What’s the pettiest reason you won’t play a game?

the best one I have is “I simply don’t feel like it”

It has frogs in it

I don't think it's petty but but the pettiest reason would probably be engine choice.

>>714615113 (OP)
Artstyle gives me the ick
Game doesn't have an external website but only Discord
Tranny devs

>>714615113 (OP)
Certain genres give me the ick. MMO, MOBA, Battle Royale, Hero Shooter, Survival Craft(with exceptions)

>>714615113 (OP)
tranny fanbase

>>714615113 (OP)
Game looks like more of an ordeal than a good time.
I don't know how else to explain it. It's why I haven't tried Expedition 33 yet. Just not into something that I have to take seriously and be invested in. Don't have the energy right now.

I either do something right or I don't. If I'm gonna half-ass a game (especially if it's good, like E33 seems to be) I'd rather not touch it and wait for a time where I have more willpower.

Until then I replay the same shit I've always replayed like Warband or grand strat games

>>714615113 (OP)
It being a mobile game and or has a shitty anime art style

Anime graphics (persona, metaphor)

I wouldn't say it's petty but I'll never consider playing splitgate because they advertised on youtube.

>>714615113 (OP)
I really like the gameplay of Control I like everything about Control in fact but the main character's face is so fucking ugly and distracting (it also doesn't help they zoom directly in her face in cutscenes) I dont want to play it

>>714615113 (OP)
western developed = major red flag. unless it's authentic sovlful eurojank

>>714615113 (OP)
not sure it meets the thread requirements but i'll post it anyway
some friends were trying to get me to play xenoblade chronicles 2 but during the conversation my laptop locked up so badly i had to restart it
then i had to restart it 6 more times because it couldn't detect any connected speaker devices (even though it's a laptop so the speakers are built in)
i took this as a sign from god that i was meant to never ever ever play xenoblade chronicles 2 under any circumstances
which is fine by me, i'll stick to working my crank to images of pyra like a civilized person

>>714615113 (OP)
If the fanbase seems annoying.
The collorary to this rule is if people who hate on a game are annoying I will be more inclined to try a game.

>>714615113 (OP)
I will never play FF7 because Square betrayed the N64 with that game.

>>714615113 (OP)
Disk space is mine.
I simply don't want to waste time downloading a game that's 75GB+ and risk it sucking.
Also I feel like games shouldn't be so big anyway but that's definitely a losing battle.

>>714615113 (OP)
I won't touch anything f2p with a store even if everyone swears the actual game is really fun and the shop shit is only cosmetic.

>>714615113 (OP)
/v/ recommends it because "it makes libs mad".(goes other way around too)
I think it's generally a red flag for a game when idpol shit is the only good thing people say about it. Some people call it petty but I'm just tired of it all

>>714615113 (OP)
Im not having fun

>>714615113 (OP)
annoying shills

>>714615113 (OP)
if it is turn based ( unironically )

director comes across as a faggot

I got a warning from the Dead by Daylight forum for not approving of their gay flags and haven't touched the game since.
I enjoyed the game, but I don't want survivors whispering their pronouns to me as I carry them to the hook.

>>714615113 (OP)
/v/ told me it was good

>No fov slider
>no high frame rate support

>>714615113 (OP)
Game includes:
gays
ugly women
leftist propaganda

>>714615113 (OP)
If the entire game isn't playable from the disk without a download I won't play the game.

I don't care how good it is.

If it has ai anything, it's dropped. I then go cry for a few hours because nobody commissions me for fetish art anymore.

>>714615838
Its a major downgrade from the first one anyways so you're not missing anything

I dropped dark souls 2 simply because I hated the deadzones on controller

>>714615113 (OP)
People jack it off too much
E33
Tlou
Deus ex

Rightoids admitting their motivations are shallow and petty

>>714615113 (OP)
Denuvo.
Yes, I'm a poorfag, but I'm in a Steam family where someone literally buy everything i'm interest that have Denuvo(Persona, Yakuza, Lies of P, etc).
And I still refuse to play it, half is me being stupidly stubborn and half is me not wanting to be a hipocrite.

Ugly ui
No direct control of a character or vehicle

>>714615113 (OP)
i refuse to play death stranding because it's using real actors instead of designed characters

>>714615113 (OP)
I simply wont play any game that my friends get excited about.
Yup, now you know when you dont get excited about games i like.

Game is online and I didn't get into it around launch

>>714615113 (OP)
Bad character design. Not sure if that's petty though.

>>714615113 (OP)
an image of a frog

>>714615113 (OP)
Black people.

>>714615113 (OP)
denuvo

>>714615113 (OP)
an anon pissed me off while using a reaction image of a character from a game

Requires creating an account.
Has denuvo.

>>714618031
This. Or another pet minority of the left.

>>714615113 (OP)
The titty slider doesn't go big enough.

>>714615113 (OP)
"i dont like the fanbase"
is probably the most petty one I can think of, but I use it often.

>>714615113 (OP)
if its streamerbait im not touching it even if it's free
except fortnite because we got hank hill and i have lifetime vbucks

>>714618137
>Requires creating an account.
This is a good one. I hate making accounts for things I'm only going to use once or twice. I don't care if it's something that happens entirely in the background or if I never have to remember the username and password, I don't like having to dedicate the mental hard disk space to its existence.

>>714615113 (OP)
dailies

>>714615113 (OP)
Game has animal people

>>714615113 (OP)
Too popular
Normalfag wouldn't like something genuinely great en masse.
For example, I won't play Elden Ring despite playing Souls trilogy because how wildly popular it was on NPC shitholes like plebbit.

>>714615113 (OP)
Epic Online Services

i won't buy a game if it was made by people without slanted eyes

>>714615823
>>714615827
B-B-B-B-B-BASED Tranimeslop BTFO

>>714615113 (OP)
Anything with a french aesthetic. I'm sure Expedition 33 and Lies of P are great games but the architecture and character designs make me hurl.

>>714615113 (OP)
inventory tetris

>>714615113 (OP)
>it's too popular
>it caters to furries
>it uses preferred pronouns or contains other retarded wokeshit like a black female army general in a medieval setting for example
>it costs more than $40

>>714618956
>Lies of P
the name alone makes me disinterested i guess that is petty

>>714618612
>despite playing Souls trilogy
surely you must see the ironing?

>>714619072
>>it caters to furries
>>it uses preferred pronouns or contains other retarded wokeshit like a black female army general in a medieval setting for example
he said petty reasons, not legitimate reasons

>>714619109
Sure it was never a niche franchise but they weren't Elden No-One-Will-STFU-About-It "GOTY" Ring normalfaggy.
Literal fucking random porn starts streamed it on twitch.

>>714617582
This and general game of the month games. If they are a clone of game of the month game then I definitely don't touch it.

>>714619109
Dark souls 1-3 aren’t nearly as popular as ER.

>>714615113 (OP)
game is muppet based horror or you can't look at the sky

>>714618137
>Requires creating an account

If it doesn't interest me.

>>714615113 (OP)
If there's a male character besides the blank-slate player

>>714615113 (OP)
I like the skyboxes less in super Mario galaxy 2 because half of them are just a generic sky instead of cool space shit

i won't play wuwa because my friend keeps glazing it constantly.

I am a big Armored Core fan and I refuse to play any souls shit because it dont want to support anything fromsoft puts out besides Armored Core

>>714615113 (OP)
because it was made by tranny.
I deleted celeste and the save from my pc back when the creator said the MC was some closeted trans abomination.

>>714615113 (OP)
It's too popular.

>>714615113 (OP)
It's not on the switch

>>714615113 (OP)
Not playing female protagonist games. No, thats not being petty. No one cares what women and trannies think

I've decided I won't play games over 40gb.

>>714615654
That's a valid reason.

>>714618612
You're right in the sense that something being popular doesn't inherently make it good. But something can be good and also be popular. This is where the /v/tard struggles. The people on this board avoid anything remotely popular like the plague because "I'm not a normie! If it is popular it must be pandering to the lowest common denominator therefore it is trash! I am a free thinking individual!"
Well, the issue with your eternal contrarianism is that you have come full circle and you are know being told what to like or dislike based on how popular it is. Except it is the reverse of the normie outlook on popularity. All of you contrarians are JUST as bad as those "NPC slop lovers" you guys despise so much, and for the exact same reason. You both blindly follow the trend of what is popular, your response to that trend is just different. If anything you contrarians are worse than the NPC slop lover because you are a self-righteous jerk and they just enjoy whatever it is they enjoy.

Baseless contrarianism is the most dimwitted ideology a person could ever hold. Your life is an endless cycle of misery and hatred. You will die alone, bitter and remorseful.

>>714615113 (OP)
No gamepad support.

>>714623663
The fanbase is never a reason. A game stands on it's own. Rightoids are too stupid to understand basic logical fallacies.

>>714623873
Or maybe I just actually tried all the normie slop like Madden, NBA 2k, Fortnite, Apex Legends, Minecraft, Tears of the kingdomz and just think they're not fun

>>714615113 (OP)
Bad artstyle

>>714618897
Anyone who says tranime is a based right wing gigachad

>>714624091
That isn't even close to "trying all the normieslop"

>>714624091
A completely fine and understandable perspective to have. The anon I was quoting specifically stated they avoided Elden Ring solely due to its popularity. His mindset (along with many, many others here on /v/) of "popular = bad" is really, really retarded.

>>714624091
You don’t think 2k is fun? Wild. You sound like a contrarian lol

>>714615113 (OP)
it was made by larian

>>714624013
Certain qualities in a game attract certain people but talking to an animal is just wasted breath.

>>714615113 (OP)
The wrong people like it.

>>714624263
Playing every single game on the front page of Twitch should be good enough. But even then, thats overkill. Most gamers never heard of anything beyond Fortnite and COD

When mods, fan patches, and so on are considered required by the community. I try to rationalize it by saying if a game has performance problems, that's on the devs to fix, not the community. But in reality, I'm so ridiculously lazy that I tend not to bother with mods in general, especially after losing the email address tied to my NexusMods account.

>>714615113 (OP)
I completely stopped playing unfinished games. No early access, no live service games at all, no multiplayer games, no singleplayer games with content roadmaps. I haven't touched vidya in months.

>>714615113 (OP)
i hated the previous game
is woke

>>714615113 (OP)
It's Chinese or Korean

>player faction is ethnically diverse while the enemy faction is just whitey
Not going to pay money to shoot my own people in a video game on the behalf of people who would kill me and take my stuff. Imagine paying money to take part in your own humiliation ritual.

>>714624771
this
had 'that' friend recommend demons' souls and i just avoided it

tank controls when you play as a human, not a tank
stealth games, but i'm interested in hitman because you can apparently just fight normally

Unskippable cutscenes/dialogue
i do not care about your story at all whatsoever on any level

>they fixed the game, it's way better now than it was at launch

>>714627541
Based anti-intellectual rightoid

>>714615113 (OP)
Doesn't seem petty for me though.

>needs another launcher other than steam to run it on PC

Miss me with that gay shit.

>>714615113 (OP)
overtly wokeism

>>714623873
This post should be made into a sticky and stay posted on /v/s front page forever.

>>714623559
It's being virginal is what it is

>>714623873
as a lifelong contrarian, I just feel that I want you to know that the thing you feel so much love for, bored me at the least and annoyed me at the most.

>game features a black female protagonist
I will play as a female and i will play as a black person. But both? Never seen a good game that had both.

>>714629036
The walking dead?

>>714615654
The problem with this is that any game can be a "tranny game" the instant more than two troons play it, because they will go to the discord, beg to be mods, and use that power to turn the community into their own personal circlejerk, in which every character is a fag and the only memes are about "gay sex" and "do crime"

>>714615113 (OP)
they made kendra ugly and removed her huge tits.

>>714615113 (OP)
trannies

>>714617582
>Anon you NEED to play this game
>Anon you should get this game
>Anon why haven't you bought game yet
I know it's all reverse psychology or whatever the fuck the particular phenomenon is called, but nothing turns me off from something more than people actively trying to force it on me.

>>714615113 (OP)
Made in China.

I won’t play anything that neil druckmann worked on because I hate him. I used to like uncharted but knowing he worked on it ruins it for me.

>>714630678
I remember thinking her huge breasts looked out of place when I played the original. The change was for the best, because it's so obviously juvenile fan service.

>>714632553
> Fan service bad.
Shut up transgender, YWNBW and if you are a woman, your chest is as flat as that of a plank of wood.

>>714615113 (OP)
Black woman on the cover.

>>714632620
You don't need everything to have giant breasts as much as you think you do. Let me guess, you're going to jerk off to the 5 minute intro sequence of fucking Dead Space? You must finish quick.

>>714632942
Nicely assumed I would require that, lmao, YWNBAW. Mass Effect is literally a space game with dating sim elements, you are crying because your flat chest isn't represented tranny. Shut the fuck up, we don't give a shit about your standards. You ruined aesthetics in video games cuz muh fan service bad. Everything looks ugly now thanks to your kind, go suck a dick.

>>714615113 (OP)
Early access
Tranny fanbase

>deck builder roguelite
Just

>>714633232
Based

>>714633232
For someone who doesn't require it, you sound pretty gotten to.

>>714615113 (OP)
I fumbled my first game of League too hard

>>714615113 (OP)
it gets touted as having lgbt "representation"
I don't mind lgbt characters but when you say representation it's clear they're there to check a box

>>714615113 (OP)
if i cant play as a human or use human units. i dont want to be an orc, an elf, a dwarf, a black, a chink, or anything else.

>>714615113 (OP)
body types instead of male/female

>game has niggers

Why do /v/tards all sound exactly alike?

Made by blizzard.

>no cats
i go back and retroactively unplay the game with my power.

For me its poor controls / UI.

Example - if I have to hold interact instead of just press, I'm uninstalling.

If your trailer contains no gameplay footage I will not purchase your game.

>>714615113 (OP)
i refuse to play pretty much any post ps2/gamecube era realistic looking game

>>714615113 (OP)
>create perfect character
>go in-game
>character looks different
>uninstall

>>714615113 (OP)
Probably I just look at the screenshots and think "That looks shit" without actually seeing actual gameplay or anything more about the game,

>>714615113 (OP)
It's a shooter

>>714630461
Yes, and then you refuse to play it because it’s a tranny game. The prompt was pettiest reason.

the little girl is not cute

>>714635185
And this, boys and girls, is why the right is losing the culture war.

>>714615113 (OP)
not being able to cheat.
indieniggers who obfuscate variables are the worst since no one bothers to make trainers or tables for their games.

>>714615536
>bad artstyle
i feel you on that one

I refuse to play hades because the artstyle looks atrocious to me. I know a lot of people seem to like it for some reason, but I hate it

>>714615113 (OP)
If Microsoft owns it I don't want to play it.

>>714636132
But the Microsoft has the best games to be playing, sir
T. Microsoft employee with lots of stock

>>714615113 (OP)
The same I won't listen to a particular band: someone I don't like likes it

>>714634793
UI needlessly slow or unresponsive is a deal breaker. Instant ick.
I refunded Baldur's Gate III because of the dice rolls animations.

>>714634705
It's a hivemind

I hate british people so goddamn much I won’t play any game that has a british voice actor

>>714615113 (OP)
I avoid any multiplayer that is mostly zoomers.

So almost all of it.

>>714615113 (OP)
Its popular with the steven universe tumble crowd

>>714615113 (OP)
It was made by Turks

>>714615113 (OP)
It's an RPG with romance options but lacks male gay romance options

I am not paying for a service

No X Axis camera inversion. Started playing GTA V on PS3. Dropped it instantly when I realised I cound't invert x axis.

Trannyshit and political propaganda.
Fuck you Small Saga dev.

I don't care if Stories 2 is better than 1 in every way. I told myself I would never buy another game with Navirou in it, and I meant it

>>714615113 (OP)
Game isn't in Japanese. It's hard to justify to myself playing something in English when I could be playing a game and practicing my moon runes at the same time.

>>714615113 (OP)
it has untranslated Japanese in the title

>>714615113 (OP)
It has that "indie game about mental health/depression" vibe.

Game is made by the russians or chinese.

>>714615113 (OP)
>Binding of Isaac
I don't even know why. Something about the game just disgusts me.

>>714640365
Hello, Based Department?
Yeah...yeah, its me.
You're going to want to see this

>>714615113 (OP)
Diablo IV, which is free on PS+ this month. At first I almost deleted it because it wanted me to be online, but since I have never played a diablo, I gave it a chance and connected. Then it said I needed to sign in using a phone while displaying my PSN name in the top right. Into the trash it went.

>>714615113 (OP)
FOMO engagement bait
Dailies, battlepass, limited time events.
I will never yield to FOMO bait.

>>714615113 (OP)
I'll play just about anything but if I'm dodging something it is likely entirely due to not liking the art direction

>>714615113 (OP)
It only has Japanese voices.

>>714615113 (OP)
A nigger said it's his favorite game.

It costs money.

heard that it's good too many times
sorry ghost trick fans but you're "play ghost trick" shit got really annoying so now I'm not going to play it even though it probably is pretty good

>>714615113 (OP)
I don't like the way it looks, boring character design. And by boring I mean, looks LGBTQIA+

bright colors
purple, pink, blue and white

>>714643636
same, shame it was so mainstream and spoilerworthy too

>>714615113 (OP)
I still haven't played a single game that pulled that BLM shit back in the day. By now it can be seen as petty but I'm still furious about it bleeding into my games.

>>714615113 (OP)
Console exclusivity. Can’t say I played a single Xbox game. My friend had to beg me to try halo a year ago.

>>714617582
TLOU isn't even a game it is terrible gameplay wise. It's just a non-Kojima interactive movie. As for Deus Ex that's your call but ignoring the story circle jerking it is actually mechanically fun outside of swimming being a dump skill.

>>714615113 (OP)
I refuse to play Final Fantasy 10 purely because I have heard it does not contain the classic Final Fantasy theme that plays in a lot of the endings or openings of most Final Fantasy games. I also refuse to play 2 and 13 for the same reason, but those games have other problems in addition to the lack of the series main theme.

>>714615113 (OP)
I think Baldur's Gate 3 is ugly. The lighting is gross. It looks like a WEG. It might also be one, I'm not entirely sure.

>>714615113 (OP)
They made Peter Parker's face look like the MCU actor and tried to pretend it was done because the mocap was easier.

>>714615113 (OP)
Anytime there is a menu that makes you navigate more than 3 tabs to do something

>>714616009
How was Saints Row 2022?

>>714615113 (OP)
Too busy cumming to CDCL.

>>714632553
I agree with this. I'm a huge faggot like you in real life as well. When I see a milf with huge tits working at an office, I'm like "uggh, the fan service here is unnecessary".
I feel you, I feel you.

>>714615113 (OP)
UE5 store asset artstyle.
I'm not playing E33 because it looks really cheap visually thanks to them apparently using store assets.

>>714642192
same

>>714623873
Sounds you are just mad that anon doesn't like the worst souls game elden ring.Oh... Zanzibar go fuck myself....

>>714615113 (OP)
>What’s the pettiest reason you won’t play a game?
when the devs directly insult their core demographic during the marketing leadup to release

>>714628352
I still havent tried cyberpunk because of this. I couldn't care less about CD project and they could just dissappear for all I care. I have zero hype for Witcher 4 too.

>>714615536
>Artstyle gives me the ick
thats not petty
you have standards

>>714615113 (OP)
>has a ranked system
>bans you for being "toxic" no i dont say nigger or call people fags. I fucking call stupid fucks on their bullshit which results in them doing the hurr durr reported thing.

>>714649428
I'm gonna be honest it sounds like they got the better of you. You're still fucking seething about it

>>714628352
this
fuck cybershart and no shart's sky
pretty much giving any devs the permission to release their game broken as long as they promise they'll fix it later

>>714615113 (OP)
I dropped a game 40 hours in after a female character cut her hair

>>714615113 (OP)
This is when I uninstalled the metaphor demo

>>714615113 (OP)
I've taken personal stance against EA games, Blizzard and Ubisoft and I refuse to play any of their games anymore and I only wish bankpructy upon them. RIP Sims, dead space, warcraft, overwatch(2016), Assassin creed and many more. These franchises are dead to me and I couldn't care less for sequels.

isometric viewpoint
capeshit
gacha, gaas, fortnite/overwatch/apex/valorant/arc raiders type mp only games
quippy bad dialogue

people who insult games i like like it

>>714629036
L4D2?

>>714649519
the person reporting me? nah I let my shit out then and there and not carry it. The system being a failure and reminding me that they would rather side with morons is what gets me. That's why I stick to single player

>>714628352
I won’t play cyberpunk for this exact reason. I hear a lot of “oh the game is so good now” but why was it not good when it came out? That turns me off

>>714615113 (OP)
i won’t play kingdom hearts because back when i was in touhou discords, there was this lolcow who loved kingdom hearts who had a whole troll squad who would join whatever he was in and annoy everyone
also because i hate disney

Made in a former white Christian majority country.
Whites worship nogs like gods and if it is made by whites, you can bet it will be filled with niggers. No exceptions.

This is why I exclusively play games made by the yellow man.

>>714615113 (OP)
Has the look of a porn game. I can jack off on my own time and I will not trade good gameplay for titties.

>>714615113 (OP)
I refused to play Danganronpa 2 for months because someone spoiled me a CG
I did end up finishing it and wish I didn't, Danganronpa is shit.

>>714615113 (OP)
>I learned from /v/ that it was woke
>Protag is a female
>it has a joke poking fun at president Trump