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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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[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been thinking this one over for a couple days now and it just occurred to me, but independent character driven mechanics wrapped in a silly story. Spyro, Crash, Sly, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, Okami - the games they inspired are good and interesting and have many unique elements but I feel like it's been a long time since I've come across one of these kinds of games which really push a boundary and focus in on each aspect of that character.

Also, I want Goofy's Skateboarding again. Give it to me.

[–] Mummelpuffin@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wanted to counter this but I can't. Most of the mascot platformer-esque games now are imitating some other, older mascot platformer. A Hat In Time just doesn't have any real gimmicks. IDK if Pumpkin Jack does (I really need to try it at some point). Maybe Froggun but I imagine it has even less of a story and it's more of a puzzle game?

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I liked pumpkin jack, gave me some Sly Cooper vibes but it was actually pretty unique, good call!

And it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just happens to be quite hard to pay tribute whole also reinventing the wheel.