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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by tal@lemmy.today to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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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[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

I'd like to see more first-person shooter campaigns in general. They've mostly disappeared. And what I don't mean are the likes of Dusk or HROT that harken back to the Quake era. I'm looking for the era just beyond that, like Halo, BioShock, Half-Life, F.E.A.R., Crysis, 007 games and so on. A Cyberpunk expansion and, to a lesser extent, a remake of System Shock are all I have to scratch that itch this year. Someday the indie scene will cycle around to getting nostalgic for that type of game, and I'll get more of it again. With Free Radical facing near-certain death on that TimeSplitters revival, so do my hopes for getting more of that type of FPS again. With LAN and split-screen co-op and deathmatch with friends while we're at it too. Trying to make a game into a live service that inevitably dies is just telling me not to buy the few promising games that come around, like Friends vs. Friends.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 11 months ago

Crytek is working on Crysis 4 ๐Ÿ™‚

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

As long as it's closer to Crysis 1 and 3 and less like Crysis 2. And even though 3 was good, the story was already sent off the rails in 2.

[-] bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Ditto, I love boomer shooters, but I don't think I've played a game more like Halo or Half-Life released in the last decade.

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Only a handful sneak through. Half-Life: Alyx, Cyberpunk, Titanfall 2, there's one Wolfenstein game I haven't played yet; but options dry up fast.

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