Originally Posted by
Kel_Sceptic
This right here ^!
While I agree with this, IMHO there are more outdated genres then mechanics.
For example, I really don't understand how people can stil ask for strategy games. While I can see this working for a game like StarCraft 3, becasue it never went to a different genre/3D open world style yet, witch I doubt we will ever see in the next 10 years, since we saw how SC2 went down, I cannot comprehend to see WarCraft IV as a strategy game. I mean, in all my 90s and 00s' I would imagine a 2d platform game, a strategy game, a arpg game how would it be as a 3D world game. Then we had WoW, and it was exactly as I imagined it, purely GREAT. Why would you return to a obsolete genre and ruin a great game by making a Warcraft IV RTS ?
Why would you enjoy a genre like turn-based action game, instead of real open world, multiplayer one ?
I mean, for me, it feels like you had a horse and wagon for some years, while you always wished for a car, got the car and after some years you come back to the horse and wagon. Yes, it might be fun, interesting, nostalgy related, to take a ride in a horse pulled wagon, but we can see that the only ones that use them daily, are the ones that can't really aford a car.
Sure, I've finished Half-Life 1 for like 30-40 times, at least once every 2 years, just because it was my childhood favorite shooter, but couldn't even end up Black Mesa that I've payed, or Doom 2016 that I got free with my GPU. Those SHOOT-THEM-UP games were great games for the times they first appeared, a great part of our evolution in gaming, but now, after playing WoW for 15 years, after playing only multiplayer games, looking at those single player games, they feel so empty, so scripted, so lifeless.
While turn-based games like XCOM or HotMM or strategy games like SC, Red Alert, Warcraft, were made since there was no hardware posibilities to create a real immersive 3D walking/fighting world, I can get that for THOSE times, but NOW, when all this hardware and software is available to build anything you could imagine ... we still cling to "nostalgy" just for the $$$$ ?