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Aside from Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero, what other era-specific gaming fads can you think of (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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I specifically mean games or series that featured some kind of niche subculture/activity/lifestyle that appealed to teens and young adults as opposed to ones that were just fads among kids like Pokemon in the 90s or toys-to-life games in the 2010s or just generally popular games

DDR (no, not that one) probably counts as one, though that might've been mostly confined to Japanese arcades

Does this sort of thing even happen anymore? I assume these days youngins just play Fortnite, Call of Duty Warzone or whatever else instead of extreme sports or rhythm games

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[–] tim_curry@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The height of RTS 90s early 2000s... I played more or less every RTS game made because it was my favourite genre. May it rest in peace. Thanks blizzard for killing it permanently

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

how do you reckon that blizzard killed RTSes?

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

It's a bit of a trick question, Blizzard didn't really do anything to kill RTS persay, it was more that after SC2 released every publisher was trying to get a piece of the starcraft esports pie. You can see elements of SC2isms starting around with RA3 when that released, and most other RTS games were trying to go hard on streamlining near everything like how SC2 did eventually culminating to being like C&C4's gameplay and design, and some RTS games got forced to hard pivot to being a MOBA (remember End of Nations?)