Are You More Into Niche or Popular Games?

[Bofferbrauer]

Mostly Niche games nowadays, as very few games outside of Indie games and Nintendo really interest me.

My favorite game genres are Turn-based stategy games like Battle Isle and Panzer General, but games like these are basically nowhere to be seen nowadays. (Turn-based tactics are well alive, but just not the same and I like them much less)

I also love western RPGs with a party and turn-based combat (or at least real-time with pause) like the Might & Magic series and Wizardry 6-8 (the Dark Savant Trilogy). Not very much to be found in this genre either

I love old-style shooters with lots of (whacky) guns, health and armor pickups, giant mooks, an so on. Games like the early Duke Nukem, Doom and Serious Sam, but I have no interest in those shooters made nowadays without these features. Splatoon is the first Shooter in over a decade which really caught my interest.

I loved spaceshooters, but pretty much all of them nowadays are bullet hell, which I don't like.

I love more whacky racing games with some kind of weaponry like Extreme-G, but apart from Mario Kart there are basically no other games in that genre anymore.

I also like Visual Novels, but good luck getting them to the west.

Long story short, most genres I love are dead in the eyes of the major publishers and even indie games rarely go into these genres. Which results in me mostly playing retrogames on PC (over 200 game entries on my shelf on GOG.com) and some games on Wii U. There was literally not a single game on Xbox ONE or PS4 yet which caught my interest whatsoever yet, and the same happened in the previous generation already with the PS360.