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[DryvBy]

There's always a theme or setting. A few years ago, it was bows. From Tomb Raider to Crysis 3, every game felt like it was showing off bows. We had slow motion action games for a while after Max Payne. Metroidvania's popped up with "hand drawn" art. Superhero games pop up all over the place. Different settings like medieval have come in packs. I'm noticing an uptick in ninjas and samurai this year (I'm ok with this stuff).


(please lets not discuss specifically this game or else I'll preorder)


So what's something you'd like to see next? I promise I don't work in a gaming field and my boss needs ideas for things we should return to.

I'd like to see a return to military operation espionage games. We haven't really had a lot of good gadget/spy games like a Goldeneye/PD, Splinter Cell or to some degree, Alpha Protocol. I'd prefer them without zoomer colors too and just make it look like a real military/spy game.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Bring back big budget immersive slower paced horror non linear games like System Shock 2. System Shock 3 was going to be it but it was canned. I'll like to see a bunch of these limited resource slower pace horror games back like it's the old RE1 to RE3 days with games that were similar back to them back then like Martian Gothic, Deep Fear, Carrier, SH1, Extermination, Run Like Hell, System Shock 2 etc etc.

 

[DirtInUrEye]

I wouldn't mind more action adventure single player campaigns that are linear and feel like a cinematic thrill. I'm really bored of everything being open world.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

I want to see a game in ancient Sumeria and one that follows the mythology of the Annunaki.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Dragons as Weapons.
Spyro where are you?

 

[Guilty_AI]

Souls-like boomer shooters

 

[theStartupSound]

Games based on today's real world.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Pre-Colombian Mesoamerican RPG.

 

[mopspear]

I want Pike and Shot. I want Gun Wizards. I want African-inspired Fantasy Land part of a bigger world like Warhammer. I want Copper Age Fantasy World. I want hard sci-fi human colonists with no aliens. I want more micro missile weapons. I want western fantasy artists who haven't even dared to look and be inspired by any screenshot from World of Warcraft. I want them to also find more artists like Gieger and Zdzisław Beksiński and get inspired and then run that style into the ground and repeat. I want alternate history. I want to fight the Soviets for Japan in the 1980s.

Oh yeah. One more thing. I want the concepts of sci-fi and fantasy power levels as far as the human mind can go. A galactic war between beings that fire machine guns full of Greek gods power levels.

 

[bitbydeath]

Trick weapons.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

I want to see a game in ancient Sumeria and one that follows the mythology of the Annunaki.

Pre-Colombian Mesoamerican RPG.

Both of these.. this kind of stuff please.

 

[Schmendrick]

Can't remember if I've ever seen maya/Aztec environments in a game ( not the long forgotten ruins stuff but more the peak times) and ones with antique settings like the Romans or Egyptians also seem very sparse these last few years.

 

[IAmRei]

tribal RPG such as jade cocoon maybe?
not a fan for slow rpg like that, but the theme is rare

or maybe turnbased rpg with guns similar to resonance of fate

 

[semiconscious]

as always:

open-world young, pre-jane tarzan. with spidey-style vine traversal, lots of jungle predator / rival great ape, headhunter/cannibal, & evil white 'trader' fights, & a couple lost civilizations...

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

What we do in life echoes in eternity!

 

[intbal]

Dinosaurs in space.

That hasn't been done yet.

Right?

 

[Durin]

If we did get more military/spy games, I very much want them in the realm of stealth games or at least tactical shooters ala Rainbow Six Vegas. I miss single-player campaigns where I'm against unfair odds if I just engage directly, and instead have to work around or tilt odds in my favor than just brute straightforward force or reaction speed. I'd also like to see modern hardware take more stabs at actually commanding AI squad members to take more advanced contextual actions depending on the situation. It just stopped in the PS4 generation.

I'd like to see more fantasy settings where magic and sci-fi techology are forced to coexist or work against each other, whether it's an urban flavor like Shadowrun, or closer to Steampunk with Arcanum of Steamworks & Magick Obscura. Ideally drawng from places or architecture that haven't been overused like North America or Europe.

 

[clintar]

Snow shovels

 

[poodaddy]

So what's the next trend that tons of creatively bankrupt devs will shamelessly ape?

I dunno....I just want another MegaMan X. Fuck trends.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Death Stranding 2 will finally usher in the era of "Strand Style Games"

 

[Loomy]

Souls-like boomer shooters

I know you're probably joking.....but I want it now

 

[March Climber]

OP You've already seen it: Odd future/sci-fi

 

[Guilty_AI]

I know you're probably joking.....but I want it now

Im most certainly not

 

[Dr Cowley]

Commie smasher

Also a sequel to Ghost Recon: Wildlands. Breakpoint and it's stupid high tech/ iBuildings setting sucked. Look! Robots!.....zzzz

 

[Beechos]

Depending how successful indy is on ps5 i think we could
see alot of companies try to copy that type of gameplay.

 

[simpatico]

I want a train era like we had a bow and arrow era in the PS4 gen. I want an RPG where I slowly build up my locomotive and use it to traverse a large open world.