Games

Dark Souls. I've tried to love those games, but I can't get into them, I end up walking around wondering what the hell to do every time I try to play them lmao

Dark Souls. Partly because fantasy worlds just don't generally do it for me, but also the split second timing and memorising attack patterns and responses. I get why people find that style of gameplay rewarding, but it feels like too much effort to me.

And Minecraft, or really any other game where the primary mechanic is resource harvesting and crafting. Satisfactory, subnautica, etc. Even No Man's Sky. I played enough Minecraft back when it was free that I get the appeal, but to me it just feels too much like work.

And that goes double for any game where the primary mechanic isn't crafting but it's had a system shoehorned in because of Minecraft's success. That's not gameplay, that's busywork.

Monster Hunter. It always feels like a grind fest with gorgeous makeup instead of a game focusing on hunting monsters.

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.

The 7th generation was such a time and it's only become worse. You should disrespect "grizzled white guy action games" more tbh.

For me it's probably the Super Mario games, which on one hand probably seems like obvious contrarian bait and on the other hand Nintendo is the Disney of video games. I think it's the way they control, I dunno what the problem is but I've slammed my head into mario games my entire life and it just never clicks.

also gta was never good :>

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Dwarf fortress is one of the coolest concepts I've ever seen, and I cannot get into it.

I've never met a deck builder game I've liked.

And I've never made it further than like Day 2 of Disco Elysium. It's just so so dense and I need to be in a novel-reading mood to enjoy it properly, and those are far between so I end up forgetting what I did in between runs and restarting.

RTS Games. My cousin liked them growing up and had Starcraft and Warcraft, but I never jived with them. Something about micromanaging everything and having awareness of the map and what the enemy is doing at all times was too much for my smol brain. Now as I'm getting older I really can't keep up with them and don't dare try.

fighting games broadly, i just don't have the competitive spirit to really enjoy them outside of fucking around in the lab

League, or mobas in general

people shit on them for having annoying fans (true) but i feel like you have to be somewhat smart to be good at those games, and part of why they got hate back then was RTS fans who were salty that you don’t need an absurdly high APS to git gud in comparison

Intentionally hard games. I get that people like a challenge, but play games to relax.

the map games, yk HOI4 EU4 Victoria those, I tried playing them before but I just don't like them. Zelda games and top down rpgs like it, dating games and visual novels, and battle royal games.

I don't like games that have too many choices or that have too much reading, because most games have a written in bias and illusion of choice, the political messaging and the choices of the story are all either way too vague to matter or have only 1 correct option, and it's all libbed up, it all puts me and my struggles in the background, hell because I'm a Muslim with [mental disorder] 90% of all games have someone like me be the villain or be shot.

I like stuff that I can mostly use muscle memory to get through, especially recently as my medical conditions worsen the games I play have a role of being visual white noise, racing games do this well for me, because most of them do not need audio to be played I can finish books or listen to albums or essays/audio books while playing them.

pretty much all 1st and 3rd person shooters, i get why people like them and why are they popular but everyone i have ever played have never clicked with me

Game where you have to remember the attack patterns of every single different type of enemy. Expedition 33 and Hades got close to the line, but things like Cuphead and Dark Souls just feel so boring because they feel like quicktime events without the prompts. I know identifying the pattern makes some people feel good, but it just feels tedious to me.

trying to be be a blockbuster

The more games try to be movies the more I'm adverse to playing them. I really don't like the Sony stable of modern games. When everything became over the shoulder and mostly open world (the detritus of the 7th gen) Ever chasing realism most of the games look so similar in the environments, it's become rather stale.

Minecraft

Would be one pick that I find too unstructured to enjoy and I don't really engage in any multiplayer.

zelda

All games, generally. Im not such a troglodyte that I can't understand why others play games, but generally, nothing appeals to me.

I've tried countless times to get into Minecraft. Set up a server at home for my kids to play on several years ago. I still maintain it, but never got into it despite two dozen or more attempts to play. GTA, too. I played GTA:SA and SA:MP a ton. Probably more than everything else combined. But I can't get into four, five or online. I'll eventually buy the new one for my son but I might log ten minutes of gameplay. I can see gameplay footage on an advertisement and think 'yeah that looks cool' but still not find interest in playing it. I don't even have games on my phone.

The Witcher.

Geralt's voice is like nails on a chalkboard and I can't get through more than an hour of it.

Fighting games. Zero interest in memorizing combos and using them with millisecond precision.

Basically any game that is well-made but at the same time ridiculously difficult (looking at you, Silksong).

Cozy games: I understand the emotional need they fulfill, but they tend to feel saccharine to me.

Most visual novels (I love the Ace Attorney series though).

Those really old Roguelikes where everything is ASCII graphics and you have to memorize a million keyboard commands.

Most Roguelikes in general. There are a few I enjoy, but that's in spite of their Roguelike elements rather than because of them.

And for the inverse: I like the Pokemon games but can understand why people would find them off-putting from an animal exploitation/unfortunate implications perspective. It entirely comes down to whether the setting and creatures as presented are fantastical enough not to evoke discomfort, and that line's going to be different for everybody.

I understand the appeal of Hades but tbqh I like the broadly similar game "curse of the dead gods" way better.

skyrim, witcher, yakuza, persona, assasin's creed

i really tried. they just dont do it for me

(oldschool)RuneScape, I find the planning out of grinding fascinating but have no desire to commit hours to it myself.

Dark Souls, I play games to have fun but I can understand other people may have different reasons

XCOM, Souls-like games and especially fighting games, I feel like a slow old man if I ever play one.

name any popular JRPG. I just never really could. i probably didnt get past disc 2 of FF7, and i played FFX a decent bit but pretty sure i didnt beat that.

also, pretty much any Zelda not called Wind Waker.

A lot of what you mentioned. I actually got pretty pissed at Last of Us even before I knew the guy was a zionist back when it first came out because it was so hyped and was being sold as something else entirely by the end of it. Though that tech doesn't fit what you are saying. The others are like that.

Honestly, the big one for me is most Metal Gear Solid. I liked 3 pretty well. But I HATED 2, 4 was okay. and I'm sorry I cannot get over how they treated Quiet. (was typing way to much for the spirit of this because of that before I deleted it). I see that the gameplay is interesting and stuff, but I just can't get over how they treat women in those games at this point. I was barely hanging on in the early ones cause at least a lot of the misogyny you had to go looking for it. I can say the same for most Kojima games tbh. Death Stranding looks interesting mechanically but...well it goes back to the grizzled white guy action. (Though I did like Witcher 3, more Blood and Wine, though. 1 and 2 are....something in the same vein as this one, though. 3 is a little better with it, but it does some "men writing women" type stuff.)

Ocarina of Time. Another one that kind of got over hyped for me. It's the curse of being one video game gen behind the older millennials, I stg. Cause when I played it, I understood it and got why it was important for other Zelda games, but holy hell it was not the transcendent experience that I was promised.

Most platformers in general, I can't get into. Which is normally fine cause I like games with story and most platformers didn't have that much...at one point. Thank god for mods or I would never of gotten through Hollow Knight or Silk Song. Holy hell, those games are brutal.

But I just found the artstyle so damn ugly.

You could try looking into graphical mods for Minecraft, there's a shit ton of them, ranging from texture packs to shaders that completely change the look of the game.

Now for me it's less game series, more game genre. In my case it's survival games, I just get bored out of my mind playing them most of the time. There are exceptions that I love like Valheim, Minecraft, Hytale and Terraria, but almost every single other survival game I have tried just never clicks with me, and it sucks because some of them are beloved. My brother loves Don't Starve, but I was never able to get into it. I played The Forest all the way to the end, but it just bores me so much every single time, same thing for Rust and Ark. Hell even my love status for Minecraft is mostly nostalgia at this point, I get really bored playing it nowadays too.

Also, the first Witcher game is a fucking slog, I never finished it, always wanted to but at the same time I don't.

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.

I personally think the moniker of grizzled white guy action game should be reserved to thinks like Haze or similar things but it's not far off. I think it's embarassing for video games as an art that these games regularly top every which list about best games. They're functionally competent, even good, action / western / zombie movies with bouts of tetris in between. There's a reason Hitman did not work at all as a movie and TLOU works perfectly fine as a netflix series