What Games do you Never Intend on Playing?

[Kapitan zur See Hans (Daz) 883]

I don't really think these two are comparable to each other... NES style graphics being made in today's games is nothing more than pandering to nostalgia. 2D graphics can be much more detailed than that.

The thing is it is still an art design, this was just an example to get you thinking about your own statement. Just because something was old does not mean it cannot be applied to good effect.

 

Pandering to nostalgia for some, but that is a generalization of all games, like I said the art design can be appealing. Just because you find something that doesn't appeal to you visually or in this case because it is old does not mean it does not appeal to others for its design. 

[Envy 6,160]

The thing is it is still an art design, this was just an example to get you thinking about your own statement. Just because something was old does not mean it cannot be applied to good effect.

 

Pandering to nostalgia for some, but that is a generalization of all games, like I said the art design can be appealing. Just because you find something that doesn't appeal to you visually or in this case because it is old does not mean it does not appeal to others for its design. 

 

It may still appeal to some (as I said in my original post, it's overrated... So I've already acknowledged that. =P), but it is a style that existed only out of the limitations of its hardware of the time. So to me it is outdated and just looks flat out silly still being used in a game made today. It is an 'artstyle' today because of nostalgia.

Edited January 15, 2016 by Envy

[Kapitan zur See Hans (Daz) 883]

It may still appeal to some (as I said in my original post, it's overrated... So I've already acknowledged that. =P), but it is a style that existed only out of the limitations of its hardware of the time. So to me it is outdated and just looks flat out silly still being used in a game made today. It is an 'artstyle' today because of nostalgia.

Fair enough that is your opinion, but I do think you are wrong. A great deal of players out there have zero nostalgia for games like that, nostalgia is not the only reason something like that exists. Regardless that is the thing, limitations of the time are beside the point if something is considered relevant today, what may have been the past is now today and the future.

[baba_booey 4,302]

Pretty much any game on consoles that are universally hated and don't have good emulation (i.e. Game.com, Atari Jaguar) and just about any sports game (aside from racing games if those count.) Also, Five Nights at Freddy's 2-4. I disliked the first one, and considering how people say that was the best in the series and considering how little time passed between the release the sequels, I might as well not even bother.

Edited January 15, 2016 by SuperALPHYSBrony

[Steve Piranha 29,424]

-I don't feel like playing any Sonic game after the infamous 2006

-Nor many classic PS1 games, like RE, FFVII (specially with the remake coming)... I know they were great games in their time, but by today standards, they aged awfully

-Call of Duty

-Facebook is for the EXCLUSIVE use of Avengers Alliance, that means, no gossip, no posting, no liking, NOR OTHER GAMES THAN THE AFOREMENTIONED MAA 

[Lil Pip 775]

cheap games like based on kid movies and such

[Drunk Not I Am 1,070]

Facebook games, Team Fortress 2 is more over hyped and praised than call of duty is hated on. Can't stand that game, and call of duty as it is now, for me it died after the pile of shit ghosts was released. 

[Deae Rising Shine~ 55,409]

I don't really have games or genres I avoid. I would say completly failed games or movie licensed games. And sports games(Exclude motorsports) arent my thing. im mostly fine with any other kind of stuff, i have a lot of games with different settings and gentres and enjoyed them all. From cute jump and runs and stuff like LittleBigPlanet to motorsports like Need for Speed or Formula 1 to emotional games like Beyond Two Souls or the Metal Gear series to Action-Adventures like the Uncharted Series or Tomb Raider til FPS like Call of Duty, Battlefield or Killzone to horror games like the Dead Space series or Metro Last Light to open world like GTAV or Red Dead Redemption etc.

[RattPitt 172]

Any first person shooters that came out after 2012, with one exception. The last good, new, FPS that I've played was Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare from 2014. Before that, it was Black Ops II. FPS used to be my favorite genre. I've just played too many horrible FPS's recently. I should have stopped after Ghosts, but I just had to get Battlefield Hardline.

 

Continuing on, any horror game or one that calls itself that. I'm not a horror fan (except for body horror, which won't be able to happen in video games for a few more years, probably). On that note, I won't ever play FNAF. Jump scares =/= horror. Not to mention that all the jump scares (at least in the first) have patterns.

[Mutemutt 773]

Hmm, I'd say a normal sports game (closest to normal sports game you'll ever see me touch is something like NBA Street and such), just no interest in that.

 

Oh and horror games where you're not carrying an armory in your hammerspace pocket. Truth is, I'd probably get too nervous to actually finish the game if they had lethal enemies in it. It's nowhere near as bad when I know I can just pop any misshapen baddie that jumps out of the shadows.

[MiniHoovy 37]

I've always hated online sports games so probably those

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 2,984]

I probably never intend to play something like mobile freemium games and free to play games in general are unappealing to me (would have much preferred if game like World of Tanks was full priced game instead of free to play). However, if question was to be changed to games I never intend to buy, then this would definitely include terrible Steam early access or Greenlight games.

 

^That reminds me I certainly have no intention to play any of those games that try so hard to stick to the NES aesthetic, or really any related aesthetic. It's just that the 'retro' NES aesthetic is so overrated and I'm sick of seeing it everywhere. Leave that in the past, where it belongs!

I can understand this sentiment. However, when you consider that indie developers have limited budgets, it makes sense to use pixel art as a way to save money. I don't think I would personally criticize these developers using 8-bit style graphics, but those who can well imitate 16-bit era graphics or highly detailed sprite art do get praise from me (example for the latter: Dust: An Elysian Tail is highly impressive to me especially considering both the game's programming and art was made by one person).

[Limeblossom 482]

Nintendo's Pokemon franchise is literally the same game rehashed every other year. So much so that they remake a game every 2-3 years. Not even Call of Duty remakes Call of Duty every 2-3 years. Modern Warfare which was considered one of the best in the series has still not been remade or remastered. Not to mention Pokemon even recycles the same general storyline.

That's why I hope for a new kind of gameplay in Pokemon like a more manual combat phase and choosing between becoming a champion or Rocket member. It could help the series escaping the "stagnant JRPG industry".

 

Going back on topic; The games that I really want to avoid are cinematic games like...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ncexo_life-is-strange-honest-game-trailers_videogames

Edited January 22, 2016 by Limeblossom

[Guest]

Would you understand if I said I didn't want to watch a violent movie for the same reasons I listed? It's pretty much the same darn thing.

 

Not really no. It's very closed minded to be honest. Violence in games stories is often used to speak against violence. I don't like gore in real life, I am not like someone who gets excited to see someone in real life killed or destroyed, but in games I recognize that it can be used to tell a story. Hell, even Call of Duty which is criticized for its "violence" is actually not that violent and it's a war drama. The game's story is about ending war, and trying to bring about peace. You're not trying to cause more war.

 

 

^That reminds me I certainly have no intention to play any of those games that try so hard to stick to the NES aesthetic, or really any related aesthetic. It's just that the 'retro' NES aesthetic is so overrated and I'm sick of seeing it everywhere. Leave that in the past, where it belongs!

 

I agree that too many games are trying to emulate that "retro" feel to bring in the nostalgia crowd, but I disagree that NES needs to be left in the past or that the concept of retro style games needs to be abandoned. They just need to be slowed down and thought about. A developer should ask himself: is this really improving the game by being in this style? Or am I just trying to tickle nostalgia glands?

 

 

The Retro style is really only annoying when the style is only used for the sake of it or to used as a key selling point to pander to people's nostalgia and hide poor game design(disguised as "NES difficult") 

 

If you can make great games using the artstyle or you want to make it a good tribute to retro games, like with Shovel Knight, then you're fine

Yup!

 

 

It may still appeal to some (as I said in my original post, it's overrated... So I've already acknowledged that. =P), but it is a style that existed only out of the limitations of its hardware of the time. So to me it is outdated and just looks flat out silly still being used in a game made today. It is an 'artstyle' today because of nostalgia.

 

Some developers enjoy the challenge of working with limitations.

 

 

 

A great deal of players out there have zero nostalgia for games like that

 

 

I am quoting this because it's important: A good chuck of people who play Undertale actually weren't even old enough to own an NES or SNES, so it's not even possible for some of them to feel nostalgia towards it.

[Reprise 60]

Undertale, because I am sometimes a butt about things like a game or a movie getting too much hype. There's no way it can possibly live up to it for me. 

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

I'm just going to say that I don't intend to play somewhere around 99% of games. I love video games, but I'm very picky about what I'll devote my time to playing. The vast majority of games to me aren't particularly interesting.

 

Still, that's quite a lot. There are somewhere around 6000 registered titles on Steam. If we include all titles on all modern consoles and those that aren't on Steam, the number of games is probably close to 10000. Just one percent of that is still 100 games, which would seem right given my collection of games (around 50-80) and collection of games I would want to play (around 20+).

Edited January 22, 2016 by Admiral Regulus

[Rawzy 1,302]

I agree with Gestum, I never really intend on playing any of the games that this fandom has produced, they are just poor quality games unfortunately.

 

Also Undertale and Fallout 4, Undertale just looks boring and Fallout 4 looks scary.

[L1ghtn1ng_Flash 213]

the binding of issac, if your a fan thats your thing, but i really hate the art style, and the idea that you fight by crying. its just a bit to boring to me.

[Envy 6,160]

Not really no. It's very closed minded to be honest. Violence in games stories is often used to speak against violence. I don't like gore in real life, I am not like someone who gets excited to see someone in real life killed or destroyed, but in games I recognize that it can be used to tell a story. Hell, even Call of Duty which is criticized for its "violence" is actually not that violent and it's a war drama. The game's story is about ending war, and trying to bring about peace. You're not trying to cause more war.

 

Just stop it, please. I never said anything about the validity of violence in games. I said that, personally, it makes me uncomfortable - to a point of even being physical.

 

I'm not telling you what games to play and what games to not play, so this is a case of live and let live.

[Guest]

the binding of issac, if your a fan thats your thing, but i really hate the art style, and the idea that you fight by crying. its just a bit to boring to me.

Which one? There are two art styles because the game got remade.

[L1ghtn1ng_Flash 213]

Which one? There are two art styles because the game got remade.

 it did, i guess its the origonal, i dont think ive seen the new one.

[Guest]

 it did, i guess its the origonal, i dont think ive seen the new one.

The new one is 16Bit SNES style graphics. The guy who made the game flat out said he HATED the original and the only reason he used that style was budget and time constraints at the time.

[L1ghtn1ng_Flash 213]

The new one is 16Bit SNES style graphics. The guy who made the game flat out said he HATED the original and the only reason he used that style was budget and time constraints at the time.

then its the new one ive seen, i hate anything that is lower than 16 bit.

[Nit Pick 247]

To add to my own thread, I don't intend on playing sports games... if it's regular old realistic sports.

 

I did have fun with the arcade version of NBA Jam. I loved making my own basketball star, making aliens or freaky basketball head mutant things. Tried the newer one with high hopes but didn't meet my expectations. It played it too safe. Can't remember if there was a create a star thing.

 

I am getting the Mutant Football League remake when it comes out. That's probably the only time I'd get a football game.

 

Wrestling games. No... unless if it's the definitive game to create a wrestler with crazy levels of story creation.

 

Now I'm not a huge fan of first person shooters either, unless it's something fun (for me at least) like Wolfenstien TNO, Killing Floor 1 & 2 or the upcoming Doom remake. Got nothing against COD or Battlefield so if other people like it, I'm not going to be mean about people liking it.

 

I tried the beta for Star Wars EA Battlefront, I didn't have fun playing it so I'm not buying... this version. IF a new iteration comes around (which it will) and more people swarm over it more than the first, I'll give it a try. Especially if there's a story with it.

[Discordian 6,015]

To add to my own thread, I don't intend on playing sports games... if it's regular old realistic sports.

 

I did have fun with the arcade version of NBA Jam. I loved making my own basketball star, making aliens or freaky basketball head mutant things. Tried the newer one with high hopes but didn't meet my expectations. It played it too safe. Can't remember if there was a create a star thing.

 

I am getting the Mutant Football League remake when it comes out. That's probably the only time I'd get a football game.

 

Wrestling games. No... unless if it's the definitive game to create a wrestler with crazy levels of story creation.

 

Now I'm not a huge fan of first person shooters either, unless it's something fun (for me at least) like Wolfenstien TNO, Killing Floor 1 & 2 or the upcoming Doom remake. Got nothing against COD or Battlefield so if other people like it, I'm not going to be mean about people liking it.

 

I tried the beta for Star Wars EA Battlefront, I didn't have fun playing it so I'm not buying... this version. IF a new iteration comes around (which it will) and more people swarm over it more than the first, I'll give it a try. Especially if there's a story with it.

You ever played Rage? The guy behind Doom helped make that game and it's one of the best shooters out there.