What gaming genre needs to make a comeback?

[FinalHeart95]

Platformers. Sure, we have Ratchet and Clank, but other than that, there is a SEVERE lack of platformers. And these games pretty much made my childhood.

I miss you Crash, and you too Spyro. COME BACK TO THE LIGHT!

 

[Vidiot]

I really miss Homeworld, so I think we could do with a Space RTS. Or a Homeworld 3. Whatever.

Pretty much this.
I still play Homeworld 2, and I'd love to hear that a Homeworld 3 is just around the bend.

 

[SantoUno]

Definitely platformers, if a platformer as simple as LittleBigPlanet could be so much fun imagine one that let you battle enemies with fun weapons.

 

[Amarinth]

Yeah platformers are definitely in need of a comeback, even though I'm not a real fan of them myself. But there is a severe lack of them lately.

Personally I'd really like to see the return of some good old-fashioned point-and-click adventures. Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Myst, The 7th Guest, Syberia, The Longest Journey - those are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head, but I used to play them a lot. When adventure games went into decline I switched to storyline RPG's as my main staple, but I really miss my good old adventuring days.

 

[WINDOWCLEAN2]

Im not even sure what genre it fits under but the gaming universe NEEDS SW:Battlefront 3....NOW (stares into eyes of EA)

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I really miss Homeworld, so I think we could do with a Space RTS. Or a Homeworld 3. Whatever.

Pretty much this.
I still play Homeworld 2, and I'd love to hear that a Homeworld 3 is just around the bend.

Wasn't Nexus: The Jupiter Project what HW3 became?

I swear a few people told me that but I might have been drunk at the time.

 

[Jandau]

[HEADING=1]Space Sims![/HEADING]

And I'm not just talking about fighter craft! I'd love to see an open sandbox-type game where you get to manage and control an entire capital ship or an entire fleet! There hasn't been a decent cap ship/fleet command space sim since Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. More Space RTS games are needed as well, since Homeworld 2 was the last good one (Sins of a Solar Empire is crap, I can elaborate if anyone wants). And of course, the aforementioned fighter sims!

Think of all the stuff we could do with the current technology! A battle could take place in the planet's orbit and then shift inside the atmosphere in real time. Nebulas, asteroid fields, any number of stellar anomalies and occurences could be put in as setpieces to make sure people aren't flying in empty space.

Also, the graphics could be hyper-detailed. Since there's no terrain to bother with a lot more hardware resources could go into animating the ships and the weapon effects. It would be GLORIOUS!

I can already see the games - from the classic mission-based fighter sims with branching storylines and the results and player performance of previous missions affecting the subsequent ones, to a game featuring a fleet of ships travelling the galaxy BSG-style, with management of resources, struggling to keep the people supplied while you seek a new home, all in a presistent game world.

I better go calm down, I always get overexcited when it comes to space games...

 

[OtherSideofSky]

Not a genre per se, but I would really like to see more games with well designed, needlessly detailed, fully explorable worlds, I think that HD graphics really make it hard to do this due to budget concerns, but I really miss games with environments that felt like they could exist as actual places rather than just for the sake of player interaction, where it was always fun to explore not because you were necessarily rewarded for it but because you could find something different, interesting, and totally unexpected around every corner.

Not that there were ever many games like that, of course.

Also platformers.

 

[Richard Hannay]

More challenging, story-based, puzzle games, with emphasis on challenging. Like Riven-level difficulty.

 

[Rishtaka]

Turn based strategy games.

Heroes of Might and Magic and Civilization.

 

[saphiren]

I know I probably sound really stuck in the eighties, but I miss text adventure games. Anyone remember Colossal Cave? Zork? I wasted so many hours mapping out Zork 1 with my dad, it's really a shame that nobody really wants to bother going that far back in gaming history. The last text adventure game I played was Phantom of the Arcade on this site, and it was fun, but it was too short and too easy. Figuring out all the little shortcuts in Zork was just so fun and I really wish someone would do a freeware text adventure that's as good as Zork, because that's the game that really got me into gaming.

 

[regallmighty]

just plain fun advencher games, with out major combat that makes it an action game. Just advecher games like the old tomb raders

 

[Postema]

I'd like to see more than just Mario taking on the platforming genre.

NOTE: To anybody who is about to say that there are more modern platformers than just the Mario games, look up hyperbole.

I agree with you...there needs to be more platformers!...Just not anymore Mario games...there's too many already...there's also alot of Megaman games, but I've always enjoyed the series, so I'll let the blue bomber slide

(if anyone mentions megaman 9 and the upcoming megaman 10, i say they don't exist since the megaman series has always ended at 8 games...hence why there hasn't been a megaman x9[if there was an x9, I'd have to kill some people at capcom, but i digress])

 

[blankedboy]

The Hardcore genre.

you guys remember back with all the deep gameplay elements that were, at best easy to learn hard to master. Back before everything got dumbed down so your grandma and kid cousin could pick up and play.

There was a point to that, it was so that the companies could target more audiences and make more money. Don't get me wrong, I totally agree, but still...

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

I'd like to see more than just Mario taking on the platforming genre.

NOTE: To anybody who is about to say that there are more modern platformers than just the Mario games, look up hyperbole.

I agree with you...there needs to be more platformers!...Just not anymore Mario games...there's too many already...there's also alot of Megaman games, but I've always enjoyed the series, so I'll let the blue bomber slide

(if anyone mentions megaman 9 and the upcoming megaman 10, i say they don't exist since the megaman series has always ended at 8 games...hence why there hasn't been a megaman x9[if there was an x9, I'd have to kill some people at capcom, but i digress])

What's with the enforcement of arbitrary amounts of sequels? What makes 9 and 10 not real Megaman games? Also, 10 has been out for a while.

 

[Theron Julius]

A classic RTS. I know Star Craft 2 is coming out soon, but this genre really has died other than that. I haven't seen a real RTS in a long time. I just want to do a good ol' fashioned game against some AI and win because I made a thousand of the cheapest unit. I'm probably gonna get Star Craft 2 the moment it comes out just to get that good feel of total control you get from an RTS.

 

[XT inc]

Companies should have invested more time into better tutorials and bringing people up to speed to get their target audiences up to our level.

It should insult these people to see how many points a games hardcore element had to drop, to get to a level that they could play on.

 

[Iwata]

I WANT MY SPACE SIMS BACK!