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?
I miss vehicle deathmatch games. Interstate 76, Twisted Metal, Vigitlante 8, probably a few more I don’t remember too.
They all kinda vanished.
I remember enjoying the original Carmageddon quite a bit.
I absolutely loved Carmageddon. My PC couldn’t really handle it so it would turn into a slide show eith every crash, but I just loved it and didn’t care.
These games would look so good with the current game engines, I’d even take remakes lol.
Holy shit, someone else who played Interstate 76! Too bad Interstate 82 never saw the light of day.
It absolutely did because I own it