Video Game Genres That Don't Exist Anymore

i think its not just top down racing games, its racing games overall, there are still some franchises but i they dont really try to start new AAA series, its very similar to RTS games. I also think Platformers are not very notacable, especially 3D ones. The big publishers really limited the genres and franchises overall, thats why everybody says that the ps5 has no games, there are games but they only make ads for like one genre and nothing more.

Could be I'm not understanding the "Movie Tie-ins" completely, but what about the recent Spider-Man Insomniac games? Maybe you don't consider them "tie-ins" as the publisher Sony has a license (if I'm not mistaken) for the IP?

What’s the game in the putto with the kinging on the horses

What’s the game in the outro

I loved Micro Machines! What an awesome game!

What a franchise Monkey Island was! Another George Lucas/Lucas arts masterpiece!

Age of Empires II DE getting a couple DLCs per year, remasters of Warcraft, massive mod communities for C&C Generals, Star Wars Empire at War, WH40K Dawn of War or Total Annihilation/Spring/Beyond All Reason, great new games like Starship Troopers Terran Command, AOE4, Aliens Dark Descent or Terminator Dark Fate Defiance... RTS are not dead. Sure they are not the king of genres as they were in the early 2000s but they are still around in numbers.

I misread the title. I thought it said dead genders. There are only 2 genders any other gender was never alive

This video sounds like more of "this genre is dead" advert than actually telling us which genre is dead... Like at this moment one the most sold games in Steam is RTS Game based to Starship Troopers, genre which is dead, if we believe to this video.....

I think the decline of RTS has more to do with the dominance of consoles over PC. There's still a competitive StarCraft and AOE scene. But a controller is just a terrible interface for that type of game. They're definitely still around, but not nearly as big as they once were. I think they'd be viable if there was an option to connect a keyboard and mouse to a console.

We played the same games... I played almost all of them (except sport compétitions)

Ah, I see. So it's time to bring back the movie game genre! I'll get to work right away. What's the latest shit movie that came out?

Also, notable genre/titles, Brainscan, Dragon's Lair, Space Ace. That stuff was ground breaking back then and still is now honestly. If they perfected that genre formula, it would be a whole medium fo choose your own adventure animated movies. In fact with the rise of AI, this is almost the best time for such a title, due to the less amount of frames one has to draw.

RTS dying was really hard hit to take. Such a huge genre with massive franchises. Was surprising when AAA just stop making them. Luckily theres tons of indie and lesser size studios still making RTS games. And technically the Total Warhammer series is RTS which itself is almost a genre with the amount of armies those titles have. But no real proper Starcraft, Command and Conquer, proper Warcraft, Red Alert titles anymore. But looking at the studios one can see why they cant make those anymore.

Carmageddon was nice. The idea was to score points by committing vehicular manslaughter with an on display lunatic avatar in the top left of the screen.

I would give my left nut for a good Fifth Element video game, but it just isn't going to happen, is it? Sigh....

Please don't call FMV "things" games, bad acting is much worse than bad animation 😬

What about not so old games you can't purchase anymore? Like "Back to the Future" by Telltale Games.

Battletech / mech driving sims

Bruh, they just moved on to android gaming go and check how many are in the game store 😅

All of these genres are alive and well on PC with new releases. Save for the movie tie-in, which is not really a genre any more than Hasbro is. It's just where the money is coming from. And even there, recent years have given us some solid games based primarily on cinematic universes, like Guardians of the Galaxy, RoboCop: Rogue City, and Terminator: Resistance. Those latter two being better-written and more competently directed than any big screen treatment their franchises have seen in over 30 years. That there are few recent examples to cite says more about Hollywood's declining influence than it does the now vastly larger games industry that is being mined for adaptations rather than the other way around.

You mention them and I really miss the Ultima Underworld I and II games. They were revolutionary back in the 90s! Wish they had a proper remastered version. The gameplay was so special and awesome but the movement and controls feel so clunky nowadays.

Dungeon Crawlers had a massive resurgence ever since Etrian Odyssey. It seems there's more of them than you can shake a stick at; even more if you expand to stuff like SMT Strange Journey.

Monkey Island, such a great game; Lucasfilm Games put out a lot of great titles!

Dungeon Crawlers - I though these were dead but the Japanese having been going nuts on them, See Eritrean odyssey, Mary Skelter, Persona Q, Wizardry et al

RTS is not dead, it somehow got renamed to X4
And it has been quite busy.

Space combat games.
X-wing vs Tie Fighter
Descent: Freespace
Wing Commander.

Miss those days.

The only genre I miss is rail shooters. Modern day consoles need to put out sensor bars.

what about party games that involves 4 players?

none of the genres listed have ever stop existing lol

one big nonsense, none of these genres are dead. for example adventure games havent been doing so well since the 90s. there are hundreds of fmv games on steam and it was never an aaa genre.
and indie games arent aa or aaa? another nonsense. how big do you think sierra was in the 90s? those games sold barely half a million and it was a huge success. those were always 'indie' titles. and classics like dungeon master were created by 10 people! today 'indie' studios have 100.

Nice video but you should have included Text Adventure games in it too, definitely!! There were some really good ones like that Time And Magik trilogy!

oh my, one of my fav tentacle

Why the hell do you assume that everyone knows what the fuck FMV means????

i miss on rail shooters

I could say Mad Max was the best movie tie-in ever, because it was well done, immersive, looked great and they managed to release it on schedule with the movie

The sprite based, "8-bit" games aged better than the early 3D games. The low poly worlds were just plain ugly. Sam & Max looks great still.

But where are all music games? Are those still made?

Activision executives in the early 90s: "Affordable 3D is decades away, invest everything into FMV, FMV is the future of video games, we'll make millions!"
Activision developers in the early 90s: "No, the future is in 3D games and that future is now"

One guy made Mechwarrior 2's game engine in his spare time. Rest is history.

Full Throttle was fun!

For point-and-click adventure Games, you want to take a look at Wadjet Eye. They're a studio that does some great games in that genre. Clifftop Games is another one, but they don't have nearly as many.

Full 3 degrees of freedom as in the Descent series that started in 1995. I loved the gameplay & others I played against would forget they can move straight up while moving to the side or forward at the same time.

My favorite is RTS especially Dawn of War Warhammer 40K and I am not into the whole Warhammer universe or table top game, I just really enjoyed the different army styles and units, I also enjoyed civilization and the other RTS games.

Oh how I miss Bilestoad on the Apple 2+

these genres being gone is a reason im almost purely a retro gamer these days

I loved GTA2 and still think it’s a better game than the 3d versions. It was basically a top down racer with an open world and people to run over

Does The Journeyman Project count as an FMV adventure game? It was a series of first-person point and clicks that used SOME FMV, but at least in the first game almost none (reduced to just people in video files on monitors, etc) mixed into prerendered 3D with the use of a time travel gimmick that conveniently prevents you from interacting with people in person. I think the later games relaxed the "If someone can see you, your mission has failed" requirement in various ways, and thus presumably used a lot more FMV, but I'm less familiar with those than I am with just TJP:Turbo.

About FMV games. My fav is Shadow Warrior. Beat on 32x several times. I once got a goof scene with one fighter bathing with yellow ducks. I wonder whether other fighters opponents had such scene? No info in Internet. 🤷‍♂️

"Don't exist"? Most of this list exists in some form or fashion with entries into the genre every year. Just because it's not a billion dollar AAA franchise doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

I mean good grief, you have RTS on here and we just got AoE 4 a year or two ago, and AoE 2 (you know, 20 year old game), just got a new expansion.