Petty and/or irrational reasons you're turned off from games

sugarless said:

The music in Bayonetta was so obnoxiously dire I just couldn't keep going

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I second that even though I finished both games.

When I find out an RPG or a game with leveling mechanics has a low level cap, it makes me want to stop playing. Some games have caps at 20. Even worse when there is no sense of progress beyond the low cap.

I won't touch an anime game in any genre.

Baron Von Beans said:

I'm not making fun of you or anything, please don't think that and I apologize if I come across as I am, but this is pretty unique to me. Imo, one of the great games of all time must be totally off limits for you then- the original Nier. The main character was specifically designed to be both old AND ugly...though I just found him to be mostly old...

If you haven't played it, it's a bit archaic with some of the mechanics, but the game itself as a total package is sensational. And the "sequel" is even better, in every way. Complemented with young & hot anti-humans, to boot :D

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It's all good, I realize it's a dumb reason to not want to play a game. I've played Nier a few times though gamefly and at a friends house and liked what I played. I'll probably play though the whole game once I finish up some of the other RPGs I'm playing.

Battle royale of any kind.

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Jerykk said:

Dead Space has fully-committed animations too. Your melee attacks, hit reactions, reload animations, etc, are all fully-committed.

Also, that example you provided isn't an especially good one. That whole sequence is a glorified cutscene. The only thing you can do is run and if you don't, you die. That said, it doesn't really have anything to do with what we're talking about. We're talking about specific in-game interactions with fully-committed animations that are too long. TEW has plenty of those, Dead Space does not. In Dead Space, there's no animation for opening doors, picking up items or using medkits.

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Sorry, I didn't read your comment properly, my bad. I thought you were saying some game genres are required to give players less control. I forgot we were talking about animations.

I don't commit to boycotting but I get kinda turned off when a dev/publisher gets caught saying some sexist shit like "we couldnt have a female protagonist because women arent good at (x)" or "real gamers are mostly men" like ok even tho i like playing as stoic muscle men shooting demons with shotguns and chatting up anime girls i guess u dont make games for me bye

Silent Protagonists, Battle Royale and Bad OST.

Not as petty as some of the other posts in this thread but I don't care about most things aside from those 3.

Dragons Crown your character designs can fuck right off. I'm not even gonna keep playing if those are the female characters you're letting me choose. This could be the best game ever and it wouldn't matter. Those character designs disgust me that much.

Velvet's default outfit in Tales of Beseria



Despite knowing there are other costumes for her.

Despite people saying it's actually a good game.

For the life of me, I just cannot get over it and bring myself to play it. It's like if Shadow the Hedgehog was an anime girl.

And this is coming from someone currently enjoying Xenoblade 2, so it's not like stupid outfits inherently turn me off of a game. There's just something about Velvet that infuriates me.

When they go mainstream.

I already endure enough stupid conversations with colleagues - I really don't need to hear about your Fortnite conspiracy theories in-between you regurgitating Jordan Peterson's rhetoric.

Based on reading his interviews I'm not interested in anything that David Cage is going to do.

I have not even tried his games but I have read about his writing about sensitive topics and ... Yes, I do not feel like having that experience.

Settings without modern conveniences like toilets, running water, refrigerators, etc.

How do you have time to be saving the world or w/e if you're wiping your ass with leaves and eating food that's probably rotting and full of disease?

Can't get into games like RDR as a result.

Seeing a game has romantic\sexual relationship forming mechanics. If it's not immediately apparent I can avoid that stuff I'll need a lot more convincing about the rest of the game.

Observing too much of obsessive fanbases reacting poorly to even slightly negative opinions will probably push a game further down in my priorities list if I wasn't 100% convinced by it already.

weltalldx said:

Games with these these types of artstyle, setting, theme just don't interest me. The gameplay are generally the same, either fps, cinematic experience, and the graphics and color palette are somehow consistent across these games. I would give them a chance and but a few hours in I would quit and never touch them again.

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Are there a few characters twice in the image or do they look so similar that become indistinguishable? Like, Sheppard is second from left on the top and center on bottom and the Star Wars guy is first left second line, third bottom again?

Petty: The current oversaturation of open-world games, combined with the fact that every actually well-executed example gets praised for the fact that you can "GO ANYWHERE AND DO ANYTHING" as if that's been remotely unique since Elder Scrolls happened.

Irrational: Open-world games mess with my OCD because I try to do everything in games with lots of optional content, and when a game is that huge I always feel like I'm missing out on something. That's the number-one reason why I haven't finished Breath of the Wild yet, even though I know it's a great game.

Still Petty: It also annoys me that Skyward Sword was shat on for being linear and I saw at least one video title ask if BotW was "the first good Zelda game in years."

Semi-Petty: Celtic/medieval settings are super played-out and boring and that's part of why I can't give a shit about Dragon Age or Elder Scrolls.

iscodisco93 said:

games with only female protagonist

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I know people are giving this poster flak but I have a friend with this exact mentality and he is a really great, caring and giving person in life. It's an odd personal preference to have but it's still a preference.

Final Fantasy XV: I own this game but I keep putting off playing it because the main party is just a bunch of guys wearing black, no girls.

Cabbagehead said:

wtf

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Phantom Thief said:

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Arturo said:

This

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lol, its an odd preference i agree, i just look at the game and cant bother. i am not one of those anti-sjw weirdos though

Remember said:

I know people are giving this poster flak but I have a friend with this exact mentality and he is a really great, caring and giving person in life. It's an odd personal preference to have but it's still a preference.

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thanks

Nothing, really. I'll give any game a shot on its own merits. There's certainly genres and types of games that I don't prefer, but I wouldn't wipe out entire categories of games based on a single thing.

Text Box design and font. I'm usually down for a good budget RPG but if I look at your font and it looks like you just used whatever stock option you had I ain't buying your shit (in most cases). That you poorly drawn character portrait art.

I dont know if this qualifies, but fallout 4 because of its inventory system.

Its a loot game, and it has a list-based inventory, makes the game unbearable for me.

Buddy Mcpuddy said:

When they go mainstream.

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but ya got a Simpsons avi?

if I don't like the design of the main character of a game I will probably either not touch the game or have an immediate bias against it while playing it. Recent example being Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I hate how the characters look, I hate it, they look like ugly po-faced dolls but I find Rex especially vexing to look at.

Imp the Dimp said:

A game being popular turns me off

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You know HK sold 250K in its first week or two on Switch right? ;)

I hate scummy waifu crap, furry infested games that have newgrounds flash looking art that I'm certain the artist touched themselves to while drawing, and online games with famously toxic fanbases. Somehow I've miraculously continued to play Overwatch despite that last thing.

This won't be popular, but I have a hard time playing games with mute/dialogue-free main characters. I've had to turn off a lot of games that are considered "greatest of" because I would get so frustrated with the character being a stand-in for me. I know that is for some people, but a game has to really catch me in another way for me to put up with it.

I also hate lots of fan service in games. A small degree can be an aesthetic choice, but when it's daturated in it I can't stand it.

Set pieces. Which I equate to nothing more than glorified qtes.

Remember said:

I know people are giving this poster flak but I have a friend with this exact mentality and he is a really great, caring and giving person in life. It's an odd personal preference to have but it's still a preference.

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It's petty but not uncommon. The majority of players want to play as someone of the same gender and sexual orientation. Not just that but also the same race. This applies to both male and female gamers. That's why games have so many white, heterosexual male protagonists. Those are simply the bulk of the target demographic.

Hogendaz85 said:

When games feel hampered and incomplete.

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As for me, it's those multiplayer "shared worlds" like Destiny or Skull and Bones. I just want my single player game without a 14 year old kid killing me and then screaming racist stuff into the mic.

Procedural Generation.

Just put "Bad level design" in your game description instead.

Games with a very small or totally absent single player component are typically an insta-pass for me. I don't hang out with my friends very often (they all have kids and live an hour or more from me), and I just get way too aggravated playing against strangers online.

Also, rubber-band AI or CPU opponents who never make mistakes. I recently started playing Motorstorm RC on Vita again and it sucks that if you fall behind in most races, you may as well restart.

I uninstall online games now after the first time I'm called a slur in each game. I had PUBG installed for 3 hours. I had Fortnite installed for 1/2 an hour.

Kade said:

Obnoxious fanbases.

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This will get me every time. It sucks and I know I should give games a fair shake, but this can really poison the well.

In Black Desert Online, once I noticed the horrendous popin (like a foot in front of your character) I couldn't play anymore, I can't stop seeing it and it bothers me too much to play the game.

Ooh, I got a really petty one. It's so petty that I'll gladly admit how petty it is, but I'm still sticking to it.

I'm boycotting Naughty Dog until they release Jak and Daxter 2.

Not Jak 2 "Now with angst, guns, and revenge!" A proper semi-open bright and cheerful platformer like the original Jak and Daxter. No guns. No angst. No torture. And Jak's first words are not swearing bloody murder.

So I'm skipping out on Uncharted and The Last of Us and any game by Naughty Dog that is not a proper Jak and Daxter 2. They could have been truly great, but the lure of guns and angst ruined them. It's sad, they had the potential to fight Nintendo at being Nintendo, but on a Sony system.

Games with heavily anime-looking art styles.

Pretty much anything with a fanbase like Kingdom Come: Deliverance's.

Anything that touts procedural generation as a selling point instantly has me noping out. Not exactly irrational on my part though, imo.

iscodisco93 said:

games with only female protagonist

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...What?

BobZhn said:

GaaS. Always-on internet requirement.

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This

Sev said:

Games with heavily anime-looking art styles.

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avatar quote?

Morrigan said:

avatar quote?

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I'm not turned off by anything anime-looking, I actually really like a few specific art styles. It's stuff like Tales or Fire Emblem that immediately loses my interest.

Anything EA right now.

I hate lootboxes and the way they destroyed up the latest Need For Speed with that stupid card upgrade system so they can fit lootboxes in, was the last straw for me.

The only time I feel like this has genuinely (genuinely as in, actually petty, some of the reasons listed in this topic aren't necessarily what I'd consider petty) happened was with Dust: An Elysian Tale, which I didn't buy because the art gave me bad flashbacks to kinda cringey furry shit on Newgrounds

norog said:

"Crafting" in actiony games -- think Far Cry, Last of Us, Evil Within. Who actually enjoys this?

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This and entirely superfluous XP systems drive me up the fucking wall. If you aren't actually going to DO something with those systems, it's just useless padding.

When I found out that Mirror's Edge 2 did this with the abilities you had from the off in the first game, I avoided it like the plague.

got into Pokemon Go right before community day for June - quit because my log in didnt work on community day. The game kicked me out and I couldn't log back in - am 100% sure the login info was correct. was too pissed to want to play again after that

the "comedy" in Xenoblade 2 just makes me feel too old for videogames

Sev said:

I'm not turned off by anything anime-looking, I actually really like a few specific art styles. It's stuff like Tales or Fire Emblem that immediately loses my interest.

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Haha, I gotcha. I'm the same actually.

I don't make a big stink of it, but Fortnite's popularity does kind of put me off from trying it. Coworkers are always watching streams during the day and trying to get me to jump in. I would've at least given it a shot by now if it wasn't for them.

Phediuk said:

Yes we're supposed to approach every game with an open mind, give everything a fair shot, etc., but of course we don't, because we're human. In this thread, we name those things that instantly repel you from a game, even in the face of adoring fans and glowing recommendations.

For me, I'd have to say being on the DS or 3DS. Staring at the low-quality small screens strains my eyes and they hurt my hands so I hate playing games on them. I also find the touch-screen controls not fun at all.

Also, any game that attracts "waifu" discussion is an instant no.


okay, your turn.

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How is "it physically hurts me" an irrational reason not to play a game?

dark and gritty games with lackluster gameplay are a no from me dog.

Also, multiplayer only games that thrive on local interaction, like Overcooked and the jackbox games. I don't have any friends locally to make those games work, so why waste my time on them.

Drastically clashing art styles, like a "pixel art" game with smooth, vectored fonts and menus.
Golf Story and Terraria are 2 that come to mind.