before/between/after battles to make sure everyone in my base is happy.
Sure there's a bigger element to strategy that way, but I concider that taking out all the fun out of a RTS game.
Imagine a FPS game where you had to maintain your freckin rifle after every battle and fondle around with bullets cartridges all the time. See what I mean?
Realistic Racing games/Car simulators.
I like racing games. I like fast-paced racing games. I absolutely LOVE arcade-style racers.
But the kind like Grand Turismo just bore me out of my mind.
I can see why people like Flight Simulators and shit, but CAR simulators?
And hunting simulators/fishing simulators... I don't think I need to say much about that...
Which is a TBS game instead of the mislabeled RTS (strategy is long term war planning, tactics is what is used in a single battle, or series of battles. A strategy game would then be something in the style of civilisation, large scale. While C&C is more about the tactics of an individual battle (or a few skirmishes), with a smaller scale. Total war falls in between, I think, since it has elements of both). So saying you dislike RTS's doesn't make it that strange that you enjoy a TBS game.sunami88 said:
MMORPGs. Because it's the vilest creation known to man since the discovery of bacteria (imagine discovering that. Microscopical bugs everywhere, inside you, inside you food, I'd go nuts... More nuts).
Sports games. Hell, if I want to play a sport I'll get togheter a few friends and play, and that doesn't happen often. I find the fascination with fotball, hockey and such ridiculous in the first place, making computer games out of and people playing them is beyond me. I've even tried to see if I could figure out the missing component. I discovered it was worse than I initially thought.
Sports, fighting and racing. they start out cool with all the realism(NHL 2002), slick moves(bloody roar 3) , and cool cars (like the rocketsled in ridge racer for PSP), but they get old. FAST.
I don't like many FPS- too gray. I like pretty colors! Ditto on all the comments on sports games. Once you've played one, you've played them all.
It's a rare occasion when I stumble across any two FPS's that I CAN tell apart (Portal being the exception, obviously).
Now, ordinarily, when I am confronted with a genre that I don't like, I just say something along the lines of, "I don't play them, and they can suck as much as they like somewhere else." I tend to ignore things I don't like, which is why most of my reviews are positive (not because my standards are low).
However, I cannot ignore FPS's, because they are THE ONLY thing American game companies make anymore. They are crowding out all the other genres that game companies USED to make over here, every software developer in America is shunning all the other types of games because they are too busy churning out three identical shooters a year.
So, I wind up playing Japanese games a lot, but since saying anything good about Japanese games makes you a weeaboo otaku fanboy, I really can't talk much about that here. Or anywhere.
Now, ordinarily, when I am confronted with a genre that I don't like, I just say something along the lines of, "I don't play them, and they can suck as much as they like somewhere else." I tend to ignore things I don't like, which is why most of my reviews are positive (not because my standards are low).
However, I cannot ignore FPS's, because they are THE ONLY thing American game companies make anymore. They are crowding out all the other genres that game companies USED to make over here, every software developer in America is shunning all the other types of games because they are too busy churning out three identical shooters a year.
So, I wind up playing Japanese games a lot, but since saying anything good about Japanese games makes you a weeaboo otaku fanboy, I really can't talk much about that here. Or anywhere.
