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Stef

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Oct 28, 2017
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Rome, Italy, Planet Earth
I was wondering which game genre, according to you, has a fan base with easy tastes, made of players who most likely appreciate even mediocre games belonging to it.

In my experience, for instance, racing game fans are among the most demanding and developing a game which appeals a large fan base is very hard, especially if we talk about simulations. This applies to sport games too, where the fan base is historically selective for a clear set of reasons.

On the other hands, for instance, I've found that JRPGs fans are easier to please, to the point that they buy lots of games regardless of a possibile general negative consensus.

Again, these are just my considerations based on persona experience and perception.

I'd like to know yours.

Also, please, don't take this thread in an offensive or challenging way if possible. This is not about "Heh, you like this genre so much you even play bad games!". This is more about a simple analysis of what genres are perceived in a certain way. So, please, no arguing and no trolling. :)
 

Admiral Woofington

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Oct 25, 2017
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As a whole? Elder Scrolls fans. Yes there's a vocal group online who hates what has happened to the series since Morrowind, but the grand majority love these titles and they have the most active modding community. I have no doubt that when Elder Scrolls 6 comes out people will love it as a whole save for some in here, mainly cause we are so thirsty

Time stamp this. Quote me.
 

_zoipi

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VN fans. They are Stockholm Syndrome incarnated. You can give an extremely slow pace and fully padded narrative by the disguise of eing character driven and story deep and they will gladly pay 40 smackaroos just to prove that VNs are "real games" whatever the fudge that means.
 

Foxnull

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Elder Scrolls. These games are kinda broken at release, but the community eats it up and even fixes it themselves.
 

Edgar

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Oct 29, 2017
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As a whole? Elder Scrolls fans. Yes there's a vocal group online who hates what has happened to the series since Morrowind, but the grand majority love these titles and they have the most active modding community. I have no doubt that when Elder Scrolls 6 comes out people will love it as a whole save for some in here, mainly cause we are so thirsty

Time stamp this. Quote me.
theres a vocal minority who hates everything tho. If you look what people think about rdr 2, gta, witcher 3, ubisoft open worlds on this forum. You would think these games are generic western casual games with no creativy and focus on the narrative makes them lesser games and its everything thats wrong with todays gaming
 

mute

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Oct 25, 2017
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Seems like most "metroid-vanias" these days get a fairly positive reception.
 

CloudWolf

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Oct 26, 2017
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I echo the Elder Scrolls comment. It's baffling that people are still looking forward to TES VI after what has happened with Bethesda these past years.

Rhythm game fans. The fact that a rhythm game is still even made in this day and time is a miracle.
Clearly you weren't around when Guitar Hero vs. Rock Band (vs. Rock Revolution vs. whatever other devs were making) was a thing. That was almost as vicious as console wars.
 

SwampBastard

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Nov 1, 2017
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VN fans. They are Stockholm Syndrome incarnated. You can give an extremely slow pace and fully padded narrative by the disguise of eing character driven and story deep and they will gladly pay 40 smackaroos just to prove that VNs are "real games" whatever the fudge that means.
I don't know what a VN game is.
 

waugh

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FPS fans, maybe? Every genre has a vocal minority but Call of Duty will never not sell.

Just for fun: While not a genre Mega Man fans are easy to please. Just make a new game with 8 new robot masters and they'll buy it :p
 
Oct 25, 2017
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VN fans. They are Stockholm Syndrome incarnated. You can give an extremely slow pace and fully padded narrative by the disguise of eing character driven and story deep and they will gladly pay 40 smackaroos just to prove that VNs are "real games" whatever the fudge that means.

I really do love Visual Novels. They're just comfort food. Some of the more edgy and Gothic ones don't really work for me tho.
 

Goldenroad

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You would assume digital versions of board games but somehow people still fuck up monopoly. People just want monopoly. Why is this hard?

I don't think I've played a single digital board game that is anywhere near being in the same league as the regular board game. The version of Pandemic on XBOX Game Pass is laughable how bad it is. I don't know why I keep buying them. They are always shit.
 

Opa-Opa

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FIFA games.

Just say "new ball physics" and "smarter keepers" (which by now could be curing cancer) every year and it's fine.
 

Edgar

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I echo the Elder Scrolls comment. It's baffling that people are still looking forward to TES VI after what has happened with Bethesda these past years.


Clearly you weren't around when Guitar Hero vs. Rock Band (vs. Rock Revolution vs. whatever other devs were making) was a thing. That was almost as vicious as console wars.
its not baffling at all, fallout 4 is still fun loot n shoot /exploration game . It has addicting gameplay loop and theme park world design makes for a lot of cool moments if you dont think too hard about it . Skyrim /Oblivion were even better games . The only misstep was F76, i think its more than fine to give bethesda another chance .
 

Arcana Wiz

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Oct 26, 2017
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I don't know what a VN game is.

VN - Visual Novel

Games with just story, generally with 2d portraits and backgrounds.
VNs in Japan were the indies before indies became popular, because of the low value production and being much easier to code. This made many japanese indie writers begin the career with this genre.
Yet because of the niche status many VNs had to incorporate fanservice elements to appeal to Otaku (anime) crowd and many went full on eroge (porn)

Popular examples are 999, Vitue Last Reward, House of Fata Morgana, Umineko and Higurashi. (these ones are great stories and never were eroge)

Interesting examples are Fate Stay Night and Clannad, these two IPs were launched with +18 scenes only to appeal to the niche market, and the writers neve were to keen to the idea.
So later when both had sucesfull adaptations to anime and became profitable IPs.... both were ported and relaunched many times without the +18 scenes and the devs totally ignore their story in eroge genre.
 

RedOnePunch

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Oct 26, 2017
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Has to be annual sports franchises. They are planning on buying your game every year no matter what. I suppose you can say the same about any fan base
 

Watchtower

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Oct 27, 2017
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+1 to anime games.

The amount of schlock Bamco alone publishes should be completely unacceptable in this day and age but they get away with it because of how devoted the original source fanbases are.
 

AbsoluteZ3R0

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Anything that is really big and casual will always have easy to please fans. e.g. Pokemon, Sports game, Multiplayer FPS ..
 

Arrrammis

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Oct 25, 2017
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Sports games, absolutely. I feel like the only thing that Madden, FIFA, or MLB franchises have done in the past 5 years is update the player roster and add increasingly scummy microtransactions, and they continue to top the charts for video game revenue.