What genre produces generally the most annoying games?

I pick JRPGs because of stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNauq6_9iP0

you can pretty much ignore that Video button on toolbar and just go ahead and post the link to the video.

But I'm gonna say stealth games. Now, games that feature stealth aren't so bad, but the ones that force you into it...

Stealth mechanics are woefully dated. Vision cones are moronic. Evil corporations should probably consider glaucoma tests before hiring their security. But I suppose they all make up for it with their hive-mind communication abilities, allowing a guard that spots you to communicate your position instantaneously to everyone in the room without so much as a word. Also, a room of dead bodies was never "just the wind," so you might want to keep checking instead of shutting the alarm off. And further more, double up your security and have them stay in contact (you know, like real security)...no more of this "hey, Murray, I'm gonna check this completely dark and secluded part of the room alone while you go off in the opposite direction..."

shitty, shitty genre.

@Pffrbt: You beat me to it.

@Ish_basic: I think you're expecting too much realism in what's designed to be a game.

oh, I see. Lymle.

I don't think so, considering such narrow vision cones only exist in the stealth genre. Go back to MGS2 and you have AI that had to actually communicate to others your presence, giving you the opportunity to take them down before they could get their walkie out. And then there's Hitman 2 - once you blow your cover the whole place goes on alert and doesn't come down until you're dead. The AI will actually change routines. For example, they might try to usher the VIP to safety, which you can sometimes use to your advantage. So the technology is there, but no one puts it together. We just accept crap like Splinter Cell. That's the problem, not technology.

First person shooters, especially those of the military variety. They're filled with tired cliches of macho cowboys and gung-ho tough guys, over-dramatic shouting and Michael Bay explosions.

RPGs.

because of Artificial Everything ! Its Glorified Make Believe.

*blindsided*

just being honest. Can't sit through another skill check.

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Racing games

what's more annoying than MMORPG(aka Social Genre)? I'm sure that I've seen this more often than the others.I could have gone mad if I was to play a game like that,they're harder than I thought it would be
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public reasons why I say this is that they have dumb and sometimes long quest. the way gamers played this genre could be more dangerous than an ordinary RPG gamer + you need the respective game's account to play it,sucks so bad,it's a fortunate I live in an "offline" realm.

to top it off,have you got a bad pet peeve with the shipload of chats? that's your answer right there,the chats pushed away concentration,which is undeniably 100% annoying.

I know "indie games" isn't a genre but there are some games that you look at and play them and just go, 'yeah this is an indie game.' Games like that annoy me. I can't really think of a particular genre that is annoying. Not using that exact word. There is something redeemable in every genre.

Movie tie-ins

Fighting Games, especially the 2-D ones like old school Tekken, Mortal Kombat, etc. I don't want to spend months learning the combos, only to be ousted by the AI or human opponent because I missed the timing of the trigger button of the 8x combo kick.

@Ish_basic:

I think the stealth genre is one that heavily regressed last generation. There were a couple stand out titles, but most of the dedicated stealth games abandoned their audience in favor of attracting a larger crowd. I think Hitman: Absolution and Splinter Cell Blacklist were fine games, but they were a far cry from the previous generation's outings.

Apparently, after the almost entirely negative reaction the gameplay footage, the guys developing the new Thief game have made it more traditional. We'll have to see how that plays out, because Thief used to be exceptional.

So I'd agree with the stealth genre, but I'm going to have cast my vote to JRPGs. I enjoy a lot of them, but there's a loooot of shit in that genre that's too tough to ignore.

Fighting games and JRPG´s.

I'd have to agree about JRPG's, but stealth games are up there for me too mostly because so many of them suffer from poor mechanics.

@Ish_basic: My favorites are the ones where the enemy openly spots you or you hurt them, and 5 seconds later they're like, "It must have been my imagination" before going back to relaxed guarding. I mean, really?

FPS's because 90% of them are carbon copies and extremely generic

lol that JRPG example provided by TC gave me pedo vibes, something dreamt up by a sick mind. Anyways..... JRPGs definitely.

At least she's dressed. Meracle (same game) is worse...scantily clad cat girl that looks like she's about 12. However all this pales to the Elins in Tera, which despite years of watching anime genuinely disturb me.

Just say for a start I hated Star Ocean because of that blatant pedophile crap it had going on with that character. I was ok with the cat girl not that i'm into furies (she's technically not classes as a furry anyway) I mean she's the games sultry character who your not surprised to find your character waking up next to after a hard session, but that seemingly 8 year old girl.. Flirting and putting herself into weird uncomfortable situations with the male characters barley short of asking them to stick their cock up her ass in any scene she's on the ship, made me want to puke on my console.

Also having played that game I can recall another weird moment where one character dresses as a school girl and flirts to you by calling you her "big brother". Fucking sick bastards.

Now for the topic.

JRPG.

Not for the same reasons, but because they tend to go OTT when it comes to difficult side bosses. I am pissed off trying to do any of the coliseum bosses in FF-13-2. They are impossible. No one has ever beaten them, no one, anyone who said they has are just saying that to make themselves sound cool, you didn't it's freaking impossible without some sort of cheat. U-Tube vids are all fake they never done it, it's all a lie.

Seriously, I don't get it. You max yourself out, you do everything your meant to, you follow a strategy guide as your unable to do it yourself but the guide itself seems to be living in some alternative reality. An example is one boss that spawns about 8 additional monsters, it recommends you go into a full offensive pattern to take them out fast, then focus on the big one. It seems to fail to realise that by going all out offence and dropping all form of defense, even at max level and gear one or two of your characters will get instantly wiped out by the sheer damage of an alpha strike of 10 mini end game additionals focusing all out on them.

Total crap.

I had to give up on it as it's just ridiculous I don't understand what i'm missing and I've tried almost everything. Only a JRPG can do this, but sometimes it goes beyond changeling and feels like bad design or masochist.

all "retro" indie crappy 8 bit looking games. they really annoy me. its 2014 and i don't want to be playing games that look worse then games on the nintendo 30 years ago.

Its lazy untalented people making games and classifying them as retro to justify their garbage gameplay and graphics... ya 30 years ago it was ok, actually probably very hard to make a game when you think of the primitive tools they had to use to program for games back then. Now all the backbone of programming tools are out there, graphics, even the physics, and yet they make these garbage games.

Theres almost too many AAA games out there to play, why waste time playing ugly, terrible playing "retro" garbage looking games. Flooding the game space with garbage throw away games really bugs me, reminds me of the Atari and Commodore days where pretty much every game was unplayable.

Lol wut. No fighting games? Then get a 3DS or a Wii U already, why you guys playing Battlefield. -.-

Sir, you have spoken my mind exactly about the recent resurgence of "retro" games. I think the last count was 50 billion hip cool retro platform jumping games, and they are ALL truly original and innovative (if today was 1982).

For me, the most over-done genre is first person shooters. Everyone and their mothers have a first person shooter that is completely original in the way you walk into a room and shoot things in the face. After that, the story takes you to another kind of room where you have to shoot more things in the face. The truly emotional and epic moment comes when you shoot a boss in the face in a forest environment. Seriously, there aren't that many things to shoot in the face before I get super bored. I think that's why I don't really finish many games anymore. I play for a few hours and then get kind of bored. Only open world games like Skyrim or DayZ or GTA can keep me entertained.

Well its not really a genre but its in a lot of games. Games that try and make the female characters look as slutty as possible.
In Devil May Cry 4:

In the cutscenes they made it look like she didn't even have underwear when doing flips lol. A lot of guys may like that shit but its just stupid fan service to me. I think it's cool when they're dressed up showing some cleavage but wearing clothes that make them look good instead of trashy. Like Trish, also in Devil May Cry.

Probably because most "AAA" games are incredibly mindless and generic and boring.

@-paranorman- said:

Well its not really a genre but its in a lot of games. Games that try and make the female characters look as slutty as possible.

In Devil May Cry 4:

That character design is awesome. I should play DMC4 some day.

Military FPS games.

I don't know why whenever a young girl is in a game, there are always people claiming "pedo, pedo!" even when they're not portrayed in any sexual fashion at all. It kind of seems more like a reflection of the accuser's own perverted mind more than anything else, in most cases.

lol nice try, it's not about young girls in games, more about the dialogue going on in there which can be interpreted as a bit funny and maybe a tad disgusting to a normal person, and some humour might do you good.

but we can all agree that exhibit A: click for a screenshot from Tera is over the top, no? That's an elin and it only comes in female. There are a lot of other races in the game and generally it was very common to hear people call Elin users pedos. And check this particular character's name...so you've got a guy playing a toon that looks like this....that doesn't creep you out?

Maybe it's just western sensibilities, but Elins made a lot of people who played and enjoyed that game uncomfortable. Rightfully so, I think. If you want to dress your adult characters up like that, fine, but depicting pre-pubescent bodies like that is disturbing.

There's a free to play Korean/Japanese MMO on Steam where the entire premise for the game was that people crash landed on a planet that turned them all into children for the sole purpose of trying to justify why there's a bunch of children running around in skimpy clothing doing perverted emotes. It's called Dragon Nest and it's creepy.

Eastern culture is just different from that of the West. They seem to not take stuff so seriously as others. As long as there's no blatant sexually explicit situations then what's left is just imagination from the eye of the beholder. If stuff like that bothers people, they should just flat out steer clear of that kind of content.

FPS, because almost no one manages to tell an interesting story and only have the multplayer that's interesting. But Sports game can be annoying as hell because nothing changes with most of them

Annoyance is highly subjective

They do the same thing with the Elin race, using lore to justify half-naked 8 year-old girl models in their game. Every time someone would call out an Elin user in general chat, they'd say something like, "but they're 200 year old tree spirits!" Right, and I'm sure that's why you picked one.

Just the fact that the devs are using lore to rationalize these depictions shows a guilty conscious. So there's clearly no cultural gap in their understanding of the issue; they just know they can get away with it in Japan/Korea.

Either JRPGs because I find their characters all the same, whiny and stories are slow and more of a chore to get through or military FPSs in which the Russians are invading and it's up to 'Murica to save the world from the once democratic, turned back to communist (god knows why) soviets. It talks for itself.

Thanks Mr. Obvious, do you have anything to add to the topic? What genre do you think has the most annoying games?

@Pffrbt said:

I pick JRPGs because of stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNauq6_9iP0

The most annoying genre is multiplaye genre, fps, moba´s

Pffrbt

Usually games that have "Tactical Espionage Action" in the title.

Yep JRPGs wins the cake.....slow...boring....asinine......convoluted.....and did I mentioned Slow, Boring and Asinine?

I'd rather play fast, mindless FPS games JUST TO HAVE FUN, over any Jrpgs any day, any time. I'm sorry, I just cannot possibly get into that Genre.

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Why.