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Post by cambertian on Nov 29, 2015 12:59:23 GMT -5
- Arcade conversions. Nowadays the hardware for home systems is just as powerful.
- Software rendering. For some reason, I miss this one the most out of any gaming trend.
- Physical DRM. This one I don't miss at all.
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Post by vetus on Nov 29, 2015 15:39:15 GMT -5
I'll add to the list water scooter racing games like Wave Race. Games where you create characters from save files of music Files Such as Monster Rancher. Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes was released from SquareEnix for iPod and iOS. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Summoner:_The_Unsung_HeroesI have played the iPod version when it was first released and it was quite good. Such a shame I suck at tactical rpg games. Trading Card Games, These seemed to have disappeared almost from Consoles and are getting rare on handhelds too. For example they is only 1 Yugioh game on 3DS which was worse in ever way (and even worse outside japan with all the removed story content and typos) to the DS games and they was over 6 games on the series on DS. PSP also had 7 in the series but they is Zero for Vita. TCG easily print money on smartphones with no much effort. Then again, the only popular TCG I recall for consoles in english are YuGiOh, a Pokemon TCG for Gameboy Color and SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters. Japanese Space Shooters with the kind of humor titles like parodius had seem to be dead also. Not space shooter but Trouble Witches Neon for XBLA is a great shmup with nice humoristic dialogues. It doesn't have the wacky humor of Parodius but still it's quite comical. But yeah, I also miss comical shmups. I had some hopes with Otomedius but the final result was disappointing.
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Post by ZenithianHero on Nov 29, 2015 16:00:49 GMT -5
Last non-YuGiOh card game I know for console is Lucadian Chronicles for Wii U. Also, I'm sure there's a Weiss Schwarz game in Japan somewhere.
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Post by acidonia on Nov 29, 2015 18:28:04 GMT -5
Card Fight Vanguard had 2 Japan only 3DS games. Yugioh had a Facebook game called Yugioh BAM but it shut down in 2014 and a paid per pack PC yugioh game in 2014 got shut down in 2014 barely 6 months after launch. The last console game Yugioh got was this year for xbox one and ps4 though it uses the exact same engine as the 360/ps3 games did which used a version of the psp game engine to begin with. Yet this version has no Wii U/360 ps3 version despite all could handle it guess its just konami begin konami. Though the 7th and final yugioh tag force game on psp was only for japan and digital only this year too after like a 2+ year break on the psp titles.
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Post by GamerL on Nov 29, 2015 19:23:59 GMT -5
- Fast paced and humorous FPS games Really? Did you play the Shadow Warrior reboot? Because it's pretty much exactly that.
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Post by alphex on Nov 30, 2015 4:07:28 GMT -5
- Arcade conversions. Nowadays the hardware for home systems is just as powerful.
Nowadays, there's no noteworthy new Arcade releases anymore! - Physical DRM. This one I don't miss at all.
You mean stuff like the code-wheel from Monkey Island? Or just shit that causes CDs to not be recognised by the system?
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Post by 90sgamer92 on Nov 30, 2015 8:58:19 GMT -5
Really? Did you play the Shadow Warrior reboot? Because it's pretty much exactly that. Again goes back to my point about Kickstarter. One nostalgic mid budget indie reboot/reimagining of a classic game, and suddenly a trend/subgenre that's been dead for over a decade is considered alive and kicking?
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Post by GamerL on Nov 30, 2015 17:47:49 GMT -5
Really? Did you play the Shadow Warrior reboot? Because it's pretty much exactly that. Again goes back to my point about Kickstarter. One nostalgic mid budget indie reboot/reimagining of a classic game, and suddenly a trend/subgenre that's been dead for over a decade is considered alive and kicking? The point of this thread though is to find trends of which there are literally no modern examples of whatsoever, rather than trends that aren't as popular as they used to be. Since Shadow Warrior is a very clear cut example of what you mentioned, that means the trend is still not totally "dead" even if it's not as popular as other things.
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Post by 90sgamer92 on Dec 1, 2015 7:16:41 GMT -5
Having a game intentionally mimic (and reboot) and old game for nostalgic value (usually to purporsefully provide an alternative for modern day trends, even when these reboots usually stray too far away from what made the original games work) doesn't really say anything about what's currently trending in the business. If there were new IPs by big studios following that example and making games in similar style, then you could say that the trend isn't dead.
You could say that there's now a trend of rebooting classic FPS franchises (Shadow Warrior, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein, Doom, Unreal Tournament). When some one like Treyarch can make a FPS that isn't a "serious&gritty" gray brown military shooter with chest high walls and regenerating health, then you can say that the trend of more light hearted and fast paced shooters has been ressurected. Maybe if the new Unreal Tournament does what Tribes: Ascend couldn't and gains mainstream popularity, then we might see a new wave of fast paced shooters flooding the market.
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Post by Woody Alien on Dec 1, 2015 10:55:09 GMT -5
Just a few that came on top of my head: - Single-screen platformers a la Snow Bros/Tumblepop etc. - Those (usually erotic) games where you have to uncover a picture in a time limit - Third-person shooters a la Wild Guns where you control your character in the foreground - Cute'em-ups, and that's a damn shame because I loved them (Touhou fucking Project does not count in my book) - Arcade games where you have to physically interact e.g the Hokuto no Ken Punchmania - Shooting minigames a la Point Blank
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2015 11:04:04 GMT -5
Woody Alien: Just out of curiousity, why don't you count Touhou Project?
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Post by Chronis on Dec 1, 2015 11:46:34 GMT -5
- Shooting minigames a la Point Blank I love lightgun games, so this one definitely hurts. It's kind of shocking that they didn't come back with the PS Move, since there was some life in the Wii days.
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Post by lurker on Dec 1, 2015 12:05:46 GMT -5
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Dec 1, 2015 17:15:56 GMT -5
- Arcade conversions. Nowadays the hardware for home systems is just as powerful.
I like that with a lot of old (arcade) games there are various different versions due to hardware differences. You'd have a game on like, Arcade, NES, Master System, some home computers, etc. which where all distinct versions of one game. Woody Alien : Just out of curiousity, why don't you count Touhou Project? Probably because they're not cute-em-ups.
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Post by cambertian on Dec 1, 2015 19:05:31 GMT -5
I like that with a lot of old (arcade) games there are various different versions due to hardware differences. You'd have a game on like, Arcade, NES, Master System, some home computers, etc. which where all distinct versions of one game. I like that a lot too. My favorite is when they add extra modes that weren't in the arcade, like Super Hang-On's "Original" mode. This is the best thing I've heard all week!
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