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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: bikingjahuty on June 29, 2017, 03:51:59 pm
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Are there any game genres that you used to love or at least enjoyed for the most part but no matter how hard you try now you struggle to play games of that genre anymore?
I am genuinely saddened by the fact that as much as I want to and as much as I used to love the genre, I just cannot for the life of me get into JRPGs like I used to. Back in the early 2000s, this was hands down my favorite genre of game, especially ones on the PS1, PS2 and Dreamcast. I used to love getting my hands on as many of these games as possible, however now I cannot bring myself to even crack the surface of these types of games. While I still find many JRPGs interesting, what ends up happening is I start a JRPG, play for a few hours and just lose all steam to continue playing. That's not to say I never am able to get really far into them, or on rare occasions beat them, but I find that games of this genre are a chore to play through more than something I genuinely enjoy. I have no idea what happened because I couldn't have been more the opposite when I was younger.
Anyone else have this experience with a specific genre of game?
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Not that I can think of.
I know that I used to love reading lore inside of games. Like reading the books in the Elder Scrolls games. I can't be stand reading long winded stuff in games anymore. I just don't have the patience for it anymore. Sometimes I try, but I get so cranky and cynical about it.
I'd agree on JRPGs, but I've always had trouble getting into JRPGs.
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I know that I used to love reading lore inside of games. Like reading the books in the Elder Scrolls games. I can't be stand reading long winded stuff in games anymore. I just don't have the patience for it anymore. Sometimes I try, but I get so cranky and cynical about it.
I have something similiar like this. The first few hours of a game I will read every book or piece of information but after that I just kind of skip it.
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I'd have to agree use to love playing JRPGs for hours on end. True I recently started playing Earthbound and Chrono Trigger before but I have one of the new Tales games for my Vita and I can't get into that. I started to play it and I was like I don't give a rat's ass about these characters and haven't played it since. And it's probably an awesome game. I think Destiny ruined me when it comes to rich story and characters I want to care about.
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I use to be more into racing games. I was never into realistic racing games like Gran Turismo, but I loved the old Need for Speed 3, I would play like the Rush games on N64, I would eventually play the Burnout games on PS2, but as it's gone on, there have been less racing games recently that interested me. I think the last ones that I have even really liked were Sonic All-Stars Transformed, Split/Second, and Mario Kart 8. Even with them, I don't play them as much as other games. I only get so much enjoyment out of them compared to other genres I do like.
JRPG's are becoming a mixed bag more these days too. I fell out of Xenoblade Chronicles X and Tokyo Mirage Sessions, because they just became so boring, but I beat Final Fantasy XV and I'm enjoying my time in Persona 5 so far. I think I'm just becoming much more particular about what I like these days.
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I'd have to agree use to love playing JRPGs for hours on end. True I recently started playing Earthbound and Chrono Trigger before but I have one of the new Tales games for my Vita and I can't get into that. I started to play it and I was like I don't give a rat's ass about these characters and haven't played it since. And it's probably an awesome game. I think Destiny ruined me when it comes to rich story and characters I want to care about.
Actually Tales of hearts R isnt really a strong Tales game, it's regarded as a very mediocre title in the long running series.... they were actually using that game as a test to see if we'd buy tales of innocence (a way better game) and ofc it didn't sell well so we never got it. Thank god for the ds fan translation though. :)
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I'd have to agree use to love playing JRPGs for hours on end. True I recently started playing Earthbound and Chrono Trigger before but I have one of the new Tales games for my Vita and I can't get into that. I started to play it and I was like I don't give a rat's ass about these characters and haven't played it since. And it's probably an awesome game. I think Destiny ruined me when it comes to rich story and characters I want to care about.
Actually Tales of hearts R isnt really a strong Tales game, it's regarded as a very mediocre title in the long running series.... they were actually using that game as a test to see if we'd buy tales of innocence (a way better game) and ofc it didn't sell well so we never got it. Thank god for the ds fan translation though. :)
Thanks for the heads up my favorite Tales game is Tales of Symphonia. I played the hell out of that game for my Gamecube. Dummy me trade it to a roommate many years ago. I regret that trade and I can't seem to find that game out in the wild in my local area.
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It is more a theme than a genre, but I am completely fed up with anything related to zombies.
I used to like games and movies related to it, but now, I just can't stand zombies anymore.
And this one of the main reasons why I don't like The Last of Us...
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I still enjoy JRPGs (and JSRPGs), but as a middle aged adult I can only play them so long before I have to take a break. I start getting antsy around two hours, and if I make it three hours I just have to do something else. But that applies to any genre really.
The one genre I was crazy about when I was in my late teens / early twenties was FPS. These days I am not nearly into FPS as I used to be. I might beat one or two FPS a year, but I have nowhere near the fervor for the genre as I did in my youth. Part of it is likely burnout, you can only play so many FPS games before you've seen all the tricks. The other is surely my FPS lust was being fueled by youthful angst back then.
I also find it harder to get into point and click adventure games these days. As a kid I loved those so much. As an adult with very limited gaming time, I run out of patience pretty fast.
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I really have been staying away from Real-time Strategy games for years now.
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JRPG's used to love them but now i prefur Western ones.
I did enjoy FFXV but it was more "westernized" IMHO
Also RTS, i love to play them but only with friends, and i dont get a chance to play much anymore. Person i played SC2 with just had a baby so he is out for a while.
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I went through the "bored with JRPGs" faze as well.
I was super into them on the NES, SNES, and even into the PS1. But then I just got burnt out on them. And the PS1 had so much freaking variety since developers were still getting the feel of 3D gaming, that there was just so much more interesting stuff to explore.
But recently, I've gotten heavily into them again, starting with going going through the entire Dragon Quest series, then moving on from there. Mostly, though, it's because I have a lot of downtime at my work lately, and JRPGs are fantastic time-killers.
16-bit beat-em ups are becoming hard to go back to, now. I used to eat them up as a kid. Played them all and loved every second of it. But now when I go back, it's just repetitious and boring, and it usually gets me a little sleepy.
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Racing games were some of my favorites back in the day, but now I can't really get interested in them anymore. It kind of seems like they don't make as many now, or if they do there's just no hype behind them anymore.
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Racing games were some of my favorites back in the day, but now I can't really get interested in them anymore. It kind of seems like they don't make as many now, or if they do there's just no hype behind them anymore.
I am on the fence about racing games. I used to really, really be into cars which made racing sims like Gran Turismo highly enjoyable to me, with Gran Turismo 4 being my all time favorite from the series. I even enjoyed games like NFS Hot Pursuit 2 through Most Wanted (2005), however most of the racing games I've tried in recent years, including the newer GT games have really not done it for me. I also tried the newest NFS Hot Pursuit game a few months back and really didn't care for it either. I'd say I've almost completely lost interest in the racing genre except for the fact that I still really, really enjoy Mario Kart 8 years after it came out. I probably spent 10-hours just in the past week playing it on the Switch lol
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Sometimes you just need to play a video game that your either never played before, or something else. I find that once I get used an old video game that is all I want to play. Because it is vary frustrating to play a new game for the first time learning all the controls and everything. in which IS why I have so many sports games. Sometimes it's hell getting off the first stage or level on a game you never beat or played before.
OK people pay attention. Chances are if you are a video game collector like myself. then I suggest even though is supper hard to learn a new game. We all should take some off our old games. That we are used to. and put them back in storage. just play something new or something we haven't played in ages other wise your collection is just going to waste :(
If you sick of one genre then play another
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Fighting games for me. Back in the heyday when arcades where all the rage, I was deep into them, but as time went on I felt less and less motivated to play them. Not like I was good at them to be begin with, but I had fun.
My interest for the genre is still there, though, so I find myself being a spectator more than anything these days.
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I used to be a huge fan of fighting games. Growing up, there was a pool/country club that had a Street Fighter II arcade machine that I would take over during the swim breaks. That started my enjoyment of the genre. Eventually, Smash Bros. and Guilty Gear became my two favorite series. I also played King of Fighters, BlazBlue, Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur II, and others.
Mixing fighting series' is never good due to how different they play from each other. I focused mainly on Smash Bros. and Guilty Gear. Smash Bros. ended up being my best fighter just because we would play it every day.
I tried really hard to get good at Guilty Gear, but I wasn't willing to put in the time in the lab and/or play online matches.
Now, I don't touch the genre unless it's a quick bout of Smash Bros. when I'm visiting family or some friends. I would love to be good at them, but I'd rather play other games instead of practicing combos and studying frames. Guilty Gear still holds a special place in my gamer heart.
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I played mainly at arcades, and wouldn't discriminate, but my preferred machine was X-Men vs. Street Fighter. In fact, there's a Pizza Hut near where I live that had it, and every time I went there I would play and manage to reach the end while waiting for my order. Then fast forward years later and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 came out. I loved everything about it, especially being a huge comicbook nerd at the time. That game truly showcased how bad I was at fighting games competitively. No matter what I did, I just couldn't keep up with it. The game, as we all know was a big hit, so I remember being able to play and beat the game by myself only once on a late Friday night.
After a while I moved to Tekken 4 because the arcade I frequented at the time had a major influx of girls that liked playing it, and I liked that quite a lot.
Guilty Gear still holds a special place in my gamer heart.
The best part of Guilty Gear is its music. Seriously. I love the series, but damn those soundtracks are glorious.
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Love, love, love Guilty Gear's music. But, the way it amplified 2D fighting was my favorite aspect of it. Tack on a unique cast of crazy characters in a crazier world, and you've got a solid formula.
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I used to play a ton of racing games like NFS and Midnight Club, but now I don't anymore. I think I would still enjoy them though, I might try to pick up Hot Pursuit 2 one of these days...
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Kinda surprised to see that many RPG at this topic but form me it has to be Survival horror and not because I don't wanna mainly because this genre at least to me is practically dead, miss the old fucking glorious days when Resident Evil/Silent Hill almost made me piss myself when I run outta ammo or because of that music that made me think that I wasn't alone at my room when was playing SH at midnight, those were some awesome moments even when I was scared as hell ;D
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Kinda surprised to see that many RPG at this topic but form me it has to be Survival horror and not because I don't wanna mainly because this genre at least to me is practically dead,
DO you or did you ever play DOOM 3 or any of the DOOM series?
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Kinda surprised to see that many RPG at this topic but form me it has to be Survival horror and not because I don't wanna mainly because this genre at least to me is practically dead,
DO you or did you ever play DOOM 3 or any of the DOOM series?
Are you implying that Doom is a survival horror game lol?
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DO you or did you ever play DOOM 3 or any of the DOOM series?
Sorry dude but Doom is not a Survival Horror it's a FPS ;D
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FPS for sure. When Halo came out, my friends and I lived on that couch. I think when they got more and more competitive and switched to an online format I lost interest. It's to the point where I would order Splatoon 2 right now if it had couch co-op (single console), but wont because the playing online/competitively aspect just really doesn't appeal to me.
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The Online competition genre (OR STAGE OF GAMES) is dead for me because of all the cheap skate people who park their ass on a server and mess with it or just plain cheat, anyone else feel me? >:(
Lol well what do you call a video game where you shoot zombies and demons before they kill you. At the rate of todays FPS you'd think that all FPS's are people shooting video games. :D in which reminds me to tell people that there are survival horror mods for games like DOOM II and Ultimate DOOM for PC ;)
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I mean...it depends on the game, of course. But, DOOM is regarded as a first-person shooter. You're running and gunning demons in Metal Slug, Contra, and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin just to name a few. Those aren't considered survival-horror, either.
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I've been gaming for a lot of years and gone threw a lot different stages where I thought I didn't like a certain type of game anymore but eventually a game comes out and i get right back into it again.Sometimes I even get into a game I tried years before and hated only to find out it's great.
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First Person... Anything. I've never been the biggest on FPS but have really enjoyed some (Doom, Tribes, Halo, Etc...) but once graphics reached a certain level of detail it become too hard to distinguish enemies from allies from background clutter. I tried Halo Master Chief Edition but always had to switch back to original graphics whenever I was outside as all the various details (bushes, darker colors, etc..) made it impossible for me to tell anything apart. Sure the new graphics were pretty, but the game was unplayable with them given my various vision issues. With driving games I have to switch to third person as first person is nothing like actually driving and lane position is infinitely easier to see from above/behind, also you get to see more of the vehicle and damage that way.
Not a single genre, but the other thing would be most anything online. I was a beta tester for the first generation of Xbox Live and loved it, this was the future of gaming. I was big into online PC games going back to the 90s on PCs but since about mid-way through the previous generation of consoles most online experiences are more annoying than anything as there always seems to be at least one person that insists on being a never ending string of expletives (Don't they need to breathe?) or someone is cheating/exploiting or otherwise out to ruin everyone else's fun. It just isn't worth the bother any more and with game makers turning their back on story modes and local play experiences there are many good looking games that look like they'd be great that I don't even bother with them. When I do give in and give them a try (say... Titanfall) I find that nothing has changed.
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Yeah, while I don't particularly detest FPS, as I've played and enjoyed some, it's one of those genres that I could happily do without.
And ditto on the online part. While I really never played online on consoles and PC, I did through Wi-Fi with the Nintendo DS and Wii, and the experiences weren't usually the best, as I almost always would be paired against someone who clearly was using a cheating device. I did end up getting one myself to battle "fire with fire", but after a while the fun was no longer there and I moved on.
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JRPG's - Use to play these a lot to try and make it to the cut scenes, which usually had the best graphics in the game. I don't have too much time to stay focused on a story mixed in with endless grinding these days.
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currently I am pretty much sick of first person shooters, including all Doom games. Most of my entire life I have been playing FPS games. And now it comes to it. I am just sick of all of them except for "Unreal Tournament" and other arena based shooters. I still have not played my current copy of Turok Rage Wars
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Survival Horror: I'm with DOAFan with this, I love survival horror (that's what the SH in my tag stands for), but the genre was only had a limited number of games to start with and that's dwindled to nothing (RE7 excepted, perhaps the Revelations games to an extent). It doesn't help that the genre is splintered, what 'was' survival horror back in the day (basically anything that was a clone of Resident Evil, Silent Hill or Project Zero/Fatal Frame) has now been spread among those traditional types and first-person or side-scrolling games where you can't fight back or the odds are stacked against you. Now, those mechanics were fine in games like Clock Tower 3 or Haunting Ground, but in modern, bargain-basement releases from one or two man studios just aren't effective.
FPS: I was never a fan to start with, beyond the earliest FPS games on PC, but Call of Duty 3 got me back into them on the 360. However, I don't do multiplayer and I sure as hell am not interested in online multiplayer, so the game industry's decision to make modern FPS games these online-only things has effectively made them null.
Open World: More of a feature than a single genre, but whether it's Bethesda's RPGs, GTA or Far Cry, anything fitting into this category is of no interest to me. They can throw together a large in-game area, bolt on a skeleton of gameplay systems and assets, but they can't actually generate living, breathing worlds where interesting shit happens. Ultra-repetitive and barren, washed my hands of them.
Turn-based RPGs: Particularly Japanese ones, in my youth these were 'deep' and opened up a whole new gaming experience with a focus on characters on plot. At some point in my early 20s, these just became childish and repetitive (in terms of gameplay and character/setting). Just the sight of a pouting, spikey-haired muppet in pseudo bondage-gear muttering their way through legions of low-level identikit monsters makes me want to go and do something, anything else. YS VIII, an action RPG, recently showed me what an RPG can still do and how much pleasure they can bring, but it's a case of picking very carefully as the majority of them irritate me to the core.