For me it’s a couple

First is GTA. I played a LOT of Vice City and and San Andreas as a kid, but mostly because everyone else played them at the time and there wasn’t really many games quite like it where you could mess around and explore a massive city and find cool vehicles just by exploring. But by the time GTA 4 rolled around other open world games did things just as good and the edgey humor has starting to wear thin on me so I had moved on to things like Elder Scrolls by that time.

Another is Minecraft. Minecraft is the exact kind of game I should be in to, it looks so fun! But I just found the artstyle so damn ugly. It’s so rare for me to avoid something for aesthetic reasons, usually low poly art is charming but for some reason Minecrafts style just looks really unappealing to me. This is coming from someone who likes a lot of games people think are ugly.

Lastly are what I’ll call “grizzled white guy action games” Uncharted, Red Dead, The Last of Us. They just feel too much like they’re trying to be be a blockbuster for for guys that don’t want to be made fun of for liking games rather than games. I know that that probably isn’t the case, but they just seem too normal to me.

However I respect that these are all good series but they just aren’t for me. Are there any game series where this is true for you?

Don’t be afraid to say a series you know I like, I won’t be offended.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    Fighting games and rts games. I wanna already know how to play them cause they seem fun as hell once you have the hang. I cannot get the hang.

    Sorta kinda the soulsborn stuff… a lot of people like em for different reasons and I dont. Whether or not I understand and respect kinda depends. I think most controversially. I dont mind the gameplay, I dont like the aesthetic or storytelling. Make a castlevania game in thst style and id be right there. I just dont like grimdsrk fantasy that I have to work out why I give a shit about what improving in the first place over the course of doing it cause for most of the ds1 which is the one I played in had no idea why I should give a shit about any of this generic dark fantasy crap. I know if you dig deep enough to make a 6 hour podcast then there is stuff but nothing maxe me feel compelled to look into it. Also as a gameplay tjing that is a me thing, im good at hard 2d games and bad at hard 3d games or at least like 2d difficulty more and am less easy to give up. There are a variety of reasons mostly availability of information on the screen that makes 2d feel more fun to be challenged in. I wish I liked them, people that like em sre having lots of fun. But I really dont get it.

    • Owl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      14 hours ago

      Fighting games and rts games. I wanna already know how to play them cause they seem fun as hell once you have the hang. I cannot get the hang.

      Old RTS have great single-player modes. I’d start with Warcraft 3 and Red Alert 2 and work backwards in their respective series. They pretty much all (even back the original C&C and Warcraft) have super easy starting missions, and steadily get harder. A lot of the time that’s gonna be too hard for a newbie by like the fourth mission, which is why I recommend hopping between games when it happens instead of plowing ahead. But after a loop of a few you’ll find that you’ve gotten better at all of them.

      If you want to get into competitive, I don’t know. I think AOE2 still has a big enough community to match noobs against noobs (but it’s Microsoft so I dunno, I won’t touch it). A lot of other games have been whittled down to just people who already know it though.

      I don’t know anything about fighting games.