Game Franchises You've Never Really Gotten Into Page 2

Started by DowntownDumpling January 6th, 2014 9:19 PM
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Posted January 21st, 2014
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9.4 Years
Hmm... I am really into only 1 game series, but I shall think!




1. Halo ( ALL!!! )
2. Mirrors Edge
3. Battlefield ( All )
4. Mass Effect ( 2,3 )
5. Fallout: New Vegas
6. Destiny ( Not yet released )
7. Titanfall ( Not yet released )
8. Assassins Creed ( All )
9. Minecraft

Spinosaurus

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Posted June 7th, 2018
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I'm not well-acquainted with most fighting game communities, one exception being that of Super Smash Bros., which I find decidedly a*shole-ish and unwelcoming. How does it compare to the others?
Smash's community is pretty divided. The Melee community is on the unwelcoming side but Brawl's is significantly better, from my experience. Dunno about 64, I never played that competitively.

Melee's is bad (and there's no signs of improving), but Street Fighter is the worst. Anime fighters, Mortal Kombat and Tekken are probably the best of them. Marvel vs Capcom 3's is pretty good as well towards newcomers.

When it comes down to it, it boils down to luck, like I said. And the forum. SRK is terrible, but I found NeoGAF (which has a lot of fighting game players) to be pretty great towards newcomers.

Incinermyn

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In a nutshell, I've just never been able to get into the following franchises, even after trying them for a while:

-Animal Crossing
-Sonic the Hedgehog
-Mario Party (and other Mario spinoffs, save for Mario Kart)
-Final Fantasy (FF VII and later)
-All First Person Shooters
-All Fighting games (except for Smash Bros. and Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo)
-All Racing games (again, except Mario Kart)
-Basically all Xbox and PlayStation Games (I don't hate them like I used to, I'm just not a fan of either console)
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-Basically all Xbox and PlayStation Games (I don't hate them like I used to, I'm just not a fan of either console)
I was like this until 2010 when I got my PS1 (and then my PS2, Sega Saturn, and Sega Game Gear over the next 1-2 years). I just hadn't had any reason to pick up a non-Nintendo console; I thought of them as equivalent to Nintendo ones but without as many first-party franchises and with a more obnoxious, "I'm so mature" player base. Per my experience, I encourage you to try some of the franchises that are like Nintendo ones, like Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper, Ratchet & Clank, and Ape Escape.
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I could never get into zelda or final fantasy games much really. In fact for some reason it's pretty difficult for me to get into games now. It'd have to be a really good game with a great storyline for me to want to play straight through it. I have no idea why I'm so picky with it now.
It's like now I'm more into games like SSB, Mario Kart, games you can just play multi player.

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Well, lets see....


Zelda (played one game but never got the point)
anything xbox or playstation related (I've ALWAYS been a Nintendo person)
Sonic the Hedgehog (I want to try it some time, I hear its about as cool as Mario)
(most) app games (I used to play these but they got really boring)
Atari ( I have a flashback 4 now but before that I hardly knew what Atari was)
Consoles (I haven't gotten a new console since I got a gamecube)
Super Smash Bros. ( I just never got the point and never got the chance to buy a game)


not much else really.
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Pokémon Games I own: Pokémon Y, Pokémon Black (Its really my brother's, but it counts) and Pokémon Blue
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Sonic the Hedgehog (I want to try it some time, I hear its about as cool as Mario)
The gameplay's very different among platformers, but yeah, I enjoy the main platformers about equally. (However, be warned that the 3D Sonic ones tend to have mild camera and positioning issues. You can get used to them, but they turn a lot of people off.) There are, however, also mad spinoffs, just like the Mario franchise has.

Atari ( I have a flashback 4 now but before that I hardly knew what Atari was)
I played Pitfall once at my college's video game club, but overall you have this experience over me. My dad had an Atari machine with Pong when he was a teenager.
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The Ace Attorney games, I've never played one. There's so many fans of the game, and I need to buy one to try it. I liked the Professor Layton games, I mean they weren't my favorite but I enjoyed them. I the Ace Attorney games are anything like the PL series then I believe I would enjoy it.

The LittleBigPlanet games. Ever since the series was released I've wanted to try the game out. I still have yet to even play the game and it''s disappointing. Shadow of Colossus, another game I want to play on PS3.

I've never played a Monster Hunter game either. The game has so much hype to it, but it never really interested me like so many other gamers. Idk why.

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Diablo series. A lot of my friends played Diablo II to death, and begrudgingly play Diablo III. Now, I do own Diablo II and III, but I never made an effort to play the games more than once.

Metroid is another series I couldn't get into. Now I don't hate Metroid, I found Metroid Fusion and Super Metroid great games. But, I never found the interest to delve into Prime or some of the other iterations.

Puddle

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There's a ton, but a big one is Zelda. I got a lot of friends who play it and they reference it a lot and I have no clue what they are talking about. Zelda came with my GameCube when I first got it, but I never really played cause I was more occupied with Mario and Pokemon at the time.

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There's a ton, but a big one is Zelda. I got a lot of friends who play it and they reference it a lot and I have no clue what they are talking about. Zelda came with my GameCube when I first got it, but I never really played cause I was more occupied with Mario and Pokemon at the time.
Gotta agree with you here. I've played most of the entries into the series but, never really got into it/enjoyed them XD
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Fire Emblem
Grand Theft Auto
Kirby
Phoenix Wright

I'll just name these as of now.

All of the above except for Kirby is because I don't really have any interest in them. Kirby, I'd give it a try but when i wanna buy a game, I'd rather buy a game I know I'm going to enjoy, hence why i don't play Kirby often.
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-Legend of Zelda - I just never got to into the newer games. I quite like the old ones, though, and Link Between Worlds was quite good.

-Super Smash Bros. - Tourneytards ruined this game for me. Plus, I just never liked it too much, I'm more a Street Fighter guy myself.

-Kirby - I remember playing Super Star Ultra for DS in 6th grade. That's about it.

-Kingdom Hearts - I personally think the character design is atrocious, and I never liked Disney. At all.

-Animal Crossing - I have it for GCN, but I never really got into it.

-Sonic the Hedgehog - I hate the fanbase, and I've always been more of a Mario guy.
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Most of the major Nintendo franchises (sans Pokemon) have fallen under this category for me, since I've never owned any of the Nintendo home consoles to this day. I even own a limited edition gold Zelda DS Lite, but haven't played any of the games in the series for anymore than 5 or 10 minutes.

Another one is that I hate first person games (not just first person shooters, but any first person game in general). Two major non-FPS games that come to mind include Minecraft and The Elder Scrolls, even though I know both of those can include third-person options. Something about a first-person camera seems so unnatural to me, especially when your character is performing actions with their floating arms.
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Not counting franchises from the Playstation or Xbox (since I don't own any of those other than a PS2 and PSP), I never really got into Dragon Quest. Everyone talks so highly of it, but I'm just not down with that art.

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I never did get into Legend of Zelda. I keep thinking I should pick it up, but I just never do. The only game I have played of that series is Twilight Princess, and I really enjoyed it, so maybe I should... eventually.
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9.3 Years
League of Legends. A good portion of my friends play League and are already too good to invest time in helping me ;__; That and I'm more of a MMORPG fan than a MOBA. Devil May Cry, Super Smash Bros., and pretty much all those other fighting games are not the type of genre I would play continuously. Basically the only major franchises that I'm interested in are: Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts.

Sydian

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I never got into MMORPG and FPS franchises, so things like WoW and Call of Duty aren't something you'd see me playing. I did, however, enjoy the Halo franchise up until Halo III, but that was mainly for plot, not for gameplay. I also like Bioshock, but I haven't played anything past the first.

I also never got into Metroid, but that's mainly because I'm 90% sure I would be terrible at it...but I'm terrible with almost every game I touch, so...there's that. Never got into Sonic. I have the first game downloaded on my Wii, but I'm terrible. The fanbase for it is really...strange too. Except for Lilith. Sonic fan of the year tbh.

Thankfully, I'm now getting into the games I missed out as a kid. I had a GameCube in favor of a PS2, and I got my PS2 in 09, and now I'm working on my library of games for it. So I've recently gotten into Jak and Daxter (obviously...and playing favorites with it hehehe), Ratchet and Clank, and Sly Cooper.

I never really got into the Sly Cooper series because I feel like there is a small rivalry between Sly Cooper and Ratchet and Clank and I have always been on "Team Ratchet" I guess.
Really? That's interesting. They're not really similar, though. I've already beaten Sly Cooper, and I'm not far into R&C, but from what I've played, I wouldn't relate the two at all. If anything, Ratchet and Clank seems more similar to Jak and Daxter.
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Animal Crossing, I know so many people that play this game, I bought one just because I kept hearing all about it and how fun it would be but I ended up hating it and barely touched it, I didn't really find myself drawn into it at all.

Zelda for me is something that everyone tells me is amazing but I have played a few and only ever ended up completing the Latest one, they were alright games but I just didn't like the feel of them personally.

Finally Halo, I had heard so much good things about this game so when I first got an xbox I picked it up straight away and... returned it the very next day. I hated the playstyle, the multiplayer, the story, I litterally couldn't find a single thing about the game that i could honestly say I enjoyed, it wasn't the sort of game I enjoy. I don't mind some games set in space and such but for me this was totally not what I expected from the game.

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Well.. a lot of things. Mario, Zelda (though I'm trying to remedy that and have purchased the newest 3DS game), Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts (trying to remedy as well as I got KH DDD), any shooter game because blech, fighting games because blech, and many more. I'm very, very out of the game loop. ;<

Spinosaurus

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Posted June 7th, 2018
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14.1 Years
Daaaamn at all the Zelda mentions here.
Well.. a lot of things. Mario, Zelda (though I'm trying to remedy that and have purchased the newest 3DS game), Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts (trying to remedy as well as I got KH DDD), any shooter game because blech, fighting games because blech, and many more. I'm very, very out of the game loop. ;<
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I feel strong indifference to most Mario platformers. The only non rpg Mario game I have fond memories of is Super Mario Sunshine.

I'm starting to head this way with Legend of Zelda games too actually, the last Zelda game I got was Skyward Sword but I don't think I came anywhere close to finishing it....I ended up rage quitting at that Spirit hide & seek game.

Metroid and Starfox don't really appeal to me either (although I haven't played games in the series apart from the metroid ambassador game) Also games like Halo or Call of Duty have never appealed to me.

Also most fighting games (apart from Smash Bros) although I enjoyed Soul Calibur 2 I never played another game in the series. It was a sad 3ds launch day when the most interesting game was Street Fighter 4.....

Professor Layton would be another, I got the first two games and they were alright....I realised that I never got anything from the second game that was different to the first....so I haven't bothered since.

Edit: I feel so indifferent to the Donkey Kong games that I forget to mention them.
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