Dunno who needs to hear this but:
Game dev articles a lot of times say "nobody wants to play this kind of game anymore" or "we have to do it this way now because," and
just ignore those bits. They're talking about AAA, if not F2P gamers, and seriously: who cares?
Make games for YOUR audience.
@arzi @glassbottommeg it's also time we see games like Wing Commander, TIE Figher and Privateer again. Really, how was it even possible that this genre so totally disappeared?!
(or maybe people realized they sucked with a gamepad and getting a good affordable joy/flightstick these days....)
@kwramm @arzi nah they're pretty great with gamepad! About the only genre that's weird that way is Descent games, but everything else is fine.
Everspace 2 is the best example I can point at here. Fuckin great game. Weirdly very different from the first one (which was a weird roguelite thing), which probably impacted how widely it got known. But it's seriously a GREAT successor to the likes of Freelancer and so on.
@kwramm @arzi It's no more or less arcade'y than Freelancer. It's basically "what if Freelancer had you zoom around in spaces that were more 3D instead of them all being kinda flat on the galactic plane". So you end up actually exploring cool asteroid bases and stuff AND doing just the more flat zoom-around missions, and sometimes there's surprising secrets to find because of this.
Basically: if you liked Freelancer, I HIGHLY recommend it. If you were one of the ones who thought Freelancer was too arcade'y, then eh, maybe not?
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