Genres You Want To Make A Comeback

[TheRatcatcher]

For me, I want to see a return of old school Real Time Strategy games in both microscale and macroscale. What other genres do you want to see a return or possible new genres to be invented?

 

[Twitter Hate Mob]

Turn-based isometric 4X games.

I just want Alpha Centauri but pretty.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Old-school Shin Megami Tensei style RPGs.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

Updated series of Tenchu: Stealth Assassin. The background environment was really quite immersive and beautifully done. The first level had the big boss battle take part in a Japanese zen garden and it was wonderful.

 

[smallmilk]

Little RPG maker games with great stories (think Ib, Witch's house, Yume Nikki etc.). They all hold a special place in my heart, probably because of nostalgia, I feel like recent indie games lack good storytelling

 

[CheezzyMach]

Arcade Racers

3D Fighting games

 

[Syaoran Li]

Saints Row
Syphon Filter
Army Men
Empire Earth
Warlords Battlecry
Dino Crisis
Darkstalkers

I'd also like to see Time Crisis and CarnEvil make a comeback, but I'd reboot them into different genres since arcades are dead in America and console light gun games are almost impossible in a post-CRT world.

A remake of CarnEvil would work very well as a survival horror/horror comedy game on the RE Engine used by the recent Resident Evil 2 remake. While CarnEvil is a Midway IP, I honestly think Capcom or some other company could probably buy the rights off of Netherrealm Studios for the right price.

I'd also like to see a reboot of Time Crisis, either as a single-player FPS or maybe some sort of action-adventure or RPG game. Personally, I'd go all out and play the 80's and 90's action movie tropes to the hilt and do so completely straight without any hint of irony. Have it be a love letter to the glory days of action flicks.

Hell, I'd be fine with a Time Crisis reboot being an open-world game with the VSSE agents doing saboteur and counter-revolutionary work in strange locales. Sort of like Just Cause, but with a different style and better gameplay.

 

[vertexwindi]

Immersive sims.

It's technically more of a design philosophy than a genre but fuck it.

 

[MrTroll]

Metroidvanias, we just don't have enough of those these days.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

A remake of CarnEvil would work very well as a survival horror/horror comedy game on the RE Engine used by the recent Resident Evil 2 remake. While CarnEvil is a Midway IP, I honestly think Capcom or some other company could probably buy the rights off of Netherrealm Studios for the right price.

If anything I think another carnevil game would be a sequel with the same kid from the first given how the ending of one went with him going for another round.

 

[Overcast]

I suppose games with fixed camera angles? Playing stuff like Haunting Ground, Fatal Frame, and Silent Hill 2, it does give the games kind of a cinematic feel. It highlights environmental details and gives players certain impressions due to the way the camera is angled in certain areas.

Plus there is a feeling of tension and panic from entering a new place and not knowing exactly where to go due to the camera angles. I'd imagine it's pretty difficult doing that without it being a major hindrance to gameplay and I applaud those who actually did that sort of thing right.

 

[The Last Stand]

Rail gun, on rails shooters. I liked Time Crisis. With VR, that can make it more immersive.

 

[Chonburi Flaps]

Arcade Racers

Sega Rally, Ridge Racer, Outrun and similar would be great.

 

[Marco Fucko]

FPS games with power gimmicks. I'm thinking like Jedi Knight or Dark Messiah. Being able to use either special powers or the environment to kill people in interesting ways is really cool and I'd like to see more of it.

 

[Wingnut]

Arcade Racers

Xbox actually has an arcade style racer coming out in the near future.

 

[CheezzyMach]

Xbox actually has an arcade style racer coming out in the near future.

Godlike. It's beautiful.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

Xbox actually has an arcade style racer coming out in the near future.

The announcers voice is perfect. Like they put the recording booth and sound engineer in a time machine.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Quest games, and I mean ones that have actual items and puzzles in them rather than a glorified visual novel.

 

[Pargon]

Side-scrolling 2D beat 'em ups. The bigger the spectacle the better. Remember how awesome AvP was in '94? Think about what we could do now.

I just wanna kick the shit out of 100,000 men and look awesome while doing it

 

[Fagnacious D]

RTS/FPS Hybrids with a focus on multiplayer.
C&C Renegade (sort of, lacked any kind of ability to build)
Battle Zone Combat Commander / Battle Zone 2 for the PC were awesome examples of this
Savage 1 / Savage 2 (S2 Games, the creators of this was run rather poorly)
Natural Selection 1 and 2.