I'll have to say, i absolutely am discusted with sports games. They just re-release the same stuff every year so big corporations, lke EA, can make more cash. What is your least favorite genre?

Racing. Maybe it's horrible experiences with Mario Kart's bloody cheating as a kid, but I just don't find racing that interesting. Even the ability to blow other opponents off the track barely livens it up for me. I also have no interest in tweaking a car, ogling car parts, or most anything to do with cars.

Runner up is JRPG's, but at least there might be a couple out there I'd enjoy. (Haven't played one yet, but I admit it is possible.). Turn-based combat can kiss my ass.

MMORPGs I Realy just don't like them. All the grind nedded to be good and things like that.

MAYBE Warhammer online will convert me but that we will se in time ;P.

Sports games in general. I play a lot of sports in my life, but I just find it really uninteresting to do something in a video game that I could do in real life. Besides that, FPS games come in second because they're all pretty much the same game with slight variations (except for any game by Valve, which rocks.)

And I know there's going to be a lot of hating on JRPG's, but to those of you who really hate them, I have this to say; play Earthbound.

third person shooters! especially for online play, it's must so inefficient compared to an FPS, and online it's usually just a case of who pressed lock on and fire first, no skill involved.

then JRPG's I just....just don't like it. unless Pheonix Wright counts.

then it would just basically be all Movie based games

Fighting Games. And I'm not afraid to admit that I hate them because I am horrendously bad at most of them.

sport and racing games are my least favourite. the RL versions don't interest me, so why would the virtual versions?

sports games. It's the same crap year after year with improved grapgics and updated rosters. At most the take AWAY features from previous games.

runner up is rpgs, I just don't like them.

Sports games. They're allways the same. ( Except for Wii Sports ).
I like non-realistic racing games, like F-Zero or Mario Kart, but games about Formula 1, or Need for Speed are just so extremely boring.

Country (except Johnny Cash, of course)...

Oh! ...erm... Video games.

In that case I'd have to say RTS games. Not so much because I don't like them, I just can never get into it. I have several friends who are always ranting and such about an awesome battle in Rome Total War or C&C, but I seem to get a little bored when setting up. And then the final battle never feels very tense to me, whether I win or lose.

I do enjoy Civilization 4 though, oddly enough.

Sports games. If I am playing a video game, I want to be doing something that could not be done under normal circumstances, not just doing what could be done by calling up your friends and going to the park. Heck, that is a lot more fun than a sports game, too.

I'll agree about sports games - go outside and throw around a damn football for real, alright?

Also racing games - I understand it's quite a bit more difficult to get behind the wheel of a nice sportscar and find miles of open road to speed down in real life, but they're still boring as hell.

And then RTS - I'd probably like them better if I didn't totally suck at them, but I do.

RPGs. (with very few exceptions)
I'm a form of person that while I can have a very long attention-span (Heck, I did "beat" Oblivion, Diablo 1 & 2 etc.) I'm the kind of guy that only like to play games for a short ammount of time.
I love FPS-games for this sole reason. I somehow feel that RPGs require way too much time and effort to be fully enjoyable.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that RPGs are shit. I'm just admitting that RPGs just don't fascinate me in any way.

I really don't understand the concept of long RPGs for handheld consoles. I thought teh entire idea of handheld consoles was to pick a fast easy-to-play game that can be turned off and shut off instantly. RPGs for my NDS have extremely long movie-sequences that I have to sit through for a long time before I can actually *DO* anything.
I could have played 5 rounds of Street Fighter II by the time the intro was done for Pete's sake.

Also, don't even get me even started on MMORPGs. I really don't see the reason in playing a game you cannot ever finish, requires a monthly fee and has like Yahtzee says - grind up the arse. (WoWers in the back, sit down)

I don't like the kind of RTS's that require too much management of your base/village before anythign actually happends. Lots of RTS's fall into this category like Settlers and AoE to some degree. I like RTS games that are more fast-paced. Westwood studios gets thumbs up with every RTS they've released in my books. I really don't like managing food, crops and labour in my own village before/between/after battles to make sure everyone in my base is happy.
Sure there's a bigger element to strategy that way, but I concider that taking out all the fun out of a RTS game.
Imagine a FPS game where you had to maintain your freckin rifle after every battle and fondle around with bullets cartridges all the time. See what I mean?

Realistic Racing games/Car simulators.
I like racing games. I like fast-paced racing games. I absolutely LOVE arcade-style racers.
But the kind like Grand Turismo just bore me out of my mind.
I can see why people like Flight Simulators and shit, but CAR simulators?
And hunting simulators/fishing simulators... I don't think I need to say much about that...

I dislike FPS games set in the real world

I dont like sport games at all

Lastly im not a big fan of rape sims

sunami88:
Country (except Johnny Cash, of course)...

Oh! ...erm... Video games.

In that case I'd have to say RTS games. Not so much because I don't like them, I just can never get into it. I have several friends who are always ranting and such about an awesome battle in Rome Total War or C&C, but I seem to get a little bored when setting up. And then the final battle never feels very tense to me, whether I win or lose.

I do enjoy Civilization 4 though, oddly enough.

Which is a TBS game instead of the mislabeled RTS (strategy is long term war planning, tactics is what is used in a single battle, or series of battles. A strategy game would then be something in the style of civilisation, large scale. While C&C is more about the tactics of an individual battle (or a few skirmishes), with a smaller scale. Total war falls in between, I think, since it has elements of both). So saying you dislike RTS's doesn't make it that strange that you enjoy a TBS game. :P

MMORPGs. Because it's the vilest creation known to man since the discovery of bacteria (imagine discovering that. Microscopical bugs everywhere, inside you, inside you food, I'd go nuts... More nuts).

Sports games. Hell, if I want to play a sport I'll get togheter a few friends and play, and that doesn't happen often. I find the fascination with fotball, hockey and such ridiculous in the first place, making computer games out of and people playing them is beyond me. I've even tried to see if I could figure out the missing component. I discovered it was worse than I initially thought.

Sports, fighting and racing. they start out cool with all the realism(NHL 2002), slick moves(bloody roar 3) , and cool cars (like the rocketsled in ridge racer for PSP), but they get old. FAST.

mummorpurgers. I tried WoW for a couple of days. Never again...

I don't like many FPS- too gray. I like pretty colors! Ditto on all the comments on sports games. Once you've played one, you've played them all.

It's a rare occasion when I stumble across any two FPS's that I CAN tell apart (Portal being the exception, obviously).

Now, ordinarily, when I am confronted with a genre that I don't like, I just say something along the lines of, "I don't play them, and they can suck as much as they like somewhere else." I tend to ignore things I don't like, which is why most of my reviews are positive (not because my standards are low).

However, I cannot ignore FPS's, because they are THE ONLY thing American game companies make anymore. They are crowding out all the other genres that game companies USED to make over here, every software developer in America is shunning all the other types of games because they are too busy churning out three identical shooters a year.

So, I wind up playing Japanese games a lot, but since saying anything good about Japanese games makes you a weeaboo otaku fanboy, I really can't talk much about that here. Or anywhere.

I dont really like games that go so far into being realistic there is no point to playing it when you can do the same in real life. (Im looking at YOU Type of fish 4!!)
Dying in one or two bullets is not fun.

MMO's with monthly fees.

Simple analogy to illustrate my hostility to this kind of shit:
Games are ice creams. You can buy these ice creams at quite a few stores... but if you buy an MMO Ice Cream, the manufacturer will take away your ice cream if you don't cough up some more money.

I like to completely finish my Ice Cream if I want it, once I've paid for it. Maybe a few additional scoops if the ice cream is delicious (these would be expansions, of course).

But I'll never pay extra to get a few extra licks on an Ice Cream, even if it's the most delicious thing on earth (or at least, if that's what other people claim).

I enjoy Realistic games, like Counter Strike. I even enjoy sci-fi games. (HL2 for example.)

the three types i cant even bring myself to look at now are:

MMOs: Just so pointless and almost everyone there does nothing but nag and bitch about how they misplaced a skill point or something.

Sports games that DON'T feature something new and innoavtive in it's genre: self explanatory.

Third Person Shooters: i just dont get it.

JRPG- When I can't tell who's a boy and who's a girl I have problems with the game.

Sports games- Just the same garbage put out every year with very few to no new improvements what so ever. Boring and all play the same, just go out side for god sake.

99% or racing games- Games like NFS and whatnot are complete bore fests, you never get that feeling of speed at all, well..I don't. I am not big on cars so that could be the reason why, I don't like customizing a digital Viper or lambo, or anything, I'll go to a garage for that.

That 1% you ask? well the FUN and CREATIVE racers like mario kart, F-Zero, Wipeout (my fav), SW: pod racing, and all those non realistic racing games that are crazy and things you cant do in real life. Futuristic racing for me is a whole lot more innovative and fun than racing with current day vehicles.

RTS- eh...I don't mind them too much, I just don't like all the micro management. I prefer turn based strategy games over some crazy starcraft player kicking my ass in under 5 minutes with a zerg rush. Turn based strategy games I find more fun because it's like an elaborate game of chess and if given the right game, requires some important thinking so not to get what little troops your allowed killed.

Racing Sports and most horror games.

Racing: I don't get much of a thrill from seeing who can go faster when there is no murdering happening that I am the direct cause of (crashes don't count since you typically lose when you do this) plus the controls are kind of counter-intuitive to me.

Sports: why do that when I can just go outside?

Horror games: they typically disappoint, plus you are never allowed to do anything intelligent to get yourself out of the situation.

GoldenDalek:
I enjoy Realistic games, like Counter Strike. I even enjoy sci-fi games. (HL2 for example.)

the three types i cant even bring myself to look at now are:

MMOs: Just so pointless and almost everyone there does nothing but nag and bitch about how they misplaced a skill point or something.

Sports games that DON'T feature something new and innoavtive in it's genre: self explanatory.

Third Person Shooters: i just dont get it.

I can't bear to be in the same state as sports games and MMOs
and i'll agree mostly with the third person shooter but there are some games that pull it off nicely
(there was one on the gamecube but i can't remember)

Sports/Fights/Racing: all the sequels are too similar (ESPECIALLY sports games!)

In defence of MMORPG's that monthly fee is actually needed. It's used to cover bandwidth costs, the 24/7 customer support (GM's), Free Content Development (New dungeons, events, ect), Constant Patches/Hotfixes, Server Maintenance, and the like. MMORPG's make most of their money of inital sales, while most of the monthly fee is used to cover the server expenses.

meatloaf231:
Sports games. If I am playing a video game, I want to be doing something that could not be done under normal circumstances, not just doing what could be done by calling up your friends and going to the park. Heck, that is a lot more fun than a sports game, too.

Secconded. I also hate realistic racing games, like nascar and such. Other ones like Mario Kart and Lego racer aren't that bad because of the tracks and power ups.

Sports games. Yuck.

Never did get into the FPS genre, which is tragic because that seems to be the one thing everyone and their autistic niece is putting out nowadays. It's a rare thing when an FPS enthralls me - Portal did, because it was adorable; Bioshock tried, but the constant need for twitch and adrenaline kind of ruined the whole atmosphere for me. And when they're not trying to be creative and dramatic, you have people remaking your high school history textbook or high-school-level recreational science fiction instead.

Other than that, rhythm games are something else I've never quite gotten. It's like Simon Says, except often obscenely difficult and with some awkward peripheral to have to work around. That sounds like the opposite of fun.

sports games, and puzzle games. Why would you pay 60 bucks for a puzzle game when there is a perfectly good version of it on a flash game site.

Sports games (If I wanna play that sport, I'll go and play it) and 'Simulation' Racing games (If I wanted to control a Shopping Trolley, I'd go to the mall). Remember, these are my opinions.

Mnemophage:
Other than that, rhythm games are something else I've never quite gotten. It's like Simon Says, except often obscenely difficult and with some awkward peripheral to have to work around. That sounds like the opposite of fun.

How could I forget? (Oh, right, selective memory loss) That's the worst kind of game ever. I've played one good one, and the rythm hardly mattered in that one, it was more of a puzzle game (but it called itself a rythm game). I feel the same way about music as I do about sports. Play it for real.

Joe Lobo, you should see if you can try out a game called Fatal hearts. It's not a 60 dollars puzzle game (I don't think I've ever seen one that costs that much). It's about six dollars, if I remember correctly, but I got it for free from giveawayoftheday.com

That game will show you why people pay for puzzle games, if I'd known it was that good I would have payed more for that than most of the games I've purchased.

Sports games, im not going to reiterate everything everyone has already said.

Beat em ups, Because I hold issue with a game i can spen four days learning combos and pop up strings, only to have say, my sister beat me cause she hammers the buttons like a derranged chimp!

RTS games, where the idea of building a base, which is what they all entail usually, is thrwon out of the window online cause base building doesnt make the best units en masse fast enough :@

Sports, for reasons already mentioned.

Most RTSes, because I don't believe in controlling multiple characters in real time, especially not with point-and-click interfaces that should stay in turn-based games. Games that try to remedy this with AI friendlies just have me saving them more from their own pants-on-head-ness than from the enemy. Foraging, building, and politicking are not really my idea of fun times, either.

Prozoquel:
And I know there's going to be a lot of hating on JRPG's, but to those of you who really hate them, I have this to say; play Earthbound.

I tried. Stupid slow-ass Dragon Quest interface and combat put it in the loo pretty quickly.