Who has trouble liking a series?

[Trent the Paladin]

but uhm i've never really got into the kirby series. i got kirby's epic yarn before and i wanted to like it but i didn't. i had a kirby game on my ds too and i just thought it was really boring and almost too easy to complete. i wanted to like it though because kirby is so cool :c

Kirby's Epic Yarn is sort of understandable, it's also not really a true Kirby game. :/ It was supposed to be about Prince Fluff but Nintendo has no faith in new IPs so they just slap on one of their mascots. Kirby games do tend to lean on the easy side mostly because it's aimed at kids.

@chillv: You really seem to have an unhealthy obsession with hating shooters that rivals my hatred for Capcom there. :X

 

[Wish]

I do think Ocarina of Time can be pretty scary sometimes, like when you have less deku nuts and you're fighting off a wolf or something.

people actually use deku nuts??

 

[BellGreen]

people actually use deku nuts??

I use it to a very small extent lol.

 

[kittenrobotarmy]

I still don't get it.

 

[chillv]

Genres I just can't get into

Puzzle games
Oh god! Where do I start? The only puzzle game that I actually can tolerate is professor layton due to the fact that after you are done with a puzzle, you don't have to worry about encountering it ever again. Also, the puzzles are more varied in that game. The puzzle games I am refering to are games like Puyo Pop, Tetris, Puzzle League, Picross and Dr. Mario. Those games are just you playing the exact same puzzle over and over again until it gets too hard for you. I know some of these have different modes and everything to keep stuff interesting but they just bore and frustrate me way too much.

RPG
The first RPG I ever played was Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and I have to say that it gave a bad first impression on me as far as RPGs go. If it wasn't for Earthbound, Super Mario RPG the Mario & Luigi series, The Dempa Men series and Fire Emblem Awakening, I probably would've been turned off of RPGs forever.

Sports
I can tolerate stuff like Mario Tennis. However, I don't find any appeal in actual sports games like the NBA2K series or Madden NFL series.

Okay, time for more game series I can't get into

Sim City
I don't find any appeal out of building, maintaining a city and solving various scenarios whenever a catastrophe happens.

The Sims
I would be able to get into this series if it only you wasn't able to die in this game.

Mario Party
I don't really have anyone who is willing to want to play video games at all with me so I never even bother with this series.

DDR (Dance Dance Revolution)
Falling on the floor by being bombarded with arrows? No thanks!

Guitar Hero and Rock Band
I find the devilish, hell-like atmosphere and references in Guitar Hero to be rather disturbing and I don't really like rock or guitar songs period. The only thing I might be able to tolerate is Rock Band: The Beatles due to the fact that I hear that their music is pretty good.

 

[AnEndlessOcean]

I haven't gotten into the Zelda or Kirby series yet, but they both seem interesting. I just have never been that interested that I'd go and pick up a copy of either one's series.

 

[chillv]

@chillv: You really seem to have an unhealthy obsession with hating shooters that rivals my hatred for Capcom there. :X

It's not that I really hate them, I just don't find any real appeal in them and I don't understand how they get so much praise and attention yet games like Mario always get "OMG! ANOTHER REHASH, NINTENDO IS UNORIGINAL & DA WERST COMPANY EVR!".

 

[Touko]

I can't get into Mario series to be honest. For me it's the same kind of stuff and I just...aaaarrrggghh platform games aren't my favorite.
D: Sorry Mario fans ~

 

[Volvagia]

I can't really get into the Metroid series...

 

[StarryACNL]

I can't seem to like pokemon!
I borrowed my friends pokemon game for a week and just found it irritating!
I blame the anime version which completely put me off after one of the little blue things (can't remember name) got thrown (I was only 4 when this happened!)

Not sure about trying again with pokemon x/y

 

[demoness]

I can't say I honestly enjoy Mario as a series as much as I used to. The RPGs are solid and the 3D incarnations are typically inventive, but the 2D installments are predictable and after playing games like Rayman Origins, LBP, and witnessing the upcoming Puppeteer as well as countless indie platformers, contemporary 2D Mario games almost feel generic in comparison, which isn't inherently wrong nor is it bad quality, why change a formula many people enjoy after all, but I'm just not drawn to it anymore.

As for a series I wanted to love, but for the sake of my sanity couldn't, was the Maximo sub-series. It's all the challenge I could want, but I am awful at reaction time due to disability and perish constantly.

 

[kmyk]

I can't get into Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts.... and I don't understand either. I love RPGs and the such but I can never get into them

 

[Smoke]

When I acquired my first ever Fire Emblem game back a couple years ago, I had a super hard time trying to get into it. However, playing it more and more started to slowly gain my interest, and now I love the series. I used to hate strategy games of any type, but now it's one of my favorite game genres overall. So thanks, Fire Emblem, for being the gateway into a fantastic genre.

 

[Leanne]

I cannot get into Pok?mon. I have played the games many times, but I can't seem to like them like other people do. The first Pok?mon Game I ever played was Pok?mon Yellow, as it was passed to me by my older brothers. It was good, but I can never do anything else past beating the game. I have played and beaten Yellow, Ruby, and Perl. I have also played Sapphire, Emerald, Diamond, the other one from the same generation which I don't remember it's name ^^;, Heart Gold, and Black. I have played every generation basically but I just cannot get into it. Most of my guy friends play Pok?mon and after Yellow, I continued playing just to play with them. But I never put dedication to making teams or doing anything past the linear "start-and-beat the game". I literally played Black for 30 minutes before dropping it forever.

I always wanted to make an "eevee-volution" team, but I just can't seem to bother that much dedication into the series. That plus the fact there are so many terms I don't understand and the lack of liking I have for the game in general doesn't allow me to google them.

Then there's Mario. Mario is fun. I have played the SNES games, again, thanks to my brothers, and they were really fun. I loved those Mario games a lot, and when I got the 64 DS Remake, I loved it, although I was never a big fan but I just saw it as a form of entertainment. Mario Sunshine was very nice too, but everything after that was just below average. I was never a big Mario fan, but I thought Galaxy could change that and it didn't. I haven't played a Mario game again after the first Galaxy ^^;. Anything else from the Mario Franchise is something I'd rather not play, except for Mario Party 1 and 6, and Mario Kart.

Also for some reason I can't get into Fire Emblem despite the fact I usually love that kind of games.

Harvest Moon is a series I have always tried to love, still am, and never succeeded. When we got the Game Cube for the first time, our parents bought a game to all of us (1 for my oldest brother, 1 for the one that follows, and 1 for me). I chose Harvest Moon and I really liked it, but never became a fan because it was too repetitive. If I tried to break the "routine", I'd ruin something else and I'd be annoyed (like when I ruined my marriage for dedicating one day to exploring some mines x.x). Maybe I should try the other Harvest Moon games, but games like that are generally frustrating, having to keep your resources alive, your characters fed, and what not. ^^

 

[Dembonez19]

Usually if I try a game, I get into it pretty quickly.

Call of Duty is not like that. I just...really hate it... I was never got into Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, or The Legend of Zelda either. On the other hand, I just haven't played those much.

 

[Link32]

Love LOZ espeicially MM in response to people at the start of the thread. I feel bad you guys can't get into it. I played the demo of Fire emblem awakining and I hated it. Sure the graphics are good in story scenes but combat scenes they really aren't.. And you just move your person around on a battlefield.. Not trying to offend anyone who enjoys the series.