Me, I have absolutely no interest in something like the Sims-the gameplay seems incredibly banal to me.
I’ve steered clear of MMO’s so far-I dislike the static shallow gameplay which is inherent if you want to attract enough players to make a profit (tho I appreciate things like Eve Online which at least attempt to assume that their players are adults). I have done stand-alone RPGs tho here and there (tho they usually don’t hold my attention for too long). Despite that I fear that they may become addictive for me anyway, at least initially.
Don’t like RTS games-the clickfests, the imbalances, the cheating AI, etc. Too much work for me for too little payoff.
First-person shooters. No interest whatsoever. I can’t even assign a rational explanation for why I don’t like them. I just don’t. That perspective of gameplay is just annoying to me.
(edit: simulpost with Tom! No Portal exception for me, though.)
Fighting games. My kids love 'em, but to me, they’re completely unintuitive button mashers. I get A=punch, B=kick, but after that, I’m lost. Games are supposed to fun, and having to remember that L-R-A-A-B is this guy’s best move, but R-L-A-B-B is the other guy’s best move ain’t fun to me.
It’d be much easier to list the genres that I will play. FPSs aren’t remotely interesting to me, nor are most fighting games. There was a time when I liked the occasional button masher like Street Fighter and I liked Goldeneye on the N64 mostly for the mini-game tournaments with my roommates, but really those were more of an excuse to play with my friends when i was a kid.
Nowadays I’m pretty much only interested in puzzle games, certain strategy games and the occasional platformer that masquerades as a puzzle game (Limbo). I think I’ll like Portal when I give it a shot but that seems like a puzzle game that masquerades as a FPS.
I’ve tried CoD, Half-Life, Halo and a few other FPS and god are they dull.
Racing - never been good at them and never really enjoyed them. The two might be related, but I’m honestly not sure which one is the catalyst of the other. I will do “party” racing games like Mario Kart because they’re fun with friends and a few cocktails… but then, most things are.
Vehicle Simulation - just find them incredibly boring. I like less reality with my games I guess.
Dancing - I don’t dance.
Music - Mimicking playing a faux instrument when a colored shape passes a specific spot on the screen is pretty much the opposite of fun for me.
Platform - especially since the advent of 3D technology that makes even the simplest of jump puzzles far more difficult than necessary through clunky camera controls, but even classics like Super Mario Bros.
Second, I play games to get away from reality. To me, a plane should never stall. If you’re banking too hard you should just not be able to bank that hard. None of this stalling shit
Real planes take too long to turn around. It’s not fun when a dogfight consists of a few seconds of bullet joust as jets whiz past each other at supersonic speed and then turning around sloooooowly and doing the same thing
I sincerely didn’t start this thread to shoot down other people’s preferences. That said:
As an occasional flight sim enthusiast, and pretty diehard racing sim enthusiast, it is precisely those limits which make things interesting. If my Ferrari can turn on a dime with no risks of a spin, if my F-16 can pull 20 G’s with no ill effects to the pilot or airframe or flight envelope, I mean what’s the challenge? But if I I am tooling around the Nurburgring, I have to shift the weight just so, not overstress the tires and/or lock up the brakes, carefully balance braking grip and turning grip, and all the while keep track of what the other cars are doing, well that is where the challenge lies. I guess I’ve never understood this “get away from reality” standpoint and make things simple and painless. Like I said in a recent thread I’ve been honing my skills in racing sims for more than a decade now, and there are always new things to learn, techniques to hone.
That said, I am bored with the typical traditional racing venues that I’ve been driving on for all this time-point turn accelerate rinse repeat circuits. And in flight sims I think they’ve gone a bit too far on the authenticity side of things (which may be one reason why they’ve been slowly dying out), so I’d prefer to spend my time in a WWII (or even WWI) ride, which isn’t so technically challenging (from a systems operation standpoint).
There’s the occasional exception, but for the most part I’m not interested in sports games (including racing games), FPS games, strict RTS games, and anything centered around zombies (I find zombies boring).
No flight sims, no sports games, and I don’t particularly like MMOs.
I also won’t play really scary games most of the time. I played Bioshock, and loved it, but couldn’t play it a second time - it actually got more scary. I can’t play any of the Resident Evils. I hate things jumping out at me; I expend ammo all over the place.
I used to say no FPS, but I do like team warfare, and you can pry my Call of Duty: Modern Warfare away from my cold dead hands.
Fighting Games. I have never been able to get into them, combos are just not my thing. MMOs. I have a very strong feeling I would become incredibly addicted to WoW, and avoid them for that reason alone. Flight Sims and Racing Games. I really don’t like realism in my games, and since I’m neither a racing or flying enthusiast, neither hold any interest. JRPGs. I can’t get into the characters that are typically found in JRPGs/Manga.
**Most Sports games. **I’ve never gotten into Madden - I stuck with NCAA football. But EA has sold its soul to the devil, and churns out absolute crap these days. There’s nothing new, yet if you want to play online, you pretty much have to buy the newest installment of the exact same game every year. I’m done with that shit.
I’ve played (and enjoyed) games in most big genres. But I wouldn’t be caught dead playing a football or cycling manager game. Talk about a borefest - at least actual sports games I can see the appeal even though they don’t really do it for me, barring a few exceptions (like that one crazy NES soccer game, that even crazier NES ice hockey game, or NBA Jam). Managing sport-related spreadsheets ? That’s just alien to me.
I also don’t much enjoy Dance Dance Revolution-style games, but it may have to do with the fact I really, really suck at them (and body coordination in general).
Never played an MMO (don’t want to risk becoming addicted), but I like regular RTSs like *Warcraft *and Command & Conquer.
Don’t generally play sports games unless they’re very arcade-y, but I love *Forza Motorsport *(driving simulation).
I don’t particularly like newer RPGs, but I love Super Nintendo-era and earlier ones, and I’m more likely to try a new one out if it looks like those.
Not a big fan of newer FPSs, unless they have something else to offer (RPG elements, like *Metroid Prime *and Fallout 3).
Yeah, so I’m open to most genres, within my comfort zones of each.
I’ve noticed I’ve getting more and more picky as I get older. I used to play almost anything if it was interesting or good, but these days if I start going through my list of deal-breaking flaws I sound like a caricatyre of one of those “git outta my lawn!” guys. It’s gotten to the point I feel like there’s nothing interesting on Steam I’d want to buy, heh.
Downloading Crysis 1 now, though - at 75% off I’ll take my chances of it being something I don’t like playing.
