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disolitude said:
Vetteman94 said:
TPS games

I really like TPS games. Hell, I bought Terminator Salvation because it was one, and it is fun. But they seem to be getting divided amongst other genres. Like Resident Evil and Dead Space are Survival/Horror games.

Err...we survival horror buffs will not consider the last RE and Dead space as survival horror.

Also as far as TPS...there are still many. Bionic Commando, Wanted, Terminator Salvation all came out this year.

We only got 2 true survival horror games in the last 2 years. Siren and Silent Hill.


Just because you wont consider them Survival/Horror does not mean the industry doesnt. 



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*~Onna76~* said:
JRPG most definitely. The ones that are being released are or... poor or underrated or sold poorly. I've got a PS3 for 1,5 year now, and the 25 games I own, from them only 3 are JRPG's. While my PS2 collection is exactly the other way around.

That's because they're all on the DS, PSP and 360.

 

But come on people.  Just becuase you personally don't own JRPGs doesn't mean they aren't out there and are 'dying'.  SquareEnix alone has made more RPGs in the last 5 years then they have probably in the previous 20 years before.  Since the DS and XBOX 360 came out alone, there's been 35+ games with the title 'Final Fantasy'.  With more on the way.



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I don't think any genre is really dying.

Point & click/tip adventures for example:
Ace Attorney series, Hotel Dusk, Another Code games, Time Hollow, Secret of Monkey Island: SE, Broken Sword: DC, Tales of Monkey Island, A Vampyre Story, Ceville, The Book of Unwritten Tales, The Whispered World, A New Beginning, Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, Sam & Max Seasons One/Two, Strong Bad episodes, Ankh series, Jack Keane, Wallace & Gromit episodes, Penumbra series, Secret Files series, Runaway series, Sherlock Holmes games, Dracula games, Agatha Christie games, Jane Jensen's Gray Matter, Black Mirror 2, Memento Mori 2 and so on.

There were and are lots of new and old Western & some Eastern IPs, remakes, fan games (Broken Sword 2.5, AGD's King's Quest I+II and Quest for Glory II remakes), PC to console/handheld ports in this genre during the past years and in the future. One example: After the announcment of Tales of Monkey Island, Telltales are already thinking about a possible new Maniac Mansion/Day of Tentacle game. No, this genre is not dead at all despite being buried since years on numerous internet forums (even after LucsArts' surprising resurrection).

Other mentions of "dying" genres in this thread which i think are alive and kicking: JRPGs, SRPGs, RTS.

Maybe we can agree that lots of the mentioned genres are not as nearly as successful as they used to be, but none of them are in fact dying.



Orca_Azure said:
RTS. Halo wars is the only decent one worth mentioning in the past few years

Joke post right??? RTS games are not dying Starcraft 2 is proving this. The hype for that game is unbelievable.I think Side scrollers are either dead or almost dead and platformers are getting fewer and fewer and sell less and less

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1337 Gamer said:
Orca_Azure said:
RTS. Halo wars is the only decent one worth mentioning in the past few years

Joke post right??? RTS games are not dying Starcraft 2 is proving this. The hype for that game is unbelievable.I think Side scrollers are either dead or almost dead and platformers are getting fewer and fewer and sell less and less

Side Scrollers are making a big comeback thanks to the DS and Wii.  There's a number of good looking 2D and 2.5D side scrollers coming out this year for DS, Wii and WiiWare.  Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Picollo, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, New Super Mario Bros Wii and A Boy and His Blob all look very promising for Wii.



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Vetteman94 said:
disolitude said:
Vetteman94 said:
TPS games

I really like TPS games. Hell, I bought Terminator Salvation because it was one, and it is fun. But they seem to be getting divided amongst other genres. Like Resident Evil and Dead Space are Survival/Horror games.

Err...we survival horror buffs will not consider the last RE and Dead space as survival horror.

Also as far as TPS...there are still many. Bionic Commando, Wanted, Terminator Salvation all came out this year.

We only got 2 true survival horror games in the last 2 years. Siren and Silent Hill.


Just because you wont consider them Survival/Horror does not mean the industry doesnt. 


What industry are we talking about? Maybe those who are in the industry of filing games under wrong genre...

 

IGN has Dead space as Third person action adventure - http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/918/918892p1.html

VGchartz has it as shooter

RE5 is "third person action" http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/760/760880.html

Vgchartz has it as action

Dead Rising should be horror too I guess since it has zombies?



@ disolitude, GT had Uncharted 2 not in the action adventure category.... these things aren't stringently defined, my friend found Dead Space terrifying



WW2 games... thankfully.



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Gnac said:
Shmups. They're still around, but only seem to be apparent to a handful of gamers who crave them.

Yeah, this is the most obvious one. To be honest, most side scrollers are in the same situation, mostly the classic platformers, the ones where you start from point A to point B. Not that new Castlevania RPG stuff.



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Munkeh111 said:
@ disolitude, GT had Uncharted 2 not in the action adventure category.... these things aren't stringently defined, my friend found Dead Space terrifying

Im no denying Dead space is scary...horror if you will. However it aint a "survival" game. Its a horror 3rd person shooter...