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What genres have you left behind?

FPSs.

I'm not that good at them, and devs put so much effort into multiplayer that the single-player modes are usually pretty lackluster.

Also sports games. I used to play madden all the time on SNES, but I look at the control schemes now and just say "WTF?"
 
I like action/adventure/shooter/rpg (western and eastern) as well as platforming and some strategy.

I tend to not play racers that much. there's the odd exception, like some of the burnout games which I enjoy, but overall bleh. I also tend to avoid sports games in general.

fighters -- rarely. a few will amuse me for a bit (SF2, soul calibur games), but overall I feel like they don't have enough to them being that all you really do is fight one on one.
 
timetokill said:
This thread was pretty much made for JRPGs, it seems.
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Stealth troll thread!
(joke)
Given that this year has brought us TWEWY, Mother 3 (patch), and Persona 4, with some pretty definitive portable remakes, while Fallout 3 and Fable II put me to sleep, I'm going the opposite way on this one. JRPGs are finding their way after a very rough last few years.
 
I used to love NBA 2K series and Madden. But I can't stand Madden now (the last one I played was 06) and am starting to burn out on the 2K series. The main reason being that the game largely hasn't changed over the years and the annual new features inevitably screw up the game b/c proper testing isn't done. Also some underlying issues are never fixed. For example in the 2K series, on the higher difficulty levels, on a fastbreak, your computer controlled teammates will slow jog and not run full speed. Let's not forget that these games have grown so unnecessarily complicated that learning for a neophyte is almost impossible due to all the tacked on features and a lack of a real tutorial. These franchises not only need a reboot but their respective publishers need a better business model.

I see the music game genre approaching Madden levels too.
 
I'd have to say traditional JRPGs as well. I'd love to see more of them do the Paper Mario routine; make the battle-system interactive, ease up on the randomn encounters and try to do something different with the bosses.
 
I haven't really lost interest in any genres I used to enjoy. My tastes have only been expanding in recent years. My favorite genres are the ones I've always loved, and my least favorite are the ones I've always hated, but the ones in the middle seem to be drifting more towards the positive side.
 
sports games (now they're too complicated for me, or too stupid)
rts games
platformers
beat em ups
fighters
schmups
 
Not a genre per se, but I don't play games from the East anymore. Japanese game designers are obsessed with controlling the way you play and at times even where you look in games. And Fuck You QTE's.
 
timetokill said:
Also, I'm tired of sports games that aren't arcade-style. I loved Tecmo Bowl, Bases Loaded and such in the early days, and I used to love Madden and such on Genesis/SNES, and even FIFA games in that era, but they've since become far too complicated and annoying to play. I've said it many times but Baseball Stars for NES is still my favorite baseball game of all time. I don't know that it can be topped.
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You need some MLB Power Pros in your life.
 
Shooters

First person or third person doesn't matter. I'm a bit sick of it. Think it has to do with the fact that i worked on these kind of games for too long and still do. When i come home i want to play something else. Can only stand it in genre hybrids where the whole game isn't based around it.
 
After Bioshock, the FPS genre. So much wasted potential there...

Wake me up when they combine Mirrors Edge-like movement with good level design and variation.


Also JRPG:s pretty much. Will get FFXIII just for the eyecandy, but otherwise the genre has been dead for a while now.
 
Within the next two pages this thread will devolve to idiots shouting about how JRPGs are "stale" and "old" without actually naming any examples and used inane strawman arguments like "Grinding"
 
^^^You mad?

Edit: I don't think we're trolling JRPGs, given that we were fans for a long time.

I've abandoned the traditional JRPG for SRPGs now. I just think the latter is more fun.

daycru said:
You need some MLB Power Pros in your life.
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Seconded. Fun arcade-like controls with insane stat keeping. Best of both worlds for me.
 
PataHikari said:
Within the next two pages this thread will devolve to idiots shouting about how JRPGs are "stale" and "old" without actually naming any examples and used inane strawman arguments like "Grinding"
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Bad stories. Bad characters. Any JRPG.
 
daycru said:
You need some MLB Power Pros in your life.
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I've had my eye on it for a good while after it got brought up in another thread where I mentioned Baseball Stars. With the two recommendations in this thread, I'm pretty much sold :D

You guys playing it on Wii or PS2? I'd prefer to get it for Wii if possible.
 
Fighting games.
I spent countless hours playing Super Street Fighter 2 as a kid, but after that i completely left behind the genre (save for Soul Calibur and the two Power Stone on DC).
I might give it another chance with SFIV, but i'm still not sure.
 
Shinjitsu said:
Someone please help me break my MMO addiction?
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Well what game(s) do you play and in what style, what attracted you to it and what keeps you there? Do you want to change mmo time to other games or spend less time playing games?
 
I've definitely left the FPS genre in the mud. There are some that still shine in my gaming days, but I got over the whole formula behind the genre after awhile. I'm somewhat surprised at the amount of attention they have been garnering in the console field, but then exploding your eyeballs with candy filled to the brim was always what the FPS genre was about. Nothing more, nothing less. I'll wait till the spiritual successor to Half Life will be spawned and I might jump back in.

inner-G said:
FPSs.

I'm not that good at them, and devs put so much effort into multiplayer that the single-player modes are usually pretty lackluster.
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That's pretty much my opinion, yet for some reason the FPS games that are solely developed with a multiplayer aspect in mind seem to trounce everything. BF1942, TF2, BF2, CS, to a lesser extent UT (Epic *vomit*). I still find myself playing these games sadly.
 
viciouskillersquirrel said:
Console JRPGs. I just can't do it anymore.
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Same here. I really liked Persona 3, but I just couldn't bear 70+ hours. I usually play games in small intervals, so that would have taken a long time.
 
MMORPG's

Love the game, can't stand the community.

And these games demand so much time, it leaves little for other games.

Enough already.
 
Yeah, JRPGs. Left that years ago. Although i played every single one of them in the 16-bit days. Happens when you get older i guess. Im feeling that my interest in Single-Player games in general is decaying as well. I revisited Tron 2.0 this Weekend which i finished in one sitting. After that i just could not stand the games that i play right now anymore. Games are holding your hand so tightly nowadays that it took me a moment to readjust. Prince of Persia for the 360 is the best example i can think of right now. Theres still games like Skate 2 and Witcher and Saints Row 2 of course. But really, after going back it became painstakingly obvious how dumbed down games have become.
 
Pretty much any genre that isn't JRPGs. They've all gotten so stale and samey. Only JRPGs have stayed fresh, really. Shame.
 
tahrikmili said:
:lol

Good one.
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Your laughter makes me think you may believe me to be lying, or making a joke. This hurts me deep down inside where I'm soft like a woman.
 
PataHikari said:
Within the next two pages this thread will devolve to idiots shouting about how JRPGs are "stale" and "old" without actually naming any examples and used inane strawman arguments like "Grinding"
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Yes, I'm sure that all that once loved them - and there's a whole lot of us - are now hatin' on them just because it's a cool thing to do. :rollseyes:

JRPGS is the genre I left behind willingly, the one I was forced to is modern flying simulators on the PC. After the fantastic Lock-on from a couple of years ago, there was nothing. And unless Tom Cruise decides to do Top Gun 2, there's little hope that there ever will be. :/
 
Zabojnik said:
Yes, I'm sure that all that once loved them - and there's a whole lot of us - are now hatin' on them just because it's a cool thing to do. :rollseyes:
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Pretty much. It would be like me making commentary on the modern fighting games. All the same, no progress! So stale. Oh, by the way. I haven't played 'em to a decent depth in over five years. What the fuck do I know? Just say you don't like it and get on with it.

If you are going to say they are all the same, all cliched, that's cool. Just live knowing you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.

Sigh..
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What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!

Don't get me wrong. I don't give a fuck if you like 'em or not. That's fine. You don't have to like 'em. But for fuck's sake. Every damn thread like this.
 
PataHikari said:
Within the next two pages this thread will devolve to idiots shouting about how JRPGs are "stale" and "old" without actually naming any examples and used inane strawman arguments like "Grinding"
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that's exactly what's happening.

A lot of people mention random battles, but honestly... I can't remember the new (as in not port or remake) JRPG I played that has random battles.

Someone mentioned the over the top spells/attack animations, but honestly I absolutely LOVE that. fuck realism, I like my battles to be over the top and have a bunch of flash. FFXII kinda tried to make battles more realistic with less flash... and honestly the battles in that game were just not entertaining to watch. I love my flash, and I don't see anything wrong with it.
 
timetokill said:
I've had my eye on it for a good while after it got brought up in another thread where I mentioned Baseball Stars. With the two recommendations in this thread, I'm pretty much sold :D

You guys playing it on Wii or PS2? I'd prefer to get it for Wii if possible.
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I play it on the Wii over PS2, simply for convenience.
 
- JRPGs with no soul (Everything except MOTHER 1+2+3)
- Any action/FPS game with Bald Space Marines (Too many to mention) or characters trying to be badass (GOW)
- Hyper realistic sports games (I'd rather just play the sport IRL)
- MMORPGS (Playing one right now)
- Strategy
 
viciouskillersquirrel said:
Console JRPGs. I just can't do it anymore.
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Pretty much this. I just recently saw the FF13 new trailer up on PSN... wow, I came away so thoroughly unimpressed I almost question my taste in gaming from 1990 to 2000. How did I ever like what Square had to offer?
 
Alfarif said:
Pretty much this. I just recently saw the FF13 new trailer up on PSN... wow, I came away so thoroughly unimpressed I almost question my taste in gaming from 1990 to 2000. How did I ever like what Square had to offer?
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Maybe you had actual taste back then?
 
RevenantKioku said:
Pretty much. It would be like me making commentary on the modern fighting games. All the same, no progress! So stale. Oh, by the way. I haven't played 'em to a decent depth in over five years. What the fuck do I know? Just say you don't like it and get on with it.

If you are going to say they are all the same, all cliched, that's cool. Just live knowing you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.

Don't get me wrong. I don't give a fuck if you like 'em or not. That's fine. You don't have to like 'em. But for fuck's sake. Every damn thread like this.
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Except that I do actually get to play some major jrpgs because I like to stay updated even on the genres I don't review anymore, since I'm in the gaming 'journalism' business. I'm sure your example would work on many, but it really doesn't fit me.

Anyways, I'm not complaining about the grinding or random battles, because many games got rid of that (at least partially) quite some time ago. My main gripe with jrpgs is just that the genre simply hasn't managed to age alongside me.
 
Other than Persona 4, I've left behind the JRPG genre--I've found that the required commitment is very rarely rewarded with a quality story or enjoyable dialog.

On a side note: anyone want to buy my mint condition copy of Eternal Sonata (PS3)?
 
Sim racing.

Something about the genre has become far too pretentious and bloated. I can’t put my finger on what, which is odd, as I guess I should enjoy it more now with more advanced physics and CPU processing, not to mention visual immersion.
 
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