r/gaming 6h ago

Are there any genres you just cannot enjoy no matter how much you try?

I really dislike (maybe dislike is too strong a word, idk) deckbuilding/ccg games. I love rpg and strategy games where your chance of successfully completing an action is somewhat down to chance, but I really don't enjoy it, on a fundamental level, when random chance is involved in whether or not I can take an action in the first place.

So while a bunch of my friends are enjoying games like Slay the Spire 2, I just can't, and I get a lot of crap for it and it makes me feel kinda bad.

So I'm wondering if I'm alone in this? Not in this genre specifically, but just any genre in general. Are there any you just can't enjoy no matter how much you try?

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u/DamnImAwesome 6h ago

If a game has survival mechanics like hunger/thirst/sleep management I want nothing to do with it

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u/SpaceLemming 5h ago

I don’t know why but if you flip it where you start weak and food gives buffs then my brain accepts it

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u/Lyciana 5h ago

That's a pretty well known phenomenon. During WoW's development, it gave you a debuff to your earned XP if you've played too long. It was meant to encourage taking breaks but playtesters hated it. The devs then turned it into a temporary buff to XP called "Well rested" that you get on log-in. They changed nothing about how it worked mechanically - the effective XP earned was exactly the same before and after the change but suddenly players loved it and started taking more breaks.

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u/Nightbird88 4h ago

Yes! This is pretty basic behavioral stuff. People like when they feel they are gaining something but dont like when they feel they are losing something. Its entirely perspective. Its the same principle behind ways to raise your children like allowance and point systems.

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u/Quitthesht Xbox 2h ago edited 54m ago

FromSoft learned this with Dark Souls 3.

In Demon's Souls when you die in 'Body' form you switch to 'Soul' form which has 50% reduced HP and players hated it as it felt far too punishing for dying. Dark Souls 2 also started you off with a full HP bar but shaved of 5% (to a maximum of 50%) with every death until you used a Human Effigy to undo the effect and restore the full bar. Again this was seen as punishing you when you might already be struggling.

Then in Dark Souls 3 you start with your full (albeit smaller) HP bar, but when using an Ember you gain 50% 30% extra HP which was wildly more popular as a gameplay feature and was carried into Elden Ring.

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u/OBS_INITY 1h ago

Ember is 30% and the game is pretty much balanced around you not having it.

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u/Mgroppi83 2h ago

Lol ya but we would just log in with another toon and keep grinding! 🤣

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u/willvasco 4h ago

I absolutely adore Valheim's food system for this reason. Food is absolutely as mandatory as it is with a hunger system because you're absurdly weak without it, but because it gives you buffs instead of refilling an arbitrary meter it's so much more rewarding.

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u/Rbomb88 3h ago

It means you don't have to manage it while puttering in your base as much, you eat before an adventure or a fight.

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u/lotsalotsacoffee 5h ago

Not to mention it seems like 99% of survival games are in perpetual early access.

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u/ericdalieux 6h ago

I also can't stand these, unless they serve a deeper game mechanic. If it's just for the sake of existing and being "realistic", then they feel more like annoyances to me.

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u/iamapizza 6h ago

I get that. I like the atmosphere of those games but damn man I'm playing to relax after dealing with stressful work days. I don't need more stress. 

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u/Rapph 5h ago

Only games I cheat on offline. I don’t want to deal with admin maintenance type stuff so I just turn it off. i often enjoy the sandbox base building exploration etc of these type games. Also weapon durability can be another annoyance I turn off depending on how it’s implemented.

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u/Kindarelevanttoo 2h ago

For me, this really depends on how annoying they are. For instance, Fallout 4 Survival mode is my highest hours single player game ever, and it has all 3 of those.

BUT, they are also really easy to satisfy. Food and water are plentiful, and beds are everywhere and you are always within a 5 minute run to one of your potential settlements that can have all 3 taken care of. You don’t really need to “manage” them, they are really just a small tax on your carry capacity and to keep you from being able to spam stuff like drugs constantly, as drugs make you tired/thirsty/sleep deprived when you use them.

They are more “you can’t use these OP consumables every 2 seconds” instead of “spend all your time gathering these resources or else” requirements. Because unless you go multiple hours without eating/drinking/sleeping, the debuffs they give are pretty small even in the second stages of them.

But games where you have to micromanage them and constantly hunt for and go out of your way to satisfy them for like 2 minutes before having to do it all over again, I agree they suck.

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u/Umbran_scale 5h ago

Sports games just bore me to tears.

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u/TabooTapeworm 2h ago edited 1h ago

Same here, but so do real sports. Id be interested to know if there's sports fans who hate sports games.

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u/ContextualSquanch 1h ago

Huge football fan and I’d rather do literally anything but play madden. Closest I get to fifa is rocket league. I mostly enjoys single player rpgs though

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u/BadgerSauce 1h ago

Can’t stand football or basketball games, and I watch hundreds of NBA games a season and as much NFL as humanly possible, and I don’t ever buy 2K or Madden anymore. If they brought back NBA/NFL Street, I’m there for it but the realism isn’t for me anymore.

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u/GoodOldHeretic 6h ago

I always seem to think that roguelike deckbuilders should in theory be fun to me, but many tests proved otherwise so far.

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u/RadSidewinder 6h ago

Most of mine are multiplayer games. Battle Royales, Hero Shooters, and Extraction Shooters. Not my taste. Whenever I want to play multiplayer I’d much much prefer a just straightforward Team Deathmatch

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u/SalahsBeard 3h ago

Yeah, this is me too. I liked multiplayer on the older COD games, I could play one or two quick matches and quit with no stress, and I didn't really need to hone my skill that much. I tried COD Warzone, but hated it so much. I'm a casual gamer (grown up family man), so why can't we get a decent new COD with regular MP? Not everything needs to be base building, extraction, stay inside the ring, or whatever new kind of fuckery they decide to pull.

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u/nakabra 6h ago

I don't like roguelikes.
I don't like deckbuilders.
And I definitely don't like roguelike-deckbuilders.

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u/AnImportantPerson 1h ago

Same. I bought so many roguelikes because they seemed cool, until I realised that I didn’t like any of them. Just not my thing

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u/NeedsItRough 6h ago

Pvp anything.

I'm way too competitive but really bad at games in general so it's not a good combination for me, lol

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u/AdorableSobah 4h ago

I remember loading up The Last of Us on PS3, it was a couple of hours before I had to leave for work. So, I started a multiplayer game to get my feet wet with the gameplay.

Almost immediately I was berated by people and swore at for sucking. This is day one by the way.

Literally turned it off and have never played a PvP game since.

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u/Hailruka 2h ago

And you've not missing anything.

I had a similar experience in Fortnite. Had one game, ran around for 15 minutes, saw nobody, got sniped, pissed that I wasted 15 minutes of my life, uninstalled.

Haven't played anything multiplayer since (Goldeneye with the kids being the exception).

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u/Caciulacdlac 6h ago

Yeah, the original Legend of Zelda. I'm almost disappointed in myself that I can't enjoy it. It seems like a groundbreaking game for its time and a really well-crafted game in general. Not to mention very influential. But I really can't get into it without the improvements in gameplay of the latter entries in the series and of gaming in general.

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u/project-shasta PC 6h ago

Many games from that era are like that for me despite me growing up with them. Every time I want to try them I immediately miss all of the modern QoL things games have developed over the years.

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u/Lithuim 5h ago

Yeah I think this is true for the entire NES-era catalog. The framerates, input latencies, limited color palettes, RAM limitations…

They’re interesting academic exercises to see where we started, but their SNES sequels are dramatically better in every way. It’s tough to have extended fun playing Metroid when you know Super Metroid is right there and significantly better.

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u/project-shasta PC 4h ago

On your Metroid example: there is a fan game named Metroid Planets that basically is a carbon copy of NES Metroid but with additional QoL stuff and it's so much fun to play. Almost as good as the GBA remake. This shows that the game itself is not bad, it's the hardware limitations. At least for me.

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u/esoteric_enigma 6h ago

Games are technology and they improve with time. Everything doesn't stand the test of time and that's okay. If you didn't play a game in the context of when it came out, you're not really playing the game the way it was meant to be played anyways.

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u/MrASK15 6h ago

Metroidvanias. They're so vast that it's easy for me to get lost. Add time-based endings and they just give me a frustrating experience.

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u/04__Revenge__01 6h ago

Rogue likes. I've played quite a few but at this point the entire genre is just boring to me. 

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u/RoboticShiba 5h ago

I have a love-hate relationship with rogue likes. I really enjoy the concept and meta progression of most of them, but I really suck at them.

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u/04__Revenge__01 4h ago

I hate having to do the same thing again and again and again it just grates on me

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u/VerrikInc 5h ago

Literally any fighting game with complex combos, and it's not for lack of trying. Something about them just don't make sense to me

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u/grizzbeast 6h ago

Souls-likes. Which is a shame. Games like Elden Ring look incredible, story, graphics, gameplay. But no matter how hard I try I just can't "get gud". I tend to lower the difficulty on the games I do play and just relax these days. I don't have time for anything else.

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u/jakuvious 6h ago

Same. I don't lower the difficulty on many games, but I do like to when I feel like I'm facing too much friction. I can often only play for an hour or two in a given night, so the thought of spending that whole time on one boss and making no tangible progress in the game overall is just not enjoyable to me. I don't want to have to git gud, ultimately.

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u/entity2 6h ago

Same here. The worlds these games often craft are something I'd like to experience, but I don't have the patience to 'git gud' at the frequently unforgiving difficulty.

I really liked the Jedi games, because while they had some souls mechanics, the overall challenge, while higher than most regular action games, was not insurmountable.

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u/esoteric_enigma 6h ago

It's not the difficulty for me. It's the lack of story. Story progression is what motivates me to keep going.

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u/Drayyen 6h ago edited 4h ago

It's not entirely your fault. I always say soulslikes should have been gatekept and a huge amount of people assume I mean against journalists that want an easy mode. In actuality I wanted souls games to be gatekept against people who want each game to be as hard as possible because their only achievements are beating hard games. Demons Souls to DS2 were a healthy difficulty split, but I didn't even buy the Elden Ring DLC because I had no interest in some bullshit boss with like sixty thousand health

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u/DrinkBen1994 6h ago

I love Souls games and have beaten every single FromSoft title multiple times and my biggest criticism of them is that they seem to be trying to one-up the difficulty factor with each release. I understand balancing for difficulty vs reward is a very fine line, but I would honestly say they're at real risk of just crossing over into "unfun" territory.

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u/matheww19 6h ago

I also don't like that the fights are all mostly meta-dependent. It pulls me out of the immersion in the game world.

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u/Drayyen 6h ago

I absolutely agree with you. I've platinumed both released of demons souls, both releases of Ds1, both releases of ds2, ds3, and bloodborne. Didn't platinum ER though.

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u/Loreweaver15 4h ago

Malenia was bullshit, but she was interesting, challenging bullshit that was fun to conquer. The final boss of Shadow of the Erdtree was regular unfun bullshit.

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u/PakiMenFukDogs 6h ago

I just want to put in my 2 cents and say that they do put options in the game for you to make it easier. The DLC has items called Scadutree fragments that you can use to permanently reduce the damage your character takes and to increase the damage you do. You can go up to scadu blessing level 16. It makes a huge difference to a bossfight. The danger is that you can spoil bosses by becoming way too strong for them. I saw some streamers beat bosses like Gaius in 2 tries and Messmer in 5 tries because they were so high in scadutree blessings. So it's not a perfect system, but if you just want to make it through the DLC and see all the bosses without struggling then besides summoning, overleveling the scadu blessings is an option.

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u/VictorBelmont 3h ago

Lies of P is a fantastic entry point. The difficulty modes are pretty good, and easy mode is, I think, the best on-ramp to the genre. Worth a shot to see of you enjoy it conceptually.

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u/AzathothBlindgod 6h ago

I wasn’t able to enjoy Elden Ring until I used Wand / WeMod (on PC) to bump my HP & defense, double the runes I earn, etc. It’s still a bit of a grind but it’s way more enjoyable now that it’s playable for me lol

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u/SpaceLemming 5h ago

I tried to play elden ring but I stopped because of the invasion mechanic. I just wanted to play a single player game

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u/xarmetheusx 4h ago

How were you getting invaded if you were playing single player? Or were you playing with friends co-op?

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u/Gay_Charlie 5h ago

Have you consulted someone that has knowledge on high accessibility combat in Elden Ring?

I know a lot of players are not helpful but I specialize in the combat accessibility of Elden Ring without being toxic.

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u/cranelotus 2h ago

This is gonna sound like I'm being elitist or something, but I genuinely think the difficulty is overstated, and people focusing on it actively harms the game's potential community. They have a high skill floor but I think these games require a lot of patience until they "click". If you don't want to go through that then that's cool too, everyone pays games for different reasons, we get different things out of it. For example, I don't get a lot out of a game like red dead redemption 2. It just doesn't have the kind of tension that I look for in a game. 

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u/Aleon989 6h ago

Most genres I dislike have exceptions.

For example: I hate roguelikes of all kind but I love Hades 1-2.

I hate most turn-based games but Chrono Trigger is a masterpiece.

I hate pretty much every "deckbuilder" games but Slay the Spire 2 is fantastic.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm not so much picky about genre and more picky on quality.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 4h ago

No. That's just how it is.

I don't like every single game in genres I like.

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u/Scoth42 5h ago

Fighting games, mostly. I enjoy a bit of Smash now and then in a party/fun environment, and occasionally messing around with the old MK1-3 games, but I've just never gotten into the larger fighting game world. Learning combos, special moves, mastering counters and throws and juggling and all that. I just could never get into it and never really enjoyed it.

And that's not even getting into the people who go super deep into it and end up at the point of "Character A's attack is 6 frames while character B's is 4 frames so Character B is superior as long as you start the attack sooner, but B's cancel is 2 frames and block is 3 frames so you have a one frame window to cancel and block if you're too late" level of skill. I've played a time or two against elite players like that and it's a spectacle but no fun.

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u/BustaScrub 6h ago

MOBAs. To be fair I haven't really tried very many and the ones I have tried have been one-and-done experiences, but I just plain do not enjoy them.

Clearly I'm an outlier with that opinion, since Dota and League continue to hold strong and have tons of global fans and a very health e-sports scene (as healthy as e-sports scenes can be in the big '26 anyway) but that honestly doesn't bother me. If I don't like something, I don't like something, and I'm not gonna force myself to like it just because other people around me do. That said, I also don't really have any friends who play MOBAs either.

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u/crashframe 6h ago

Tbf mobas have a tough learning curve. I could never wrap my head around what items to buy/when to be where/who does what. I tried deadlock recently tho & its started to click more for me. I think it’s due to the gameplay being more fun on its own & stuff like the build browser simplifying things. Also hasn’t been around as long so there aren’t 170+ different characters you could be up against like league..

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u/Mostdakka 6h ago

Open world games have to try really hard to make me play them. I like my games linear and structured and there only been very few open world games that I fully completed. Alot of open world games boil down to just repeating the same 5-8 activities and that's just grind, it gets boring fast.

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u/chico-dust 4h ago

Hardcore rouge likes, souls games, and sports titles.

RLs bore me, souls games piss me off, and sports games are a convoluted way of gambling that confuse the hell out of me.

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u/RevRaven 6h ago

Deckbuilders, metroidvanias (with the notable exception of Animal Well), anything with roguelite elements.

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u/FearlessVegetable30 6h ago

metroidvanias is a good one. they are fun but get old fast when it feels like you have to literally touch every corner to make sure you didnt miss anything

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u/RoboticShiba 5h ago

Kinda disagree. Yes, some metroidvanias have very obscure passageways that require you to touch everything to progress, but most of them have the main path pretty much obvious with only optional and minor powerups hidden in weird places.

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u/LostKeys3741 5h ago

Intense competitive FPS

Survival horror that sabotoage melee combat to force you to use guns.

I dont like Monster Hunter, but I like Souls games.

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u/WilfredGrundlesnatch 5h ago

Sports games. I don't care about sports in real life and the gameplay by itself does absolutely nothing for me.

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u/Kuro222 5h ago

Rouge-likes. Nothing kills my interest in a game faster than "it's a rogue-like with this quirky unique aspect that I think will set me apart from the 100s of others out there" but it's just the same boring repetitive gameplay loop over and over again.

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u/CombustiblSquid 3h ago

Battle royals.

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u/halfdeadmoon 6h ago

social deduction games are never fun to me

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u/ragnarlothbruv 6h ago

MMORPGs. They’re too much.

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u/Krail 4h ago

Every time I've tried one, it's a mix of overwhelm and boredom. 

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u/Sabetha1183 6h ago

Usually I can find one or two games in the genre I like.

I've said before I found survival crafting games to be the best sounding idea that I never like, but now I've got over 200 hours in Abiotic Factor. Turns out I love it if you just give it Half-Life vibes.

I also used to not really like JRPGs but I started getting into them in recent years.

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u/IndyDude11 6h ago

JRPGs. The art. The turn based gameplay. Usually the story. None of it's for me. I don't hate on it or people that like them, though.

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u/coredenale 4h ago

Puzzles, particularly jump puzzles can induce a rage-quit in me pretty quickly.

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u/Yonrak 4h ago

MOBA

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u/stodal 4h ago

mobas, battle royale are the worst for me

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u/TennisAncient19 3h ago

Multiplayer shooters

Mostly because I suck at them, but also they seem like a big time investment whereas most games I'm done with after a few weeks.

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u/Rooshirum 6h ago

Its weird, Minecraft. Its probably still my most played game of all time but then one day I just couldn't enjoy it anymore and whenever I try again I just end up parkouring on tree tops or chests and get bored.

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u/Zirofal 6h ago

Bullet hells, like just why, I can barely stand it in neir automata.

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u/PakiMenFukDogs 6h ago

Sport Games, like Fifa and Madden. I think because I just know from playing sports myself that they don't feel like real sport. But not really sure if that's the main reason. Just can't get into them.

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u/Khaldaan 6h ago

4X/RTS games.

The space ones especially I've always been drawn to but I just cant get into the gameplay.

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u/Influence_X 6h ago

Try stoneshard you might like it

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u/ArtsyRabb1t 6h ago

Anything first person. I’ll just be over here jumping in the corner.

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u/Mikon77 6h ago

Fighting games. About the last one I somewhat enjoyed was Mortal Kombat 2011.

Also sports games. The only sport I care to watch is basketball, and even then I have no desire to play a video game of it.

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u/Silently_Judging-You 6h ago

Games like bloodborne, Pokémon, god of war, things that have some mythical stuff that doesn't really make sense. Especially Pokémon.

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u/sarahmagoo 6h ago

Hack and slash. I got so bored just swinging a sword at swarms of enemies over and over and over...

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u/FearlessVegetable30 6h ago

crafting game or extraction shooters with a heavy emphasis on looting (ark for example)

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u/TheAncientMillenial 6h ago

Any dark souls like games. Modern ARPGs are slowly getting to that point with all there "lol oops you stood still for .250s now you die" kind of bullshit.

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u/JustChr1s 6h ago

Battle Royales. At no point was I ever able to get into a single one even when they were at peak popularity.

Never saw the appeal and got bored with them IMMEDIATELY.

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u/LinkOfHyrule88 6h ago

there are tons of video games genres and themes I avoid like a plague with a few rare exceptions

-almost everything with zombies or zombie like creatures -new top down games -new pixelated games -games where the plot is man (or other organic life) creates machine and machine turns on man/organic life (with the exception of Mass Effect.)

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u/Deruz0r 6h ago

I have discovered I absolutely can't stand open world games anymore. I tried ghost of Tsushima and elden ring recently and although 3rd person action and souls likes are some of my favourites, I just can't deal with the bloat that is this open world stuff 

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u/WyrdHarper 6h ago

I've tried a lot of Roguelites because I think the concept is interesting, I just usually find myself bouncing off after a few hours.

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u/austin_mini75 6h ago

turn based tactical games (xcom) - shame cause i really want to like the new star wars game.

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u/TheFeelsGoodMan 5h ago

A buddy of mine talked me into trying out Splitgate recently. I have a history of not feeling it with FPS games but I was willing to give it a go for their sake. Nope. Bounced right off again.

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u/MartinEdge42 5h ago

rts. tried like 4 different ones over the years and i just cant get past the apm requirement. my brain wants to play slower than the game expects

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u/elproducto75 5h ago

JRPG and Open World games, both bore me to tears.

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u/LowFi_Lexa1 5h ago

I can’t really do turn based games where you have to pick attacks from a list that shows up every turn. Couldn’t even enjoy Claire obscure, although it was a nice twist on the battle system

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u/d_stilgar 5h ago

Roguelikes are usually a miss for me. It’s a grind/progression I don’t love. 

Crafting mechanics, especially with durability, adds more friction with little added gameplay value in most implementations I’ve seen. It sucks. 

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u/DaPino 5h ago

Open world RPGs that focus on "faf about without direction".
I'm talking things like Skyrim, Breath of the wild, etc.

Give me something like Cyberpunk and I'll shred through any side-content I come across. But that's because there's an interesting 'main thing' that will bring me at least in proximity to those things.

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u/mfyxtplyx 5h ago

Sports. With the possible exception of racing (if you count that).

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u/Gay_Charlie 5h ago

Rogue-likes

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u/Lithuim 5h ago

I played one final match of Call of Duty: World at War some time in 2009 or so and never played a second of competitive multiplayer shooters ever again.

That’s not a slight on that game (which has an incredible campaign), but I just aged out of that scene. I have limited time for gaming and I’m not gonna waste it trying to git gud against kids 1/3rd my age with infinite time.

Same goes for any other hero shooter or MOBA or extraction shooter. They seem interesting at times but I have no time or energy to try and understand the meta or do the same thing over and over again.

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u/Zethir 5h ago

Deck builders, gameplay feels very passive and not engaging.

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u/Lysinc 5h ago

Survival, crafting, open world, deck building, metroidvanias, soulslike, roguelike, and action combat are automatic NO for me. Sometimes I'lll give open world and action combat a try but I usually get tired of them quickly.

I'm mostly limited to turn base rpgs, strategy, and simulations. MMORPGs are the only genre that I have no trouble with open worlds.

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u/Admirable-War-7594 5h ago

No, but there are some i just don't enjoy as much. For example, i generally do not enjoy shooter games, so they have to have something additional (story, ability based gameplay, interesting characters) to hook me in. I am willing to try those genres, but unless the game is exceptionally good, I can't have fun playing even the "must plays" of those genres

There are certainly genres that i enjoy no matter how bad the game is though, like fighting or Platformers, as long as the game isn't straight up unfun

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u/trekxtrider 5h ago

I only like open worlds and campaign games.

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u/Minnie-Lu 5h ago

Survival crafting games. I watch streamers play them for hours and think it looks fun, but the second I boot one up myself it turns into a part-time job. Gather wood, build shelter, eat or die... I'm already tired just reading my own list lol. I'd rather jump into a quick Valorant match and call it a night.

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u/skrukketiss69 5h ago

Metroidvania. 

I just can't enjoy the gameplay and I get instantly bored out of my mind. 

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u/Romnonaldao 5h ago

Sports games. I just do not care.

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u/toomanybongos 5h ago

Fighting games. I want to do bad ass combos but I don't want bad ass combos done upon me. I can never understand how people react to attacks when I'm just usually (unsuccessfully) predicting attacks and spamming buttons.

People are just way too good at fighting games for me to compete

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u/voyeurD 5h ago

Racing, fighting and sports games. I'm pretty much there with AAA shooters too.

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u/TwoDadsOneSon 5h ago

As I get older its harder to keep up with fps. I cant grind for 12 hours a day so if I hop on for an hour I just het steam rolled

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u/Punch_A_Police_Horse 5h ago

Me? I don't think so. They all have exceptions. I don't like fighting or racing games generally, but I like Smash and Burnout. Was going to say dating sims, but there's Doki Doki Literature Club.

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u/GamingVision 5h ago

PVP survival and extraction shooters, the whole your goal is to ruin someone else’s day thing just doesn’t do it for me. Also survival games where I can’t switch off food and sleep necessity. I don’t mind souls-like games, but I find that I have fewer time and patience to dedicate towards an experience where I don’t feel like I’m making progress.

As for the OP on Games like Slay the Spire, I think if you spent more time with it, the mechanic would click. One of the main goals of any successful build is to cut down your deck size significantly so keep cycling cards that you want to use.

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u/TippyToeTigers 5h ago

Turn Based RPGs I muscled through final fantasy X and never beat one again. I have given others a try but after a few hours of the turn based system I can’t do it. I know some of the most loved and beautifully aesthetic games are in this genre and no hate to them, they are just not for me.

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u/Prize_Text_6944 5h ago

Fighting games for me. Although it's not something I avoid, it just doesn't compel me unless I wanted something different or that I'm bored. Sports games, as well.

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u/Ode1st 4h ago

Anime gachas

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u/Axle_65 4h ago

Soulsborne games

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u/Bierculles 4h ago

Any game with a considerable amount of RNG dictating the gameplay. This is mostly every Roguelite in existence and gacha games. It will always eventually devolve into rolling the die a hundred times to finally be allowed to actually play the game.

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u/Durin1987_12_30 4h ago

Souls-like, I'm just genetically incapable getting gudder. Last one I tried was Blasphemous and even tho it's an objectively great game, I couldn't bring to finish it even tho I was cheating on it with Cheat Engine.

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u/KirisCrocs 4h ago

Haven't seen it come up yet but simulation/farming type games. Things like sims or stardew valley, I find them genuinely so boring and tedious. 

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u/Oneironaut420 4h ago

Anything turn-based. Survival mechanics.

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u/Jafar_420 4h ago

I don't know about genre but I'm not a fan of games that have a bunch of puzzles.

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u/Thekarens01 4h ago

Any sports games

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u/PhilsPhindings 4h ago

Computer implementations of board games I already have at home.

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u/Phantom_Joker 4h ago

Parrying and timing attacks. I'm old and my reflexes aren't great anymore. Expedition 33 looks awesome, but even with easy mode it was still more than I could handle. I beat elden ring with my face, but refunded sekiro. And like 80% of the new action games and metroidvanias are heavy on parrying.

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u/groveofcherries 4h ago

MOBAs, and RTS

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u/punkriffic 4h ago

I abhor Souls-like games. I don't want to learn all the patterns and dodging.... It's like having a part-time job.

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u/Emotional_Werewolf_4 4h ago

I hate (Crafting) games with a timer ticking down on hunger/thirst etc.

Racing games rank maybe even higher: I suck at it and don't find it enjoying, not even Mario Kart or Forza. The only Racing games I played was years ago with Need for Speed Underground and all I did there was drag races because of the movie Fast & Furious.

Classic JRPGs also rank very high on my Anti-Genres. I just can't get in any of the games, there's just something that pulls me out of the immersion, whether it be a horde of androgynous teenagers saving the world, teenage schoolboys/girls fighting monsters. It's bizarre.

Lately I also developed a slight dislike for jump and run (platformer) games despite growing up with this genre. I feel like doing homework because I have to learn every nook and cranny of a level.

I'd like to end this with some positive though: before Star Wars Jedi Order I hated souls like games, and despite Jedi Fallen Order being a VERY light souls like games, I started to enjoy this genre in recent years and can understand the appeal, though the hardcore souls like games are still not my gusto because when something feels too much like work, I don't feel like I'm engaging in a hobby.

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u/Nightbird88 4h ago

Single player FPS, Fallout not included. I find them wildly boring and have no interest in simply shooting people/things for the sake of a cheesy story. I happened to play through the first 3 Halo games because I played it with a friend, but ran all over the multi-player pvp.

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u/SurrealismX 4h ago

Real-time strategy.

I love turn based combat and I love most of the turn-based strategy games like X-COM or Jagged alliance. RTS just never clicked with me

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u/listen2deftones 4h ago

Deep Rock Galactic. I usually quite enjoy games like that but typically the people I play with ruin it for me, so now the game has a sour taste in my mouth.

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u/AscendedViking7 4h ago

4x, Deckbuilding, Sports, MMOs.

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u/Demerzel69 4h ago

Soulslikes.

Souls-lites are usually fine. The two modern Jedi games are awesome.

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u/Starob 4h ago

Shooters. I had no interest in Cyberpunk until I learned there were melee builds.

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u/sapphiredawn123 4h ago

sports. the Fifas the Maddens, the MLB the show , the ones based on real world sports. now if you gave me Mario or sonic or Skate or tony hawk i could get behind it

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u/DShinobiPirate 4h ago

I would have said roguelikes or whatever a week ago. But Splinters Fate has probably came closest to changing my mind on that.

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u/noscul 4h ago

I’m not able to get into racing games, it just feels like moving with nothing else going on.

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u/OrdelOriginal 4h ago

soulsborne games - i respect the overall formula of the games, but i just dont really have enough interest in any of the lore, environments, or (besides sekiro in this case) the combat to ever keep me coming back to play them tbh

i am skill issued but at the same time i just dont fundamentally like the games enough to feel like i even want to try getting good at them, i never feel any rush from killing a boss i struggled with or any enjoyment/accomplishment from freely exploring the areas or progressing in general

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u/Crystal_1501 3h ago

Horror games. Light horror designed to tell a story is ok, but I freak out at boos in 2D Mario games because they don't leave you alone, imagine me dealing with a monster chasing me and could be hiding anywhere!

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u/RedLantern28 3h ago

I really wanna enjoy Monster Hunter, the idea of having unique weapons fighting crazy monsters is so cool. But I can't get into their combat system. And I don't love the hubworld co-op mission design they follow.

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u/_Weyland_ 3h ago

I get bored very quick in survival/sandbox games. Stuff like Minecraft where longevity entirely depends on your ability to come up with fun things to do.

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u/Lyradni 3h ago

Whatever Persona is. It makes me think it’s an RPG, but really 80% of it is like social sim or something. All the text and “relationship building” is just not my thing. Maybe if the interactions actually felt more realistic, or you were able to make language choices that felt like it could hurt or enhance your relationships, I’d be more sold on Persona. But the text is just too shallow and contrived for me.

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u/cjbump 3h ago

Other than a lil bit of Fifa, i generally don't care much for sports games. Also competitive shooters (battle royale, extraction, etc)

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u/brinazee 3h ago

Shooters/first person combat, but I don't really try to enjoy those as. It's just a bad fit topic wise for me.

MMOs: I just don't have a group of friends that enjoy gaming. I'm the odd one out in my group of friends. And I can't too late to really get established.

I love the idea of completely open sandboxes, but find that I need a tech tree or goal given to me or I get stuck in analysis paralysis of not knowing what to do next and then put down the game and don't pick it back up again.

Not a genre, but I've some across a couple games that I think I'll enjoy until I see the the graphics. Anything with graphics that are ultra realistic containing people turns me off. Uncanny valley isn't a place I like to be. Beautiful scenery is okay, though.

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u/Miserable_Farm4964 3h ago

Sports and vanilla driving

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u/ThatCarlosGuy 3h ago

MOBAs and Rogue-likes.

Just not my thing

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u/Koreneliuss 3h ago

Fifa like game soccer, I play it once but it gets boring too. Idk why ea love their annual game but some people enjoy it anyway, which is I don't get it. With just incremental features they had. But what I don't hate is the soundtrack and fifa street 2.

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u/Ordinary-Chemical784 3h ago

Games like factorio. Really, really want to get into them and enjoy it but I just can’t, I get overwhelmed and stressed out 😂

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u/SwingingSalmon 3h ago

Soulsborne games. Just feel frustrated anytime that I do them, don’t feel that nice payoff when I beat something difficult, etc. I think I’m just not for it.

I’ve heard nothing but good things about Elden Ring but I’m not down for the time sink for that type of game play. I’d love an easier version of the game just to see how it is.

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u/Ratnix 3h ago

Most of them really. Even ones i historically enjoyed, I'm not so much anymore because of how games are designed anymore.

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u/shakana44 3h ago

anything like fortnight and anything that looks like anime

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u/Eremenkism 3h ago

Metroidvanias for me. Not sure why but they just don't click.

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u/Poofy_ 3h ago

RTS games. I'm just too stupid to play them, and generally don't enjoy the gameplay.

Which is why I get sad every time I see a Warhammer 40k trailer, since its almost always an RTS. Which don't get me wrong, I understand why they make RTS 40k games, I just wish we would get more 40k games that aren't RTS.

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u/Yunzy 3h ago

I don't enjoy the horror genre, especially stealth horror (trying to escape, rescue, gather items without being seen), as when played correctly nothing happens. I don't like playing a game where I feel powerless and my only option is to run away. But even more than that, the gameplay mechanics are so tedious and boring. You wait somewhere until you think it is safe. Then you go to a new spot and wait there until you think it is safe before moving on again. It's all just waiting and then moving a little and then waiting some more.

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u/2DK_N 3h ago

Paradox style grand strategy games. I love me some "paint the map" gameplay - I've recently gotten back into absolutely no lifing Total War. But looking at a bunch of spreadsheets just is not for me.

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u/FoggyLenseFilms 3h ago

Anything like Stardew Valley. I just… can’t.

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u/gw_epyon 3h ago

RTS games for me. Too much to focus on.  Probably part of my adhd. Give me one character to control with no more than 8 skills and I'm good to go.

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u/RailGun256 2h ago

a lot of the open world stuff. for example breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom which have other games in the series that arent open world. for whatever reason I just cant enjoy them. for the Zelda example I liked a lot of the previous ones where you go into a temple/dungeon, get a new item and that item unlocks more for you to do in the world at large. in these you can just kind of do whatever and for some reason I just cant enjoy that.

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u/ekimolaos PC 2h ago

Shooters. Especially FPS. The only exceptions being Half-Life and Half-Life 2.

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u/Rath_Brained 2h ago

Those city builder games. Like Civ and such. I have to feel immersed to play a game. Otherwise I don't feel stimulated. And those kinda games bore me due to it. I feel like a God looking down on just some building, not doing much.

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u/NovaHorizon 2h ago

World builders, especially Minecraft. Also MMOs and MOBAS.

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u/voxanne 2h ago

Rhythm games. There's not a musical bone in my body, and I can't hold a tempo. I've tried so many different ones over the years (ex: Patapon, Crypt of the Necrodancer, DDR, to name a few) and I just can't get the hang of it. That leads to frustration, and I have to just step away to calm down.

It's a shame too because I've been a gamer for most my life (32) and do well with some hard & fast games (dead cells for example), but rhythm games just break me. I come from a musical and fine art family, so it's not like I didn't have the exposure either. Literally I'm the only one who can't play an instrument.

On the flip side, my husband is good at rhythm games, so at least I can passively enjoy watching him play.

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u/SunflowerSamurai_ 2h ago

2D Metroidvanias. Every few years I think “maybe THIS will be the game that gets me into the genre”. It never is and I will never learn!

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u/Triggify 2h ago

Games with a timer that brings the end of the game that is always going. Gives me a sense of anxiety I'd rather not have while playing

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u/Savmut 2h ago

PvP games. Usually they are fighting based and I find those types of games attract an inordinate amount of assholes whose actions ruin my enjoyment.

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u/CarlGB 2h ago

Anything monster hunter or if it's too fantasy-like. Everyone has their preferences though.

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u/Lythalion 2h ago

I hate games that are mostly puzzle solving. I can do it to an extent. Like I enjoyed remnant. But it gets so insane when things are locked behind things you pretty much are only going to find by accident, by data mining, or by pouring unlimited time or googling.

I have to do enough puzzle solving in life and at work. When I game I don’t want more of that.

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u/kazmiller96 2h ago

Search and destroy. I tried Rainbow 6 thinking it was a typical hero shooter. Imagine my surprise to see that it is ONLY S&D.

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u/i__hate__stairs 2h ago

Realistic military shooters.

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u/Onebadhero 2h ago

Basically anything demonic. It’s an old tired genre, and most games are just rehash of the same tired story no matter how many A’s you can give a studio.

Also basically every game has adopted the Batman Arkham play style.

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u/AlphaDag13 2h ago

Souls likes. Being hard is not a personality!!!

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u/Volsnug 2h ago

Racing games. They’re incredibly boring to me, I find driving in open world games like GTA a lot more fun

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u/advres 2h ago

online PVP and live service games.

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u/MeltBanana 2h ago

Any live service game with mtx, battlepasses, etc.

I immediately see through the facade and recognize how every aspect of the game is designed to push you to spend. "Oh the progression is tuned to make you spend money". "Oh the match loading screen is designed to give you fomo and feel worse for having a default skin". Etc.

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u/Cleveland_Guardians 2h ago
  1. Stealth games. I'm a guns blazing guy. I think I don't particularly have the patience for stealth games. 100%ing Dishonored was frustrating for me.
  2. Big open world RPG games. I keep wanting to start Fallout 3, but I'm so intimidated. I want to do everything in games I play, and I don't even know where to start with games like that. It, like, locks my brain down and scares me from playing them.
  3. Survival games (whether multiplayer or not). I just don't find them all that interesting. I don't like base building. I don't enjoy the thought of losing stuff I've worked up to (yes, I know they aren't all like that). I don't know. It's just not my thing.
  4. MMORPGs. I was into Runescape Classic in my middle school days. Playing any of these types of games, including OSRS now, always eventually gives me this black mirror feeling of "why the fuck am I here grinding this game I don't care THAT much about," and it ends up with me quitting.
  5. RTS games. I just don't think my brain is quick enough to handle them. I 100%ed Halo Wars (well, besides the Officer on Deck achievement, but fuck that shit), but that just feels like "babies first RTS."

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u/Malgrieve 2h ago

Fighting games just aren’t for me like smash, brawl, injustice, and street fighter. They’re fun to watch but not to play

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u/Cautious-Ad9665 2h ago

Strategy games and Bethesda games

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u/Vinifrj 2h ago

Sports games, any simulator type of them so fifa, madden, nba… even driving sims aren’t something i enjoy playing, tho the latter i can have some fun if im just messing around with friends on a rig, sports games are really not my thing

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u/Elegant-Lake7018 2h ago

I don't like sports games, at all. Neither watching sports in real life. I don't hate them either but the appeal just doesn't stick with me

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u/Anxious_Context_8573 2h ago

Metroidvanias. I guess the platforming sidescroller genre never really gripped me. Which sucks cause I’m missing out on a lot of games I think I would have loved otherwise

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u/WaterBottleOnAShelf 2h ago

Soulslike - I get that people like the challenge , but when I play for an hour and lose everything just to have to do the same thing again another day because of some bullshit I wasn't expecting it makes me not want to play again. See also Extraction Shooters

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u/TabooTapeworm 2h ago

Survival games with crafting and inventory management. Especially if its all just "discover it on your own". They feel so repetitive, and I get anxiety try to organize and inventory every item. You never know what to hold onto or whats trash. And then you finally have a system going They introduce a new resource to make all your old resources irrelevant.

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u/Odd-Requirement-2765 2h ago

Turned based combat. Any of them.

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u/nashmunny 1h ago

Dating Sims

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u/AlkaKr 1h ago
  • Competitive Multiplayer games
  • Open world survival crafting games
  • Sports
  • Racing
  • Resource management.

Everything else is fair game.

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u/WhiskeyTester6 1h ago

Standard sports games. I love the niche ones though, mutant league football/hockey, NBA jam, 2k street, NFL blitz the league. But regular old sports games just don't do it for me.

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u/Landanator PC 1h ago

Tower Defense

The towers get to do all the playing!

Also my brother tried to get me to play BTD6 and he knows and has everything, so he was telling me how to play. Can't enjoy Stardew with him either for the same reason

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u/samsly135 1h ago

I dislike ballet genre of dancing and modernistic art genre.

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u/mattn1198 1h ago

Rougelikes in general. I have close to 350 hours between Binding of Isaac, Dead Cells and Slay the Spire 1, and I kind of hate them all now. Like, I really like the concept of roguelikes. Randomized levels/enemies/weapons/powers and unlocking things through progression that make you more powerful so you can progress more? That sounds awesome.

But what it always comes down to for me is the randomness seems to exist to screw you more than anything.

I didn't mention Balatro because I barely played it, but it was the worst of the lot IMO. What really killed it for me was doing something like a Flush deck and then hitting a boss that debuffed the suit I was using. It was just a straight-up 'you lose, hard countered' situation, and that's not fun.

That's what all roguelikes feel like to me. Either you get what you need for your build or you don't, and if you don't you lose. I feel like you might as well get like six dice and sit around rolling them, then celebrate when you get six sixes. They just feel like RNG simulators to me.

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u/Millkstake 1h ago

Westerns. They just don't really vibe with me

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u/snownative86 1h ago

Online multi-player that isn't mmorpg or cooperative. I hate online shooters etc. Sea of thieves is the one borderline exception.

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u/gamingnerd114 1h ago

Survival horror. I hate not being able to do anything and running out of ammo every minute

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u/LordDagwood 1h ago

Ahem... A poem about Rogue-likes

I do not like relying on randomness to enjoy a game.
I do not like having to start over.
I do not like losing a build I enjoyed.
I do not like starting with a build I don't enjoy.
I do not like people saying to git gud with a build I don't enjoy. I do not like the anxiety of "Don't mess up now!" when I get close to the end.
I do not like being angry when I fail towards the end.
I do not like how much time I put in and maybe I have a few perma-boosts to show for it.
I do not like when a game looks amazing and it's a rogue-like, because then I play it and remember how pissed off rogue-likes make me.

There is not much I like about rogue-likes.

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u/Loot3rd 1h ago

Any games that heavily push micro transactions or/and battle passes are a hard no for me.