The genre you want back
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more rail shooters in the Lylat Wars vein. Aside from that (social life murdering) game and Space debris I've yet to encounter any others.
well, there was Omega boost, but we don't talk about Omega boost
well, there was Omega boost, but we don't talk about Omega boost
Space Sims, like someone else mentioned. Maybe not so much the kind that require thick manuals to operate, but something along the lines of the Descent: Freespace series. You know... the kind that were actually top-notch, engrossing, and just darn fun to play.
Everything in this genre up through (and including) StarLancer has been crap. Freelancer had potential, but didn't quite have "it". (by adding stuff like crappy NPCs w/ dialogue)
Heck, I still occasionally fire up Freespace 2 Open Source Project instead of games like Crysis. Quality ages much more gracefully than any shallow graphics engine.
Everything in this genre up through (and including) StarLancer has been crap. Freelancer had potential, but didn't quite have "it". (by adding stuff like crappy NPCs w/ dialogue)
Heck, I still occasionally fire up Freespace 2 Open Source Project instead of games like Crysis. Quality ages much more gracefully than any shallow graphics engine.
I want more arcade style flight sims. Crimson Skies is the last title I remember. Granted, that wasn't that long ago, but long enough to say the genre needs a good jolt to the ticker.
Yes fighting games are being way too realistic now days we need a new tekken or good MK game.Lvl 64 Klutz said:
What the fuck did Xogoth the Dark Lord of Game Devs do with all the space fighter sims? Not neccesarily space sims in general, just fighter sims in particular. I don't mean boring space-mercantile trader stuff. Oh no. I mean balls-to-the-wall style Han Solo stuff, dogfighters zipping around trading missiles while bombers desperately try to outmaneuver interceptors against a backdrop of burning capital ships firing at each other with terrifyingly large laser beams.
*Breath*
Freespace 2 is, in my opinion, an exemplar of the genre, but I find myself yearning for more stuff to blow up than is located therein. That's why I pray every night that Freespace 3 would be created, remember the chances of that happening are slim to none, then cry myself to sleep.
*Breath*
Freespace 2 is, in my opinion, an exemplar of the genre, but I find myself yearning for more stuff to blow up than is located therein. That's why I pray every night that Freespace 3 would be created, remember the chances of that happening are slim to none, then cry myself to sleep.
Mech games! Please!!! I suppose they're a subgenre of the shooter, but not since MechWarrior 3 on the PC have I been satisfied with a mech game, and the visceral thrill of managing a 90-ton lumbering machine bristling with weaponry combined with the strategy of heat/munitions management has yet to be captured in an easily digestable, CD/DVD/Steam download format since MW3 (I didn't like MW4 so much). I'm hoping that Crysis mod works out - http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/, I might buy Crysis for it, and the requisite new PC required to use CryEngine 2.
The return of good 3D platformers would be great, too. I've been relegated to revisiting Mario Galaxy and Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie to get my fix.
Other than that, I can't think of any genres in themselves that haven't already been whored out in to a million, money-making pieces.
The return of good 3D platformers would be great, too. I've been relegated to revisiting Mario Galaxy and Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie to get my fix.
Other than that, I can't think of any genres in themselves that haven't already been whored out in to a million, money-making pieces.
Adventure games. Not even just point & click, the whole concept of a game whose sole purpose is to tell you a story while making you think to continue through it. I mean, they're not like dead and gone (Sam & Max, the Ace Attorney games, that kind of thing) but there just aren't enough.
i hear a lot of complaints about not having enough platformers these days. i, on the other hand, dont miss them in the least. i felt they were boring and repetitive. either jump, or run forward. no other options. i really like the way modern platformeres have evolved. recently ive been playing prince of persi, sands of time, and tomb raider: legend, and anniversary. this is, i beleive, the future of 3d platformers. the formula is changed so that instead of jump and walk forward, suddenly theres many different types of obstacles and many different types of movement to avoid them. this makes the game more thinking and less repeating, and definitely, a more fun and evolved approach to platforming.stompy said:
Is there any genre that has left? The 2D games like tetris are online, we're still getting platformers and SMG kind of put them back on the map, but I can't think of any genres that have "left".
