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[NintendosBooger]

8-Bit era = Platformers (Mario 1, Mario 2, Mario 3, etc.)
16-Bit era = Fighters (MK 1, MK2, Street Fighter II, Fatal Fury, etc.)
32/64-Bit era = Toss up between RPGs and platformers?
Present = FPS & Free-roaming action/adventure

Those are just my choices. I predict a full-blown FPS takeover in the next-gen.

 

[Sanjuro]

Games that you kill the police and live the lifestyle of an African American Basketball player.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

platformers probably still dominated the 16 bit scene. SF and Mk were huge, but Super Mario World, Donkey Kong COuntry and Sonic probably sold more.

 

[Straightballin]

Im going to say FPS everyone is trying to make the Halo Killer.

 

[Barnimal]

online anything. in 2006 telcos will begin rolling out fiber to the home. 10+mbps internet service for all.

*edit* well...anything unless you only plan on getting a revolution. :lol

 

[Reilly]

Those games with lots of characters on the screen. Like Heavenly Sword, 99 Nights, and Kameo. I think that will be the big genre to show off the power of the console(s).

 

[fartblast]

hopefully lots of blowing shit up with realistic physics for the short attention crew

 

[Ruas]

rpg

 

[Baron Aloha]

Games where all you do is blow stuff up. (sadly, IMO)

 

[Error]

FPS

and if squarenix remakes FFVII, RPGs will receive a pretty good boost

 

[Barnimal]

Games where all you do is blow stuff up. (sadly, IMO)

actually i cannot wait for fully destructable/interactive environments!

 

[The Main Event]

Sadly, GTA clones.

 

[M3wThr33]

Racing.

Every god damn thread about screenshots right now is TOCA, Burnout Revenge, NFS:MW, Trackmania Sunrise, PGR3, etc. Jesus Christ!

 

[Musashi Wins!]

Oh good, according to GAF it will be 4-5 genres taking over. So I won't be bored.

 

[Ranger X]

Sports - FPS - Racing .

 

[Ponn]

dance and rhythm

 

[Apenheul]

Games involving touching.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

racing

 

[Jado]

FPS and free-roaming games in urban settings.

 

[newsguy]

2D fighters

 

[Andy787]

Convergence titles like GTA, and first person shooters. Or perhaps first person titles like GTA.

Or 2D fighters.

 

[Date of Lies]

to make it short..

realistic games.

 

[golduck342]

Graphical demonstrations.

 

[Ryudo]

How could a 2d fighter be dominant ? Seriously i feel like i missed the joke ?

 

[newsguy]

How could a 2d fighter be dominant ? Seriously i feel like i missed the joke ?

Yes... yes you did.

 

[Striek]

Lifestyle games.

 

[robo_robo]

Unoriginal games.

 

[Flo_Evans]

JPN - whacky shit/rpgs
US - WWII FPSs
EU - soccer/driving games

and there you have it!

 

[FiRez]

FPS, but I hope the devs drops the WWX theme

 

[Wario64]

World War 2 FPS clones

you thought you've seen enough? we'll have more WW2 FPS with more people on screen and SMOKE!

 

[Wunderchu]

I think sim games (like Spore) will be big next gen.

 

[Suikoguy]

Spoiler

EA Games

 

[siamesedreamer]

Sadly, GTA clones.

Teh winnar1!!

 

[Brofist]

free roaming games

 

[speedpop]

Someone said it before, but I think that if Square did do a remake of FFVII, it'd shake things up quite a bit. The only denying factor that RPG's will dominate next gen is that they are taking way too long and cost too much to pump out to make it a success.

I think free-roaming needs to evolve for it to live. Yeah it's great to do anything you want but there needs to be something else to it, what that is I don't know. And FPS have always been successful, it just wasn't until 32-64bit they got a bit more notice for the console fans due to port-jobs because PC's were still a niche market.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

side-scrolling shooters w/ bizarre naked Japanese men, sadly

 

[Speevy]

Traditional adventure games.

 

[Mrbob]

Sports and first person/third person action games. Just like it should be.

 

[Die Squirrel Die]

Interactive movies.





Well not really like that, but definitely more cinematics will continue to pervade all genres. Some will be wildly inappropriate (I don't think we've seen the end of story modes in racers unfortunately), some will be an excuse to force the player through a parade of tedious exhibitions detailing how the character developed their angst which now smoulders their rage, some will get it right, giving the player a deeper, more emotional connection with the gameplay.

One can only hope that a greater emphasis also means a greater emphasis on quality. Hiring in professional writers, rather than relying on the supressed desires of the lead designer to be a novelist, might be a good start.

 

[MomoPufflet]

Sadly, GTA clones.

I'm going with this. And droves of samey racing games.

 

[tino]

Virtual tour casual games. Paris red light district, the game, for example.

 

[ChrisReid]

Space combat simulators.. or maybe 4X strategy games.

 

[Do The Mario]

Pong clones

 

[sorryaboutdresden]

I really hope that the free roaming game design doesn't see increased use. It is already getting played out, and they are running out of stereotypes.

 

[SpoonyBard]

I hope people will get bored of FPS games and GTA clones and something new will come up and take the top spot.

edit: I'd also like to see the sales of sports games decrease quite a bit. Now with EA getting exclusive licenses hopefully they will also get lazy with updates and people stop buying their games. Yeah, I can't really see this happening, but I can hope...

 

[Version 3.0]

Movie and comic book licensed games.

After King Kong, Godfather, and the next round of Spidey, Hulk, and X-Men games sell well, it'll generate a mad dash to grab all the licenses available.

Actually, it's already started with Microsoft's Marvel MMO.



Which movies would you like to see as (good) games? That'd make a good thread--hey, what's it take around here to be allowed to make new threads? Someone else wanna do it?

Sin City
more Aliens games (Jag AvP is still the best)
Shaolin Soccer!
Rain Man (j/k)

 

[Rhindle]

Sequels
Licensed Games
Spin-offs
Sequels to spin-offs of licensed games
Licensed games based on movies based on spin-offs of sequels

 

[midnightguy]

huge adventure games
driving games

 

[Mr_Furious]

SHMUPS!

 

[Gek54]

No dominant genre just as there is currently no dominant genre.