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chaospluto said:
Take a look at this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_genres

It wouldn't be easy just to think of a "new" genre.

 

ya that list covers about everything



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what about 3d games.



 

 

 

 

Erotics.

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pichu_pichu said:
Virtual Reality.

 

I'm still waiting for the Virtual Boy Advance.



Sky Render said:
The best genres are derived from real-life activities, but made to be fun (ideally, anyway). Apparently ideas are running short on that front since "new' genres are mostly just combinations of old ones (save perhaps Endless Ocean's "exploration" genre).

As for a truly new genre, that's a tricky kettle of fish. Hmm....

Imagination - A video game realization of the very embodiment of childhood fantasies and "adventures", with the same sort of "real becomes unreal" twist that they had, and the same "unreal returns to real" twist at the very end. I can't really describe it accurately, save to say that the best way to picture it is to remember just how much fun those crazy daydreams and play adventures you had as a kid really were.

Pokemon Snap? XD

 

And I agree with WoW.

 



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Wii-sleep.



... 3rd person over the shoulder hack and slash..... they probably have that don't they....



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chaospluto said:
Take a look at this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_genres

It wouldn't be easy just to think of a "new" genre.

 

No, it wouldn't, but there's a lot of room to explore by combining genres in unique ways.

 

Why NOT design a pinball-fighter hybrid?



WiiStation360 said:
RTS-FPS.

One player generating units, building bases, managing resources, and sending combat orders. The other players on the team can control any of the combat units on the field in 1st person view, from marine, to dropship or tank.

 

Thats been done before on the PC many times.

 

The Battlezone games were like that though not exactly as you described it but they were classified as RTS/FPS

 

Battlefield 2 has a commander who issues orders to squads and can watch from a sattelite overhead view of all his troops.

 

There was this one RTS/FPS a while ago that was almost exactly like as you said but I can't remember the name that was based in a modern warfare setting.

 

And I am sure there are others as well.



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