Daily Q: Are there genres you avoid at all costs?
Category: Features, Posted: 07/01/2008 at 03:08PM CDT by Eddie Inzauto, Senior Editor
Everyone has different tastes. From cars to clothes to food and drink to members of the opposite sex, we all have our likes and dislikes.
When it comes to videogames, we have a wide variety of genres to choose from. Some of them tickle our fancies more than others, and some do absolutely nothing to excite us, but which are the types of games that we absolutely despise? That's today's Q.
What type of game do you avoid at all costs?
I thought about this for a while, and I'm going to have to go with anything that comes to the mobile phone platform. Yeah, I avoid those, even with their phenomenal gameplay and audio/visual presentation.
Yuck. (Can that be my One Word Review?)
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I tend to avoid fighting games. I have just never gotten into them, even (gasp!) Super Smash Brothers.
Whatever genre games like Animal Crossing fall into.
Sports games. nuff said.
American sports games, Baseball, Basketball and american football.
OH, and any game based on a movie!
Sports, unless they're scifi deathmatch sports like Unreal Tournament.
Baseball games. I TRIED getting into it but, i lose attention after the third inning.
Sports. Unless they're Mario Sports games.
Sports games as well.
I don't necessarily go out of my way to avoid them at all costs, but I don't play them often, and certainly don't buy them. The last "sports" game I bought was NBA Street 2. Cuz it was just damn fun. A sports game only in the sense that it was sorta like basketball....but awesome.
Sports... But I also enjoy the Mario Sports Series...
Wow, I'm glad we're so diverse here at GN. Haha
Sports, fighting games and Turn-based games.
Turn-based games are A-okay in my opinion. At least, as long as they involve tactics. Think less like gameboy, more like Fallout.
I must live under a rock 'cause I've never played any of the Fallouts =D.
Sorry Eddie, but sports =P
Sports and shooters that don't involve magic or demons. Oddly specific I know, but very true.
point, and click games, sports, and turn based.
ohh, and racing.
Racing games are awesome dude! Although I only play FPS games, Arcade games like mario, GTA, and games from the Need for Speed series...
Fighting games and sports games.
"Real" sports (in other words, anything with a year after it, or something without zany power moves or skateboards), simulators (particularly driving ones), and most fighting games (Soul Calibur, Smash Bros., and Dead or Alive being the only exceptions).
Sports. The only two that ever stole some of my time were Mario Smash football and Burnout 2, but even that was because of the soundtrack to it.
Mascot games. I don't want to play as a personified animal of some kind, or a plummer for that matter (galaxy was ok). Most FPS games. ENOUGH ALREADY! Quirky Japanese games. I just don't get it. Why the F do bullets not hurt a creature, but a sword is deadly? That's not visionary, that's stupid. Or Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles? Need I say more. Mini games. How does a lazy developer become wealthy? You guessed it. Mini games. The sims anything. I have a real life.
"Real" sports (in other words, anything with a year after it, or something without zany power moves or skateboards), simulators (particularly driving ones), and most fighting games (Soul Calibur, Smash Bros., and Dead or Alive being the only exceptions).
He took my answer. Except I haven't played DoA....
Ahh, minigames...bleh
Any genre with the words 'Massively Multiplayer' in it.
mmo like world of warcraft