| vivster said: The gaming market is fine as it is. There is an abundance of games for any kind of player in any genre. If there is ever a niche it will be filled quickly. AAA studios aren't the whole gaming industry. They do what's popular and most things that are popular are terribly boring because the average human is terribly boring. Can't fault them for catering to that. |
I mean yeah, RTS does get filled pretty quickly, but it's filled with not Age of Empires/C&C/SC/KKND style games though, which leaves me disappointed as a result.
I do miss the days when AAA was paying attention to the genre, because back in the 90's it was at the top with other genres like platformers and racing titles. I miss when we'd get a nice polished and chunky RTS title, or even a new Diablo ARPG. Now these days you either get an RTS that's really just copying Commandos and you've got funky gimmicks and cards like you're playing D&D (not C&C/AoE style base building) or you get a poorly executed game like Grey Goo.
The only RTS game not from a AAA studio I can think of that was god, was Planetary Annihilation, only because that managed to toss in some Supreme Comm and TA in there, as well as getting an expansion. Meanwhile Petroglyph, a studio that used to be a former AAA studio (Westwoood) was busy messing around with 8-bit armies, Grey Goo and Forged Battalion, all of which pretty much flopped or missed the mark of being actually good for years on end.
Nearly every genre gets a filling, yes that goes without saying, but I think what you're missing here is that it's not always filled with great quality. Some genres are just spammed with clones until they get dried out, others with poorly cobbled together games. I feel like the FPS genre has some quality games in the past 5 years, way more than what ARPG's/RTS got.
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