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Gnac on 28 June 2009
luvtospooge said:
Yall forgot about Side scrolling shooting games ( Ravage, Ikaruga)...As far as I'm concerned, I only saw remakes and not new games.

Wha?

When I read Side-scrolling, I thought of horizontal Shmups like Darius / Gradius / R-Type (Blast Works for Wii is excellent, btw - It's pretty much Tumiki Fighters with knobs on).

Also, besides games like Contra 4 / ReBirth and Metal Slug 7 / 8, there's not much to repesent the Run & Gun genre these days.



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TX109 on 28 June 2009

i may be wrong but i feel like there has been a big decline in turn-based RPGs. i know DQ9 is coming soon but that is the only good one i see coming.



                                                                                                  
luvtospooge on 28 June 2009
Gnac said:
luvtospooge said:
Yall forgot about Side scrolling shooting games ( Ravage, Ikaruga)...As far as I'm concerned, I only saw remakes and not new games.

Wha?

When I read Side-scrolling, I thought of horizontal Shmups like Darius / Gradius / R-Type (Blast Works for Wii is excellent, btw - It's pretty much Tumiki Fighters with knobs on).

Also, besides games like Contra 4 / ReBirth and Metal Slug 8, there's not much to repesent the Run & Gun genre these days.

I don't really know how the genre is called. But finding newly developed games (like ikaruga) is kind of hard for me... I only see remakes.

Well just put it like that, the games that are on the verge on extinction are games that are not on discs...



madman25 on 28 June 2009

The platformers situation would be remedied in an instant if SEGA just made a big 2D Sonic game for home consoles. It can still have amazing 3d 'next gen' bonus stages but please, PLEASE SEGA bring out a new 2D Sonic game!



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Cactus on 28 June 2009

Arcade style sports games. I'm tired of this realistic crap.



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chapset on 28 June 2009

mini-games and fitness 'games'



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--OkeyDokey-- on 28 June 2009
Orca_Azure said:
RTS. Halo wars is the only decent one worth mentioning in the past few years

Is that a joke?



killeryoshis on 28 June 2009
Orca_Azure said:
RTS. Halo wars and pikmin 1 & 2 is the only amazing 3 worth mentioning in the past few years
Based on Orca_Azure's opinon and law of pikkmin. should only be used for promoted purposes. All rights reseaverd


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Their fixed it. Though I haven't played Halo Wars. So I based it off
his opinion



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twesterm on 28 June 2009
SmokedHostage said:
Point and Click Adventures. Though Sam and Max and the Monkey Island remakes keep it from seeming so.

Those have been dying for a long time.  There are the obscure PC games but the genre is more or less dead.

My vote goes to the JRPG.



 

spdk1 on 28 June 2009

a lot of these genres like Turn based JRPGs and point and click / visual novel adventure games are thriving on the DS



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