(Discussion) Game Series That You Avoid - Retro Bird
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.พ. 2022
- We all know about the game series that people go out of their way to make sure they play. But what about the game series that you intentionally avoid?
Game Series That You Avoid - Retro Bird / Game Franchises That You Will Not Play
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Pretty much any series that has a high reliance on online play. I like to play by myself, thanks much.
I'm the same way, however another reason I dont like the whole online gaming thing is no more couch co-OP 2 player games :/
@Level1Sword Yeah, games that focus too much on being online will eventually become unplayable, so why bother?
Some peoplw online are rude and expect yoiu to play a certain way. For MMOs you often need to join a party to level up quicker but they have clans and rules that the clans make up and sometimes it's way too strict and not fun at all. I end up going solo sometimes and jump in for big boss fights. 👍
the only games that have multiplayer that i will play that component is if it has a bot mode
i firmly believe every game with multiplayer in some form should have a bot mode (especially if online-heavy/only so its like a backup plan when the servers eventually go off)
I made the mistake once of trying to play and understand the story of the Kingdom Hearts games. I am still slightly traumatized.
If you don't go past the very first game, you might be okay. Beyond that you're cruisin' for a bruisin'.
@@RetroBirdGaming Yeah, Kingdom Hearts is just far too complex for me to bother with it. I like games I can just jump into without any prior knowledge of the series. Disgaea 5 Complete may be the 5th game but it had a completely separate storyline from the previous games. Though, those previous game characters can be unlocked later.
Also, Etrian Odyssey (the main ones and not Untold) don't require me to play them in order.
I think the 2nd one is a must play too. Most of the spin-offs are more of a headache in comparison.
There's actually quite a few games you can skip, as they are explained well enough throughout the main games. The only "necessary" ones are I would say Birth by Sleep, 1, Chain of Memories, 2, and 3. There's a plot point between 2 and 3, but instead of playing a 50 hr game to learn it, just read 4 paragraphs.
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Resident evil. I love the designs of all the monsters in the promotional art, but if one was chasing me, I think my heart would collapse on itself 😅
As a big fan of the Resident Evil series I will say that RE7 is the most tense out of the latest games in the series so definitely wait with that one if you have a hard time with horror games. If you are new, I highly recommend either Resident Evil 2 remake or Resident Evil Village depending on if you prefer third person or first person. RE Village is generally forgiving on Standard difficulty offering a generous amount of ammunition, but does also have an even easier casual difficulty. RE2 is slightly tougher on standard than Village, but very manageable, but also has a casual/assisted difficulty mode for beginners.
In RE2 you also have the option to play as Leon or Claire, I would suggest Claire as her Campaign does have a few things that make it slightly easier compared to Leon.
TLDR: I ragequit the demo of the OG RE2 back in the day and thought that was that, but thankfully went back after having mastered tank controls by borrowing RE1 from my brother. After mastering the demo, I was hooked on RE and was a fan for life :)
RE4 is the best one
I love RPGs but generally avoid them these days. Being married with a full time career and two young kids pretty much guarantees that I don’t have enough time for them. I really want to play the Xenoblade Chronicles series but and just too intimidated by the time commitment.
PLAY XENOBLADE
Ahh The Kid and wife story. Cool. Yeah I pretty much don't have time to play all these games since I work 40 hours a week. So when I come home I want to play something quick that'll take 1 hour of my time.
Yeah long games like that are weird, play multiple good short to medium sized games or one giant game? Choices choices choices
I like turn-based RPGs because I feel like a lot of them let you put the game down for a day at a time and come back to it, and you are not in active time battles so you can set the game down mid-battle. Any game that doesn't rely on save points to save your game is a huge plus for me.
Xenoblade is really good you should try it, cutscenes may be long. But you can save anywhere you want.
It's a 70h long game in the worst cases like me, it's long for sure. It's a one in a life time experience.
One word: Fortnite.
Also, World of Warcraft. It is a game I remember that EVERYBODY was playing. I myself have never played a minute of it and I do not regret it. I did enjoy the first Warcraft game in the '90s though. But I was more of an Age of Empires 2 kind of guy...
I played WoW once and then got immediately annoyed. I had the same feeling when I played Watch Dogs. It's just gross feeling for me.
I'm currently playing age of empires 2 definitive edition myself lol
Your comedy and delivery is on point. Great content!
Thank you!
As the guy who owns Sonic jam would say, I'm not an RPG guy
Only just found your channel and looked back at all the titles of your videos. Unbelievable. That's me sorted for a month ! You're are really good at this dude.
Thank you and welcome to the channel!
I always love watching the retrobird he is always so comical and always have the funny dad vibe every loves.
I typically avoid the Gran turismo series, I never really liked the gameplay, and as a kid who has devoted at least more than 5 summers to Burnout 3…I’d say I like the hectic and chaotic racers vs gran turismo and forza. But that’s just racing games, I tend to also steer clear of halo.
You should give Forza Horizon 3 and Forza Horizon 4 a chance if you haven’t done so already.
Understandable. Uses to love them but each entry past 4 got worse for me as well as the saving nonsense that while makes sense applies to 1% so online aerveyto avoid avaing annoys me now and my PSP save file is gone due to 'swapping handhelds even with the same memory card even if upgrading your PSP brings up a deletion message when on memory cards for PS2 it was still fine to take your save or garage with you'. 3 has my favourite handling/physics so it's always a replay for me but otherwise the direction and gimmicks never interest me anymore. 6 was alright but even still and Sport is a disappointment. Driveclub I didn't mind but it's not the same and MotorStorm is a bit awkward to play (at least the first one). I mean that State of Play and track ruining changes I've seen told me everything I needed to know for the lead up to the game and how they want to market a circuit racing game to everyone compared to story driven games which to me is hilarious marketing compared to Forza Horizon which is accessible to anyone and I'm not a Motorsport fan but enjoy a good racing but switched to arcade racing games now and most of racing sims are fine but on PC or don't do it for me. Forza is fine, not played Assetto Corsa, Grid Legends I hope redeems itself as Grid 2019 was safe and boring for a simcade..Gravel was alright arcade rally fun and WRC/Formula 1 are on and off ok for sims but don't care for the licenses or teams compared to how other racing games are structured. Had more fun with Ridge Racer, Project Gotham Racing 1-4 and WipEout/F Zero type futuristic racing games. Fine with the few bike games played. Stuntman and Stuntman Ignition are cool spins on driving and Juiced is an alright street racing experience for arcade racing besides Midnight Club or Need For Speed.
Burnout Paradise wasn't my thing as I kept getting worse at the map design in later events and not into open world's personally, the city wasn't memorable or great to navigate I found so hoping to get into 1-3 if I can find them.
I'm the same, I never understood the popularity of that series. Any driving game in general really such as Forza games. I'm not much of a driving game or fighting game type. Halo I definitely never got into back then so I completely avoid it and pretend it doesn't exist. I like shooters but mostly oldschool ones. Not a fan of scifi shooters though unless it's Metroid Prime because that game is more about exploration.
Yeah realistic racers are more like driving sims. Nothing wrong with that, it appeals to car enthusiasts. My idea of a racing game is more like Cruisin, Mario Kart, Snowboard Kids, Daytona USA, Diddy Kong Racing, ect. It has to be fun, especially with mutiplayer. I also like Star Wars Episode 1 Racer despite the tracks being insanely long. 😂
I used to be into the Gran Turismo games, but those darn races that take hours to complete made me quit. Also Burnout 3 is always a fun one to come back too :)
Funny you talk about the premium free time comes with adulthood. My wife and I were literally just talking about this. I was sharing my discontent with the sheer level of grinding and hours it takes to progress in Elden Ring. I have to push myself to stay awake for "late night" sessions. I can only play for about 2 or 3 hours per session with a couple occurrences a week. So at 4-6 hours a week on a soulsborne game, it'll take the entirety of 2022 to see through to fruition.
Interesting retrospective. My stance is definitely in alignment with this.
I usually avoided the first three Final Fantasy games on the famicom because I read that they are very buggy, I then played them a few years later and boy oh boy I love them now.
This is the story of my gaming life and the reason why I haven’t played most popular RPGs.
Keep the grind Retro Bird love watching your content in my early morning shift while drinking my coffee
I think the Ys series would fit this bill for me. I think I would have liked them if I played them growing up. But now there's too many of them and so many versions of each game plus spin-offs that I'm just going to have to accept that the Ys ship set sail without me long ago.
I really enjoyed the first three games when they came out in the 16 bit era, but there was a huge gap in time in North America between those games and later releases. At this point, I don't know where to jump back in.
you can still get into it as stories tend to be contained with each game. the only constant is the protag adol. go for the most modern ones first to see if you like them, with ys viii, ix and memories of celceta.
While technically not a series, I avoid 3D games for 3 general Reasons:
1) I don’t have much free time and 3D games are much more demanding than 2D games
2) i hate feeling lost
3) awkward controls (possibly because I didn’t grow up with 3D games, and 2D games feel more natural)
I play mostly fps and difficult 2d platformers, the occasional fighting game. My recent ones have been Sonic Mania, Cuphead and Megaman 11. Unless the 3d platformer is linear like DMC 5 or Control, I get bored easily. I started Witcher 3 and started hyperventilating.
I like 2D games WAY more, I get that. A lot of times I will be shopping for a game and I see that's 3D and I just skip over it because I prefer 2D indie retro style games most of the time. I'm also really bad at spotting things in 3D and controlling a character in a 3D environment which has a lot to do with it.
4th reason terrible camera angles. You can't tell if you are jumping on an enemy.
@Conner I grew up with both 3D and 2D games but I played mostly 3D games when I was younger. Not all 3D games make you feel lost! Ever Oasis and Gurumin 3D are two really fun games on the 3DS. You could also pick up a Story of Seasons game because those are always nice. Controls being awkward in 3D games is probably because of the whole 8-directional movement system which isn't that bad. Wind Waker has excellent game controls! There's a game out there for everyone. Be sure to play A Hat in Time if you want buttery smooth controls!!! It's one of my favourite games.
@@Hauntaku I am glad I can look up these games you said. These are mostly RPG's you recommended except for A Hat in time. That one seems like the best one out of these games you mentioned.
The Souls games. Not because they're bad, I just physically can't play them (they give me motion sickness.)
I get that, the camera moves super fast and a few of the games have motion blur you can’t turn off for some reason. Some of the games even have a choppy look when you move the camera too. It’s a series Ik I especially can’t touch if I have a headache that day lol
Interesting. I never thought of this before.
@Garnet Yeah, if a game has too much motion blur and I can't turn it off somehow then I can't play it.
Shin Megami Tensei. It's a series that has always intrigued me, but I know that if I'm starting it I'd want every game in the series.
And the prices for it just scare me off way too much to start collecting it at this point.
I avoid Assassins Creed like a house full of spiders. The games are bland, uninteresting revamp over revamp and I cannot understand how the series continued after Black Flag.
I never played any of the ac games until Valhalla... Cuz of the vikings theme... I enjoyed it, but I understand why people dislike the new ones. I'm curious to try out the other games. So far I dipped into Odyssey for a hour or so not sure if I like the combat tho.
@@b4rs629 That's ecactly why I don't play Assassin's Creed. I was really excited for Black Flag cause of the golden age of piracy and that was pretty cool but any other game is just revamp over revamp.
Green shirt!
I avoid online games where you play against/with people you don't know. And I tend to avoid games where your teammates can "actually die" and not return, it gives me a lot of stress and anxiety.
I never play with people I don't know. I play online games with my friends.
@jeroes Yeah, but some games like Denpa Men 3 have optional permadeath.
Pokémon. They’ve gotten absurdly expensive given how ubiquitous it is and I feel like once you’ve played one version you’ve pretty much played them all.
Also, most RPGs and all modern first person shooters
Arceus is different though, that's why it's the first Pokemon game I bought since Diamond on the Nintendo DS. As somebody who's not a big pokémon fan, I would highly recommend it if you like Pokemon but just want something a bit different than what they normally do.
Once you have thoroughly played emerald, you can die satisfied.
Definitely feels odd to see games that sold so many copies be as expensive as they are. Pokemania!
@@xenos_n. Hey, if you like PLA then that's fine for you. I prefer BDSP.
@@RetroBirdGaming Pokemon games always sell pretty well, and the newest Pokemon games look pretty sweet. Though, I won't buy the new game unless it's good enough for my collection. I've been trying to cut back on buying new games. I've set a limit per year. I think 5 games a year is the most I can afford but I want to limit myself even more.
That games to play song is how I felt about Mega Man for a long time though I do really enjoy the series
Not the most enamored over most shooters or horror games unless they have a good story or bring an interesting and intuitive gameplay mechanic to the table. I'm open to trying almost anything at least once, but I don't often go out of my way for them, and even if I do, I rarely play them.
I'm not a big fan of modern FPSs either because they're too realistic and I don't get pleasure out of shooting other people. I'm less adverse to shooting demons, etc though...
I also tend to avoid horror games because they really get to me these days. I love old skool titles like RE2 though. I guess I was made of harder stuff when I was younger. :)
@@IcePakOG Splatoon used to be good back when the internet play was free.
@@Hauntaku I'm a big fan of the original game. Never played it online, though.
@@IcePakOG Obviously, a lot of games were bad with the low quality internet and new players just screwing around but it was still pretty fun. One game, I had a team of three players but the enemy team was just one player. We all grouped up (including the enemy) and just press the hop and splat button a bunch until the timer ran out.
Another game, I used the absolute worst sniper in the game (the bamboozler) and was the MVP for my team. I got a ton of splats.
I've been avoiding the Assassins creed games because I dont wanna jump into the middle of the story but donnt like the first game.
I also avoid most 1st person shooters... I just suck at them and don't enjoy the experience of flailing the camera around trying to hit some speedy fuck.
Also, nearly anything rogue-like is a no for me.
@Erick Trust me, those games are overrated. You aren't missing too much.
Just Dance and Guitar Hero are all that come to mind for me. Everything else I’ll give a shot but will usually call it before long if it’s not fun to me
Like others have mentioned, I do avoid FromSoftware games. I've given a couple of them a shot and couldn't get into them, I think I will most likely give the series a shot again in the future, but I doubt I'll change my mind. Nothing against people that really enjoy that series of course!
I avoided Bravely Default because I hated the demo. The game is pretty though.
I didn't pay them much mind until I played Elden Ring...4 times. Now I've started up Demon's Souls and plan on also playing the Dark Souls trilogy and Sekiro (wish Bloodborne was on PC). Although my favorite From Software series now is Armored Core which is my "why didn't I play these games sooner" series. I went from not really paying From Software much mind to absolutely loving the studio. Can't wait for Armored Core 6 and the Elden Ring DLC.
I try to avoid companies for example Activision and EA and their series's. Cool video. ^_^
The only good EA games are MySims. Just get the PC version of the original MySims, the Wii versions of MySims Kingdoms and MySims Agents, and then pick up MySims Party for the Wii if you want a fun party game. MySims Racing is okay but I wouldn't recommend it and I specified the console for these games because some console versions are bad.
I played a lot of starcraft when it came out. I always enjoyed the "use map settings" games. They tend to keep the game more fresh than just the regular, build a base, attack everyone kind of play through.
Pokemon, COD, Assassins Creed, Farcry, Halo, Forza, Gran Turismo, God of War and a lot more
1:55 youve got pipes!! you should sing more often!
Thank you for that :)
Always solid content man appreciate it
Thank you!
I'm still working up the nerve to start Kingdom Hearts. I have the whole series across 3 PS4 discs, but it's A LOT of games!
Love your content man!!
For me it has to be Zelda. As a Nintendo fan and collector it doesn't make much sense why I wouldn't like their most acclaimed series that much but for me the games are just too boring and frustrating. I've given the series plenty of chances but I felt that way 20 years ago and I still feel the same way about it today. It's so easy to get stuck or not know where to go or what to do. It feels like you almost need a guide to progress through the game unless you already know what you're doing and where everything is. I'm okay with using guides and walkthroughs SOMETIMES but if you have to rely on them constantly I feel it defeats the purpose of a video game. In many other games you get stuck as well, but usually you have a good idea of what you need to do. Or you're just not executing things properly and need more practice. In Zelda if you get stuck then you're stuck and there isn't much fun to be had unless you are progressing forward with the story and different abilities and what not. You wonder aimlessly with not much to do.
I feel the exact same way, but breath of the wild greatly improved on the Zelda formula, but it is still Zelda and many of the things about Zelda that annoy me are still there. It's an excellent game, but I've never been good with puzzles and I always wished I could like Zelda more. The great thing about breath of the wild is that the puzzles are not huge dungeons like they had always been and they are really shrunken down, but I've still had to use a guide on quite a few of them but they're not nearly as tedious.
Yeah this is a main problem with all Zelda games. You get to a point where they don't know where to go, you have no idea that you're supposed to do something before advancing to point B & you are wondering around a lot.?
I have a love/hate relationship with Zelda. Most of the hate is for the you need a guide reason. A Link to the Past I didn't need one, but Minish Cap it was practically every 5 minutes. Breath of the Wild over a 200 hour long playthrough I looked something up maybe half a dozen times total. Wind Waker by the end I was using it as a crutch trying to find the Tingle Charts, how to get the camera, and especially trying to find and then get on the ghost ship. They either get it really right in terms of what to do or get it 100 percent wrong. The consistency in that regard is extremely frustrating.
@@chaospoet yeah I kind of gave up on minish cap for that reason.. majora is a tough one for me as well. I’ve had a good time with every other Zelda game tho
@@megamob5834 I've never played Majoras Mask but I've heard since it came out it can be a huge pain. I've avoided on reputation. I may just try it one day and see for myself but not any time soon. Minish Cap I got to the final boss, and phase 2 of 3 and it's so ridiculous, probably the hardest Zelda boss fight, that I just gave up and TH-camd the ending. A bit lackluster after all the effort. Wasn't worth the hassle of trying over and over again just to say I beat it. I got to the end boss. That's good enough for me. Especially in that game.
Any **FromSoftware** game.
To suffer in 2D games is one thing (just look at the username, huh huh) but to suffer in 3D feels even worse to me because it's way more complex in my experience and I like to relax somewhat after coming home from work.
Also **almost every 3D Zelda** (with exception for Wind Waker) because I get lost easily and often have no clue on how to solve a dungeon which easily makes me lose interest if there are better games to play.
Square Enix RPGs too because I don't like the grinding aspect.
And Yakuza because it feels like there is a million games.
OoT and WW are the best 3D Zelda games! The best 2D Zelda games are LA, OoA/S, and aLttP.
Though, MC and 4S are great too!
Yakuza is good, give it a try. Everything you need to go in a map is marked, it's hard to get lost.
You just focus in fights and enjoy the story, it's a good time.
Terran is the best in StarCraft.
Love the channel
I appreciate your commitment to the song sir lol
First off, that "games to play" song made me legitimately LOL. I've currently put 40 hours into Elden Ring at the moment & am far from finished, since this game is a project I'm considering sprinkling in some other games (primarily retro).
I can't say there's a series I purposely avoid due to self control, but Shenmue is something I tried & wasn't for me. Also speaking of StarCraft, it was a huge game for me back in the day (I loved it & was the first game I preordered actually) but I tried replaying it when the remaster came out & I couldn't enjoy it anymore since it's too slow. Maybe again one day when I feel like I have more time.
Speaking of games to play, I just purchased all 7 Yakuza games (already beat Like A Dragon) & I can't wait to play them all in 2023.
I also avoid Assassins Creed. Tried the first one and then 2 and 4 which I heard were the best. Total snoozefest.
Tend to avoid most RPGs due to their lengths. Just not enough time in a day.
Really good use of funny jump cuts 😂
i can definitely relate to playing starcraft back in the heyday, with and without cheats, and then suddenly stopping. Considering i play maybe 2 games i year, i would say that i actively avoid all games. maybe when the kids are older i'll have more time to play, lol. i just collect... feeding the beast, filling the bottomless pit.
You should look into a singing career! You brighten my day!
I usually avoid games with one hit death. It can take alot of practice to get good at those kind's of games.
So mostly airplane shooters like r type & afterburner. Contra, Sonic 1-2, & Wonder Boy.
love ur channel even though Im not a gamer, really funny
Hot Take: I played Bioshock for 1 hour then fell off it because I wasn’t invested enough into it. I can tell I would love it but never got to it.
Sometimes you just need to wait some time before picking it back up again. I couldn't get into Doom 2016 at launch but tried it again in 2018, and it just clicked. Loved it, beat it on multiple systems.
Time heals all wounds.
That was definitely with me and the Tomb Raider franchise. I tried 1 and 2 for a little bit. Took some time to spend playing other games, but then went into Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, and it suddenly just clicked. Now I’m a huge fan of the classic CORE Design titles
Yeah I avoided those series as well when I played 10 min of the 1st game.
It happens. I remember playing this game called the takeover and had a similar experience, on that particular occasion I was bored and wanted to do something else but couldn’t so I played that and left me in a sort of bad mood. Stuff happens
Bioshock is a game I'd love to give a shot one day. The early part of that PS3/360 generation is where I missed some of the notable games of the time.
Games that I avoid…
Call of Duty series (except playing with others)
Maddens past the OG XBOX/PS2/GameCube era (except for Madden 10-12 for PS3 and 360)
NBA 2K’s after 2K17
Pokémon (Never could get into it)
Assassin’s Creed
When games get too samey then they lose their luster.
Pokemon, Final Fantasy (I used to play them but not anymore). Most JRPGs and and pretty much all live-services.
"live service" is a fancy term for "game that nobody will play in a few years"
God of War, Gears of War, Dragon Age, Saints Row, and Watchdogs are all series I’ve never even played, nor wanted to.
Ghouls N Ghosts, either on Genesis or Mame, is my favorite game that I play the most
For me its the Souls games. I own most of them but can't seem to progress through any of them without giving myself an aneurysm.
I own the first 3 souls games and I’m terrified to start playing any of them 😂 they may have to sit on the backlog a while longer before I feel up to the challenge of taking them on…
The Fire Emblem series, any Mega Man game that uses the slide mechanic, RTS games, and a bunch of 3D games in various franchises such as SMB, Castlevania, TLoZ, etc. I'm sure they're all fine games in their own right but due to no nostalgia to cling to and a lack of time it makes it difficult to get motivated to go through those games let alone any game I don't have some type of history with.
One franchise I am looking forward to getting into at some point is the Suikoden series.
I remember playing Contra with a buddy of mine back in high school. But I don’t think I’d wanna play it by myself. Dying so much would just be frustrating.
What's with Contra? Seriously I keep reading on how hard this game is. I can beat this with 3 men & no deaths.
I want to complete a Final Fantasy game at some point, but I want to focus on just the one that interest me the most. I want to complete 6 and not worry about the rest. It is the most interesting to me right now and I don't want to worry about the rest of them and the fact they would take the equivalent to 20 work weeks to complete.
I was genuinely concerned you would have gone through the entire "games to play" song
(I would have listened to the whole thing)
There's a bunch of game series I avoid because they aren't my kind of games. I don't play Fire Emblem because that type of gameplay isn't fun for me BUT I have played Disgaea 5 Complete which was actually really fun. I gave it a chance because it has interesting character designs and caught me eye. Fire Emblem just doesn't usually give me that spark.
If the market value of deviled eggs goes up I know who to blame.
I used to avoid MGS and i did the first one and absolutely loved it gonna try the next ones too.
Next series i need to get into is resident evil
I love Mario,Metroid and Zelda and will collect most of them. Halo I liked up to 3. The new infinite...eh I mean it's good but my taste changed. Call of Duty was fun but they made too many.
MMORPGs are games I avoid like the plague. Nothing but a huge money pit which will all come crashing down someday.
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For me its the Tales Of series. I like jrpgs and many of the ones I like have as much anime style as the tales of series. Personally it's always been the story, characters, visuals and character designs that have put me off, despite the combat system looking like something that'd be right up my alley. I am tempted to try Tales of Arise and I hope it will be the game to change my impression of the series.
I'd recommend Tales of Arise. It pretty much remedies all of the issues of character designs and overall visuals. Previous Tales of games always looked like a console generation behind, but this time they threw tons of money at it (you won't be getting any bell-bottom wearing Asbels in this game). Characters can definitely fall into the expected anime tropes, but at this point I've found enjoyment in that. Combat is great with a very expansive and free-form upgrade progression system that entices you to try everything.
Thankfully, Bandai Namco run sales on their games all the time, so maybe wait on that if you don't feel like overcommitting. Hell, it might be on sale right now for all we know.
I'm the same way, with some of them. I picked up Berseria and am thinking of giving Arise a try, as well, because I like their design a lot more, but the visuals in a lot of the others like Symphonia are just bad, to me. The concept art by Kosuke Fujishima is nice, but the character portraits and character models that actually made it into the game just look awful, to me. It looks like the animation style of anime meant for 10 year olds. Star Ocean Second Evolution for the PSP had the same problem.
I like the 2 first games in the series, Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Destiny.
@@claufranco I feel the same way about the first two persona games and Xeno gears Xeno saga trilogy. What the hell happened to these franchise?
@Otoo Tales of Symphonia is the best Tales of game and the only one I've ever played.
Gears of war is the only series I’ve always stuck with. Have all the comics and books. Such a wonderful and brutal world. I love it.
Assassins creed, played the first one and lost me. Call of duty games (with the exception of the treyarch zombie mode). FPS games in general and sports games
I avoid games with too many cutscenes or that interrupt gameplay for cutscenes too often.
So every modern game
@@tonyp9313 More like Yu-gi-oh on the Gamecube lol
As a Retro Gamer I stay away from Open World Games. Crash Bandicoot is as close as I will come that style. I need action at ever turn! I don't want 2 spend hours looking 4 stuff. Legend of Zelda slashing bushes 2 find stuff takes minutes not hours! Until I saw a commercial 4 Assassin's Creed Odyssey The Hunt for Medusa! I didn't touch it, but I'm really into Greek Mythology & so is my best friend. He played it & it is the only game he plays now. That could have been me, but I held my ground! I watched him play it & he does a lot of horse riding not much else!
Legend of Heroes, I'm looking at you.
Two series that I can't get into are Resident Evil and the 3D Zelda games. And it bothers me that I can't enjoy them so I still buy them just in case I get the urge some day. Because I'm a moron, that's why.
I loved Chrono trigger and final fantasy 7 when I was younger but there has been so many sequels and series in the franchise that when I took a break it felt like it snowballed away from me. Another one that suffered a similar fate for me is Need For Speeds
You aren't really missing anything, Final Fantasy went to shit after Sakaguchi left.
I played the original Gears of War trilogy, I stopped playing the series, woke up this morning and saw that there’s now 15 Gears of War games.
There's really 15 of them now?
@@RetroBirdGaming Yeah, that's pretty excessive. Did they really need 15 games? I thought there was only 3.
@@RetroBirdGaming I was exaggerating. There the original trilogy, Judgement, a remake of the first game of the original trilogy, a 4th game that takes place years later, an RTS app, 5, and a prequel to the series. So there’s 9, 8 if you don’t count the remake, 7 if you don’t count the smartphone app.
@@TheY2AProblem Still too many
I won't touch Soul Calibur. I was a huge fan of the series until one came out on the PS3 and I just couldn't beat anyone 1v1. My roommate started the streak, my friends added more grief, and finally my sis humiliated me the first time she touched it. Regardless of characters used or tactics, it was a lesson in frustration and helplessness that I'd prefer to forget, even if it means forgetting all the fun times I had with friends and family in the previous games of the series.
Never again.
Boy oh boy did you hit the nail on the head. I can only play select games if they are going to be long. Borderlands was one that caught me off guard and I sunk a lot of time into. Assassin's Creed series is my choice to invest in. I still haven't played Valhalla though. Price has to come down first.
I used to be into Dragon Warrior (Quest). I own the 4 NES games.....then I only have the Wii game. I may have the DS ones on a multicart idk.
Others I avoid:
Elder Scrolls, WoW, Dancing games, Minecraft, Fortnite, overwatch, well every shooter since Black Ops 2...last one i played, Final Fantasy (own some only played the NES game). I avoid the GameCube console like the plague. Intellivision Amico lol.
there was a lot of games back that I had no choice to avoid well because I didn't have a computer at the time and I was into other stuff
I just started my quest on finishing all the Zelda games in chronological order… I’m about 10hrs into Skyward sword. Luckily I’m enjoying it so far. If it takes me longer than a year I don’t care… that’s why it’s a quest!
The series I have stayed away from are probably the ones I just haven’t played yet like Xenoblade and bayonetta. I can’t think one of I stayed away from because I didn’t like it. Though I do hate Ghost and Goblins!!!!! Buuut maybe I’ll play it with save states and save every two steps! Yeah after the Zelda quest.
This is me with the Assassin's Creed series. I played the first game years ago and just got too bored with it. It just turned me off from trying most of them. I at least enjoyed Black Flag though, but that was more of a pirate game than anything. I did buy a used copy of Assassin's Creed Odyssey in order to give the series a shot but I have yet to even take it out of the case.....I hope the disc works😅
AC has been one of those series I've been wanting to play forever due to never owning another console besides Nintendo. I picked up Valhalla on sale and I enjoyed the game. Then I picked up odyssey, but haven't got far into yet. I eventually wanna try origins + the new one now.
World of Warcraft for me. I avoided it becuase a lot of people I knew were just too wrapped up in it. I loved the elder scrolls games as well as various games that involved leveling up my character and my friends would say “dude, that’s pretty much World of Warcraft!” So yeah I know I would love it but always had a fear of losing my freedom to it 🤣
Wise choice.
Power Overwhelming
To answer the question though, a game that I have avoided because of the same reason you eventually avoided StarCraft is Eve Online. I would love that, I know I would. I love good MMOs in general. However, every relationship I have and my entire life would suffer if I went anywhere near that thing...
Gotta game carefully sometimes!
MMORPGs and by extension(I think?) Live Service Games.
Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and most RPGs actually. They just take so much time to get into and are intimidating
Great video! Final Fantasy is a big one for me. I probably would like the games, but JRPGs in general always feel intimidating. There just are other games before these games that draw my attention away from them.
I have no problem with turn-based JRPGs at all, but sometimes I just like to pick up and play a game in short bursts. Many JRPGs always felt like a major time investment, which is maybe why I unconsciously steer clear of many of them such as the Final Fantasy games.
most FF games take 20-50 hrs to beat. not many take more unless you are a completionist then some of the later ones can bump up over a 100. im actually enjoying FF1 on my vita right now in short bursts.
Earthbound and Pokemon are nice JRPGs that don't take too long to complete.
@@Hauntaku Yeah, if I play an RPG now, I usually play one that is more lighthearted like the Mario & Luigi or Pokémon series as they tend to be shorter, but they still scratch my RPG itch.
When talking about the 'one more chance' part it brought back flashbacks to Pokemon.
Absolutely loved the series for years but a lack of evolution(ironically) to the series made later games feel really stale with Black and White being the last games I can say I really enjoyed. I officially dropped off around X/Y, skipping Sun/Moon, their Ultra versions and Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire.
And yet I couldn't escape the allure of Pokemon and came back for Let's Go Pikachu and Pokemon Sword which disappointed me as I'd hoped skipping some generations would amount to me noticing a bigger change. It didn't, and even after many hours sunk in I realised I wasn't enjoying myself.
Yet here I am, still wanting to play Legends: Arceus which looks like something a bit fresher for the series, but considering Violet and Scarlet have already been announced less than a month after Arceus' release makes me think this series is doomed to hold an Everstone forever.
Every new generation of Pokemon in a new region featuring new Pokemon are good games. It's just that there's always something lacking in games after XY. Though, I'm happy about sprigatito from Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet.
I've been avoiding the Metal Gear series. I'm just personally not into stealth. And nothing says "interactive media" like watching 20 minute long cutscenes.
I beat part 4 on PS3. It was ok.
* Solid Snake voice * It seems as if this cutscene has been going on for an hour now.
Assassins' Creed. I really liked the 3D Prince of Persia games (not the first 3D one on the PC, but the Sands of Time series). When the Xbox360 came out... The next big thing was Assassins Creed... it looked awesome, but for whatever reason I just avoided it. Then within the span of 10 years, they made what felt like 10 of them from all differen time periods. I don't think I could get into this. On a side note, I always felt the same way about Dragon Ball Z when it comes to Anime. There's so much of it at this point... and while people REALLY love them selves some Dragon Ball Z... I wouldn't know where to s tart and I feel like I would never have enough time to watch all of it. I guess its just one of those things you just had to get into it as it was growing.
The series that’s has just too many games is the Shin Megami Tensei/Persona series for me. I like playing them but it’s just a huge mountain to climb. The series that I just stay away from is Pokémon.
Great song hehe. I love the Resident Evil series, I just got it for the Wii and forgot about the controle system? Have you played it? It's like trying to reverse a tralor around a obstacle course. I tryed playing it standing on my head but got a nose bleed.
For a while I avoided Pokemon, mostly due to a corrupted save file I had with Pokemon SoulSilver. The other one is often battle royale games. Some of it is because I suck at them, but those games have flooded the market and can be very unforgiving when you lose.
At the beginning of the video I thought why would I stay away from a game series that I'm sure to like? Then, when you sang your cute little song, one game series immediately came to mind: The Legend of Heroes.
As a life-long JRPG fan I'm sure that I would like or maybe even love these. But have you seen how many games there are in this series? And most, if not all, of the newer titles supposedly take 80+ hours to beat, if not much more. The task of playing them seems so daunting, that I haven't started any of those games yet. Nowadays I really don't have as much time as I used to have, so I gravitate towards shorter games. Even older JRPGs, as long as they may be, usually tend to be around 20 to 30 hours for a blind playthrough. That's a lot more palatable.
Bird consistently keeps getting better, my favorite anthropomorphic giraffe!
Green shirt…. I know there is a color rotation, but I haven’t noticed or figured out the pattern.
So far he hasn't worn the same shirt 2 vids in a row. He always changes shirts from Green to Yellow or Blue. If I am not mistaken we should see him with a blue shirt this Friday because he already did Green, Yellow.
Yellow, Green, Blue, Red
Kirby.
Animal Crossing, I’m pretty sure I’d enjoy the game, but the time commitment in that game is crazy from what I’ve heard.
I deleted my 20 year old file.... I had max money, caught all the fish / bugs / fossils / big house / filled my house with collectable mailboxes that made noises then proceeded to make music beats by using certain ones... Man that game is time consuming I spent my whole childhood on that game and still didn't collect everything possible.
Monster Hunter springs to mind when this subject is brought up. I've tried many times to get into that series and it just doesn't click for me. It's a shame too as I'm a huge CAPCOM fan and love almost all their other series but this is one that I can't get behind.
I did not like Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate, but it grew on me. I thoroughly enjoyed MH4:U and MH:Generations. I am also digging MH:Rise.
I tried a demo a few years ago and just couldn't get into it.
@@IcePakOG The camera certainly sucks.
I for one so love RPG or specifically JRPG.
Its nice to know some people really avoid this. Well at least we have lesser competition for collectors of rpg games. Hahaha
But cool to know. It all boils down to your preference. Just the game if you don't like then search other one.
I avoid the Persona series and the Souls games. My time is better spent elsewhere. With a wife, kids, and adult responsibilities, I tend to avoid games that take a super long time to finish, with the occasional exception... like right now I'm playing God of War (2018) and it has me sucked in. It's quite an adventure for me. It's a triple A modern game with no b.s. and gives a tough but fair challenge (unless I'm getting into fights in places I'm not supposed to be yet). Exploring is pretty rewarding, but sometimes doing that can cause me to get a big fat klonk on the head that puts a loading screen in front of my face :P
I avoid the Dark Souls series even though I'm pretty sure I would like it. I don't mind when games are hard, but long AND hard? I can see that just sucking up way too much time. That and I tend to do what you said and stick to franchises from my childhood like Dragon Quest. Even though the games are long, a lot of it is story so I feel like I am getting more out of it than just grinding on a boss until I "git gud."
I barely have time as it is and now, I'm starting a local business shortly, so I have little time to play.
So that means all RPGs, even though been trying to play Xenosaga 2 and Persona 5 when I have the time but my time is up (unless on a Sunday) as soon as _____ finished talking.
this ones less game series and more game tech
nearly all games from the 8th gen, most 7th, and even a couple 6th snd earlier (provided they have mods or worse graphics than the console version) i choose the pc version to get the lowest possible resolution and graphics (mods too, but low graphics come first)
4:3 aspect ratio too, which is doubled by the 8th generation just completely getting rid of that option
For me it's more about genre. There are genres that kinda put me off but will still play one occasionally like open world or turnbased. But the terms that instantly turn me off are MMO, MOBA, battle royale, sports, basically anything multiplayer I'm just not down with no matter how good it's supposed to be.
I try not to totally avoid most game series, one I can think of are hunting and fishing games, because those things don't interest me in the slightest, though fishing is fun as a side activity in other games, I dabble in COD but have an overall negitive opinion on that series, but with Microsoft owning it, I think it might improve