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What game genre would you like to see more entrants in? (lemmy.today)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I miss vehicle deathmatch games. Interstate 76, Twisted Metal, Vigitlante 8, probably a few more I don’t remember too.

They all kinda vanished.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember enjoying the original Carmageddon quite a bit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I absolutely loved Carmageddon. My PC couldn't really handle it so it would turn into a slide show eith every crash, but I just loved it and didn't care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, someone else who played Interstate 76! Too bad Interstate 82 never saw the light of day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It absolutely did because I own it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I know, it was just so disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Whatever the hell Burnout was, too. Please god just give me classic Burnout again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

These games would look so good with the current game engines, I'd even take remakes lol.