The genre you want back

[Saskwach]

Many genres that have graced gaming are over the hill, have had their day, are showing their age and other similar metaphors. People used to like them but then grew tired of the same thing and moved on to the latest fad genre. Of course, some of us are hopeless nostalgics and refuse to believe our darlings have grown wrinkles and are wouching up their wills. No, adventure! You're still young in my eyes! RPGs, you're 45 years young! (I called it on the off chance I'll be proved right.)
What genre do you most grieve for?

 

[MichaelH]

I go back and forth regarding the falling-block genre. On the one hand, how many more of those games do we really need? On the other, now that, by and large, companies have eschewed making them for consoles, it's increasingly unlikely that we'll get rare gems like Puzzle Fighter or Dr. Mario. Games like that make the 1,000s of mediocre titles worthwhile.

 

[Librarian Mike]

I miss good old shmups. Ikaruga is an outstanding game, but it seems that the 2D shooter is going the way of the dodo bird. I guess as games are evolving these days, the focus is becoming ever more about story and cinematics. That's great and everything, but there's something to be said for a game you can just turn on and start playing and doesn't require a massive time investment.

 

[Blayze]

I miss the Infinity Engine style of CRPGs, back when alignment systems had lefts and rights and diagonals as opposed to merely up and down! It's a bit ironic though. 2d gaming faded away and 3d gaming took its place, just as 2d morality faded away to be replaced with a 1d variant.

 

[MichaelH]

Side-scrollers. Contra and Ninja Gaiden stole my youth.

 

[Alexandrous]

I miss the old top-down shooters. I can't think of a name off the top of my head, except for the Aliens games on Gameboy. Oh, and while they still pop up from time to time, especially now on the Wii, I think we could do with more rail-shooters.

 

[crusha_aa]

Whatever happened to city building games? And i dont mean games like Sim City i mean the ancient city building games like Pharoah, Caesar and Zeus.

 

[Sylic]

I really miss beat'em ups. A good multi player beat'em up would still be alot of fun.

 

[MichaelH]

I miss side-scrollers. The only ones I see these days are for portables and/or feature some damn Italian plumber in red overalls. Where are the GUN based scrollers like Bio Menace or Robocop vs Terminator?

There's also a horrible trend in side-scrolling shooters to make them as cartoony as possible. Call it the Metal Slug phenomenon.

 

[MissDumpling]

MOAR SHOOTERS ON RAILS.

seriously. Ghost Squad. I can't get enough of it. Granted rather shallow in the whole "I want to blast the hell out of everything with my MASSIVE gun". It's fun and cheaper than lots of quarters.

 

[MichaelH]

"I want to blast the hell out of everything with my MASSIVE gun".

Somewhere, the ghost of Freud is elbowing the ghost of Jung in the ribs and making "See? Told you so" faces.

 

[Credge]

COOP. I call it a genre because very few games actually did it, and even fewer did it right. Games like Serious Sam, Quake 2, and (hopefully) Left 4 Dead are all of the genre that's actually worth playing.

 

[NickSettle]

I really miss beat'em ups. A good multi player beat'em up would still be alot of fun.

The warriors, dude that is the newest of that genre I believe, also my dfavourite, seriously that game rocked, but If I could have one back i'd say, Adventure games Lucasarts style,good ol' point and click. Simple yet so Amazingly funny. If not that then a GOOD Cowboy/western game e.g GUN + 15hours more bloody gameplay.

 

[Najal]

witty adventure games please.

bring back monkey island.

 

[Singing Gremlin]

"I want to blast the hell out of everything with my MASSIVE gun".

Somewhere, the ghost of Freud is elbowing the ghost of Jung in the ribs and making "See? Told you so" faces.

Freud was a no-talent nutter with a fucked up head. He thought every boy wants to sleep with his mother, but that's a load of crap. Freud's mother was OLD, and by no means a MILF.

Freud was the modern-artist of his day. Questionable talent in his field, but he could make shit up like no-one else, and no-one could really prove him wrong.

Oh, and he also said that every boy wants to sleep with his mother AND murder his father.

 

[SirSinisterMD]

Point and Click adventures. Its time for a new Kings Quest or Quest for Glory! The Wii would be the perfect platform for it too.

Though I was thinking: Oblivion seems to be the modern version of the point and click adventure. Non-linear gameplay, hundreds of objects you can find, QFG pioneered the idea of guilds that you could join and rise to the top of, I'm sure the list goes on. Maybe they should redo the Quest for Glory series as a first person RPG and let Bethesda handle it.