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.
Not a series, but a genre. JRPGs. I don’t enjoy the turn-based gameplay. Pokemon as a child being the exception.
Did you ever try games like Secret of Mana or Star Ocean
The first three star ocean games are pretty great
Second Story is my favorite jrpg from the PS1 and the first game was borderline revolutionary for the battle system on the SNES
My “not my thing” genre is farming sims, eg Stardew Valley. Every experience I’ve had is really enjoying it the first few hours and then realizing I’m eighty hours in and I’ve been playing it like it’s a boring but necessary job for almost all of that time.