Games you love from genres you generally don't like

[GoOnKid]

Barozi said:

GoOnKid said:

Bioshock and Doom (2016) for first-person shooters come to mind. I don't hate these kind of games, but there are only very few of them that I enjoy. I despise military shooters like Call of Duty though. I'd never touch that. In fact, for me first-person shooters need to have something crazy, fantastic, artistic, surreal to them.

Skyrim for western RPGs. If I play a an RPG I want to experience a set story with pre-defined characters instead of making up my own story and building my character in an editor at the beginning. I just don't like that. In that way I enjoy JRPGs much much more because they tell a story that I can follow through with all it's ups and downs, with plot twists and surprises, heartwarming and shocking moments. A western rpg that only has a rather tiny main quest just cannot deliver that. However, I found out that I got quite invested in Skyrim once I got the hang of it.

There are plenty of WRPGs that either have pre-defined characters and story or have at least an origin story that defines your background and thus impacting your main quest and relation to other characters you meet on the way.

Out of my head I can think of Mass Effect series, The Witcher series, Dragon Age series, KOTOR series and Divinity: Original Sin series.

So yeah what you're describing is essentially Elder Scrolls and Fallout. A nobody who doesn't have a personality of its own and could start questing anywhere in an open world. The other games I mentioned are a lot more restricting in that regard.

Thanks!