What is your favorite Sub-Genre of game you would 100% buy for Amiga today?

[LongLifeA1200]

You have to admit, at the very least it takes serious money and time to produce a new, quality game equivalent to a 90+% review score in the magazine of your choice from the 90's. Suppose an investor wanted to know your straight honest answer on what exactly kind of game you would, with 100% certainty, purchase for the Amiga. What would your answer be?

Asking your favorite Genre of game is too broad, so what is your favorite Sub-Genre of game that you would happily buy without any hesitation for the Amiga today?

For me, a business management game, Railroad Tycoon II style would be hard to pass up.

What kind of game would you be excited to see appear on retail shelves for these classic line of computers?

[CodyJarrett]

A Civilization or Colonization-style 4X strategy game would be welcome. Most of the recent releases have been platformers or shoot-'em-ups with some exceptions like Slayers of High Toro, Galactica and Tales of Gorluth III.

[dreadnought]

I'd also like to see a decent strategy or trading game. Hopefully the upcoming Aquabyss will fill that gap a bit.

My favourite Amiga games were the hybrid ones though, mixing strategy/action/rpg/adventure. The likes of BAT, Midwinter, Cinemaware stuff. Maybe, one day we'll see such effort attempted again.

[kremiso]

a J-RPG, i mean old style
turn based battles, no random fights
tactics and relax, not stressful to play

free savings, without the 'second tough boss-battle after a first tough one, and no save' effect

just my dream, i know, Amiga and JRPG are sadly very distant worlds
also not easy project, for a single developer, it would require a team like in the golden years
just a dream then

[Predseda]

I enjoy mostly platformers, so this genre with a lot of exploration (scrolling screen) is something I would like to have. Something like Kiwi's Tales. Fortunately it IS coming, thanks to Master Mixel.

[eXeler0]

Oh I'd for sure buy "Kick Off 2 eXeler0 Highres AGA edition" ;-)

[alkis21]

I would definitely buy a promising 3rd person graphic animated point & click adventure game. I hope that's sub-genrey enough.

[droopy]

Originally Posted by LongLifeA1200

What kind of game would you be excited to see appear on retail shelves for these classic line of computers?

For me that is quite easy to answer..


Infocom style text games.



I also like "Elite" classic good game..Silent Service gets people in the mood of a sub captain..Specially in a dark room.

[Nobby_UK]

What Genre does Syndicate fall into ?

(point & click) Graphic Adventures are always welcome.

[gimbal]

Literally anything that involves using your noggin'. Puzzle games like the Power or Clockwiser (but please, no endlessly looping music...), puzzle-lite arcade games like Logical, puzzle adventure games like Valhalla, puzzle platformers like Gods, or just straight up dungeon crawlers like Dungeon Master which are always heavy on the puzzle solving.

Puzzles and riddles is what the Amiga was the best for in my opinion. Heck it is what pulled my parents into computer gaming and made it a family pass time.

[Predseda]

And my most favourite sub game is Subwar

[DisasterIncarna]

space strategy/resource collection game like milenium2.2/deuteros.

[PortuguesePilot]

Classic 2D racing games but with fluid fps (25 fps minimum) and preferably about real cars (no futuristic or fantasy stuff) and reality-based locations (no other planets, pink deserts, etc). A proper Out-Run, for instance, would force me to fork my money.

I also like classic 2D point-and-click adventure games, preferably with a well-scripted sci-fi or cyberpunk story (à la The Dig, Resonance, Gemini Rue, Primordia, Technobabylon, Shardlight or VirtuaVerse). A high-quality game of this sort would get my money for sure.

Some cleverly made 'Metroidvania' or similar platform/adventure style of game can also get my attention. Cave Story was a revelation for me, for instance. A good game of this ilk would also drive me to spend some dosh.

[Thorham]

A Dungeon Master clone that's better than Dungeon Master. Perhaps.

[jimbob]

A 2D action adventure with some puzzle elements, a bit of story and some fun gameplay mechanics, Flashback/Another World/Gunpoint/Ronin.

[manossg]

Definitely point'n'click adventures for me.

[kremiso]

Originally Posted by DisasterIncarna

space strategy/resource collection game like milenium2.2/deuteros.

both a story prequel or an afterstory of Millennium2.2 would be awesome

[Lord Aga]

Both P&C adventure games and various style turn-based strategy games, aren't that taxing on the hardware, and can be done with beautiful graphics. Static images, slow moving images, etc.

Also tower defense games. They weren't a thing back in the golden age, but they shouldn't be too difficult now. I am actually surprised that Amiga devs did not invent this genre. It is perfectly suited for the Amiga.

[d4rk3lf]

I think that game like Disciples 2, would be a perfect for even slowest Amiga.

It's sort of similar to Heroes 3, but the gameplay is much more simplified (only few buildings and upgrades), but yet, it preserves the complexity of strategy management very well, and it also (like Heroes 3) have a strong rpg feel, because you lead heroes.

From graphical side of things, there's no parallax at all, just the scrolling on the main screen (battles are just with static animated characters (characters don't move on tiles like in Heroes 3, but they are completelly static).

One of my all time favorite games, for sure.

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[Anubis]

Strategy game, something like Master of Orion or perhaps like Advanced Wars on GBA.