Are there any game genres you used to love?

[Extra Terrestrial]

?but you can no longer stand nowadays?

Call of Duty 2, 3, Modern Warfare and World at War; Half-Life 2, Episode 1 and 2; Halo: Combat Evolved, 2 and 3; TimeSplitters 1, 2 and 3 and the recent-ish Killzone 2.

I loved them, truly loved them - I never played very many FPS games, I just stuck to the ones that I knew and loved.

Yet nowadays, I'll play whatever (FPS) game I am running and gunning through and after about ten minutes I go, ?urgh! Why did I ever liked FPS games in the first place??

I cannot stand FPS games now, nor RPGs but maybe that is because I no longer have one hundred hours to play them anymore.

The exception for FPS is the Metroid games (but it isn?t a FPS I hear you all cry?!) and BioShock. Perhaps I like different other-worldly atmosphere and environments? Fantasy science-fiction locations don?t do it for me anymore. Metroid and BioShock seems to offer a gaming world that used to be populated and is now desolated - I quite like that kind of atmosphere along with a story to carry the game along too.

I find myself liking ?indie? games nowadays - short and simple games that doesn?t test your patience nor punishing you for being a rubbish player either. It is all I have time for?!

[davesol]

Same for me actually. the most recent FPS that I played all the way through to the end was Unreal Tournament (the first one!). I used to really enjoy them in the days of Doom / Duke Nukem 3D / Quake etc but after that I got a bit bored of them. Not sure why, maybe I should give them another go

[kernow]

I can't be arsed with 3d platformers nowadays, and theres very few FPS's I'll play anymore.

[gaz@manc]

I used to love 3D platformers but rarely play them nowadays, same for beat 'em ups.

[Psyduck]

driving games - I still love proper arcadey ones but they barely seem to exist any more, the vast majority are far too serious for my liking, even ones which try not to be quite so serious

JRPGs - I get about 3 hours in and realise I know exactly what the plot is going to be for the rest of the game, but have to sit through hours of bad dialogue and long cutscenes to get through it. That, and I know combat from now on is going to be exactly the same exactly with progressively bigger numbers flying out of my opponent.

[BaudAttitude]

jRPGs with random battles, specifically. I played Everquest for too many years; I can't go back to enemies appearing out of nowhere as I walk in small circles around a floor.

Eternal Sonata was good, though, and most strategy RPGs, and I understand that FFXII did away with random battles so I should really try it one of these days.

[Eight Rooks]

RTS games. As soon as I realised what a tank rush was (not neccessarily involving actual tanks, either, just big heavy things) I couldn't take playing them any more. Multiplayer games of Red Alert 2 against my best friend at the time and getting endlessly swamped by wave after wave just because he could click faster than me... yeah, no thanks. Warcraft III, Company of Heroes, Homeworld, tried a few here and there over the years and I just can't take them.

Old-school point and clicks, as soon as I realised the vast majority of them centred around 1) far too much lame, smart-arsed humour that wasn't funny, 2) puzzles that made no logical sense, despite what people would tell you beforehand and that 3) they weren't particularly artistically impressive.

[Atticus]

Driving games and fighting games.

Used to love them back in the heyday of the arcades; Daytona, Ridge Racer, Sega Rally, Virtua Fighter, Darkstalkers, SFII, etc. Loved playing them in the arcades, loved playing the console versions at home.

But I just don't get the same buzz from those 2 genres anymore. Apart from Ridge Racer 7 (true to its arcade roots + tons of content = win) and, to a lesser degree, SFIV.

[fuse]

I used to play a crazy amount of Quake 2/3 (any other UKCCL vets about, on that note?) and ever since then I can't get into the multiplayer aspect of any other FPS game. Single player story-driven games from a first person perspective like Bioshock are fine, but when I see people playing Call of Duty, Killzone etc, I just find it looks awful. Really hate the concept of multiplayer experience & benefits too - if you've played the game for 100 hours your advantage should be your knowledge and your skills, not a bigger gun. I can see that it keeps the faithful happy but it makes it harder for people to get into it and just wrecks what balance there was.

Would agree with the RTS thing too - I appreciate there is still strategy involved in top level play, but it is all about speed rather than a calm, calculated approach. Can see the appeal, but it's just not for me - I find myself thinking more strategically in a good vs fighter anyway, so if I really wanted to step away from that I'd probably just go play online chess.

[losersclub]

JRPG's used to be my number one genre in the 16 & early 32bit days, but since they all became 3d and began to always use god awful voice acting i struggle to think of one i've loved. Tales Of Symphonia is the only one that springs to mind and that was enjoyed because i could turn off the voices and the battle engine was still technically 2d.

I wouldn't say i hate them now they just don't hold the attraction they did for me.

[briareos_kerensky]

JRPGs like many others.
I usually start interested in the game more than in the story and characters (which have become more and more insipid and laughable as time went on) and then forcing myself to play through the Lastest Turn-Based Battle System With A Stupid Name which, in the end, is nothing more than a complex user interface for the only useful command available just not to let spent money go completely wasted. During the final part I find myself lazily sitting on my chair maneuvering my avatar without me gazing at the screen, hoping it would end soon.

In fact, even recent western RPGs, although I like to play good oldies like Torment or the first two Fallouts.

I still love RTS games but I struggle to get back on certain older titles: Starcraft is a fine example: I like the game, its strategic merits, the story, the setting, the graphics, but last year I tried to play it again only to find myself bored waiting for my resources gather enough money to get a certain structure built.

[Skull Commander]

RPG's for me too. During the Snes and then PS1 era's I loved playing these games. Moving along to the PS2/Xbox/GC time and I began to get annoyed by the clichés and the ever time consuming side quests, which often felt like they were only included to pad out the game to the RPG "norm".

The last one I played and enjoyed was Enchanted Arms, and part of that was the humour from the camp character, but on the whole I'm repulsed by the thought of anymore "epic" quests.

I did start Fallout 3, but after 20 odd hours it began to feel like a slog, so I just gave up.

[Paddy]

I would also say RPGs but I find when I play one and like it I'll stick with that until the end. However, I rarely do side-quests now unless it's essential to finishing the game or is not a massive challenge. That way you at least get through more RPGs rather than slogging to get an item that ends up being massively anti-climatic (I'm thinking of the secret bosses in FFVII and FFVIII for example).

[Concrete donkey]

First person shooters and Japanese RPG's for me. It could be the best games for these genres are showing up the faults of others or that these just happened to be the last games of the genre I really enjoyed.

Unreal Tournament (again the first one) was the best online shooter I've ever played and nothing on consoles has seemed to have come close for me. It's not just the game itself. The community and user generated content was top notch and the competition with Quake improved both franchises. It's also me though. I don't have the inclination to spend that amount of time on this kind of game any more.

Straight forward FPS are always compared to Half Life 2 and always fail miserably. I still love games like Bioshock but I don't really count that as just a FPS. And although some Final Fantasy games have come close, Japanese RPG's seemed to have peaked with Skies of Arcadia. Since then the games released have felt stale to me.

But the decline in Japanese RPG's may be attributed to the rise of Western ones. I never really got into the old school RPG like Baldur's Gate or Fallout despite my attempts and purchases to do so. I think it was Star Wars KOTOR that really captured me. Since then I've pretty much enjoyed every Bioware RPG they've released as well as Oblivion, Fallout 3 and the Fable games and less interested in Japanese offerings.

[donpepperoni]

Probably driving games for me.

Used to pump so many hours into stuff like Mario Kart/Sega Rally/Ridge Racer/Wipeout/etc, and then I got hooked on Gran Turismo 1 and later 3. But after that I kinda lost interest and for the past 6 or 7 years I can honestly say I've barely played a racing game at all - apart from the excellent F355 on the DC.

Also JRPGs like most of everyone else. Haven't got the patience for them anymore, and I feel that they've been completely stuck in a rut for 10 years. Meanwhile the western stuff coming out of studios like Bioware and Bethesda has just blown everyone else out of the water - the only exception being Shadow Hearts: Covenant (which I did really enjoy).