Sports. its always the same. sports are cool in real life.

JRPG's there have been a few that i have taken an interest in over the years but i find most of them very shallow and banal. And their much touted "stroies" often feel like some 12 year olds wanky fan fiction.

Turn based strategies. JRPG's too but not because I hate the genre, because there doesn't seem to be any good ones. (To my taste anyway.)

I think people should stop saying sports games because I don't think they even qualify as games.

Gold: Sports games. Never played one, hopefully never will. I just can't see the attraction, and there are way too many controls for my liking.

Silver: Racing Sims. Arcade racing or Rally (Project Gotham, Colin McRae etc) are fun but having to concentrate on racing line, brake times, shock absorbers, tyre temperature and all that other crap just to watch mysef spin out on gravel just because I happen to bump another jerk is NOT fun.

Bronze: Turn Based RPG's. If I want turn based combat, I'll play Chess.

Whatever genre Guitar Hero and WiiSports falls into. I mean, if you have enough time to master the game, why not do it for real?

Sports games, Movie Games, JRPG's, Flight Simulator Games.

Puzzle games and the like.

Something like Portal would be an exception in my mind!

I do not generally like FPS but i am begining to enjoy some.

I actauly have fun playing sport games but would never justify buying one (especialy after buying TH Underground 2)

I am pretty open minded but i would love to see less FPS.

I also do not like MMOs because there is no incentive to grinding except getting better gear and grinding and killing more. I prefer story driven incentives

In an admittedly weak defense of sports games, some people don't have the necessary resources/charisma to say, gather 11 other people, each with their own equipment, and a rink for a game of hockey, at any given time.

But anywho, I loathe with the firey intensity of a thousand suns, MMO's, Action-RPG's (as much as I like the concept, all the Action RPG's I've played have crap fighting systems), JRPG's, and Puzzle games. Sports games are only fun in short bursts.

In first place: Fighting games - just don't have the patience for them. Learning all those moves.... ugh. Not to mention the fact that each match is pretty much the same thing, over and over.
In Second Place: Full-blown Puzzle/Adventures: Now, Portal is the exception to this, but most full-blown puzzle games are pretty boring/frustrating. Shadow of Memories (for the PS2) is a good example of a really bad "Puzzle-Adventure".
In Third Place: MMO's. It's more like a job than a game. I really don't like a game which forces you to play at certain times, or requires you to co-operate with other people. And yes, I am a hopeless shut in.

I concur with the people who say sports games. If I want to play sports, I'll get off my couch and go play sports. If I want to watch them, my roommates have ESPN.

Nearly all RTS games. Very few of them are well-balanced, often favoring ridiculous strategies, and limiting creativity. In particular, I don't care for resource management. If I play an RTS, I want to act like a general, not an accountant. I liked the Close Combat series because you handled that stuff before battle. The units you picked were all you had to worry about for the whole mission. Fallout Tactics was actually turn-based (it was like... pseudo-RTS) with RPG elements, but I loved it because I could focus entirely on no more than six soldiers. 'Resource management' meant 'looting dead bodies for more bullets, then coming back for the rest of their stuff after the battle'. It was just a nice break at the time.

JRPGs. Why? Boring stories, stupid, angsty twelve-year old main character with spikey hair, and stupid, stupid, stupid turn based combat. The only good turn based games EVER are the games in the Total War series and the games in the Fallout series.

And pretty much all fighting games (except Killer Instinct and Soul caliber.) There has to be something wrong with a game when you play it for a year or two, memorize how to pull off all of the kick ass finishes and such, and then your friend, who has never played the game before, wins by pretty much just slapping the controller. WHAT...THE.....HELL?!

Sport, tis the lamest genre ever, something you can do in real life, why do i want to spend money and waste precious hard disk space and my time doing something i could do outside with actual people, and more over all the damn games are nearly identical featuring new player models every now and then and a different number at the end *looks angrily at Pro Evolution* who else gets away with re-releasing the same crap over and over again as a new product?!

I don't like sports games...

Three Reasons:
1. I play videogames to escape, if I wanted to play soccer I would go outside and play it...
2. I don't like sports that much...
3. It's soooo repetitive...

Sports and fighting.

For sports, I will make an exception for driving and skating, because I fucking love Mario Kart and THPS/THUG/THWHATEVER.

MMOs. I just don't see the point. I tried WoW once at a friend's house and found it to be the most tedious and boring thing ever.

Sports games (Except the first 5 Tony Hawks games).

And racing games (Apart from Midnight Club 3. That game is Fan-F*cking-Tastic!)

Anything other than an RTS...

thats right, i hate all other outside my discipline.

Come get me... i have lurkers.

FPS's. And although there are a few exceptions I generally find those games very uninteresting, and I've never been a big fan of the first person view to begin with because I find it very constricting and steels you're character of any, well, character the dev. might have wanted to give it. I've always found it cool to be able to see you're character along with all his (or her) animations and gestures.

JRPG. Ironically, these used to be my favourite, but I've had enough of wasting time levelling up characters, turnbased fighting that has no strategy, cliched stories and this new fad of all the men looking like a bunch of campy pretty boys

MMOs. Especially Guild Wars and Warcraft which I look on as two types of venereal disease.

Lvl 64 Klutz:
Fighting Games. And I'm not afraid to admit that I hate them because I am horrendously bad at most of them.

Then you're not button mashing hard enough.

id have to say thos morpgs like world of war craft and the lot. i just find them so boring, all that grinding and the fact they can never end. i also hate paying for a game to play in addition to buying it from the retail store.

MMORPGs. Oh how I loathe them.

I think my list will be pretty damn long.

1: ANY MMORPG. Even if it is free, i have absolutely no intention of buying one. And when they charge you per month, that is the biggest kick to the balls.

2: FPS games. Okay, coming from me this feels dirty. Almost every fucking FPS after Halo is the same, just with locales, and characters changed, and dogshit brown textures. Oh yeah,and it eventually led to the general homegenization of the Gaming Industry, and the abundance of racist, cussing 12 year old Ku Klux Klan members on Xbox Live.

3: Sports. Play one, play em all. Add micropayments, and that sensation you feel is your balls being kicked over and over again by big name companies like EA. And still, I play sports in real life. Do I need a fucking game to relive playing a sport? And if I wanted to watch it. I'd watch it on TV. Only exceptions,Virtua Tennis, and/or PES if it's rainy.

4. God games. What the fuck is the point?

5. 3rd Person Shooters (3PS?) Gears was fun, but same story as FPS games. We get loaded down with copycat trash like Dark Sector.

6.Rhythm games with plastic accessories. Do I need to spend somewhere between 90-250 dollars buying games that are good playing with people only? I dont see the point really. Guitar Hero was fun, as with rock band, but still, why so much money? Gamers like myself are pretty stingy consumers, so when you buy a game that costs so much, then add DLC, then after you are done with it, have it collect dust, how does that cater to gamers?

deep, hardcore RPGs,
I like being to customize your character to an extent, but when you can level up a skill just by jumping a lot (morrowind), it's a bit much

i use to hate FPS but im starting to play more of them these days but not everyone that comes out.

i have never played an mmorpg and i dont think i ever will

RTS games i find annoying and to hard to mange

im not much into fighting games anymore i still like street fighter and soul cailber other then that the genre is dead

Buy teh haloz, you have just named pretty much every video game type. I challenge someone to name a game that doesn't fit into one of the above genres in any way.

Racing counts as sports.

I am slightly over generalising here but I'm going to plump for MMORPGs. I tried playing WoW on a friends account for an hour once and found it to be the most intensely boring experience of my life, no joke. I found no fun in the combat, it didn't look particularly good to me and the extreme repetitiveness of the tasks was driving me up the wall. Since WoW is supposed to be the best, I figure things can only get crappier on other games of the same genre.

Like a lot of people have already said, sports games were interesting at one point, but now are pure crap. How many times can they actually re-release "John Madden's Same Fucking Game You've Bought The Last 5 Years In A Row" before people realize that....well, that it's the same fucking game you've bought the last 5 years in a row?

Saphatorael:
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).

so you've also paid only once for gas/water/electricity?

and also only once for the gas in your car?

in fact, you only paid once ever for groceries. Now you get all the rest for free :)

not that I like MMO's, but your analogy sucks monkeyballs ;)

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OT: my non-likers

1. sports/race/simulation games... all too realistic, not much fantas(y)(tic) to it.
2. MMO's
3. games on my mobile... I wanna play them if I have to wait somewhere for some minutes, but they are horrible designed for mobile play... aaah the good old days of Snake and Space Invader...

Johnn Johnston:
Buy teh haloz, you have just named pretty much every video game type. I challenge someone to name a game that doesn't fit into one of the above genres in any way.

Racing counts as sports.

1. RPG's
2. RTS, TBS, management
4. Dating Sims
5. fighting games
6. casual games, puzzle games, board games
7. action or action/adventure games
8. arcade games

I have to go with Racing and sports, I'll play them with friends (Mario Kart DS and maybe NHL), but I won't go out of my way to buy them or play by myself.

sports games. with game prices these days. I could go and buy 3 footballs for $40.
and I dont play Rock band or Guitar hero due to censorship of a really good song due to the lyrics being to suggestive. they almost always mess the song up.

+1 to sports games and +1 to music games. Why not just go play the real thing, even casually? Shooting and RPGs place you in a role that you simply cannot simulate in real life (well unless you actually are in an elite SAS commando unit), hence all genres other than sport appeal to me in some way, depending on mood, wife rep, etc.

Sports Games, i don't mind if they've got a bit of a surreal twist to them but sports Sims like tennis and cricket etc. are so bland and monotonous.

Does anyone else seem to notice the poor quality of graphics associated with these games as well?
I played Top Spin on PS3 the other week and i was appalled at the character animation and just the feel of the aesthetics overall, Surely they could put more effort and better texture work into a game that i'm sure requires hardly anywhere near as much processor power as games like Gears of War or Halo which surpass Topspin in alot of areas.