What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? (lemmy.world)

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I remember fondly the days of playing Heroes of Might and Magic II, never played HOMM3 or anything after, but as I looked at the latest and most "recent" heroes games... they're all rated/reviewed SO harshly. Apparently, they never gained steam like the earlier titles. RTS seems to have the same issue, tapering off. Starcraft is basically dried up and dead, and we never got another Warcraft unfortunately. Even WC3 Reforged was a total flop/disaster, people were hoping one day to get Warcraft 4. Would've been nice, honestly.... But it never happened. as of today, I can't find a single RTS or RPG I actually enjoy that isn't some old 'classic'.

What happened to these genres?

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[-] simple@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

They're just not as popular as they used to be, and there are so many players on console nowadays. I can't imagine playing an RTS with a controller.

Age of Empires seems to be doing really well though. The first 3 games got great remasters, and AoE 4 is well received from what I understand.

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Many fans of RTS and Halo swear on Halo Wars when it comes to RTS on a console. Apparently, they really figured out how to do it right, but I haven't played it myself.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more gaming pcs now days, too. Consoles have been loosing out on the gaming market share since the 90's. PC overtook consoles in both popularity and profits a bit over a decade ago.

Disheartening enough though, is that as far as profits are concerned, mobile games make $ more than pc and console combined.