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[Drizzlehell]

I think that in my case I just completely drifted apart from RTS games. Every once in a blue moon, I will make an attempt to play something more recent in the genre, only to find out that all of it is just bad and not fun at all. Maybe if I'm in a mood, I will then put on an old classic like Dawn of War, play a couple of missions, and move on.

But most of all, I just don't have the patience for those games anymore. So many real-time strategies depend on a trial-and-error approach to mission design that will force you into replaying them no matter how much you will have your strategy figured out. Unless you already knew that there's some stupid scripted event in the middle of a mission that can wipe your units away in seconds, you will be caught off guard without a way to recover or think fast, and the only option will be to reload a save. It didn't used to bother me as much when I was younger and I would play an absolute ass-load of RTS games, but nowadays when something like that happens, I just wanna shut off the game and put on something that's not gonna frustrate me as much.

To be honest, the only game in recent memory that had missions that were actually fun and allowed you enough breathing room to flex that quick-thinking strategic muscle was StarCraft 2, and it's probably why it still remains the number one RTS on the market to this day.

 

[acm2000]

japanese games.

i think the ps1/ps2 broke me after bombarding me with them having come from spectrum/megadrive which were very western.

i really grew to hate the art style, writing and mechanics of japanese games and cartoons.

 

[SCB3]

Most Sports games, I just don't have the time and unlike Fighting games, they are harder to come back to later as new ones are out

 

[Guilty_AI]

I used to play fighting games as a kid, but i just sort of dropped them.
I don't know, i just always get this feeling 'been there, done that', and have no real interest in geting gud at it.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

FPS. Burned out from years of COD.

 

[Punished Miku]

MMOs, never again. Hardcore, prolonged addiction for several years.

 

[Wildebeest]

Character action adventure games. They just bore the hell out of me now. They peaked with shadow of the colossus and since then just took a huge nosedive down in artistic merit.

 

[Trunx81]

Jump ´n Runs like the Mario Series. At least in 2D. In my youth, I loved those games to death. Maybe I´m too old for it now, but I just get bored. Started with Yoshi´s Island and the "collect x stuff". Maybe that´s also where Ubi Soft got their map inspirations from?

 

[Kupfer]

Misread title, this was nonsense

 

[March Climber]

Sports games. The biggest genre to fall from grace.

Being a sports video game fan in 2023 is almost masochism. Madden keeps resetting itself in features every generation(because they've had things figured out since the early 360/PS3 gen in terms of features), NBA 2k has horrible balancing. Don't even get people started about FIFA. WWE 2k dev team doesn't know what they're doing. Baseball games are almost non-existent at this point. UFC games are just worse versions of fighting games. Most of these games have really, really bad MTX features that are considered almost worse than actual gambling. Fight Night Boxing isn't really a thing anymore. Golf is ok...I guess. Those last few tennis games that released were too low budget and the A.I. was odd in both. Lastly, no one except for maybe Nintendo knows how to make an Olympic video game feel fun. Also Volleyball has been absorbed into Olympic video games now instead of having it's own video games to play.

Also, any extreme sport or 'Street' variations of sports are just about all dead franchises. Splashdown is gone. MXvsATV keeps releasing mediocre games to get the bills paid. Snowboarding was simply handed off to Ubisoft and SSX is 10 ft under. Skateboarding games were turned into an indie genre or keeps being given an indie budget. Aggressive Inline dead. Jet Set Radio (technically a skating experience) dead. Def Jam Vendetta, dead. Outlaw series, dead.

Most of these games in sports genres were fun. Better with friends. Now the sports genres represent everything GAF hates about modern video games and remains as the easiest example to point to as to how MTX, execs, and playing it safe, can ruin everything.

 

[Robb]

I was huge on RTS games like Age of Empires, StarCraft, Black and White etc. back in the day. I also played a lot of rhythm games.

I stopped with RTS once I moved to consoles instead of PC. Rhythm games I’ve just lost interest in playing, although I still very much enjoy the actual music.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

Fighting games. I loved playing in the arcade when I was a kid but the online equivalent does nothing but piss me off.

I still don't know why I bought SF5 when it came out. Fucking hated playing it online.

 

[SHA]

Side scroll, I didn't really hate it, it's just that I'm not as optimistic about it anymore.

 

[Alebrije]

Multiplayer FPS ..aim bots and stuff like cronus max wasted the genre and developers do little to combat it...

Racing cars, used to play Need for Speed onnPS1 and Grand Turismo on PS2...but basically each new game is just graphical upgrade, physics feel the same...

Sports in general, last Fifa , basketball and beisball I played was on the PS2 era...

 

[R6Rider]

I enjoyed looters and RTS games when I was younger, but haven't been into them for awhile. I still get the urge to play a bit of AoE or AoM, but it doesn't last long.

 

[TheGreatMusashi]

Souls games. Loved Demon’s Souls, DS1-3, and Bloodborne. Dropped off after 50 hours of Elden Ring, I just burned out on it. I’ve tried others and didn’t care for them and while I think it looks really good, I have no interest in Lies of P even though I would have probably freaked out over it a couple years ago.

 

[Marlenus]

ARPGs just feel like incremental clicker games to me now so I can't really enjoy them despite trying and despite being pretty into them for a long time.

Classic CRPGs style games like pillars or torment are just too slow paced for me and the story is rarely good enough to keep me engaged and combat does not either. Also find there is too much busy work between story beats.

Civ 6 and other 4x /grande strategy games I sometimes struggle with. I can play them and get that one more turn feeling and other times it just feels like I am playing Excel with a pretty GUI and all the formulas are hidden.

Shooters tend to bore me as well now and to be honest my skills are pretty shocking. Lack of sleep over the last 8 years due to having 5 kids has really done a number on my reaction times.

That is not to say I don't enjoy games at all just that I am super picky now and quickly drop stuff I am not enjoying.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Side scrolling beat ‘em ups. Back in the day when they were new, pushing the tech, and games weren’t very complex - they were fun.

Now they’re just boring to me. I can play a level or two, and I’m ready to turn it off and play something more engaging.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Fighting games.

Just lost the enjoyment in them.

 

[Stamps1646]

Real Time Strategy - 1st game-Warcraft: Orcs vs Humans '1994, last game was StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty '2010 *online matches killed my fun, very toxic*
Fighting Games - 1st game-Karate Champ '1989, last game was Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike '2000. *became too stressful, time consuming to be great*

 

[JOEVIAL]

Echoing your thoughts on RTS games OP.

Several times a year I think "I should replay Galactic Battlegrounds or Battle for Middle Earth" but I haven't touched an RTS game in over 10 years. To be fair... I have only replayed a handful of games... but I haven't played a "new" RTS ever.

Also echoing peoples thoughts on sports games. I think the last sports game I played was Madden 2013... and that was at a buddies house. I have never really been into sports games. Just not my cup of tea.

The last one I played a lot of was NFL 2k5.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Fighting games. I was big into SF2, MK1-3, Killer Instinct, Battle Arena Toshinden, Tekken Tag Tournament . . . now I have zero interest in any of them even though I know they've got better over time.

Sports games. I played Madden, Fifa, Stanley Cup, NBA Live, etc. Now I wait around for the 1 great Madden each gen which usually means I never buy it. I also don't like what NBA2K has turned into, i like the old school NBA Live gameplay. Now if I play a sports game it's something more like Super Blood Hockey or Walkabout Minigolf.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Used to love fighting games. Played a lot of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat as a kid. Dived in further with the 3D revolution playing VF, Tekken and Soul Calibur. Then somewhere along the PS2/GC era I just gave up. Lost interest in them. I do play some Mortal Kombat every now and then, but it's mostly for nostalgia.

I also used to love SRPG but I lost interest in them as well. Good to see a little revival with Tactics Ogre remaster and Diofield Chronicles, but I just don't have the time anymore to get into them. They just don't tickle my fancy these days. As a kid or young adult I would be all over them.

 

[Fuz]

Any sport games.

I used to like them, even though I'm not a sports guy at all.

There's too many games that they slid back, and also they've become bloated, slow and overcomplicated.

 

[ShadowNate]

3d platformers. Psychonauts (original) may be the last of this genre that I was willing to suffer through. As much of a gem that game was, it still couldn't avoid sections with the worse faults of the genre (bad maps, bad camera, misleading perspective). So never again, not even for the sequel.

And "horror" FPS that have been cloned to death and have all ended up following the same dumb recipe to the point that any variations (story, environment, monster/zombie/ghost/schizo) fail to make any difference to me.

 

[Hunter 99]

Sports games,online shooters..

I just like getting into a good adventure/story, especially survival horror.playing Sports games or online shooters like COD example, just don't give me the satisfaction I'm progressing into anything slightly meaningful. To me it just seems very repetitive / no real progression at this stage in my life.

don't get me wrong I used to play gears,cod,pro evolution offline and online but that was my teen years like 16-21.Just not my vibe now

 

[SHA]

Sports games. The biggest genre to fall from grace.

Being a sports video game fan in 2023 is almost masochism. Madden keeps resetting itself in features every generation(because they've had things figured out since the early 360/PS3 gen in terms of features), NBA 2k has horrible balancing. Don't even get people started about FIFA. WWE 2k dev team doesn't know what they're doing. Baseball games are almost non-existent at this point. UFC games are just worse versions of fighting games. Most of these games have really, really bad MTX features that are considered almost worse than actual gambling. Fight Night Boxing isn't really a thing anymore. Golf is ok...I guess. Those last few tennis games that released were too low budget and the A.I. was odd in both. Lastly, no one except for maybe Nintendo knows how to make an Olympic video game feel fun. Also Volleyball has been absorbed into Olympic video games now instead of having it's own video games to play.

Also, any extreme sport or 'Street' variations of sports are just about all dead franchises. Splashdown is gone. MXvsATV keeps releasing mediocre games to get the bills paid. Snowboarding was simply handed off to Ubisoft and SSX is 10 ft under. Skateboarding games were turned into an indie genre or keeps being given an indie budget. Aggressive Inline dead. Jet Set Radio (technically a skating experience) dead. Def Jam Vendetta, dead. Outlaw series, dead.

Most of these games in sports genres were fun. Better with friends. Now the sports genres represent everything GAF hates about modern video games and remains as the easiest example to point to as to how MTX, execs, and playing it safe, can ruin everything.

In real life, it's not that hard to surpass opponents as in videogames, in real life it's a mix of gifted genetics, diet, mental and physical exercise, to be honest with you, real life is actually more rewarding than what you see in fighting games.

 

[Vandole]

Fighting games. A lack of time to properly learn the ins and outs to play at a level I want to play at is a big reason. Sadly, the bigger reason is that my mid-40s have given me the gift of arthritis, and games that require a lot of intense movements have gotten too difficult to play.

 

[Laptop1991]

RPG games isometric view after Balder's Gate in 95, i didn't like playing games in that view anymore, RTS when Command and Conquer 4 was released, only played about half of Starcraft since, and COD after Modern Warfare 2, i wasn't having fun the way the series developed, Wolfenstein in more recent times with the last 2 entries and especially FEAR after the brilliant 1st one, Racing games as well after Most Wanted 2005, i never got into fighting games to go off them.

 

[JC 1080P CRT]

Multiplayer FPSes and fighting games. Stopped enjoying playing/watching them, and don't want to make the time to get decent at any modern ones anymore. I've also basically retreated to single-player non-competitive games.

 

[BbMajor7th]

First-person games in general. Puts me off whatever the genre - had a great time with Halo, DOOM, COD and R6 back the day, but can't muster the interest anymore.

 

[nemiroff]

Fighting games by far.. It's almost kinda sad, because I used to like IK+, Soul Edge/Calibur and Tekken etc. so much..

 

[March Climber]

In real life, it's not that hard to surpass opponents as in videogames, in real life it's a mix of gifted genetics, diet, mental and physical exercise, to be honest with you, real life is actually more rewarding than what you see in fighting games.

I kind of agree but...did you quote the wrong person?

 

[ReBurn]

No

 

[killatopak]

Same with you OP, RTS.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

I don't bother with fighting games since the only way I enjoy them is with local multiplayer, and my friends and I haven't done that for decades now. I also don't have the patience for stealth games. Never have and never will. Oh, and screw super hero games while we're at it.

 

[Rawbutt Jellybean]

MMOs and loot based grindfests like Destiny or Diablo.

These types of games are designed to be predatory and I refuse to give the my money or more importantly my time anymore.

 

[CLW]

Sports. As a kid I was a sports gamer pretty much exclusively after my NES/SNES days. Now, I barely touch them as the entire genre has turned into a microtransaction gamble/pay-to-win casino making money off of youtube whales spending obscene money on digital cards.

 

[SHA]

I kind of agree but...did you quote the wrong person?

No, you gave your piece about fighting sports in videogames, their system is always flawed and always will be, it's far from perfect.

 

[Lasha]

Single player adventure games in general. Gameplay has stagnated as developers pushed graphics above all else. Execution has become trivial with difficulty being propped up by RPG mechanics. GOW18 is the most egregious example where the first hour is the hardest on GMGOW difficulty. FFXVI's seamless transition between cut-scene and game is marred by a combat system which a child could figure out. I can never shake the feeling of pointlessness when I play through games with neither challenge nor stakes. I'd rather skip the nonsense and watch the cutscenes later.

Sekiro and HiFi Rush are the only single player adventure games that I found fulfilling. Sekiro distilled the souls formula into its purest essence leaving nothing but skill checks. HiFi Rush's rhythm based combat system feels amazing after you unlock all of the abilities and start reacting to things off-screen because you are in the zone. Both feel like games instead of grinds.

 

[Laieon]

FPS games.

 

[BaldingAshCrimson]

Racing games.

Used to be super into them, and NFS Carbon is still up there as one of the best games I ever played.

But I have no desire to play them anymore, whatsoever. I don't know why...

 

[German Hops]

Fighting games

 

[lughnasadh123]

Turn based JRPGs. I grew up eating them with the height of SNES and now I...I just can't.

 

[Platinumstorm]

FPS. Not a fan of what they turned into.

 

[ConcealedBlaze]

Single player adventure games in general. Gameplay has stagnated as developers pushed graphics above all else. Execution has become trivial with difficulty being propped up by RPG mechanics. GOW18 is the most egregious example where the first hour is the hardest on GMGOW difficulty. FFXVI's seamless transition between cut-scene and game is marred by a combat system which a child could figure out. I can never shake the feeling of pointlessness when I play through games with neither challenge nor stakes. I'd rather skip the nonsense and watch the cutscenes later.

Sekiro and HiFi Rush are the only single player adventure games that I found fulfilling. Sekiro distilled the souls formula into its purest essence leaving nothing but skill checks. HiFi Rush's rhythm based combat system feels amazing after you unlock all of the abilities and start reacting to things off-screen because you are in the zone. Both feel like games instead of grinds.

I’m sure you know but you should go for more character action games if you haven’t already played them. Bayonetta, DMC, Ninja Gaiden, God Hand, W101, MGR, Viewtiful Joe, etc.

 

[Yoshi97]

I loved multi player shooters specifically cod growing up but I frickin hate them (mostly) now, especially cod. Also sports games eff modern madden and eff modern nhl.

 

[yet_another_alt]

I really loved fighting games like 20 years or so ago. My allowance is constantly being eaten up by arcade cabinets. Now I don't barely even care. I think the last fighting I played was Injustice 2. Well, unless you count Smash as a fighting game. I do occasionally play that with family and it will always be a party game in my eyes. I also played RTS a lot during the same time period but well, RTS as a genre has seen better days.

 

[Crayon]

I've been avoiding getting into any fighting games for the last year. I'll play some single player for a bit it I just want to hit buttons. But I want to play more games, not ignore them all for one. Ironic because I'm going to have higher highs playing one fighting game for two months than I would playing ten other games.

Too bad sf6 is supposed to be so good. I'll probably get back in the saddle for Tekken 8.

 

[brian0057]

Strategy games like Civ, Age of Empires, Warcraft 3, and so on.
I just don't have the patience for the micromanagement. I used to play the shit out of these games back in the day. And I still love them.
Which is an odd thing to say because I love X-COM and still play it.