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[Chairman Yang]

Personally, there aren't nearly enough rail shooters for my taste. I'm hoping for a new Star Fox or Kid Icarus Uprising, but I'd be happy with any competent, mid-budget or higher take on the genre. Heck, Sony should get Team Asobi to make one (Astro Bot players who've finished the game will know how good the team would be at making one).

I also think there's a dearth of arcade racers nowadays. They're well-represented in the indie space, but go above that and there are slim pickings aside from Forza Horizon or Mario Kart, both of which are great but don't have quite enough variation to completely satisfy my craving. I'd like to see more like Cruis'n Blast.

 

[Parazels]

Twisted Metal like games.

 

[Rush2112]

Not enough single player FPS campaigns. Not enough the likes of Half Life 2, FEAR, Black, Killzone, Bioshock, or original Far Cry.

Why? GenZ like the cartoony online shit, that’s why.

 

[Robb]

Rail shooters are a good one. I’d love a new Sin & Punishment.

I’d like to see more real time/action RTS games in the likes of Pikmin/Tinykin/Little King’s Story.

 

[R6Rider]

Stealth games.

Most stealth games are extremely basic when it comes to pure stealth focused mechanics.

Games should be implementing these types of things:
- lighting - Are you in complete darkness, bad lighting, really affecting your visibility and visibility of the environment that guards are in. Also using lights to blind and affect guards.
- sound - Sounds that would warranty caution, and others that wouldn't. Also material based sounds. Ability to sound mask things.
- context - Noises guards would or would not assume are other guards or workers in an area. Similarly being spotted. Are you far enough away where a guard would simply assume it's another guard or worker?
- environment - Guards noticing open doors, lights turned off/broken, objects missing or objects where they weren't before or shouldn't be.
- reactions - Guards using lights to check dark areas, waiting for backup, calling out (and reacting to responses or lack of), noticing other guards missing, etc.
And so on...

Some games, especially older ones, have some of the elements above. In most cases, games have very basic or straight up bad stealth mechanics that boils down to crouching behind stuff and waiting for guards to move.

 

[Arachnid]

Proper stealth. Metal Gear is dead (outside of a low effort 1:1 remake), Hitman is finished, Deus Ex is dead, Splinter Cell has been dead but has a remake that's been in development for like 7 years, Dishonored is dead, Thief is dead.

Mindless stealth like AC is thriving though.

EDIT: Rider above beat me too it.

 

[El Muerto]

3rd person action games. It has been abysmal this gen and last gen too. I miss all the 3rd person action games we got during the PS360 era. Games like Splinter Cell, 007, Bourne Conspiracy, Stranglehold, Kane and Lynch, Red Faction, Spec Ops, Vanquish, Army of Two, Bionic Commando, Dark Void, Binary Domain, Mercenaries. I think the last good ones were Just Cause 3, Hitman, and Control and those were all last gen.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Edit: Totally wrong thread.

Always shmups.

 

[intbal]

Bootlegging Simulators

 

[RetroAV]

I think the fighting game genre is underdeveloped, mostly due to the focus on esports. Similarly, the racing game genre has been underdeveloped because of the focus on chasing casual mass appeal.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

Realtime strategy.

Probably died off for a reason, but I liked them

 

[Bulletzen72]

Shmups and RTS games

 

[Rudius]

Racing games that don't use real tracks or open worlds, but custom made courses to race in.

 

[KimDongHwan]

Personally, I think we are missing more high budget Digimon-like raising game ala Digimon World 1 for the PS1. A combination of taking care of your partner plus training and adventure/discovery world. Also with some of the city building aspect of it where by bringing more allies you unlock things that will make it better for the future.

 

[Brakum]

Roguelikes. Yes for the most part they're smaller indie games when im sure it would work at a bigger scale

 

[Zacfoldor]

I'm not going to do a direct reply but I will say that I think roguelikes are in a pretty good spot. Not trying to criticize here, all opinions are valid.

RTS is the answer.

I think there is some genre confusion going on too, because I would love to say MMOs here. For the longest time it was only wow and FFXIV. Then games that were kinda flatter but aspired to be MMOs called themselves MMOs like Destiny 2 and Diablo 4, and now we have genres like Genshin where I don't even fucking know what that is, so maybe MMOs are good now?

 

[Caffeine]

most sports games have kinda plateaued in the year of 2017 and they have been barely updating them outside of roster updates and in the case of nba 2k they focus more development on the stupid cards and the social city space then the actual basketball game they are making.

 

[analog_future]

Cinematic, story driven first person shooters ala Half-Life, Halo, Quake, etc..

 

[Fabieter]

Over the top action games like bayonetta

 

[Gonzito]

Sniping games and stealth games

 

[poppabk]

Shmups. The genre is stuck in the pixel era but Cygni all guns blazing really made me wish for some more modern takes.

 

[Edmund]

Turn based strategy games/turn based tactical rpgs.

 

[Pejo]

Arcade racers, god sims, turn-based JRPGs (outside of Atlas) with a decent-sized budget, hand drawn/pixel 2D fighters, top down action puzzle games (like 2D Zelda or Alundra).

Also would it kill somebody to make a spiritual successor to either Waverace 64 or Blast Corps?

 

[Fbh]

Non open world arcade racers.
I'd like more games like Driveclub that take you to multiple countries instead of all the arcade racers being open world. I also liked when they were a bit more serious without shitty music and annoying wacky characters that constantly talk to you.

Character action games like Bayonetta, DMC, Ninja Gaiden Black, etc.
Everyone just seems to make Souls-likes or action RPG's now. Though Korean and Chinese devs seem to be blurring the line with stuff like Stellar Blade and Wukong.

 

[ReBurn]

I wish there were more bigger budget arcade racers. I also want another OG Burnout game.

 

[Zacfoldor]

I forgot these:

Rhythm - my kingdom for a new Guitar Hero: Metallica
Golf - I'll never get those Tiger Woods games back, will I?
Burnout - I don't even like these types of games but I bet I've watched dozens of hours of Burnout Paradise playing them as party games during get togethers. Highly specialized but amazing quality entertainment in the right setting.

Also, I'm just gonna go with it:

All games made by Peter Molyneux have been missing from my life for way too long. The man is a national treasure.

 

[kruis]

I want a next gen "Motor Storm" ...



... and a new Burnout game.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Battle Royale

Extraction Shooters

Roguelites

Survival Games


These are the 4 most important genres in gaming over the next 10 years.

 

[Hudo]

REAL-TIME STRATEGY

 

[TintoConCasera]

The world could use more Zelda-likes and Dragon's Dogma-likes for sure.

 

[Clintizzle]

"Gaas" - Herman Hulst

I don't know if it's a Genre per se, but I really like the episodic releases that telltale games used to do. Short, great-ish stories and punishing.

 

[Kokoro2020]

Platform fighters, AKA Super Smash Bros.-like games. Besides the Smash games themselves, I can't think of many mainstream ones, besides PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 1 and 2.

 

[SyberWolf]

MMO/MMORPG style games

i feel these games can be more ambitious.

 

[mdkirby]

Crime solving cop games. There’s LA noire, some side quest bits of stuff like Batman (and their recent vr game). Parts of Detroit and heavy rain. Then a smatter of AA games like Nobody wants to die, few Sherlock games and other frogwares games, Then a few low budget indies like the golden idol. As a games genre it’s borderline non existent, yet is a wildly popular tv genre, and is well set up to pace out slower crime solving segments with chases, gun fights etc if action scenes are needed.

I’d buy them all in a heartbeat

 

[tr1p1ex]

IN other words everything basically.

 

[Magic Carpet]

High quality art asset VR only games.

 

[Hypereides]

Personally, there aren't nearly enough rail shooters for my taste. I'm hoping for a new Star Fox or Kid Icarus Uprising, but I'd be happy with any competent, mid-budget or higher take on the genre. Heck, Sony should get Team Asobi to make one (Astro Bot players who've finished the game will know how good the team would be at making one).

I also think there's a dearth of arcade racers nowadays. They're well-represented in the indie space, but go above that and there are slim pickings aside from Forza Horizon or Mario Kart, both of which are great but don't have quite enough variation to completely satisfy my craving. I'd like to see more like Cruis'n Blast.

A Rail shooters wave is probably coming. I've come across two relatively modern ones recently:

Rogue flight:



Fur squadron:



Then you got other recent stuff like Martian panic, The house of dead remakes, and Operation Wolf.

 

[KàIRóS]

MMOs are basically dead outside of WoW and FFXIV (maybe Black Desert too) and getting replaced by Gacha games and other Free To Play games.

New ones come out and they have maybe 6 months to a year of a healthy player base and then they just die.

 

[Shaki12345]

Walking simulators. Playing Observer System Redux now and it's glorious.

 

[Humdinger]

This isn't a genre, but I wish there were more short/medium-length (under 20 hours) linear games with AA budget.

 

[Chairman Yang]

High quality art asset VR only games.

Actually, your user name would be a perfect candidate for a lavish VR version.

 

[Ian Henry]

Traditional 3D Fighters

 

[Daigo]

Male protagonists games

 

[Efren is G.O.A.T.]

Stealth games.

Most stealth games are extremely basic when it comes to pure stealth focused mechanics.

Games should be implementing these types of things:
- lighting - Are you in complete darkness, bad lighting, really affecting your visibility and visibility of the environment that guards are in. Also using lights to blind and affect guards.
- sound - Sounds that would warranty caution, and others that wouldn't. Also material based sounds. Ability to sound mask things.
- context - Noises guards would or would not assume are other guards or workers in an area. Similarly being spotted. Are you far enough away where a guard would simply assume it's another guard or worker?
- environment - Guards noticing open doors, lights turned off/broken, objects missing or objects where they weren't before or shouldn't be.
- reactions - Guards using lights to check dark areas, waiting for backup, calling out (and reacting to responses or lack of), noticing other guards missing, etc.
And so on...

Some games, especially older ones, have some of the elements above. In most cases, games have very basic or straight up bad stealth mechanics that boils down to crouching behind stuff and waiting for guards to move.

 

[Calico345]

Old school action games without the Soulslike stamina nonsense.

Yes, I know we got Stellar Blade and Wukong (that had no stamina, right?!), but we need more. Seems like only the Musou genre delivers with any regularity, and yet that's still something specific and not a traditional action game type.

 

[WoJ]

Tower defense games. My favorite genre that no one cares about. Defense Grid and Defense Grid 2 are still the best out there. The next best would be playing something like Age of Empires or Command and Conquer and just turtling.

I'd love for the genre to really develop beyond DG.

 

[Kruza]

I would like to see development of a type of game that feature hydroplane boats, speed boats, and/or jet skis racing over bodies of water, whether gigantic oceans, wide body lakes, or even narrow rivers/streams. The available technology provided in these current gen consoles or PC should be able to provide an accurate enough level of detail for proper water physics, and how the displaced water interacts with any of these racing boats gliding or bouncing over the top of its surface at blazing speeds.

Hell, I would take a modernized update of Hydro Thunder at this point. Or Wave Race. Or Jet Moto.