Topic: Your least favorite gaming genre.

I would have said the FPS genre a good while ago but after playing games like Wolfenstein, Destiny and Fallout 4, I quite enjoy them.

Any game that is described as SoulsBorne-like is an immediate turn off for me.

@ApostateMage
I thought about myself i enjoy a good FPS game every now and again but i dispise Military FPSs like Call of Duty and Battlefield. I haven't played Call Of Duty since Call Of Duty 3 and i haven't touched a battlefield game since Battlefield 2 : Modren Combat. I did try Battlefield 1 out of hype but traded it in after a month.

flight sims
racing games (motorstorm apocalypse being the sole exception)

in fact i dislike them so much i hate it when aspects of these are crowbarred into genres that don't need them, like FPS's or RPGs.

fighter/brawling games.

I’ve been following this interesting thread for the last couple weeks and trying to think of a genre I don’t like, but I keep coming up blank. As soon as I think of one, then I remember a game of that ilk that I really quite like. But here’s my least favorite, if I had to say:

-Sports. But I have been known to enjoy an NBA basketball game now and again, and the blitzball minigame in FFX was probably my favorite mini game ever, if that counts.

-FPS. I say I dislike FPS, yet there are some I enjoyed immensely. Like Bioshock, Borderlands, Portal (ok, so that’s more of puzzle game, but you do shoot in the first person). And actually lately I have been tempted to try a good single player FPS again. Colin Moriarty on his podcast was pumping up Titanfall 2’s campaign, and I might try it. Also probably need to consider Wolfenstein

-MMO/ Online games as a service. Honestly, I haven’t played enough of these to form an opinion, but ideologically, I have no interest. Yet I would probably like ESO or FFXIV if I just have them a try because people rave about how addictive they are. I just don’t have 1000 spare hours in my life.

-Music/ rhythm games. I did like Patapon and there was a time when I enjoyed DDR and they can make fun group or party games. Karaoke in Yakuza is fun, although I stink at it.

@Th3solution Yeah Titanfall 2 and Wolfenstein are really good. There is one level in T2 that is outstanding but generally the campaign is good fun. Wolfenstein surprised me on how good the story was and that the character development in there is not something you commonly see in a FPS.

Sports games is really the only one I can think of. They just seem boring. Others I don't dabble as much in like puzzle games, but I wouldn't say I dislike them.

@Th3solution I'll second service based MMOs when they require a subscription. I don't see any of them lighting up the review charts with 10 out of 10's. The majority of them have the worst combat gaming has to offer too, making the "bunch of content" they have empty and meaningless since there's no heart behind it. Nothing they do comes even close to justifying buying the base game, expansions, and paying for a subscription.
Also, do you dislike FPS games or COD?

@Jaz007 Yeah, I think it’s mostly COD and the other popular FPS that I dislike, and even that is an opinion I knowingly express mostly out of ignorance. I played a very little bit of COD 3 and Modern Warfare I think it was, and some of World at War I think it was called. It’s more the online stigma of the game, the fact that I don’t like to play online, or at least I am so poor at them that I don’t like just getting killed all the time. Being a Star Wars fan, I tried Battlefront, but just couldn’t really enjoy it despite how beautiful the graphics were and the gameplay functioned fine. I just don’t like getting killed every 30 seconds and constantly being the bottom ranked person on my team. It’s kind of embarrassing.
So I think I don’t mind FPS per se, I have fun when they are single player or co-op and wrapped in a good story, but competitively the COD and Fortnite community is just too intense for me.

Another genre that I’m not particularly fond of that I forgot about —
Horror. I really have to be in the rare mood to enjoy a straight up horror game. The last one I really enjoyed was Until Dawn, and that was mostly because I’m a fan of branching pathway story games. Oh yeah, and also Bloodborne. Is that horror? I suppose in a sense it is, but it is more of a combat RPG set in a frightening and creepy world - it was the depth of the world, the combat, and satisfying exploration and leveling up that kept me so enthralled there. But to play a game strictly for the sole purpose of seeing something gruesome or to get my heart rate skyrocketing while I pee my pants from being scared senseless? No thanks. I’m thinking of Resident Evil, Outlast, Evil Within, Silent Hill, etc, etc. ... I played several of the RE games and I think a couple of the SH too, and they are fun and good games alright, just... I dunno. I guess the difference is I don’t mind if a good solid game is set in a horror setting, but if the main draw is that he game is horror with gratuitous gore or scare tactics, then I’m not a fan.
I think I’m the only one not super excited for the RE2 remake (despite having played the original RE2 and finding it a decent game). Unless it reviews extraordinarily, I’m pretty sure I’ll skip it.

Roguelike/Racing. I'll pretty much play anything, but the only racing games I like are arcadey ones like Burnout (pre-Paradise) and Mario Kart. I'm pretty sure I don't like any roguelike games but my memory ain't what it used to be.

Edit: And this always online let's all play together and be sociable thing. Destiny and whatnot. I'm alright on me own thanks pal.

@Th3solution the great thing about horror games is it is easy to become a bit distracted and bored when playing other games. As a genre it's got the best chance of sucking me in and keeping me absorbed, especially as I get older. I also enjoy the transformation as you play alot of horror games, from being quite useless and weedy (minimal helpful items in game, lack of understanding regarding controls and a general uncertainty regarding what you're up against) to a killing machine in the later sections as you've mastered all these aspects of the game and have a hefty arsenal.

I'm not a fan of horror games that really keep you on the bottom rung all the way through though, like Outlast.

Alien Isolation, Resi Evil, Dead Space, Evil Within - all lots of fun!

I don't like horror genre too, but the thing is, I like a lot paranormal, unnatural, magical, esoteric stuff and you often find those things in horror games, so sometimes I'm intrigued by certain horror games.
For sure I completely HATE the kind of horror games/books/movies that are about experiments gone wrong, viruses and other shallow and boring stuff like that. They are boring and imo often they are also rather stupid. I don't like horrors with common killers as well, I mean, common, real-life crime stories but depicted in such a violent and gory way that they belong in the horror genre only because of how gory they are.
Of course, as I said I want supernatural stuff.
I love Etrernal darkness (this game don't even scare me even if I'm really a coward: even Resident evil 4 scared me in the last stage and it was so incredibly stupid in its plot, its characters...) it is one of my favourite games ever and I also loved Silent Hill 1 for the PS1. It was interesting and intriguing but more than anything else I loved so much how the town was made in that game! I don't remember if it was the first "free roaming" I tried back then (probably not) but it was the most immersive for sure! And there was real beauty in that town, even if everything was so creepy and unsettling it was so beautiful at the same time. I was incredibly scared, but I had to continue playing it, it was too much more beautiful and intriguing than it was scary, and it was very, VERY scary.

@KratosMD Yeah, if I ever got back onto my PS3, then I’d put Dead Space high up there for games I would plan to play. But I really haven’t been on my PS3 in ages.

Multiplayer games, which in my mind I consider to be a genre of its own regardless of type. For me it's the least fun and interesting form of gaming. I would rather play the worst-rated single-player games ever made than play the very best multiplayer games. That's the extent of it.

I also don't like big-budget Western RPGs anymore. I used in the past, but reached a point (for some reason) where I just stopped enjoying them. I say 'big budget' because I still enjoy most Indie RPGs.

Otherwise I enjoy every genre I've encountered so far: simulation, strategy, management, sports, racing, walking simulators, point & clicks, puzzle games, shooters, platformers, rhythm games, and so on. I place a very high value on diversity, on experiencing different forms of gaming.

@kyleforrester87 man, Alien Isolation is that one horror game which brought me close to a mental breakdown and changing my pants every hour.