Least favourite video game genres?

[Stone Cold]

Self-explanatory title: What are your least favourite video game genres?

Military shooters for me. They seem cool on paper but then I got to play them and they just weren't my thing. Hell, I don't like shooters in general unless it's something like Deus EX where you can choose to play in stealth mode and avoid shooting enemies as much as possible.

I'm also not a fan of realistic racing simulators and racing games in general. Only racing games I truly enjoy are games like F-Zero, Mario Kart and Diddy Kong Racing. But I did enjoy Daytona USA back in the day.

And lastly, MOBA type of games. Games like League of Legends and Dota 2 don't appeal me at all.

What about you?

 

[MapleSilver]

I'm not the biggest fan of stealth games. I just don't enjoy feeling so vulnerable when I play games. I prefer being able to fight enemies instead of having to avoid them.

 

[mnm]

I really don't like realistic sports games, like fifa. Really not my thing, and the fanbase takes itself too seriously. Some of them treat themselves as if they're actually running out on the field. I don't like the football community anyway, as you constantly see them faking injury, but that's a topic for another day lmao

 

[DJStarstryker]

FPS, MMOs, and sports. Basically the genres that most people seem to talk about when you generically get into a gaming discussion with someone, unfortunately.

 

[Stone Cold]

FPS, MMOs, and sports. Basically the genres that most people seem to talk about when you generically get into a gaming discussion with someone, unfortunately.

Well that's the kind of people that we call casual gamers, usually. Casual gamers are also older people who only play facebook games and those popular mobile games like Bejeweled.

FPS and Sports games are stereotypically associated with "dudebros". As in guys whose game collections only include sports and military shooting games plus the newest GTA, superhero and Mortal Kombat games.

Come to think of it, there's a lot of stuff I don't play:

Mobile games. They're mostly free to play but pay to win. Also, screw ads.

Party games like singstar and Mario Party.

Music games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

MMOs.

Strategy games other than Civilization. Would like to learn Europa Universalis, though.

Puzzle games. Only really played Tetris and Dr. Mario.

Sports games. Haven't played a FIFA since 2005 and a PES game since PES 5 and PES 6, which were both great games. I much prefer Football Manager. There I can actually feel like I've accomplished something when I win trophies. I also own several WWE games, if those count, but they all came out before 2007.

I'm mostly a platforming and action adventure type of game(Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Mega Man) who also enjoys fighting games(Street Fighter, Tekken, KOF, Smash) and who occasionally ventures into something different like the Civilization games

 

[goro]

the only sports games i've ever enjoyed are the mario ones, and that's when i was really little and would love anything as long as yoshi was playable, sports in general has never been my thing...
i don't like first person shooters and battle royales as well, call me a hipster i guess

 

[Midoriya]

FPS games, MMORPGs, and sports games are some of my least favorites. I’m also not really a fan of puzzle games, but that’s a story for a different day. I do play mobile games, but I only have around two on my phone (Feh and Pocket Camp), and I don’t play them that often.

 

[Alienfish]

Stealth things, also MMORPG's that requires you to shout in the mic at 12 yo boys that idfk what they even do lol.

Also not a fan of war games obviously, lol.

 

[Mr_Persona]

I'm no fan of those sport games, they're just to many of them like way over 200 of them because that's what it feels like.

 

[Cirom]

Apart from the notable "generic" genres (basically, Sports and Realistic FPS - though I do like MMOs), I have a particular distaste for RPGs. Specifically JRPGs - the combination of long-winded stories with tedious battle systems just sucks any interest I have in the game away. It's hard to pay attention to a story when it's getting interrupted every 15 seconds just so the game can say "AND THEN THEY FOUGHT A THING" and you spend at least a minute going through the fight. Though pretty much ALL games with long-winded stories which feel very seperate from the gameplay apply here - it doesn't matter if it's Persona 4 Golden, Paper Mario, Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem Awakening or Pok?mon Alpha Sapphire... each I've tried, and each I've ended up just taking an extended break somewhat early in, coming back and having no idea what the hey was even going on with the story. (Just to prove how much this bores me: Literally the only Final Fantasy titles which kept my interest were the Crystal Chronicles games)

Very rare do I care about a game with heavy emphasis on story, but it helps when the story is seamlessly integrated into the gameplay. Bastion had a fantastic way of going about storytelling with a narrator who talks over your gameplay, reacting to the things you do and telling you about the areas you're exploring and your goals. Undertale also had an interesting battle system which also worked the story elements into it, often having story take place during battles without interrupting it (so it never felt like the battles were interrupting the story or vice-versa)

Another genre I don't care much for is RTS and Strategy games. I don't know what it is, managing a bunch of units should interest me, but I've never really cared to get into any RTS or Strategy game with the sole exception of Age of Empires 2. (And even then, I can barely beat Easy CPUs.) I... honestly couldn't tell you why these games don't interest me. But I've tried to get into them... and they just didn't gel at all. It's weird - the idea of commanding a whole army to do your bidding sounds very fun to me, but the execution just never interests me at all.

 

[SnakeEater]

I think I'd have to say FPS and sports titles, although I haven't really played much of the former.

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

most rpgs bore me to death

 

[Romaki]

I dislike dry strategy games and games that force you to be constantly online with other people while not being PVP.

 

[Hellfish]

I generally don't play any RTS, sports or puzzle game. In saying that there's at least one in each of those genres that I own and enjoy.

 

[Psydye]

RTSs, JRPGs, Sports, MMOs, Fighters(w/ the exception of the Super Smash Bros. series) and Racing(w/ the exception of the Mario ones) games. That about sums it up.

 

[Stalfos]

FPS and RTS.

 

[rhinoo]

Sport games. On a completely inrelated topic, there is a mento mint with a Rhino on it.

 

[Sweetley]

I'm not a big fan of sport games, with the exception of Wii Sports, which I actually like.

 

[Tao]

'Realistic' sports or racing games. Mario Kart or Blood Bowl I'll happily sit and play. Fifa and Forza can f' themselves. It just seems like a waste in a medium where you can do basically anything with your game, somebody would want to make/play a game that's 'literally just football' with no sort of fantastical twist to it.

Adventure games, such as Telltale games or basically any old point and click. Just so boring, not to mention the large amount of them that have you trying to guess what the developer was thinking rather than using logic, because some of the solutions are just ridiculous.

Oh, and visual novels. They're barely a game, they're barely even have the presentation to be called a comic. Despite refusing to acknowledge them as a legitimate genre of game, Steam is littered with them, so I'm including them.
The only time I'll 'put up with them' is if they're included in an actual game, such as Blazblue where the format is used to present most of the story. It's still garbage, but at least its supplementary to the game rather than the core of it.

 

[kiwi-strawberry]

sports games (why are there so many???), most mobile games, rhythm, games like mario party, and puzzle games. also, games that move/start off very slowly tend to irk me. (one of my biggest pet peeves with Pok?mon S/M and US/UM)