Spooktober Horror
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As a fan of a fairly niche genre (crpgs) that recently had a big mainstream-breaking addition with all of the shallow mainstream appeal and a fair bit less of the autistic nonsense that gets me going (BG3), I do fear for the future of the genre depending on the lessons developers take from it.
I can't tell if its a worse fate to be revived by something as actually gay and shallow as BG3 or to simply die without any hope of a comeback like the RTS genre did.
Gal Gun (and its two sequels) is pretty much the only even single-A developed game that's a Rail Shooter in the last 15 years. Loving Rail Shooters is pain. A genre to never be revived. But... The VERY few games for it, are both flagrantly kryptonite to the woke, and actually really decent mechanically, since you have to care to bother to ever make it.
Better one good game, than twenty you don't actually enjoy playing.
I feel for you guys that love genres that are basically "Arcade mode only." That's doomed to always be both niche developed, likely Anime girl focused, and a huge risk of your once every few year game sucking.
My closest love is Gauntlet, which should be an easy sell in the modern era but has had one total game in close to 20 years and it sucked.
Oh, I loved Gauntlet as a kid. Wizard always needed food badly.