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What game genre would you like to see more entrants in? (self.gaming)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tal to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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This was something I started wondering about when I was reading a thread about Star Citizen, and about how space combat flight games were much less-common than they had been at one point, how fans of the genre were hungry for new entrants.

Looking at this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_flight_simulation_games#Space_combat_games

...there really were far more games in the genre being released in the late 1990s and early 2000s than there have been recently.

A similar sort of phenomenon occurred for World War II first-person shooters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_video_games

Back around the same time period, there was a glut of games in the genre, and they really have fallen off quite a bit.

Whether it's a genre like these two, that hasn't seen many new entrants recently, or a genre that just never grew as much as you'd like, what genre would you like to see more of?

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[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Open-ended, sandbox sports games. SSX, Skate 3, Steep, are a few off the top of my head. I remember the Steep devs made a BMX game that was similar a few years ago. I tried it but I just didn't find it nearly as fun as Steep was. They don't have to be extreme sports either, I think more traditional sports would be fun too. I like it when they're unrealistic and over-the-top too. I love playing Skate 3 and just listening to music and doing inhuman tricks. I've never played it but I've heard the NBA Jam series is like this.

edit: Wreckfest is also sort of in that realm. I'd love to play more racing games that aren't constantly trying to be simulators. Trackmania is the only one I can think of that's entirely divorced from being a simulator.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Checkout Distance on Steam. It's definitely up there in terms of unique racing games.

Split/Second was also a really interesting take on racing, I wish they had released DLCs or something to add more maps, the way that game worked with the crazy visuals to open up new shortcuts and modify the track midrace was an awesome idea

[–] Mummelpuffin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really wish Blur actually did well back when it was around. By far the coolest take on a Mario Kart-like game I've ever played.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Check out Trail Out. It's one of the few games trying to give us that kind of racing game these days.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't even find the Steep game entertaining mate, maybe it is because I never played SSX to begin with, but hell the latter still calls my attention!