StormyFire Posted December 9, 2021 Posted December 9, 2021 Are there any game genres that you consider "dead"? I feel like the MMORPG genre is dead. Every time a new one comes up (which isn't super often), it declines pretty quickly.
The Blackangel Posted December 10, 2021 Posted December 10, 2021 I feel like true fantasy games are long gone. Sure, we still have Zelda and sparse others. The problem is that they are nothing compared to what they used to be. Something that's a true wizards and warriors style game. The so called "fantasy" games we have now are a joke.
Head_Hunter Posted December 10, 2021 Posted December 10, 2021 PES is slowly dying off, if they continue on their current trend of disastrous decision making process they'll simply end up being dead.
skyfire Posted December 10, 2021 Posted December 10, 2021 I think some of the retro aged genres often get revived despite being dead but a lot of those DOS based retro games are dying or dead.
Withywarlock Posted December 10, 2021 Posted December 10, 2021 It's hard to say without being hyper-specific (i.e zombie survival crafting open world) that a genre is well and truly dead. We can argue that their glory days are over, such as MMOs, where right now New World, Final Fantasy XIV and EVE Online seem to be doing OK but aren't as popular as when World of Warcraft was at its peak. But until there's not a single person playing that game, until there's not a single developer making one of those games, that genre is not - and cannot - die. They can however evolve. Dungeon crawlers in the style of The Elder Scrolls: Arena or Ultima Underworld grew into what we now know as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim or Fallout 3. The days of Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar went on to inspire the self-aggrandising "immersive sim" genre with System Shock and Prey (2017). And speaking of roleplaying games, there's that many subgenres I can't even begin to count them all, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to find the dividing line between what is and what is not an RPG. Just when a genre is thought to be dead someone usually repopularises it, or there's an unseen surge of games. The real-time strategy (RTS) genre was thought to have been dead until people decided to just make them, and they got tons of money for it. And bearing in mind this is on PC, the platform for RTS titles. It's amazing how things come and go out of the blue.
skyfire Posted December 12, 2021 Posted December 12, 2021 RPG are kind of evolving each year based on graphics and the type of the gameplay being added. Traditional RPGs which started 1v1 or 1 vs 3 are kind of slowing down though.
