What genre or type of games do you wish would come back?

[NHWeeb]

Survival horror where the controls are the scariest part (fatal frame got me feeling a sort of way)

 

[stealthRUSH]

A game similar to Trap Gunner

 

[E0N]

Arcade racing and pixel art 2D fighting game of AAA quality. The way it was in the 90s and early 00s.

 

[sysuah]

Late 90s to early 2000s got some genuine trailblazers but the genre I missed the most are highway racers, which the only game now for this niche is either Night-runners or the new Tokyo Xtreme Racer

 

[dropsmegamega]

3D platformers. I know indies are trying, but indies are usually more interested in making gimmicky novelty stuff than a rather more "normal" experience.

And definitely turn-based JRPGs. There was so much to choose back in the snes/ps1 era, nowadays its almost dead. I wished someone would make a serious attempt at it and put to life all that amazing concept art old games had for their fantasy RPGs.

 

[Prism_Red]

Extreme sports, like skateboarding, snowboarding, atv etc. I think we never see any new titles besides in the indies after the 7th gen.

 

[MegaHiro91]

Really miss point and clicks gotta say.

Speaking of point n clicks I wish we had more pre-rendered ones like Myst and Riven. Unless we do and I have just overlooked them?

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I miss playing Light Gun games, i know it's not a genre that will come back but playing house of the dead and time crisis was so fun, that actually kinda makes me want to play the Die Hard arcade game...

Generally I miss the days where more games came with exclusive peripherals, like the Guitar in Guitar Hero or the turntable for DJ Hero. I know all this plastic is expensive to make for just that one game, but for videogames to be a medium whose whole deal is to immerse us, I wish that more games would try to immerse us with more than just a standard controller with buttons.

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Survival horror where the controls are the scariest part (fatal frame got me feeling a sort of way)

We need more Project Zero period. Have you played the DreadOut games?

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I want to bring back mainstream publishers not making games that cost 80 milion+

Their big presentation should be about games like Viewtiful Joe

Yeah I feel that AAA games have gotten too (needlessly) big. Multi million budgets and takes 5+ years to develop, making the developers not only suffer from burnout, but it is also the reason why so many AAA games feel like copypastes these days, because at those budgets they NEED to just copy what has been proven to work because they NEED to recoup costs.

So yeah, AAA gaming has become too damn big. We need another "gaming crash".

 

[dropsmegamega]

Speaking of point n clicks I wish we had more pre-rendered ones like Myst and Riven. Unless we do and I have just overlooked them?

There's thousands of Myst style point & clicks from the 90s, but they died in early 00s. The Longest Journey style pre-rendered did continue up to the 2010s though, but mostly by German devs.

 

[CaptainToad]

PS1-era experimental games like Tales Of The Sun, Boku No Natsuyasumi, A-Train, Jellyfish The Healing Friend, LSD: Dream Emulator, Baroque, Mizzurna Falls, Moon: Remix RPG, Tecmo's Deception, Kowloon's Gate, No One Can Stop Mr. Domino, etc.

Itch.io sorta' has some of that ethos in some of the indie games posted there. Something about a relatively fully-featured experimental game where it could be any kind of experience is appealing to me over the genre-stuff.

 

[Tonberry]

Sports games that aren’t trying to be simulators in general.

 

[IHeartRetro]

@MegaHiro91 Speaking of point n clicks I wish we had more pre-rendered ones like Myst and Riven. Unless we do and I have just overlooked them?

Something I love about point and clicks is the way those games felt like one big puzzle and you needed to figure out tiny puzzles in order to get the big one.

While on the technical side, this is not a Point N Click but the Ace Attornry franchise is a good representation of this. Games like Sam and Max, Grim Fandango and I Have No Mouth and I must scream have the idea of you finding things in the world and using them to get ahead.

Sure, in AA it's more linear and don't let you explore much beyond select areas along with not having the choice to use a sponge on every little thing you come across to see if it will finally be used. That does not mean the spirit isn't there though.

The 7th Guest was a fun little romp of puzzles, you had a fun atmosphere in Day of the Tentacle and while crude by today's standards it was still a fun time to figure out what Leisure Suit Larry was up to.

Thing is, people don't really like thinking much now a days so it's a hard concept to sell anymore x.x

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

First person dungeon crawlers.