I hate pretty much every FPS since Modern Warfare, where single player is a scripted bore and where multiplayer isn't about out-aiming the opponent (admittedly, many early shooters aren't either, particularly console ones because of the intense auto aim to alleviate awful controls) making split second decisions, resource management or anything that takes any actual skill, but is rather solely about getting the jump on the opponent, which often comes down to luck because of the extreme number of flanking points on the maps in these games or the adoption of cheese tactics like camping. Turning on the radar alleviates much of this, but then you can often get kills just by randomly shooting in the opponent's direction because you can shoot through walls in most of these games. Then, you need to set health to 200%, and then the weapon balancing is completely broken, so there's ultimately no way to salvage most of these games.
...Then there's Overwatch and it's clones.
Somehow, these feel even more BS to me then all the recent CoD and Battlefield games, but not for the same reasons. You're not dying from somebody shooting you out of nowhere; from my admittedly really limited experience playing Overwatch, people just kind of walk up to other people, and someone ends up dead on seemingly a coin flip; the combat is so incredibly slow and simplistic to where I felt I had pretty much hit the skill ceiling in ten matches. At least I felt CoD took some semblance of skill with having to memorize the maps. I absolutely despise the atmosphere of the game as well; they made the cast as diverse as possible, but for seemingly little reason other than that it's the new thing and I think the characters are actually pretty uninspired individually. You've got a run of the mill fatass Mad Max biker guy, a big robot with a minigun, and a super skinny woman in tights. A few stand out to me, particularly the gorilla in the robot suit, but these characters are far and in between. I'm not a fan of the trend of gritty realism in CoD and Battlefield, but I'll take it over second-rate Western anime easy.
It's not an FPS, but Splatoon is the probably the first shooter I've actually liked since the inception of the modern military shooter. The main gimmick is covering the arena with ink, but I think that even the core shooter mechanics are better than that of those in almost all FPS games from the last ten years, even if they don't hold a candle to something like Quake. I can't say I really like Splatoon 2 though; it's pretty much a downgrade on every front other than the amount of content, but there's still no contest between it or CoD and Overwatch.
From Final Fantasy to Chrono Trigger to Pokémon, I think JRPGs all feel completely pointless. The only ones I'll exempt are ones where you also have to move characters across a board, as I feel they require at least some strategy.
FrankenGraphics wrote:I generallly do not enjoy sports games unless they have that arcadey, nonrealistic feel. Same goes with racers.
Same here. I can't say I care much for racing games, but F-Zero GX is actually one of my favorite games from any genre.
Jedi QuestMaster wrote:I remember at a local game store, they wouldn't take sports games as trade ins unless they were by Midway.
That's actually very smart... At my local game store, there are just huge stacks of Madden for every system that they don't know what to do with. They give you shit for selling games, but if the store can't sell these games, then they're actually just losing money.
Jedi QuestMaster wrote:I don't like RPGs that require you to grind.
So all of them.
Jedi QuestMaster wrote:• I don't like bullet hell shooters.
I was waiting for this comment. Bullet hell shooters are more of an exercise in hardware dick stroking than having actually good gameplay, even though an N64 could pull of any 2D bullet hell ever made so what's the point.
Rahsennor wrote:Stop. Putting. Shaders. On. Everything. It. Looks. Awful.
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never-obsolete wrote:beat-em ups
I don't think anyone will deny that the gameplay is awful, but I think they're a testament to how far good graphics can go for games.