Puzzle/physics platformers. They're all just the same (and boring) to me.

MMOs. Because hell is other people (not to mention it counts as DRM to me).

Basically genres that I really can't play since they in most cases bore me to death are puzzle games, adventure games and platformers (there are some exceptions). MMOs and MOBAs are boring as well.

Sports game are not really my thing but there are some exceptions like Moto Racer which is probably the only sports game on gog that I own.

TBS is not really my thing since it doesn't give me the real time control over units that I would like and so in most TBS games im dead soon after starting them (some exceptions like MoO and H&M).

Shooters and rpgs are ok although I desperately suck at most of them (for example im totally lost in Alien vs Predator cause of the extreme game speed). I really like zombie shooters.

RTS games, grand strategy and simulation games and 4x games are my genres of choice. RTS games I like basically cause of the real time control over units that enables me to strategise in real time and as such gives me enough time to respond to enemy threats. Im not talking about newish twitch strategie games like Starcraft 2 that killed the genre totally for most players.

Basically I like games like:
- Master of Orion series, C&C Series, Supreme Commander series, Tropico series, Crusader Kings series, Hearts of Iron series, Civ series, Warhammer Dawn of War 1, Empire: Dawn of the Modern World, Starcraft 1, Warcraft 1-3, Dune 2, Dune 2000, Emperor: Battle for Dune, Universe at War: Earth Assault, Cities in Motion series, Europa Universalis series, SunAge, Act of War, Star Ruler, Total War games, Anno games, Dead Island, Dying Light, Settlers games, Sins of a Solar Empire, City builders (Pharoh, etc,), etc.

One genre I want to love because it looks and seems so fun is strategy. I get bored or overwhelmed in turn-based strategy, and in RTS, I just don't like it. I prefer RTWP, but that won't work in multiplayer at all.

Another is space sims. I LOVE Freespace 2 and the mods for it. But I don't appreciate some of the aspects of the combat and physics.

Beat em Ups - I did some amazing things as a kid. But useless at them now. Might just be lack of practice though.

Sports games - including F1 but not other motor sport. Apart from F1 I'm so utterly uninterested I think they qualify as impossible to play. There have been exceptions. There was a 2D NHL on the Megadrive I liked. Oh and NBA Jam of course. But I was never any good at these two either. F1 simply hammers my mediocre virtual driving skills a little too hard.

Bullet hell SHUMPS - strike me as some kind of kinetic Minesweeper where you have to learn the enemies' routines. But I end up as toast even if I think I get the basic idea of how to beat them.

Multiplayer FPS - another example of my failing reflexes. Was damn good when Quake 2 came out. By the time Quake 3 came out though it was already feeling too fast. These days I'm mostly just there to boost other players' scores.

Great list (always good to see DoW in a rts list), perhaps you might've left out something? Warzone 2100 perhaps? Apparently it's open source now, so now I for one have no excuse not to properly check it out. I only ever played the demo over and over, but I recall really enjoying it. Thought it had a great atmosphere as well.

Have you tried Warcraft 3 or any of the Dawn of War games (Dark Crusade specifically)?

I liked Warcraft, and WarCraft 2, And I played WarCraft 3 for a bit before I was completely turned away from it. I own the Dawn of War games on Steam. I may install them and give them a try. I picked them up when THQ got sold off in a ridiculously cheap bundle. The real gems from that have been Titan Quest and the Darksiders games.

I don't know how the community is these days, but I used to have a blast playing Engineer in Team Fortress 2 years ago, where it wasn't about speed but instead all about placing and maintaining/upgrading/defending dispensers, teleporters and turrets. Also, you had to develop a sixth sense for enemy spies. Of course there is also the medic class which some people like.

Gah. Meant for this to go in my previos post and hit replay instead of edit. Grr.

Turn Based

FPS games, they tend to make me motion sick sooner or later.

Racing and sports games.

Yeah Warzone 2100 is open source since 2004 and available here: https://wz2100.net/

Definitely a great rts game for its time. I really liked the modular style unit customization that it brough to the genre. It did have its share of buggs when it came out though.

I'd love to see you play some monopoly then. Perhaps you even despise the game as much as I do, and then we can burn the stupid board and those stupid little green houses and red hotels afterwards. I'm thinking those stupid little figurines should be buried in a litter box.

I have three versions of that on my PC and I love it. :D When I say Turn Based I mean the strategic military ones. I've always despised movement points and stuff. I just want to walk up and shoot the asshole, not sit there for two hours and figure out the shortest possible route and angle strategy! :P

In my case it's probably Platformers, mostly because I almost never play them and haven't got practice.

Grand Strategy was also uncharted territory for me until I started playing Rome: Total War recently!

What I really like about the DoW games, apart from the solid gameplay and the fact that they somehow managed to fairly balance 7 radically different sides (I don't count Soulstorm), is how incredibly visceral and crazy the battles are. I tried to find a proper clip on youtube to illustrate this but came up empty. All the videos use music that don't fit the game and I think kind of give the wrong impression about the game's dark techno atmosphere. There is one old video that I'm looking for which had some opera music in the background (not ingame music though), but I just can't find it. However the on Steam is actually a fair representation of the craziness of the battles and it's no exaggeration - a lot of battles really do look like that. But again, the music is wrong. Here is one of my favorite pieces as a Space Marine fanboy, the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG42F-5AVOE]space marine theme. The campaign in the original is a little weak in places, but it does have the ridiculously badass Gabriel Angelos. Winter Assault's campaign is better, but for me Dark Crusade is definitely the best of the three with a completely non-linear campaign.

edit: ooh, here's a nice gameplay clip : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNT-zQdfTw