On rail shooter game genre dies?

[The Great Kamek]

Is it dead?

[Juular]

On rail ? Like House of the Dead ?

[The Great Kamek]

9 hours ago, Juular said:

On rail ? Like House of the Dead ?

Yes

[Roswell]

Rail shooters used to make most of their profits from arcades and would get ported to home consoles as an afterthought in most cases. Now that arcades are essentially dead, it doesn't make much sense financially to develop them anymore. Developers are also almost forced to include light guns with gyro tech bundled with the game since almost nobody has an existing light gun controller, which is expensive.

[PGen98]

Yep, it is a dead genre these days because, as mentioned above, arcades as a whole have died out and that was the main audience for on rails shooters.  Games like Panzer Dragoon and House of the Dead were good, and Crimson Dragon tried, but they just don't work these days.  Unless you grew up playing them, they'll just seem sort of dumb, casual gamers aren't going to find them interesting, and yeah, including a light gun with every game is prohibitively expensive.

[minibois]

Pokemon Snap 2 will revive the genre...

If they ever made it!!

[The Great Kamek]

On 12/20/2019 at 10:15 PM, PGen98 said:

Yep, it is a dead genre these days because, as mentioned above, arcades as a whole have died out and that was the main audience for on rails shooters.  Games like Panzer Dragoon and House of the Dead were good, and Crimson Dragon tried, but they just don't work these days.  Unless you grew up playing them, they'll just seem sort of dumb, casual gamers aren't going to find them interesting, and yeah, including a light gun with every game is prohibitively expensive.

I still love the genre today! 

[Hashiba]

Would Star Fox count as being part of the genre?

[PGen98]

9 hours ago, The Great Kamek said:

I still love the genre today! 

As do I, but I'd have a hard time seeing someone new to gaming, or at least new to rail shooters, finding them to be amazing.  It'd be like trying to get a kid into Galaga or Contra, just not going to happen because they've got CoD and Black Ops as their frame of reference for shooters.

6 hours ago, Hashiba said:

Would Star Fox count as being part of the genre?

Yeah, the first Star Fox is a rail shooter, definitely!

[LinusTech]

Pistol Whip

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079800/Pistol_Whip/

[tatte]

13 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

Pistol Whip

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079800/Pistol_Whip/

I'll get banned to oblivion (read 'till the end), but this is clearly the enforcement we have been waiting to validate a dedicated VR subforum! Our god himself recommends a VR game! To the barricades! 

[PGen98]

I never considered there could be VR rail shooters, since I don't really play VR games, myself.  That'd be a good platform for rail shooters to survive with, so makes sense.

[centurion_08]

House of the Dead 2,3,Overkill

Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles and Darkside Chronicles

Dead Space Extintion

 

Solid triple A experience.

[The Great Kamek]

On 12/30/2019 at 2:49 PM, LinusTech said:

Pistol Whip

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079800/Pistol_Whip/

ehhh sort of. the model is you are not in cover

[Mark Kaine]

On 12/21/2019 at 5:10 AM, Vitamanic said:

Rail shooters used to make most of their profits from arcades and would get ported to home consoles as an afterthought in most cases. Now that arcades are essentially dead, it doesn't make much sense financially to develop them anymore. Developers are also almost forced to include light guns with gyro tech bundled with the game since almost nobody has an existing light gun controller, which is expensive.

Well if Arcades dying out would be a reason for genres to die we wouldn't have any games today, except maybe AAAA cinematic on rails corridor shooters a la Uncharted

 

 

Im just slightly exaggerating because that's not the reason on rail shooters (almost died)

 

 

Tldr: LCD screens killed on rail shooters because those light guns don't work on them.  Simple. 

 

[The Great Kamek]

11 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

Well if Arcades dying out would be a reason for genres to die we wouldn't have any games today, except maybe AAAA cinematic on rails corridor shooters a la Uncharted

 

 

Im just slightly exaggerating because that's not the reason on rail shooters (almost died)

 

 

Tldr: LCD screens killed on rail shooters because those light guns don't work on them.  Simple. 

 

 

guess the switch will have to resurrect it