Game genres no longer being made today

never had a go at those i have only played Amstrad twice in my life for Zork LOL another Genre lacking or extinct is FMV games how i wish they would comeback with todays technology surely we can have amazing FMV with quality gameplay ! I want Wing commander 5 and a night trap sequel in HD why abandonn FMV completely are people too lazy to act for a game these days ? LOL

 

new wing commander games would be great, space combat sims have been mentioned already too, i do miss them,

the space question and return to zork i have are pc versions, space quest is a collection games 1 - 5 including VGA remakes, i think there's a 6 but never played it,

 

Syndicate, I want a new one.

 

beat'm ups have just been replaced by hack'n slash games like god of wars.

 

Every kind of shmup is alive and well. Bullet hell, manic, methodical, you name it. Many of them are independent/PC/import only, but they exist.

Side scrolling beat-em' ups are a niche game product now, but one or two come out each year.

Side-scrolling shooters like Metal Slug, Contra, Etc are also still getting produced. Again, look at PC imports from Japan.

Robotron, Smash TV, and Total Carnage live on as Geometry Wars.

A genre that's really dead is something like the older style arcade racers. Stuff like Pole Position, Hang-On, Outrun, Cruis'n. They just don't have the cult following for people to be demanding new chapters, and the indie community seems uninterested. It's a shame too, there is a lot of unrealized potential there, I think.

 

There was already a new Syndicate ...

You should try Nitronic Rush, it's free and heavily inspired by Rush 2049. They also had a Kickstarter for a new, similar game called Distance.

 

I think this world needs more Space shooters of the 2D Variety like Axelay and Thunderforce (the horizontal type especially), but also, there's a severely depressing dearth of 3D Spaceship combat games - Of the more arcadey variety, like Starfox or Omega Boost or Zone of the Enders (yeah, the remakes are out, I know), or the more serious variety, like Colony Wars or Wing Commander.
I was really, really excited for Project Sylpheed - with the GameArts and the Kenichiro Fukui Soundtrack and the pretty Macross/Galaxy Angel style ships - and the Panty-shot in a cinema from the very first mission... but it was a really disappointing letdown.

Also the new Star Raiders wasn't that good either.

The world needs a good Space combat game, and soon.

 

Shoot 1 up wants to have a word with you all.

 

I would like too see return to this era some shooters, platforms and arcade type racing games. I love the Sega Saturn because of the awesome game it has of those genres. I remember Ashtal, Clockworth Knight, shooters like Gun frontier, Layer section, racing like Daytona, Sega Rally etc. just to name some. Beat em ups like Guardian Heroes, Dungeons n dragons, Die Hard Arcade even batman forever arcade. Those where great times.

 

You are right, thank you for reminding me. :moody:

 

There is a lack of old school beat em ups. they seemed to die out when the 16-bit era ended only a handful on the PS1 and Saturn.

 

Pong clones seem to be "out" these days. Also text adventures.

 

Discworld, I really miss that game. Oh and some games like "Defender of the Crown" or "Barbarian" as they were on Amiga 500

 

Good combat flight sims: the last Ace Combat was plain bad.

Give me a new Crimson Skies, an Ace Combat like the ones for the PSX, but for the love of god not another HawX

BTW, don't telltalegames count as point&click?

 

Futuristic racers throughout the 90s and early 2000s there was quiet alot of them ...... now the maker of Wipeout has apparently Wipedout XD and Extreme G seems gone forever also where the fuck is F-ZERO ? its pretty much 10 years since GX soon and almost 7 years since the last GBA F-zero

 

Mech games seem to be pretty dead too, at least Mechwarrior Online is finally playable.

 

Dude, Hawken? that game rocks

 

Honestly I've never heard of it until now, but I'll probably give it a try since it's about to go public beta.

 

same, love mech games though will need to check this out

 

Text Adventures? Through i've just played HellMoo a little