Poll: Favorite dead genre

[Souplex]

Back in the 90s' there were three ubiquitous genres that were not 2-d platformers, ShmUps, (Shoot em' ups) Point N' Clicks and Rail Shooters. In the early 00's these genres had fallen on hard times and were in danger of dying until the nostalgia boom. XBLA is now a haven for ShmUps while the Wii is hosting the Rail Shooters and Point N' clicks. Which of these genres is your favorite? What are your favorite games in these genres?

 

[Pandalisk]

Rail shooters are awesome, who doesnt love the zombie or wild west shooters?

god damn time crisis too!

 

[Lemur_Ninja]

I like shoot 'em ups. Contra, Metal Slug, and Alien Hominid are my favorites in this genre.

 

[BertTheNerd]

point-and-click all the way, although I wouldn´t call it a dead genre...
...the Sam´n´Max adventures are with us... Runaway (2), which still remains
on my to-be-played-some-day-but-not-right-now-list, and there´s bound to be
more...

 

[Grayjack]

I like Rail Shooters. They make me feel as though I'm killing Zombies.

 

[KampfVerein]

Point-and-clicks. I have a fondness for the Monkey Island series, Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle and so forth. That sort of prime storytelling and humor has been gone for quite some time, unfortunately.

 

[Worgen]

I cant choose, I love them all

 

[New Troll]

Rail Shooters are still very popular in arcade console form.

And, working retail, I would say point 'n click games are probably more popular than anything else. I sell probably ten times more PC adventure games than all console games. They're cheap, easy to play, yet still fun. Casual gamers and non-gamers alike can't get enough of them. Tons of real gamers love them too.

Personaly, I don't really care. I've always been an RPGer and turn-based strategy gamer so as long as I have those (RPGs at least) I'm just fine.

 

[DJ Lord Destructocon]

Rail-shooters are the way to go my friend. I spent nearly every quarter I had trying to beat House of the Dead and Time Crisis 4 when my parents would leave me in the arcade. Point-and-clicks do hold a special place though, if only for Sam and Max

 

[MrBrightside919]

Platformers...full blown retail platformers...

 

[iblis666]

shoot em ups there is just something satisfying about mowing down everything in your path

 

[Thunderhorse31]

Can I please get a 2-D Castlevania game for consoles? PLEASE???

 

[Proteus214]

I used to tear up the rail shooters at the arcade. Good times.

 

[QuirkyTambourine]

RTS's. I was brought up on these, in their heyday. I know people are still producing them and playing them but they don't dominate the market the way C&C, Age of Empires and Starcraft used to. Well...Starcraft still is ridiculously popular but the others not so much.


But of those, I miss good arcade rail shooters. Time Crisis was awesome when my camp used to go to the arcade to play, we'd wait in line to take turns and see who could get the furthest.
Flame shield...ON!!!

 

[Arkzism]

love me a point and click... monkey island ftw

 

[Nutcase]

Shoot'em ups are nowhere near dead.

It's funny that you should consider XBLA as a shmup heaven, when Microsoft has actually been declining high-profile shmups and not allowing them on XBLA lately. Anyway, there are plenty out there that are made in the last couple of years. Not a whole lot on the PS3 and Wii - current shmup platforms are PC, PS2 and 360. I'm just getting into the genre now, really.

 

[Valiance]

Voted Shmup but I'd rather say turn-based strategy, mech games, or space-flight awesome games (no other term imo) like Tachyon the Fringe, Freespace, Wing Commander, etc.

 

[SeksEin]

I always love a good point n' click

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Shmup and Point'n-Click kick ass. I must confess I'm a fanboy of the JumpStart series.

 

[lostclause]

Can I please get a 2-D Castlevania game for consoles? PLEASE???

There is one for the ds, portrait of ruin. I thought it was fairly good.

On Topic: Point and click games. Sadly I came late to the genre so missed most of the commercial titles but the ones I've tried have been fun.