Least favourite video game genres?

[Joy]

FPS or shooters in general and sports titles

 

[Tri]

FPS games make me feel woozy, they're basically unplayable, which is dissapointing because I don't inherently dislike them. I wish I was able to play Borderlands, Bioshock and Overwatch.

 

[Seastar]

My least favorite are realistic sports games (mainly because I think real sports are boring), shooter games (I tried to get into Splatoon though because it looks different. I'm not good at it yet but my brother is.), and anything I'm bad at or think is too violent, though those two aren't genres.

 

[neoratz]

i hate sports games!!! nintendo makes the only sports games i enjoy and even then i can never get super into them

 

[Envy]

Puzzle games, they just aren't for me. Besides that, anything that is really violent. I know that's not a genre, but that's the best way to describe it. The games make me feel sick. I can't even stand watching friends play stuff like FallOut, it just disgusts me, and it's very disturbing.

 

[Stone Cold]

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.

There are plenty of them because they're yearly releases.

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.

JRPGs are hit or miss for me. All the constant random encounters every 5-10 seconds can be annoying when you're trying to get out of a certain place. Having to grind also sucks. The worst parts parts of Pok?mon games are up until the 1st-2nd gym where you catch your first Pok?mon and gotta level all of them up to a certain level.

'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.

Does the Ace Attorney series count as Visual Novel? I liked the two games I played of that series.

Puzzle games, they just aren't for me. Besides that, anything that is really violent. I know that's not a genre, but that's the best way to describe it. The games make me feel sick. I can't even stand watching friends play stuff like FallOut, it just disgusts me, and it's very disturbing.

Tetris was fun back in the 80s-90s, but other than that, yeah....

Also, puzzle games seem very niche to me. They've never been a major genre, afaik. What are even the big puzzle game series? Tetris and what else? Dr. Mario back in the day? Mobile and flash games such as Bejeweled?

 

[Reckoner]

I always thought from a young age that sports and racing games in general were supremely boring. Simply because I've always disliked sports and suck at racing games enough that I started loathing them.

 

[Garrett]

Shooters and racing sims. I've tried, but I just don't enjoy them.

 

[Mash]

Golf games or baseball games. They're way too expensive and are never fun. Most other sport games I enjoy but not those two. (Besides the Mario ones, those are fun!)

 

[DarkDesertFox]

I'm going to have to go with MOBA games. I think that's the correct terminology? Those multiplayer strategy-type games where you point and click. It's just very boring to me.

 

[kayleee]

I HATE turn-based combat, so no matter how good a game is or looks I will not play it if the combat is turn-based. With the exception of Pok?mon, but I don’t even love Pok?mon games that much

Oh and also real time strategy games

 

[Bread Kennedys]

MOBAS, realistic sports games and fighting games (with the exception of games like Super Smash Bros., which is more like a party fighter anyway). I find MOBAs extremely boring and I don't have the time for them, realistic sports games have never interested me because a majority of them look the same anyway, and I could never get into fighting games because I have to take note of all these button combinations among everything else and it's just not fun for me.

 

[HistoryH22]

Probably music-based games. I just can't get into them. Fighting games would probably be a close second.

 

[seburin]

My least favorite is sports games, since I'm not into sports at all. I also don't like fighting games and MOBAs.

 

[LaBelleFleur]

I?m not a big fan of real time strategy games, for two reasons: I suck at them, and most of them move too slowly to keep my attention and so I lose interest.

 

[Alienfish]

I’m not a big fan of real time strategy games, for two reasons: I suck at them, and most of them move too slowly to keep my attention and so I lose interest.

Yeah or they are elitist in their way of playing so you must be able to take it sloooow and get used to overly advanced mechanics ugh

 

[Shellzilla_515]

First. Person. Shooters. Seriously, no matter what game it is in that genre, they always look and feel like they play the same. It's so boring and stale, let alone that genre is getting a little bit oversaturated.

 

[Alienfish]

My least favorite is sports games, since I'm not into sports at all. I also don't like fighting games and MOBAs.

Except racing games, totally agree.

Fighting games are bad unless it's an arcade machine/arcade machine controller played one. I don't like smashing buttons for eg. Street fighter on a random console/pc with say xbox controller or stuff.

MOBAs are meh, especially with the past 5-10 years elitism.

 

[G0DFlesh_88]

Sports games by far.

 

[Matt0106]

Sports games and Military-shooters are ones I dislike the most. I feel like they all look the same, and there's no variety. For starters, games like FIFA and NHL come out every bloody year, and the same goes for Call of Duty, and yet these games do amazing in sales (somehow). What ever happened to games that had actual time put into them?