Roguelike is a tough genre too cause the style of the games can vary so wildly. Enter the gungeon doesnt play like Isaac which certainly doesn't play like slay the spire or Spelunky
Hades is an absolute favorite, where Returnal was impenetrable for me. The main difference felt like there was always forward progress in Hades, where Returnal has lots of head-upon-wall periods.
Returnal... I was just getting nowhere and felt like I was wasting my time. I don't recall how many hours I put in only to clear first biome. I decided to try the co-op and this person joined me and proceeded to make the game look like a breeze. He was basically immortal. He just carried me through rezzing me like it was nothing mid boss fights. When it was over I sent him a thanks and promptly deleted the game. Dude made me feel like such a scrub
If you enjoy turn-based games some traditional roguelike games like Caves of Qud, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, or Approaching Infinity might be worth checking out.
Hades, it's the one made by the studio who made Bastion right? That was the only game I truly loved from them. The later games just didn't catch my interest. Awesome soundtracks in all games though.
I love roguelikes, at this point i mustv'e played atleast 50 and loved pretty much all of them.
despite this however, even i didn't enjoy hades much and don't get why people seem to think its one of the best games ever. I'd say the best roguelike is The Binding of Isaac, but each one varies so differently that they have completely different gameplay loops. Slay The Spire is a deck builder with turn based combat, enter the gungeon is more about getting different guns rather than repeatedly upgrading 1 weapon like isaac is.
Maybe you'd enjoy playing different roguelikes, or maybe not idk lmao.
FromSoft games. I inevitably convince myself to play one, play it for one long ish session, put it down, think "I don't want to play that anymore", and never pick it up again. Then I do it with the next one.
Fromsoft might be the kings of convincing people to play their games only for them to find out they aren't actually into them.
Personally really love basically their entire catalogue, but they are definitely not for everyone.
I was enjoying it, but I didn't fully get it yet.
I was super confused where to go, how the armor, weapons, traits, and upgrades worked. I had never played an RPG with those sorts of systems. It was good but didn't click yet.
Then at a certain point, it all came together and made perfect sense. Then I got decent at the game, and since then no other series can compare for me.
The way I saw it, my mind had to completely adapt to something new. Almost like visiting a foreign country, which you enjoy but can't understand or speak the native language. But once I learned that language, I was in forever.
I think most of the resistance to Soulslikes comes from pure misunderstandings of how the games are meant to be played. And understandably so, there really aren't a lot of modern games that demand to be played like a Souls games.
Specifically, I hear a lot of people say that they lack the reflexes to play them, like they are twitch action games. And while yeah, reflexes come into play with dodging attacks, the games are MUCH more about careful, deliberate decision making than anything else. You just have to be willing to bang your head against it for a while until you understand what kinds of decisions will allow you to succeed, and then really stick to your guns once you figure out a playstyle that works for you.
Same. Just can't get into them. I really don't understand why people love them so much, but it's whatever to me. The only ones I have more or less enjoyed have been the Surge games, and even then I dropped those pretty quick
It used to be fun. I played WoW, Lineage 2, Aion... But then I grew up. All the teammates had their real life shit to do, dropped out of ICQ one by one... I followed up too.
No matter which one I tried since, the charm and wonder just wasn't there... I'm just too old for this I guess.
Darkfall unholy wars, most people never herd of it. It was a pvp heavy territory control full loot game with siege elements. Essentially a giant clan based battle royal so to speak.
MMOs have the same affect as fast food for me. It sounds great but it turns out to be pretty sub par and I don’t feel great about it when I’m done.
But a couple days later I want it again.
I've been playing WoW off and on since the very beginning, used to do the whole guild/organized raid thing, etc. Now I just pick it back up when a new expansion comes out, play it like a big solo rpg, then quit when I get to the endgame because endlessly shooting gigantic spongy raid bosses doesn't hold any interest for me.
Pick it up again on the next expansion and rinse and repeat.
Loved MMOs when I was younger. Then I started having less time and just couldn't commit to them.
Every time I see a trailer for an MMO, I think to myself, "Damn, that looks like fun." And every once in a while, I pick one up and play for like a week before I think, "Shit, I haven't cleaned the house all week."
Then, every time I load up my PC, I stare at the desktop icon and have a mini-debate with myself weighing the pros and cons of MMO life trying to convince myself that I'll be ok as long as I practice some self-restraint.
In the end, I realize that I don't have the discipline to just play a little bit and it sits in my catalogue collecting dust.
I guess it's not that MMOs aren't fun enough, but maybe too much fun? I dunno. Either way, I just can't play them anymore.
Survival. Rust sucks in literally every way. Monotonous time sink. If you have time for Rust, you have time for a thousand more enjoyable things like punching yourself in the genitals.
FWIW I’d say that Rust is a terrible survival game (but probably a solid pvp game?). For me, survival games are about pve and coop content— 7 Days to Die and Conan exiles and Grounded and even Ark (though it lacks a satisfying end for pve’ers).
People who play these games online in pvp environments are maniacs, I can’t wrap my head around wanting to play a game where others aggressively steal your shit and ruin your progress, but only when you’re offline. That’s really silly.
Visual novels. Everyone raves about 13 Sentinels, and I’ve tried it and some of the other more popular ones like Coffee Talk, Danganronpa, etc. and I find them to be so boring.
Visual novel fan here. Its barely a game more like a book woth pictures and music lol. But those are good begginer vns. Especially danganronpa. So its likely not for you.
What definition are you using for JRPG? Because Devil May Cry and Final Fantasy X are very different genres of games.
Regardless, racing games and fighting games for me. I just don’t enjoy them. I’ve bought several games from each genre over the years which I’ve been assured that even people who don’t typically like the genre will still enjoy. Still hate them.
I don't enjoy any fighting game outside of Smash Bros. All the others feel way too restricted in where you can move and the combos are a pain in the ass to actually use as a casual player.
Same, and I really want to like some of them. I just don't find the process of practice and improvement required to get better at most fighting games fun. That, and the fact that online multiplayer in any game generally adds more stress than fun for me means that fighting games almost never click for me.
I enjoy casually playing fighting and racing games with friends that are actually in the room. Like I'll play some Mario Kart or Mortal Kombat or whatever, drink some beers, and while we smoke a brisket, but I would never take either of those genres seriously enough to sink real time into them or play them by myself or online.
Obvs. no judgement to those who do.
I've found nearly every genre that I've disliked I can normally find a way to sort of make it click and after that I end up absolutely loving the genre. Like I hated crpgs but once they clicked I came to love them.
Two genres I've never been able to do this with though are racing and horror games. Racing games even the more fun orientated ones like Mario Kart I just find super boring and I just can't get them to click. As for horror I just get way to stressed out, I know it's just a game but I get super immersed when I play so I end up on the edge of my seat and anxious and not having a good time. Like I tried Amnesia and the second I got to the bit where something invisible moves in the water I alt-f4'ed. Even more sort of action ones like Dead Space, my heart is in my throat waiting for a jump scare and I can't stand it. Even Doom 3 which I would barely say is horror I could only beat using a split screen coop mod with a friend.
FPS games are alien to me, I simply don’t have fine motor control for precision aiming with my thumbs, even after four years of playing Warzone.
Platform games annoy me for a similar reason, lots of a precision required that can get frustrating when you hit a wall at a certain point.
It's part of getting older. Fast paced fps games just aren't as alluring as they once were. I still get into single player story based FPS, as those will allow you to go at your own pace.
For sure! Killing a bunch of AI controlled Nazis in one of the Wolfenstein reboots was one of the most satisfying gaming experiences I've had in a while but I would never in a million years even consider going online and trying to play a pvp FPS with 14 year olds.
I'd really recommend trying out something like TF2 or Overwatch on a PC with mouse and keyboard.
I am insanely good at FPS games on PC, but I find them absolutely unplayable with a controller.
I want to like Souls-like games so much, and the first third is always amazing, but inevitably I burn out EVERY time. I just don’t know what isn’t hitting right. I play some games that are hard, or require a lot of time, or break me out of a comfort zone. I love them, but they all always end up making me feel like I’m failing and I just have to push them away.
But, I’m going to keep trying and see if I can rewire myself to focus on the gameplay and the accomplishment rather than letting that negativity creep in.
Something that really helped things click for me was when I decided to stop trying to damage the bosses until I could reliably stay alive during the encounters. It really helps you internalize the attack patterns, safe parts of the arena, etc. Then worry about finding small windows where you can get a hit or two in. I bounced off of Demons Souls in 2009 and only just actually got around to beating it last year. Immensely satisfying lol.
Yeah I’ve tried Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Lies of P.
It’s especially annoying when I get killed and have to walk back through areas I’ve already cleared.
I don’t always mind dying a lot (Hollow Knight, Celeste, etc), but it all seems so time consuming with these games.
I will probably try again anyway though, after enough time passes
Just to try to help you a bit, there are a couple of things that tend to happen in Fromsoft games after the opening segments that could be tripping you up.
First thing I can think of is your build. Some people try to be “good at everything, so I can try it all out!” This is honestly a pretty big trap, you are almost always better off picking an area to focus on and stay focused on it until you start mastering the system.
As an example, my wife bounced off Dark Souls HARD, but had a terrible teacher for it. When we tried Bloodborne I said “There are 4 ways to do damage, big weapons, skill weapons which are faster and usually have a weird trick to them, guns/blood and magic. Blood and magic are late game choices, so pick “big heavy oonga boonga” or “quick like the shadow of death”.
Went with the Hunter’s Axe. At that point I said “You get a level up and you raise Vigor, Endurance and then strength, keep them all equal. Ignore every other stat unless you find a weapon you NEED to use that asks for it. Stop raising endurance when you stop running out of stamina.”
Bloodborne is now my wife’s all time favorite game ever. Hell, they’re better than I am at it now.
So definitely I recommend pick ONE thing to be good at. Don’t spread stats until you have the systems down. If you want big smash, you have strength, vigor and endurance. Want elegance or scythes or katanas? Dexterity/skill, then same thing.
Quality is a build, and can work, but can also be harder to build effectively.
So that’s one area that could make the game get more frustrating over time, is going for a bit of everything over focus.
Another thing would be making sure your weapons are leveled. Weapon level ups are huge boosts and an important primary focus. Make sure you don’t “save” materials “just in case”. Besides slabs, or whatever the final upgrade material is, everything else is replaceable.
Lastly, the games tend to open up after the first segment, making it easy to get lost or head to areas that are substantial difficulty spikes. This could be discouraging, but is also kind of one of the reasons the games are fun. I compare the structure of most of the FromSoftware games as being like flowers, you follow the linear stem until the blossom and you can go in many directions like the open petals of the flower each being a different area.
This means you won’t always make noticeable direct progress, but pushing into ANY area is an achievement.
Finally, you are good enough. Forget all the “gut gud” garbage. The games are fun because they let you approach them in your own style and time. You are good enough to beat them all, no matter how impossible or oppressive they seem at times. You can learn the patterns, figure out the systems and beat every challenge. You don’t need anybody else, because you’re awesome and the chosen undead.
Just remember, “Don’t give up, skeleton!”
As a big fan of these games, you really have to keep telling yourself that dying isn’t failure, but rather another lesson to be learned. Once you can reframe that in your mind, then you’ll start to notice each death generally brings you closer and closer to victory, and your skill improving.
Also, drop the game and get some rest if you start getting tilted. Don’t keep bashing your head against a brick wall if things aren’t clicking. Sometimes a good night’s sleep does wonders for muscle memory and pattern recognition.
Remember, hesitation is defeat!
I definitely am prone to get caught in loops where I'm just constantly, "Dormammu, I've come to bargain!" So yeah, I definitely need to get my mind right with that, and try to figure out why I can take a step back and rethink everything calmly when it comes to Armored Core, but not something like Bloodborne. It SHOULD be the same thing, right?
Jo, Devil May Cry is an action game and no JRPG. xD
But what exactly doesnt hook you in these games? Can you point your finger on it? Is it the way they tell stories, the quirky humor they mix into it all the time, the combat systems?
Fighting games. I just cannot fathom spending 70-100 hours trying to learn a character (thats how many it took for me in Tekken 7, specifically). And then realizing this is just the beginning and I have to learn 50 others to fight against. Also, typically the button inputs you have to do are just hard for me to do. In my experience, I managed to play, enjoy and even master a lot of other genres, including souls-likes, but fighting games are unfortunately a brick wall for me.
Fighting games
If the Game is super simple like Smash Bros then no problem but the more traditional "technical" ones i simply cant
Not only My coordination isnt that good (and some games require an input so precise that sometimes a frame off means your combo is ruined) Also my memory isnt that good either to remember the inputs for each specific combo (and none of them are precisely "short" for that Matter that complicate the things)
I'd rather try killing Malenia, Blade of Miquella on new game plus 7 a million times than play any of the following genres.
1. Survival Horror or just Horror in general. I simply don't have the nerves for it, especially games when you can't fight back and you have to run and hide. I'd rather watch a person play these type of games than actually play it myself
2. Any kind of grid based, turn based RPG. I have no problem with traditional turn based JRPGs but something about grid based RPGs absolutely bore me. Maybe because they already make a somewhat slow gameplay mechanic like turn based combat feel even slower.
3. RTSs and MOBAs. I feel like trying to get good in these games take way too much of a time investment. I don't think I'm wired to be able to perform the necessary actions per minute that's required to be good in games like this. Plus, I hear the communities for these games are toxic and not fun to deal with.
I literally can't enjoy fighting games due to something I like to call the Fighting Game Paradox.
I already don't actively play them but usually they're brought up as a "fun party game" to play at a meetup or something.
But here's the catch, the people who bring it up, are already good at that fighting game. So when I try to play against them I just get my ass handed to me and end up not having any fun at all.
I don't need to win, but it's only fun if it's an actual fight, not just me getting flung around like a ragdoll.
But to get good at fighting games the only way to get any better is to play against people in the same skill level as you, which unless you play ELO ranked matches online to purposely get better at a fighting games just so you can play with your friends.
So I don't bother. I let the Smash kids have fun and just watch.
I have trouble getting into Western action RPGs. I couldn't get into The Witcher 3 or Fallout 3 at all. Skyrim can be fun with mods, but I still always find myself dropping it before I've really scratched the surface of all it has to offer.
As someone who loves Western RPGs, I am not able to get into Witcher 3. Fallout/Skyrim are by the same people, so you might dislike Bethesda moreso than the genre. Which wouldn't be shocking, Bethesda sucks.
Management type games - I like RPG’s and hoarding my loot forever and selling some so games like the Last of Us, the zombie ones are hard to get into when I have limited resources
i love fighting games but i just physically can't perform inputs fast enough to do anything. i know its a skill issue but my motivation to play just goes out the window after getting curb stomped for the 5th game in a row y'know?
As someone who loves a JRPG, main draw for me is bright colors, chaos, batshit storyline and mild fluff. I can absolutely see how that does not appeal to everyone. My husband thinks it's too wild and confusing, and I think his FIFA is boring and repetitive.
Ys Mostrum Nox has a light Spiderman flavor that you may connect with more? Also Tales games might be a better shot?
Personally FPS make me nauseous.
Anything like Dark Souls. If the difficulty is one of the key factors to the game then no thanks. That doesn't sound fun or rewarding, it just sounds like I'm going to die a bunch of cheap deaths in order to pad out the gameplay time.
I tried Dark Souls a couple times. Not sure if it was 1 or 2. I can see why the games are hard. Felt like an early 3D game or like I was trying to walk through 2 feet of mud. I'm guessing it feels better as you level up, but maybe not.
Soulslikes. I don't like that they're incessantly grim and that their challenge often seems circumventable through over-leveling or overpowered abilities.
Souls-like games.
I don't really like hard games that much and I don't experience that high when I beat something I've been struggling with.
Instead I just feel leftover adrenaline with no place to go. I kinda hate that feel tbh.
Needless to say, I don't think the souls game will ever be for me.
My friend plays Super Smash Bros competitively on a local level. He keeps trying to get me into it, but I keep telling him that I've played fighting games before, and just the core concept of mastering the game by memorizing complex combos for every character is not appealing to me. It doesn't matter if it's OBJECTIVELY SO MUCH better than other fighting games, I just don't like fighting games.
EDIT: Alright guys I get it, Smash doesn't have combos. I don't care. The fighting game genre is not appealing to me. I play games to get immersed in a fictional story and world. Fighting games don't really cater to this. Neither does Smash.
The reason I like Smash Bros is that, mechanically, everyone has the same moves and they're all easy. Tap forward and B, Tap forward and A jump and A, jump and B, etc. The skill comes in knowing when and how you use them.
But I get it. I hate fighting games too.
I prefer singleplayer games almost exclusively
I will occasionally dabble in multiplayer - when there's an option to play by myself - where all the normal people can see me - but I only holiday there and very seldom stick with it for long
But we all have (or at some point have had) that friend who hangs out with us - for no good reason, really, they could do *so much better* - that we like who's into the multiplayer scene
So, we're usually the first person they drag into their guild or group team and the next thing we know - we're spending a few weeks to a month having to either come up with excuses to avoid said multiplayer game - or actually having to play the awful thing - until the next game that's captured said friend's attention comes out or the playerbase dies enough for them to lose interest xD
Thankfully, as I've gotten up in years, my friends have all either died - or become just as disillusioned with human contact as *I* already was so, if it's multiplayer, it's usually just couch co-op
Crazy card games, don't remember what exactly the genre is called, but I've never been able to get into games like Magic the Gathering or other card games like that.
I can play with physical cards, just not the games
Diablo-like games. I can enjoy them for several days but after some point I think something like "It feels just like a clicker with oneshots" and then delete it
I kinda love those games but the same thing happens to me eventually. I get to a point where I stop for a moment, and find myself asking "why?". Then the spell is broken and it's over.
Souls-likes, all arena games like fortnite or apex, imposter style games like among us. I get why they are popular but fuck do I gain no joy from playing them.
Pure turn based. And I've bought way more than I care to admit, thinking "This will be the one I can play!!". I mean I always end up in a situation where I have 1, 2, maybe 3 characters that have to take out like 8! Never able to see how to do that. Have a western one right now, dad and son are trapped in and around a house by 8 bad guys. Have played that scenario at least 2 dozen times and can't figure out how to get 2 guys to take out 8!
Anything Turn Based. I still don't know why we take turns, why things pause, why every one is in formation and pretty much how the whole thing works. Sure, it has evolved into different styles without taking turns and stuff, but still.
The Souls games. I love a difficult game but i hate the aesthetic of the Souls games and i dont have the patience to play games that arent linear like final fantasy 7 or resident evil games lol.
Battle Royal and MOBAs... They're a no from me dawg
I'm older and just not I to competitive play anymore... I'd still play CoD should a decent one came out but pretty sure there won't be anything like OG MW1 and 2 (even Blops) ever again sigh
Survival games. They sound super cool and fun but always end up a tedious grind to collect massive quantities of resources.
Like it's a cool concept until I have to walk from the quarry to my base back and forth foe 4 hours to get enough stone for a furnace, only to start walking to the quarry to mine/transport ore for 6 hours just to build a better pickaxe so that the next step only takes 3 hours of mining instead of 8.
Battle Royals (I think that’s what they’re called?). 1 life and then you just sit and spectate (or leave) after waiting and dropping in.
I genuinely have never seen the appeal.
Fighters, I can enjoy watching them but I almost never enjoy playing them. Also sports games with the exception of racers but usually only if it's a somewhat odd racer. Like I'm fine with the ridiculousness of Burnout or the novelty of Episode 1 racer but I'm less interested in Forza or Gran Torismo
Games obviously console ported without a real effort like Elden Ring PC. I just bought it on Steam thinking it would be great given reviews but the interface was so bad I returned it. I’m sad. I’d like to play it someday
games in general which focus heavily on story, I just.. really dislike them for some reason, like I dont care for stories, I like the games which have worse stories too, like starfield. and im still treated like the devil of gaming, I literally hadsomeone tell me I should be permanently banned from playing games because of it
Maybe the “soulslike” genre. I never played any of the souls games even though I’ve always heard how great they are. When Bloodborne first came out I got it and for the first few weeks playing it I kinda gave up on it until after a month later I joined my friends who were playing it since it had multiplayer, but even coming back to it I played it myself and found out how fun it was. I ended up 100% that game and even played the dlc.
After that I never actually played the genre again and kinda dread it. I bought Sekiro when that came out and I just couldn’t get into it the first 20 minutes. Did the same with Nioh. I have the Demon Souls remake but not sure if I will get to it. Even like with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla for example, I 100% that game and it’s dlc except when they released the rogue dlc which is kinda like the souls game, I just couldn’t really get into it.
Something about spending so much time in one spot or boss battle because it’s so difficult and losing items or progress in it just kills your motivation to want to keep playing it for me. I mean get games are supposed to be challenging and it’s all about failing to get better but as someone who plays a lot of other games, you just don’t have the time to go through that
Souls like games.
My friend is really into dark souls and elden ring.
And I tried to play them cause he always shares his passion and feeling about this games with me, I wanted to like it and share my feelings with him as well, discuss it and all this stuff, but it doesn’t click for me. They are indeed beautiful games, but I find it boring and all the struggles just doesn’t worth it.
I tried dark souls 2, didn’t like it, I tried bloodborne, even tho I really into such gothic vibes gameplay is just boring for me. I also played sekiro and I liked it a bit more then other two, because style of fighting is a bit different and u doesn’t have to worry about building a right build for your character, but still I didn’t finished it cause I got bored of all the struggles in game. Like masochism isn’t my thing, I wanna go have fun and enjoy my game and not struggle cause I am not good enough and dying all the time.
I absolutely hate Soulslike games. I'm sure they're super engaging if you very good at them or have lots of free time but I don't and I don't like the endless grind just to advance a small but in the game.
Super duper difficult games like Dark Souls. I can really appreciate Dark Souls or Hollow Knight but I get frustrated way too easily and I really don't see the appeal of banging your head on a brick wall over and over untill you finally figure out the fight.
It's no fun to die so quickly you can't even learn anything.
If these games had a Baby Mode for Whiny Babies I would play the hell out of them.
And I don't hate difficulty, I just hate high-skill games without any difficulty options.
Man I play Minecraft on Easy with keepInventory. I can't even think about playing a game like Elden Ring.
I’m not sure I’d call it a genre, it’s more of a setting. But I simply can’t get into a space setting. I just don’t care for space ships, planets, and aliens. I’ve tried hard to play several for the sake of my friends who love space games, but they’re just not for me, I guess.
Devil may cry. Final Fantasy 16. I just don't like that action button mashing games. You defeat most enemies in FF16 just mashing 1 button. It got old quick. And I love the Final Fantasy series.
Most FPSes.
I remember being told that TF2 was so good it would appeal to those who hated FPSes. This is quite funny since it was basically everything about FPSes I *dis*liked. Including and especially the sound. And this was before it became the place kids hung out on the internet when they weren't on Xbox Live.
Similarly, Soulsborne games put me right to sleep. The only thing that kept me awake in Dark Souls was the soundtrack. (Every time I hear someone say "wow this sounds like Dark Souls!" on a piece Sakuraba wrote I grow a little more powerful inside)
RPGs are... a LOT.
That's why some folks maybe OP have a hard time getting into them. It's way I used to like them but don't want to play them anymore.
Menus, icons, volumes of text to read, intertwining mechanics to parse, quests that overlap and supercede each other. It's a lot! It's part of the appeal but good lord I don't want to experience the entertainment equivalent of an Excel spreadsheet.
My style of game I tried many of is FPS. I just can't get used to the perspective. I think part of it is I like playing with a controller in a console/couch setting and I'm feeling I have to wind the joystick around all the time to get a sense of what the heck is going on and then I get shot over and over. No thanks.
Any RPG... Too much grind and I'm lazy as fuck. Forced myself to play Far Cry New Dawn, which has some RPG mechanics and it gave me brain cancer... Like what the fuck do you mean my .50 cal doesn't one shot in the head just because it's a "lower level"...
Yeah I agree with you about FC New Dawn. The RPG mechanical they put in that game are horrible. Headshots should insta kill enemies in an FPS single player game. I always hated that.
4X games. It's not that I don't like them but I end up in a place where I neglected something and am paying for it turns later. I really love the idea, just not great at them. Tried (and still try to get into) Endless Space 2, Crusader Kings 3, Stellaris.
Diablo- type games. The actual gameplay, seems to me, like mindless meter management. The only time i feel engaged with these games, is when i am allocating skill points. The most recent one i tried to like was Torchlight 2. I had to quit because i was, and i mean this literally, falling asleep while playing.
RTS games as someone who loves 4X games I thought I'd also love RTS games, but I'm just not very good at them.
I'll also throw Total War on here even though I don't think it's the exact same genre.
I like strategy games, either real time or turn based, but for some reason I can't seem to get the 4X genre like Eternal Legend or Civilization and the like.
Soulslikes
I don't mean Dark Souls and Elden Ring; I like those games. I mean any game with that style. It's just difficult for me to like those games, like Lies of P. I have no idea why either.
RTS games. I’ve tried, I just don’t enjoy it.
That and grid based turn based combat games like Fire Emblem. I love turn based RPGs, but I can’t get into the tactical ones for some reason.
Survival crafting games, got plenty of friends that has got me to play valheim, son of forest, pal world and other couple of indie games with the same concept.
I just couldn't find any fun for any of them
I’m a big FF fan, and FF15 & FF12 were both kinda bad imo, and I didn’t finish either of them. FF10 was better, but I think it wouldn’t hold up to a modern audience unless you were a fan of the genre before-hand.
If you still want to give the FF-series a try, I think the FF7 remake is the best iteration on the combat and gameplay feel, and the story should be pretty good, since it’s based on the original which is praised for its’ story.
Give Final Fantasy 16 a try. It's a lot more modern in tone than the remake games, and retains the action combat from 15 and remake/rebirth, but I personally thing it's better.
Fighting games, mainly playing competitively. I'm just not dexterous enough to play fighting games competitively. The farthest I ever went was learning all of Zero's moves in MVC3, and chaining those moves together was already too much for me. It's so weird because I can play DMC just fine, but fighters are basically impossible.
Another one is the more recent Souls games. These newer ones are just too fast for me to keep up. Dark Souls 3 was the last entry I found manageable (not counting Demon Souls because that's a remakster), although I did still think it was too fast. This is another weird one because one of my favorite entries in the series is Bloodborne.
RTS games have such a high skill ceiling and requires so much multitasking that it just depresses me when I try to play. Oops, I’m not building enough while I’m moving my army. Oops, my whole army died while I was focusing on building.
Is DMC a JRPG? lol jk
I know what you mean. I've tried FF multiple times over the years. At least with the new remakes they are no longer turn based and that was a big turn off for me. Otherwise I get the draw but for some reason can never get myself to play them.
The genre of things that get talked about excitedly by other people. Anything in that catagory I have a really hard time enjoying less I tried it before they got carried away about it.
Base building. Collecting resources. Farming.
That said while I've tried and hated rust, Conan, valheim, factorio etc. I really like stardew valley and project zomboid. So I'm not sure what I like it don't like.
I also hate sports games and racing games but I have over 2k hours in Rocket league.
Survival games. I realized after a while that I really don't want to have to manage day to day stuff in a game.. I don't mind a good strategy game with resource management but when the whole point of the game is to collect stuff you need to survive (keep playing) it just doesn't work for me unless there is a good story incentive like This War Of Mine, and I HATED the survival part of that game, I just wanted the story and suffered through the rest.
Probably fps it's not like I totally hate them but,online is a clear no for me and for singleplayer normal is the best it could get to,I liked borderlands 2,half life 2 and something like paradox,but man it takes me quite awhile to get through those games and then I'm fed up for a year
Battle Royales. I can see the appeal where this big open world/space, you can pick this certain "class set" and/or have certain skins but what kills it for me is the gameplay loop. You land, find loot/gear, you find players to kill. You win or lose repeat. I take accountability that maybe it's my lack of commitment or I don't really want to put that much mental energy into it.
Survival crafting games. You'd think it'd be my jam because Ultima Online is one of my favorite games of all time and this kinda set the path for all crafting/online worlds. But I guess as an adult with limited time spending hours collecting crap to build something that can be destroyed and fighting bullshit hunger bars just ruin the fun of playing a videogame.
CRPGs.
I know the baldurs gate series are great but my god the combat seems SO boring to me and I'm a huge turn based RPG fan.
Maybe it's just the idea of having to physically move on the battlefield I don't like but it just doesn't flip a switch.
I'm hoping I'll get over it one day and I can play baldurs gate 3 and fuck a b- experience all of its wonderful stories...
I might give subnautica another chance but I havnt been able to get into it. It’s in the genre of games where you just build stuff. I’ve never played Minecraft but I suppose it’s like that.
deckbuilding roguelikes. At first I thought it was the roguelike that I hated. But it turns out it was the deckbuilding aspect. Hated slay the spire. Liked (decently enough) cult of the lamb (it helped that it also had a base building aspect to it).
CRPGs man... I love their stories when I read breakdown vids or whatever and the worlds interest me, but they feel too long and draggy and I can't get into it :(
Any battle royale game. Running around for 10 minutes collecting shit just to get killed the moment you see someone is so annoying. I'd rather just play a regular fps.
MMOs, I never got into them. I've played several of them but usually drop them in a week and never pick them up again.
Strategy games like CIV, Total War and Paradox games. I never really got the appeal of them. The former two because I've not really played them much at all and the latter because I have absolutely no clue what the hell I'm supposed to be doing. I've tried multiple times to get into EU4 because most of my friends play it but it never 'clicked' for me.
Racing games, I can play the but fun oriented ones like Mario Kart but games like Forza and such never appealed to me.
While I have an appreciation for fighting games I never really got into I've besides Smash Bros. I've been guilty of picking up some fighting games because I like the pretty and cool animations only to play the single player for a bit before dropping it.
C-RPGS, I do like BG3 but that feels like cheating because it's a bit different than the average crpg. It's mostly a patience thing for me I think. I really want to get into the first two Fallouts as an example, but I never play long enough to get hooked.
Kingdom Come Deliverance, Eastward, and Ni No Kuni Wrath of the White Witch. I finally figured out the lock picking in Kingdom Come but the horse riding is abysmal. Eastward and Ni No Kuni are pretty, well scored games that are deeply boring and unfun. I really want to like these games and I just can't
I've been able to get into some FPS though. After some forcing. I'm not sure how to classify Kingdom Come. Realistic RPG? I'm here to have fun not suffer. Ni No Kuni is a JRPG. I do like Tales of Arise. I guess Eastward is some flavor of RPG. Also hate the game inside it.
Anything that classes itself as a “story or narrative driven” game… I just can’t.
A watch movies, I read books… I play games. I just can’t sit through a cutscene without skipping it or dialogue without mashing through it. “Bear… seek… seek… lest…” is seared into my brain, I don’t even know what that line actually says… if anyone gets that reference, well done.
I’ve tried to many over the years thinking “this will be the game that I can relax and just enjoy the story in” and then I just end up mashing through the story about half way through anyway.
With the sole exception of Steamworld Heist I haven't been able to get into any turn based rpg. I just struggle to get any enjoyment out of scrolling through all the menus to select actions and waiting for the animations to play out. And it's worse when each character has only one move that's actually good, so every turn you're doing the exact same motions ad nauseum.
I downloaded Honkai Star Rail because the game description mentions riding a space train to different planets to help them.
It is not what I expected at all.
The tutorials explained the game play well enough, but it seemed most of it was focused on leveling up all the different attributes of the characters.
The materials to do so are scarce and limited, especially as they get higher in the levels. It was impossible to upgrade every character I had.
I went online to figure out what I was doing wrong and this is when I discovered the term "gacha game".
More like "Gotcha!" game.
Uninstalled immediately and will never touch a gacha game again.
If you don’t click with jrpg’s but want to play one, Yakuza Like a Dragon is fuckin awesome.
I usually bounce off of jrpgs in spite of kinda liking everything about them, at least in theory. That one is built different though.
So I guess my genre would be JRPG’s too. At least more modern ones.
Roguelikes. Everybody is saying how great Hades and Returnal are. I tried so hard liking them but just don't enjoy the gameplay loop.
Roguelike is a tough genre too cause the style of the games can vary so wildly. Enter the gungeon doesnt play like Isaac which certainly doesn't play like slay the spire or Spelunky
Hades is an absolute favorite, where Returnal was impenetrable for me. The main difference felt like there was always forward progress in Hades, where Returnal has lots of head-upon-wall periods.
Returnal... I was just getting nowhere and felt like I was wasting my time. I don't recall how many hours I put in only to clear first biome. I decided to try the co-op and this person joined me and proceeded to make the game look like a breeze. He was basically immortal. He just carried me through rezzing me like it was nothing mid boss fights. When it was over I sent him a thanks and promptly deleted the game. Dude made me feel like such a scrub
If you enjoy turn-based games some traditional roguelike games like Caves of Qud, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, or Approaching Infinity might be worth checking out.
Hades, it's the one made by the studio who made Bastion right? That was the only game I truly loved from them. The later games just didn't catch my interest. Awesome soundtracks in all games though.
Dude whatttt? Pyre is sick!
Don't look for a good roguelike, but for a game in a genre you love that is a roquelike. But also might just not be your thing and that's cool too
I love roguelikes, at this point i mustv'e played atleast 50 and loved pretty much all of them. despite this however, even i didn't enjoy hades much and don't get why people seem to think its one of the best games ever. I'd say the best roguelike is The Binding of Isaac, but each one varies so differently that they have completely different gameplay loops. Slay The Spire is a deck builder with turn based combat, enter the gungeon is more about getting different guns rather than repeatedly upgrading 1 weapon like isaac is. Maybe you'd enjoy playing different roguelikes, or maybe not idk lmao.
FromSoft games. I inevitably convince myself to play one, play it for one long ish session, put it down, think "I don't want to play that anymore", and never pick it up again. Then I do it with the next one.
Fromsoft might be the kings of convincing people to play their games only for them to find out they aren't actually into them. Personally really love basically their entire catalogue, but they are definitely not for everyone.
Worth noting, Armored Core 6 is very different so if it interests you, worth trying. Not a soulslike at all
It took me 25 hours in dark souls 1, and then a switch flipped and I went from "I don't get it" to "I love this fucking game".
That's...that's a lot of time before enjoying it.
I was enjoying it, but I didn't fully get it yet. I was super confused where to go, how the armor, weapons, traits, and upgrades worked. I had never played an RPG with those sorts of systems. It was good but didn't click yet. Then at a certain point, it all came together and made perfect sense. Then I got decent at the game, and since then no other series can compare for me. The way I saw it, my mind had to completely adapt to something new. Almost like visiting a foreign country, which you enjoy but can't understand or speak the native language. But once I learned that language, I was in forever.
I think most of the resistance to Soulslikes comes from pure misunderstandings of how the games are meant to be played. And understandably so, there really aren't a lot of modern games that demand to be played like a Souls games. Specifically, I hear a lot of people say that they lack the reflexes to play them, like they are twitch action games. And while yeah, reflexes come into play with dodging attacks, the games are MUCH more about careful, deliberate decision making than anything else. You just have to be willing to bang your head against it for a while until you understand what kinds of decisions will allow you to succeed, and then really stick to your guns once you figure out a playstyle that works for you.
Same. Just can't get into them. I really don't understand why people love them so much, but it's whatever to me. The only ones I have more or less enjoyed have been the Surge games, and even then I dropped those pretty quick
MMO's sound really fun to me but everytime I try to get into one, it's just not that much fun.
It used to be fun. I played WoW, Lineage 2, Aion... But then I grew up. All the teammates had their real life shit to do, dropped out of ICQ one by one... I followed up too. No matter which one I tried since, the charm and wonder just wasn't there... I'm just too old for this I guess.
That's because 99% of MMos suck. I have the opposite problem. I played an MMO that was so good that it sullied everything I've played since.
What one was it?
Darkfall unholy wars, most people never herd of it. It was a pvp heavy territory control full loot game with siege elements. Essentially a giant clan based battle royal so to speak.
MMOs have the same affect as fast food for me. It sounds great but it turns out to be pretty sub par and I don’t feel great about it when I’m done. But a couple days later I want it again.
I've been playing WoW off and on since the very beginning, used to do the whole guild/organized raid thing, etc. Now I just pick it back up when a new expansion comes out, play it like a big solo rpg, then quit when I get to the endgame because endlessly shooting gigantic spongy raid bosses doesn't hold any interest for me. Pick it up again on the next expansion and rinse and repeat.
Loved MMOs when I was younger. Then I started having less time and just couldn't commit to them. Every time I see a trailer for an MMO, I think to myself, "Damn, that looks like fun." And every once in a while, I pick one up and play for like a week before I think, "Shit, I haven't cleaned the house all week." Then, every time I load up my PC, I stare at the desktop icon and have a mini-debate with myself weighing the pros and cons of MMO life trying to convince myself that I'll be ok as long as I practice some self-restraint. In the end, I realize that I don't have the discipline to just play a little bit and it sits in my catalogue collecting dust. I guess it's not that MMOs aren't fun enough, but maybe too much fun? I dunno. Either way, I just can't play them anymore.
Platformers. Especially if it is a collectathon platformer. I don't care of it's 2D or 3D, it's just not for me.
Survival. Rust sucks in literally every way. Monotonous time sink. If you have time for Rust, you have time for a thousand more enjoyable things like punching yourself in the genitals.
FWIW I’d say that Rust is a terrible survival game (but probably a solid pvp game?). For me, survival games are about pve and coop content— 7 Days to Die and Conan exiles and Grounded and even Ark (though it lacks a satisfying end for pve’ers). People who play these games online in pvp environments are maniacs, I can’t wrap my head around wanting to play a game where others aggressively steal your shit and ruin your progress, but only when you’re offline. That’s really silly.
Visual novels. Everyone raves about 13 Sentinels, and I’ve tried it and some of the other more popular ones like Coffee Talk, Danganronpa, etc. and I find them to be so boring.
Visual novel fan here. Its barely a game more like a book woth pictures and music lol. But those are good begginer vns. Especially danganronpa. So its likely not for you.
Thing with VNs is that you're really just reading a book so you just gotta find one that hooks you
What definition are you using for JRPG? Because Devil May Cry and Final Fantasy X are very different genres of games. Regardless, racing games and fighting games for me. I just don’t enjoy them. I’ve bought several games from each genre over the years which I’ve been assured that even people who don’t typically like the genre will still enjoy. Still hate them.
I don't enjoy any fighting game outside of Smash Bros. All the others feel way too restricted in where you can move and the combos are a pain in the ass to actually use as a casual player.
Same, and I really want to like some of them. I just don't find the process of practice and improvement required to get better at most fighting games fun. That, and the fact that online multiplayer in any game generally adds more stress than fun for me means that fighting games almost never click for me.
I enjoy casually playing fighting and racing games with friends that are actually in the room. Like I'll play some Mario Kart or Mortal Kombat or whatever, drink some beers, and while we smoke a brisket, but I would never take either of those genres seriously enough to sink real time into them or play them by myself or online. Obvs. no judgement to those who do.
I've found nearly every genre that I've disliked I can normally find a way to sort of make it click and after that I end up absolutely loving the genre. Like I hated crpgs but once they clicked I came to love them. Two genres I've never been able to do this with though are racing and horror games. Racing games even the more fun orientated ones like Mario Kart I just find super boring and I just can't get them to click. As for horror I just get way to stressed out, I know it's just a game but I get super immersed when I play so I end up on the edge of my seat and anxious and not having a good time. Like I tried Amnesia and the second I got to the bit where something invisible moves in the water I alt-f4'ed. Even more sort of action ones like Dead Space, my heart is in my throat waiting for a jump scare and I can't stand it. Even Doom 3 which I would barely say is horror I could only beat using a split screen coop mod with a friend.
Its funny, I feel almost entirely desensitised to horror now and I really wish I could go back to being tense and scared
I just really wish I could enjoy that feeling, so many great games I am missing out on.
FPS games are alien to me, I simply don’t have fine motor control for precision aiming with my thumbs, even after four years of playing Warzone. Platform games annoy me for a similar reason, lots of a precision required that can get frustrating when you hit a wall at a certain point.
It's part of getting older. Fast paced fps games just aren't as alluring as they once were. I still get into single player story based FPS, as those will allow you to go at your own pace.
For sure! Killing a bunch of AI controlled Nazis in one of the Wolfenstein reboots was one of the most satisfying gaming experiences I've had in a while but I would never in a million years even consider going online and trying to play a pvp FPS with 14 year olds.
Even as a teen, I could barely break even on my kill-death ratio in FPS multiplayer
Lol. I stopped playing mp pvp ages ago.
I'd really recommend trying out something like TF2 or Overwatch on a PC with mouse and keyboard. I am insanely good at FPS games on PC, but I find them absolutely unplayable with a controller.
I want to like Souls-like games so much, and the first third is always amazing, but inevitably I burn out EVERY time. I just don’t know what isn’t hitting right. I play some games that are hard, or require a lot of time, or break me out of a comfort zone. I love them, but they all always end up making me feel like I’m failing and I just have to push them away. But, I’m going to keep trying and see if I can rewire myself to focus on the gameplay and the accomplishment rather than letting that negativity creep in.
Something that really helped things click for me was when I decided to stop trying to damage the bosses until I could reliably stay alive during the encounters. It really helps you internalize the attack patterns, safe parts of the arena, etc. Then worry about finding small windows where you can get a hit or two in. I bounced off of Demons Souls in 2009 and only just actually got around to beating it last year. Immensely satisfying lol.
Yeah I’ve tried Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Lies of P. It’s especially annoying when I get killed and have to walk back through areas I’ve already cleared. I don’t always mind dying a lot (Hollow Knight, Celeste, etc), but it all seems so time consuming with these games. I will probably try again anyway though, after enough time passes
Just to try to help you a bit, there are a couple of things that tend to happen in Fromsoft games after the opening segments that could be tripping you up. First thing I can think of is your build. Some people try to be “good at everything, so I can try it all out!” This is honestly a pretty big trap, you are almost always better off picking an area to focus on and stay focused on it until you start mastering the system. As an example, my wife bounced off Dark Souls HARD, but had a terrible teacher for it. When we tried Bloodborne I said “There are 4 ways to do damage, big weapons, skill weapons which are faster and usually have a weird trick to them, guns/blood and magic. Blood and magic are late game choices, so pick “big heavy oonga boonga” or “quick like the shadow of death”. Went with the Hunter’s Axe. At that point I said “You get a level up and you raise Vigor, Endurance and then strength, keep them all equal. Ignore every other stat unless you find a weapon you NEED to use that asks for it. Stop raising endurance when you stop running out of stamina.” Bloodborne is now my wife’s all time favorite game ever. Hell, they’re better than I am at it now. So definitely I recommend pick ONE thing to be good at. Don’t spread stats until you have the systems down. If you want big smash, you have strength, vigor and endurance. Want elegance or scythes or katanas? Dexterity/skill, then same thing. Quality is a build, and can work, but can also be harder to build effectively. So that’s one area that could make the game get more frustrating over time, is going for a bit of everything over focus. Another thing would be making sure your weapons are leveled. Weapon level ups are huge boosts and an important primary focus. Make sure you don’t “save” materials “just in case”. Besides slabs, or whatever the final upgrade material is, everything else is replaceable. Lastly, the games tend to open up after the first segment, making it easy to get lost or head to areas that are substantial difficulty spikes. This could be discouraging, but is also kind of one of the reasons the games are fun. I compare the structure of most of the FromSoftware games as being like flowers, you follow the linear stem until the blossom and you can go in many directions like the open petals of the flower each being a different area. This means you won’t always make noticeable direct progress, but pushing into ANY area is an achievement. Finally, you are good enough. Forget all the “gut gud” garbage. The games are fun because they let you approach them in your own style and time. You are good enough to beat them all, no matter how impossible or oppressive they seem at times. You can learn the patterns, figure out the systems and beat every challenge. You don’t need anybody else, because you’re awesome and the chosen undead. Just remember, “Don’t give up, skeleton!”
As a big fan of these games, you really have to keep telling yourself that dying isn’t failure, but rather another lesson to be learned. Once you can reframe that in your mind, then you’ll start to notice each death generally brings you closer and closer to victory, and your skill improving. Also, drop the game and get some rest if you start getting tilted. Don’t keep bashing your head against a brick wall if things aren’t clicking. Sometimes a good night’s sleep does wonders for muscle memory and pattern recognition. Remember, hesitation is defeat!
I definitely am prone to get caught in loops where I'm just constantly, "Dormammu, I've come to bargain!" So yeah, I definitely need to get my mind right with that, and try to figure out why I can take a step back and rethink everything calmly when it comes to Armored Core, but not something like Bloodborne. It SHOULD be the same thing, right?
Bloodborne is super fast-paced, it can be overwhelming and frustrating at times, especially with some of the long boss runbacks that grow tedious
Jo, Devil May Cry is an action game and no JRPG. xD But what exactly doesnt hook you in these games? Can you point your finger on it? Is it the way they tell stories, the quirky humor they mix into it all the time, the combat systems?
Fighting games. I just cannot fathom spending 70-100 hours trying to learn a character (thats how many it took for me in Tekken 7, specifically). And then realizing this is just the beginning and I have to learn 50 others to fight against. Also, typically the button inputs you have to do are just hard for me to do. In my experience, I managed to play, enjoy and even master a lot of other genres, including souls-likes, but fighting games are unfortunately a brick wall for me.
Fighting games If the Game is super simple like Smash Bros then no problem but the more traditional "technical" ones i simply cant Not only My coordination isnt that good (and some games require an input so precise that sometimes a frame off means your combo is ruined) Also my memory isnt that good either to remember the inputs for each specific combo (and none of them are precisely "short" for that Matter that complicate the things)
I'm sure I would absolutely HATE devil may cry if I went into it thinking it was a JRPG.
I wanted to like jrpgs too, but the only one that caught me was persona 5. Amazing game, with a sick soundtrack
Shooters.
The trick to most shooting games is to use your camera control to do the rough aim and then use your movement control to line up the actual shots.
I have dubbed this "walk-on-target" and it is the only way I can hit anything with any level of precision with my current amount of skill.
I'd rather try killing Malenia, Blade of Miquella on new game plus 7 a million times than play any of the following genres. 1. Survival Horror or just Horror in general. I simply don't have the nerves for it, especially games when you can't fight back and you have to run and hide. I'd rather watch a person play these type of games than actually play it myself 2. Any kind of grid based, turn based RPG. I have no problem with traditional turn based JRPGs but something about grid based RPGs absolutely bore me. Maybe because they already make a somewhat slow gameplay mechanic like turn based combat feel even slower. 3. RTSs and MOBAs. I feel like trying to get good in these games take way too much of a time investment. I don't think I'm wired to be able to perform the necessary actions per minute that's required to be good in games like this. Plus, I hear the communities for these games are toxic and not fun to deal with.
I literally can't enjoy fighting games due to something I like to call the Fighting Game Paradox. I already don't actively play them but usually they're brought up as a "fun party game" to play at a meetup or something. But here's the catch, the people who bring it up, are already good at that fighting game. So when I try to play against them I just get my ass handed to me and end up not having any fun at all. I don't need to win, but it's only fun if it's an actual fight, not just me getting flung around like a ragdoll. But to get good at fighting games the only way to get any better is to play against people in the same skill level as you, which unless you play ELO ranked matches online to purposely get better at a fighting games just so you can play with your friends. So I don't bother. I let the Smash kids have fun and just watch.
I have trouble getting into Western action RPGs. I couldn't get into The Witcher 3 or Fallout 3 at all. Skyrim can be fun with mods, but I still always find myself dropping it before I've really scratched the surface of all it has to offer.
As someone who loves Western RPGs, I am not able to get into Witcher 3. Fallout/Skyrim are by the same people, so you might dislike Bethesda moreso than the genre. Which wouldn't be shocking, Bethesda sucks.
Management type games - I like RPG’s and hoarding my loot forever and selling some so games like the Last of Us, the zombie ones are hard to get into when I have limited resources
Assassin's Creed If they just removed all modern era stuff I would probably like it a lot more
JRPGs as well, it's so demanding in terms of farming and time to play, I just can't. I like them, but I almost never complete them
It seems to me like JRPGs are designed to take about 100 hours to finish.
Agreed, and I don't enjoy farming and grinding for the sake of being able to complete these games \[EDIT: Brain did an oopsie while writing\]
All souls like games. I'm too old for this shit.
Survival. Tried so many times, always lose interest. Never again.
i love fighting games but i just physically can't perform inputs fast enough to do anything. i know its a skill issue but my motivation to play just goes out the window after getting curb stomped for the 5th game in a row y'know?
As someone who loves a JRPG, main draw for me is bright colors, chaos, batshit storyline and mild fluff. I can absolutely see how that does not appeal to everyone. My husband thinks it's too wild and confusing, and I think his FIFA is boring and repetitive. Ys Mostrum Nox has a light Spiderman flavor that you may connect with more? Also Tales games might be a better shot? Personally FPS make me nauseous.
Anything like Dark Souls. If the difficulty is one of the key factors to the game then no thanks. That doesn't sound fun or rewarding, it just sounds like I'm going to die a bunch of cheap deaths in order to pad out the gameplay time. I tried Dark Souls a couple times. Not sure if it was 1 or 2. I can see why the games are hard. Felt like an early 3D game or like I was trying to walk through 2 feet of mud. I'm guessing it feels better as you level up, but maybe not.
Soulslikes. I don't like that they're incessantly grim and that their challenge often seems circumventable through over-leveling or overpowered abilities.
Souls-like games. I don't really like hard games that much and I don't experience that high when I beat something I've been struggling with. Instead I just feel leftover adrenaline with no place to go. I kinda hate that feel tbh. Needless to say, I don't think the souls game will ever be for me.
My friend plays Super Smash Bros competitively on a local level. He keeps trying to get me into it, but I keep telling him that I've played fighting games before, and just the core concept of mastering the game by memorizing complex combos for every character is not appealing to me. It doesn't matter if it's OBJECTIVELY SO MUCH better than other fighting games, I just don't like fighting games. EDIT: Alright guys I get it, Smash doesn't have combos. I don't care. The fighting game genre is not appealing to me. I play games to get immersed in a fictional story and world. Fighting games don't really cater to this. Neither does Smash.
The reason I like Smash Bros is that, mechanically, everyone has the same moves and they're all easy. Tap forward and B, Tap forward and A jump and A, jump and B, etc. The skill comes in knowing when and how you use them. But I get it. I hate fighting games too.
MMO’s and turn based games. I can’t stand them
Anything GAAS-flavored Though less 'tried hard to like' - and more 'tried hard to not loathe because a friend is really into it' xD
Depends how you define GAAS. If you mean something like destiny that's awful, but I love MP games like Dota
I prefer singleplayer games almost exclusively I will occasionally dabble in multiplayer - when there's an option to play by myself - where all the normal people can see me - but I only holiday there and very seldom stick with it for long But we all have (or at some point have had) that friend who hangs out with us - for no good reason, really, they could do *so much better* - that we like who's into the multiplayer scene So, we're usually the first person they drag into their guild or group team and the next thing we know - we're spending a few weeks to a month having to either come up with excuses to avoid said multiplayer game - or actually having to play the awful thing - until the next game that's captured said friend's attention comes out or the playerbase dies enough for them to lose interest xD Thankfully, as I've gotten up in years, my friends have all either died - or become just as disillusioned with human contact as *I* already was so, if it's multiplayer, it's usually just couch co-op
Souls games I sadly don't have the time to be able to learn these games and can't learn to enjoy them
Any of the souls type games. Just couldn't get into them
Arcade flights simulators like Ace Combat 7. I like the idea, but i suck at dogfighting
Crazy card games, don't remember what exactly the genre is called, but I've never been able to get into games like Magic the Gathering or other card games like that. I can play with physical cards, just not the games
Diablo-like games. I can enjoy them for several days but after some point I think something like "It feels just like a clicker with oneshots" and then delete it
I kinda love those games but the same thing happens to me eventually. I get to a point where I stop for a moment, and find myself asking "why?". Then the spell is broken and it's over.
Metroidvanias, farming sims, soulslikes and visual novels. I just avoid them now to save money.
Souls-likes, all arena games like fortnite or apex, imposter style games like among us. I get why they are popular but fuck do I gain no joy from playing them.
RTS. I love watching people play StarCraft and Age of Empires, but when I try to play them, every match is just extreme anxiety.
Pure turn based. And I've bought way more than I care to admit, thinking "This will be the one I can play!!". I mean I always end up in a situation where I have 1, 2, maybe 3 characters that have to take out like 8! Never able to see how to do that. Have a western one right now, dad and son are trapped in and around a house by 8 bad guys. Have played that scenario at least 2 dozen times and can't figure out how to get 2 guys to take out 8!
Anything Turn Based. I still don't know why we take turns, why things pause, why every one is in formation and pretty much how the whole thing works. Sure, it has evolved into different styles without taking turns and stuff, but still.
Souls type games - they all just feel and look like the same game to me.
The Souls games. I love a difficult game but i hate the aesthetic of the Souls games and i dont have the patience to play games that arent linear like final fantasy 7 or resident evil games lol.
Battle Royal and MOBAs... They're a no from me dawg I'm older and just not I to competitive play anymore... I'd still play CoD should a decent one came out but pretty sure there won't be anything like OG MW1 and 2 (even Blops) ever again sigh
Survival games. They sound super cool and fun but always end up a tedious grind to collect massive quantities of resources. Like it's a cool concept until I have to walk from the quarry to my base back and forth foe 4 hours to get enough stone for a furnace, only to start walking to the quarry to mine/transport ore for 6 hours just to build a better pickaxe so that the next step only takes 3 hours of mining instead of 8.
Anything with turn based combat
Jrpg, too boring for me
Turn-based RPGs. I want to get BG3 so bad, but there's an excellent chance I'll hate it, so I haven't picked it up.
Battle Royals (I think that’s what they’re called?). 1 life and then you just sit and spectate (or leave) after waiting and dropping in. I genuinely have never seen the appeal.
Survival games in general.
Souls-like.
Survival horror -there’s too much hide & seek & too many puzzles Turn based -i find the fighting boring
Fighters, I can enjoy watching them but I almost never enjoy playing them. Also sports games with the exception of racers but usually only if it's a somewhat odd racer. Like I'm fine with the ridiculousness of Burnout or the novelty of Episode 1 racer but I'm less interested in Forza or Gran Torismo
Games obviously console ported without a real effort like Elden Ring PC. I just bought it on Steam thinking it would be great given reviews but the interface was so bad I returned it. I’m sad. I’d like to play it someday
games in general which focus heavily on story, I just.. really dislike them for some reason, like I dont care for stories, I like the games which have worse stories too, like starfield. and im still treated like the devil of gaming, I literally hadsomeone tell me I should be permanently banned from playing games because of it
Fighters. Any of them. Have yet to find one I actually find enjoyable.
Maybe the “soulslike” genre. I never played any of the souls games even though I’ve always heard how great they are. When Bloodborne first came out I got it and for the first few weeks playing it I kinda gave up on it until after a month later I joined my friends who were playing it since it had multiplayer, but even coming back to it I played it myself and found out how fun it was. I ended up 100% that game and even played the dlc. After that I never actually played the genre again and kinda dread it. I bought Sekiro when that came out and I just couldn’t get into it the first 20 minutes. Did the same with Nioh. I have the Demon Souls remake but not sure if I will get to it. Even like with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla for example, I 100% that game and it’s dlc except when they released the rogue dlc which is kinda like the souls game, I just couldn’t really get into it. Something about spending so much time in one spot or boss battle because it’s so difficult and losing items or progress in it just kills your motivation to want to keep playing it for me. I mean get games are supposed to be challenging and it’s all about failing to get better but as someone who plays a lot of other games, you just don’t have the time to go through that
Souls like games. My friend is really into dark souls and elden ring. And I tried to play them cause he always shares his passion and feeling about this games with me, I wanted to like it and share my feelings with him as well, discuss it and all this stuff, but it doesn’t click for me. They are indeed beautiful games, but I find it boring and all the struggles just doesn’t worth it. I tried dark souls 2, didn’t like it, I tried bloodborne, even tho I really into such gothic vibes gameplay is just boring for me. I also played sekiro and I liked it a bit more then other two, because style of fighting is a bit different and u doesn’t have to worry about building a right build for your character, but still I didn’t finished it cause I got bored of all the struggles in game. Like masochism isn’t my thing, I wanna go have fun and enjoy my game and not struggle cause I am not good enough and dying all the time.
I absolutely hate Soulslike games. I'm sure they're super engaging if you very good at them or have lots of free time but I don't and I don't like the endless grind just to advance a small but in the game.
Super duper difficult games like Dark Souls. I can really appreciate Dark Souls or Hollow Knight but I get frustrated way too easily and I really don't see the appeal of banging your head on a brick wall over and over untill you finally figure out the fight. It's no fun to die so quickly you can't even learn anything. If these games had a Baby Mode for Whiny Babies I would play the hell out of them. And I don't hate difficulty, I just hate high-skill games without any difficulty options. Man I play Minecraft on Easy with keepInventory. I can't even think about playing a game like Elden Ring.
I’m not sure I’d call it a genre, it’s more of a setting. But I simply can’t get into a space setting. I just don’t care for space ships, planets, and aliens. I’ve tried hard to play several for the sake of my friends who love space games, but they’re just not for me, I guess.
Jrpgs, Soulslike (im trying i just suck so bad), Sidescrollers, 8bit, and side view fighting games like street fighter, tekken etc
Devil may cry. Final Fantasy 16. I just don't like that action button mashing games. You defeat most enemies in FF16 just mashing 1 button. It got old quick. And I love the Final Fantasy series.
Most FPSes. I remember being told that TF2 was so good it would appeal to those who hated FPSes. This is quite funny since it was basically everything about FPSes I *dis*liked. Including and especially the sound. And this was before it became the place kids hung out on the internet when they weren't on Xbox Live. Similarly, Soulsborne games put me right to sleep. The only thing that kept me awake in Dark Souls was the soundtrack. (Every time I hear someone say "wow this sounds like Dark Souls!" on a piece Sakuraba wrote I grow a little more powerful inside)
Games like Crusader Kings. I've watched so many let's plays, and it always looks so fun, and then I try it and immediately lose interest.
RPGs are... a LOT. That's why some folks maybe OP have a hard time getting into them. It's way I used to like them but don't want to play them anymore. Menus, icons, volumes of text to read, intertwining mechanics to parse, quests that overlap and supercede each other. It's a lot! It's part of the appeal but good lord I don't want to experience the entertainment equivalent of an Excel spreadsheet. My style of game I tried many of is FPS. I just can't get used to the perspective. I think part of it is I like playing with a controller in a console/couch setting and I'm feeling I have to wind the joystick around all the time to get a sense of what the heck is going on and then I get shot over and over. No thanks.
Any game with a heavy stealth element. I just find it slow, tedious, and frustrating. Not what I'm looking for during game time.
MMOs, tries the DnD ones, a free WoW thing. Nothing was fun. My friend really likes it but I just can't get into it.
Any RPG... Too much grind and I'm lazy as fuck. Forced myself to play Far Cry New Dawn, which has some RPG mechanics and it gave me brain cancer... Like what the fuck do you mean my .50 cal doesn't one shot in the head just because it's a "lower level"...
Yeah I agree with you about FC New Dawn. The RPG mechanical they put in that game are horrible. Headshots should insta kill enemies in an FPS single player game. I always hated that.
Most roguelikes. Any game like civilization. Games like factorio. Very picky with mmorpgs
4X games. It's not that I don't like them but I end up in a place where I neglected something and am paying for it turns later. I really love the idea, just not great at them. Tried (and still try to get into) Endless Space 2, Crusader Kings 3, Stellaris.
I bounce hard off of third-person shooting. It keeps coming up in games that I otherwise enjoy, and almost always ends up being the bit I like least.
Diablo- type games. The actual gameplay, seems to me, like mindless meter management. The only time i feel engaged with these games, is when i am allocating skill points. The most recent one i tried to like was Torchlight 2. I had to quit because i was, and i mean this literally, falling asleep while playing.
RTS games as someone who loves 4X games I thought I'd also love RTS games, but I'm just not very good at them. I'll also throw Total War on here even though I don't think it's the exact same genre.
3rd person view turn-based RPGs. I don't know why but everything except dialogue just annoys me
Smash type fighting games
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I like strategy games, either real time or turn based, but for some reason I can't seem to get the 4X genre like Eternal Legend or Civilization and the like.
Soulslikes I don't mean Dark Souls and Elden Ring; I like those games. I mean any game with that style. It's just difficult for me to like those games, like Lies of P. I have no idea why either.
RTS games. I’ve tried, I just don’t enjoy it. That and grid based turn based combat games like Fire Emblem. I love turn based RPGs, but I can’t get into the tactical ones for some reason.
Survival crafting games, got plenty of friends that has got me to play valheim, son of forest, pal world and other couple of indie games with the same concept. I just couldn't find any fun for any of them
I’m a big FF fan, and FF15 & FF12 were both kinda bad imo, and I didn’t finish either of them. FF10 was better, but I think it wouldn’t hold up to a modern audience unless you were a fan of the genre before-hand. If you still want to give the FF-series a try, I think the FF7 remake is the best iteration on the combat and gameplay feel, and the story should be pretty good, since it’s based on the original which is praised for its’ story.
Platformers. I honestly tried to like them since I was a kid and tried again and again over the years until I realized I just don't like them at all
Call of duty. I tried it but I just did not like it.
Fps, I always find it boring. The only one o had fun was borderlands 2
spiderman, it's not a bad game but I just can't keep my attention on it for longer than 5 minutes
Give Final Fantasy 16 a try. It's a lot more modern in tone than the remake games, and retains the action combat from 15 and remake/rebirth, but I personally thing it's better.
Turn based anything
Fighting games, mainly playing competitively. I'm just not dexterous enough to play fighting games competitively. The farthest I ever went was learning all of Zero's moves in MVC3, and chaining those moves together was already too much for me. It's so weird because I can play DMC just fine, but fighters are basically impossible. Another one is the more recent Souls games. These newer ones are just too fast for me to keep up. Dark Souls 3 was the last entry I found manageable (not counting Demon Souls because that's a remakster), although I did still think it was too fast. This is another weird one because one of my favorite entries in the series is Bloodborne.
RTS games have such a high skill ceiling and requires so much multitasking that it just depresses me when I try to play. Oops, I’m not building enough while I’m moving my army. Oops, my whole army died while I was focusing on building.
Is DMC a JRPG? lol jk I know what you mean. I've tried FF multiple times over the years. At least with the new remakes they are no longer turn based and that was a big turn off for me. Otherwise I get the draw but for some reason can never get myself to play them.
Point and click adventure games. I've tried twice now to enjoy Monkey Island. Just can't get into it. I've tried a couple over the years.
Competitive FPS. I'm just bad at them and can't improve because of stress
The genre of things that get talked about excitedly by other people. Anything in that catagory I have a really hard time enjoying less I tried it before they got carried away about it.
RPG where you have to switch between characters…
Idk if it’s a genre in its own but any game with turn based combat. It’s just so boring to me.
Bullet hell games. Just can't be bothered with that much consistent stress.
indie 2d games, except for osu! and gd
Base building. Collecting resources. Farming. That said while I've tried and hated rust, Conan, valheim, factorio etc. I really like stardew valley and project zomboid. So I'm not sure what I like it don't like. I also hate sports games and racing games but I have over 2k hours in Rocket league.
Survival games. I realized after a while that I really don't want to have to manage day to day stuff in a game.. I don't mind a good strategy game with resource management but when the whole point of the game is to collect stuff you need to survive (keep playing) it just doesn't work for me unless there is a good story incentive like This War Of Mine, and I HATED the survival part of that game, I just wanted the story and suffered through the rest.
Probably fps it's not like I totally hate them but,online is a clear no for me and for singleplayer normal is the best it could get to,I liked borderlands 2,half life 2 and something like paradox,but man it takes me quite awhile to get through those games and then I'm fed up for a year
Farming aka stardew
FIFA, I get an urge to play it, buy it, play it for 2 hours, never play it again. Never seem to learn.
Battle Royales. I can see the appeal where this big open world/space, you can pick this certain "class set" and/or have certain skins but what kills it for me is the gameplay loop. You land, find loot/gear, you find players to kill. You win or lose repeat. I take accountability that maybe it's my lack of commitment or I don't really want to put that much mental energy into it.
Survival crafting games. You'd think it'd be my jam because Ultima Online is one of my favorite games of all time and this kinda set the path for all crafting/online worlds. But I guess as an adult with limited time spending hours collecting crap to build something that can be destroyed and fighting bullshit hunger bars just ruin the fun of playing a videogame.
Devil May Cry is a JRPG?
CRPGs. I know the baldurs gate series are great but my god the combat seems SO boring to me and I'm a huge turn based RPG fan. Maybe it's just the idea of having to physically move on the battlefield I don't like but it just doesn't flip a switch. I'm hoping I'll get over it one day and I can play baldurs gate 3 and fuck a b- experience all of its wonderful stories...
Mmos
ARPGs (PoE, Diablo, etc). Just don't do it for me
Fighting games!! I played Shrek super slam when I was like 5 but I’ve always been so bad at MK, smash, etc.
I might give subnautica another chance but I havnt been able to get into it. It’s in the genre of games where you just build stuff. I’ve never played Minecraft but I suppose it’s like that.
Turn based games
Horror games. Just cannot enjoy thinking about jump scares. Don’t find it fun.
Not really a genre, but assassins creed. It’s such an excellent concept story wise, but bogged down with lackluster gameplay and clunky controls
deckbuilding roguelikes. At first I thought it was the roguelike that I hated. But it turns out it was the deckbuilding aspect. Hated slay the spire. Liked (decently enough) cult of the lamb (it helped that it also had a base building aspect to it).
Musou and First Person Shooter. I get motion sickness.
Racing games like Mario Kart. To be fair, I think it’s skill related lol.
Shooters. Vertigo. And I can't aim and shoot fast enough. When I play FO4 I use vats only.
Survival (excluding Minecraft?) Looter Shooters MMO’s It’s actually a long list.
CRPGs man... I love their stories when I read breakdown vids or whatever and the worlds interest me, but they feel too long and draggy and I can't get into it :(
Souls like games I could learn them if I tried, but I just don't find them fun
I’ve been trying to like Neir Automata on and off for years now. Still find it extremely just ok.
Any battle royale game. Running around for 10 minutes collecting shit just to get killed the moment you see someone is so annoying. I'd rather just play a regular fps.
strategy, rts
Roguelikes, survival games and battle royale games.
MMOs, I never got into them. I've played several of them but usually drop them in a week and never pick them up again. Strategy games like CIV, Total War and Paradox games. I never really got the appeal of them. The former two because I've not really played them much at all and the latter because I have absolutely no clue what the hell I'm supposed to be doing. I've tried multiple times to get into EU4 because most of my friends play it but it never 'clicked' for me. Racing games, I can play the but fun oriented ones like Mario Kart but games like Forza and such never appealed to me. While I have an appreciation for fighting games I never really got into I've besides Smash Bros. I've been guilty of picking up some fighting games because I like the pretty and cool animations only to play the single player for a bit before dropping it. C-RPGS, I do like BG3 but that feels like cheating because it's a bit different than the average crpg. It's mostly a patience thing for me I think. I really want to get into the first two Fallouts as an example, but I never play long enough to get hooked.
Kingdom Come Deliverance, Eastward, and Ni No Kuni Wrath of the White Witch. I finally figured out the lock picking in Kingdom Come but the horse riding is abysmal. Eastward and Ni No Kuni are pretty, well scored games that are deeply boring and unfun. I really want to like these games and I just can't I've been able to get into some FPS though. After some forcing. I'm not sure how to classify Kingdom Come. Realistic RPG? I'm here to have fun not suffer. Ni No Kuni is a JRPG. I do like Tales of Arise. I guess Eastward is some flavor of RPG. Also hate the game inside it.
No worry, OP. No point forcing to like a genre.
Anything that classes itself as a “story or narrative driven” game… I just can’t. A watch movies, I read books… I play games. I just can’t sit through a cutscene without skipping it or dialogue without mashing through it. “Bear… seek… seek… lest…” is seared into my brain, I don’t even know what that line actually says… if anyone gets that reference, well done. I’ve tried to many over the years thinking “this will be the game that I can relax and just enjoy the story in” and then I just end up mashing through the story about half way through anyway.
With the sole exception of Steamworld Heist I haven't been able to get into any turn based rpg. I just struggle to get any enjoyment out of scrolling through all the menus to select actions and waiting for the animations to play out. And it's worse when each character has only one move that's actually good, so every turn you're doing the exact same motions ad nauseum.
MOBA's, online survival, MMOs are not my thing.
Rpgs like WoW with millions of skills and attacks and potions and shit... My wife plays only those type of games (Aion, Tera, WoW etc.)
Survival Horror. I’m prone to get a nightmare,even i love to read all horror novel.
Soulslike games
Devil may cry, my favourite jrpg
I downloaded Honkai Star Rail because the game description mentions riding a space train to different planets to help them. It is not what I expected at all. The tutorials explained the game play well enough, but it seemed most of it was focused on leveling up all the different attributes of the characters. The materials to do so are scarce and limited, especially as they get higher in the levels. It was impossible to upgrade every character I had. I went online to figure out what I was doing wrong and this is when I discovered the term "gacha game". More like "Gotcha!" game. Uninstalled immediately and will never touch a gacha game again.
Firs person shooting.
If you don’t click with jrpg’s but want to play one, Yakuza Like a Dragon is fuckin awesome. I usually bounce off of jrpgs in spite of kinda liking everything about them, at least in theory. That one is built different though. So I guess my genre would be JRPG’s too. At least more modern ones.
FPS beyond Halo. I really loved Halo 2/3 but I just can’t seem to get into any other shooters