Kickstarter allows companies to get funding for
more niche games like a true JA2 remake.
is a third person action game formed with the partnership of Grasshopper Manufacture (Well known for their niche games such as Killer7 and No More Heroes) and EA Interactive (Known for their even
more niche games such as M.U.L.E, Terra Driver and whatever Madden is).
Many smaller or
more niche games are also on currently on sale.
@Andres: As much as I love Streetpass, I'm not sure how effective it would be considering I barely get streepass for the major titles, let alone
my more niche games.
Not exact matches
With the advent of the smartphone came a boon for the gaming industry, and new
niches within the indie - gaming scene have created a whole new lens through which
games can be viewed; we are
more aware than ever that
games can teach us or exist as experiential art in addition to the entertainment they provide.
«Then as
more and
more players got into the
game and the wing phenomenon, now wings are a
niche in the restaurant business, where they didn't used to be 15 or 25 years ago.
In my opinion he looked very confident and reassured when he started the season, and he will now have to up his
game a lot
more to find his
niche in the Arsenal first XI.
More than 150,000 online communities, from MySpace to the tiniest
niche sites, deploy Userplane's Web - based communication tools; free, private - label chat, IM, interactive
games and voice / video streaming.
Considering that a majority of people over the age of 40 at have been out of the dating
game for a considerable amount of time and are now looking for ways to connect with one another; this is why an exclusive online dating platformlike MatureD focuses on a
niche to provide
more convenient and exclusive service to people at such a stage in life.
Video
game magazines that I read regularly would cover Japanese imports and
niche titles, but dating sims were merely a curiosity and nothing
more.
And it's not a bad number, considering
games such as these can be considered
more niche instead of mainstream.
Monster Hunter has always been much
more popular in Japan than any other territory, but World could potentially be the
game that elevates it from
niche Western franchise to verified worldwide hit.
Finding multiplayer matches has been pretty slow, especially once you stray from the Team Deathmatch wheelhouse to
more niche modes, and the population is pitiful compared to even years - old
games like Left 4 Dead 2 and Payday 2, let alone thriving communities like Rainbow Six: Siege.
I hope the
game gets the support it deserves to allow us to receive even
more «
niche» titles in the West.
With Hyrule Warriors likely to appeal
more to Warriors fans than Zelda fans, the fact the
game only sold through 57 % of its shipment, could indicator that fans of both franchises are either confused over what it's supposed to be, or that it's for
more of a
niche market.
Like most other
niche racing titles I've played, Monster Energy Supercross abandons some of the standard racing
game tropes to attempt to make their racing
game more true to life.
Being able to play a
game on the go is one of the Nintendo Switch's
more appealing aspects and 12 Orbits fills this
niche perfectly.
All of the Japanese company's
games are based on
more or less popular anime and manga series, so they're rather
niche titles with dedicated but limited public.
These are great but
niche games that ultimately have a far
more restricted audience than peers like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat.
If anything, it might just inspire Souls veterans who have since moved on to other gaming pursuits (maybe
more recent Souls
games like Bloodborne or Dark Souls 3) to revisit the
game which propelled the Souls series from a
niche interest into a worldwide phenomenon.
Believe it or not, the PlayStation Vita was the platform with the most
games in the Top 1 000, thanks to the many
niche releases rarely selling
more than a few 10 000 units.
At this point, the Magic thing is
more a homage than a rip - off; frankly, as a fellow
gamer I find it endearing that Takahashi was able to put then -
niche gaming stuff into shonen manga, like the «Monster World» storyline in volumes 6 - 7 that's obviously based on Dungeons & Dragons.
I'd rather have Clash of Ninja Revolution 2/3 or Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4 on the Switch (as much as those would be much
more niche) and I've been hoping Bandai Namco can just rerelease those (perhaps in a collection too) and the SEGA / Sony published Bleach
games on other platforms.
You're already ahead of the
game with people in your
niche network: You know they're interested in what you're working on, so naturally, they're
more likely to buy your audiobook and increase your earnings.
But it is also probably
more of a
niche game, with a smaller potential market.
Of note, Japanese online gaming is so
niche that the term MMORPG has very little meaning to your average online
gamer, who tends to be
more of a console shooter fan than PC playboys / girls.
Add one
more game to the list of
niche hardcore
games still arriving regularly on the PS2, which I posted about here.
I do believe we will see
more very focused
games and attending to the
niche market in the future even if there will always be a couple of big players with massive titles.
I see this
game fitting a very specific type of
gamer and really being
more of a
niche experience than anything else.
Yet Kickstarter is also something wonderful, a way to get
games created for
niche audiences that publishers would otherwise ignore in favor or
more easily marketed titles.
With a steady mix of Wii U and 3DS
games on display, the developers are keen not to leave anyone out, and their releases show a good range from the well known gentle RPG Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories to the
more niche developments of Gotcha Racing and Brave Tank Hero.
The
games I like to play... JRPG's or
niche Japanese titles... typically aren't broken on release, and while I have a massive backlog as well... probably
more than yours spanning 30 years of gaming... I still get stuff day one.
Do you still see strategy
gamers as this small hardcore
niche market, or is that growing and becoming a
more substantial part of the market?
I also can imagine how much this is going to help CCP as the nature of EVE Online always meant it's going to be a
niche game, so trying to open that up to
more players like this can only really survey to make the
game worse for its existing player base.
Not only is Under Night In - Birth a
more niche fighting
game, but it's releasing at a time where many fighting
game fans are still playing the bigger releases.
When
games that are special in their own way leave their
niches in favor of selling
more units, they lose what made them different in the first place.
Microsoft has previously touted Diabolical Pitch as an example of a «core» Kinect
game, but from the looks of things, the word «
niche» might be slightly
more appropriate.
Luigi Dude you are forgetting that last year Xbox One and PS4 had nothing to speak of and still sold quite well this year they are getting their big hitters and theirs will probably get them far
more momentum than those fanbase facturing
niche games Nintendo is releasing.
There's little doubt though, that while Dark Souls as a series is soul - shatteringly hard, it's also one of the
more popular
niche games to arise in the last generation of consoles.
August was a huge month for PlayStation fans, with
games such as Uncharted: The Lost Legacy releasing as well as
more niche titles such as Yakuza Kiwami and Everybody's Golf.
It seems that as the indie scene grows
more popular with the mainstream
gamer, «
niche genre»
games are pushed further out of the spotlight for
games that feature tried and true, familiar elements.
There are
more games that are
more niche then these ones that are continued to be published, despite low sales.
The
game finds its
niche as it becomes
more convincingly MMO-esque.
Maragos goes on to check out Valve's Steam content distribution system («For titles with little chance of success in the Darwinian (no pun intended) world of retail, Steam is
more and
more an attractive alternative»), and also discusses Xbox 360 Live Arcade, particularly mentioning the re-releases of classic
games («Digital downloads of cheap, legal emulated
games could fill a
niche that no retail channel has yet been able to provide, and ensure that yesterday's generation of seminal
games isn't gone forever.»)
As such, its current library consists largely of PS3
games that you stream from the cloud, with a selection of 500 - plus titles including Red Dead Redemption, The Last of Us and the Uncharted trilogy as well as
more niche favorites like Catherine and Journey.
Never has a
game felt
more niche than this.
Currently an arcade - only, Japan - only update, VF5R could well come to consoles in the form of downloadable content or even a standalone release (in the vein of Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution on PS2)-
more on that in the interview of course - but for the time being this is obviously a bit of a
niche game for us to be covering on Kikizo.
Variable gear stats, expandable attack, spell, and ninjutsu trees, a
more mission based gameplay setup, and other gameplay tweaks bring Nioh fully into its own
niche of
game style while still giving nods to titles that it gained inspiration from.
Similarly,
games with the Atlus logo on their packaging do their own restricting; the lauded company's
games are,
more often than not,
niche titles.
BlazBlue is a little bit
more niche than MvC, Street Fighter, or Mortal Kombat, so that might be a concern for the long - term value of the
game.