The Eye of Judgment is
a niche game which will appeal only fans of the genre.
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.
From there, growth has never been far from the agenda at Vox Media,
which now operates eight
niche media brands, including Polygon for
gamers, Vox for political newshounds, and Racked for fashionistas.
The series will premiere exclusively on Rooster Teeth's streaming service,
which launched in 2016 and has attracted 250,000 subscribers with original content geared for a
niche gamer audience.
Moon Hunters has no online mode
which is a massive missed opportunity in a fairly
niche game that's all about cooperation.
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.
This is slightly lower than the previous
game, on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, but it's not that big a deal for Inti Creates: Gal Gun 2 is a pretty
niche series after all (
which means it's not going to stay in the Top 2 very long).
Barely six years into the road - car
game, McLaren has treaded on new ground with this delicately modulated spinoff, a move
which may or may not help broaden the market for the
niche brand.
Despite the
niche market Vizio came in and changed the
game completely offering cheap giant sized displays for under $ 1K
which the average cheap consumer flocks to.
Add one more
game to the list of
niche hardcore
games still arriving regularly on the PS2,
which I posted about here.
I disagree, I still think turn based RPG's are pretty
niche, Persona has been around for decades and is STILL considered
niche, simply because unlike Final Fantasy it isn't mainstream, i'm hoping that in time JRPG devs or devs in general would look towards
games like Persona 5 as their influences vs
games like Final Fantasy 15,
which while good in it's own right had a lot of issues and seemed to be rushed to the point where an entire story chapter had to be added, and new features are still being added to make the
game better.
There are
games which break away from toxic trends, finding a
niche community devoted to their
games.
For the first few hours Naughty Bear is highly entertaining and unique but after a time the idea's begin to wilt and become repetitive and the lack of variety in locations and gameplay begins to bore but I have no doubt that this
game will find a
niche of
gamers to slot itself into and it does deserve it for all of its flaws it's unique and plain fun
which are both things that many
games now are lacking in.
«Pixel art is my go - to style during
game jams as it emphasizes quickness, simplicity, efficiency and takes a
niche which many AAA
games can't quite touch,» details Vova.
The
game is long - form, took over a year, targets a very specific
niche, and «the budget was around $ 200,000,
which when dealing with an iOS project is nothing to sneeze at.»
And while both of those modes have enjoyed a considerable resurgence since the rise of the indie
game, they were considered
niche at best, and commercial anathema at worst,
which is part of why the first installments of the series didn't make it to other territories until 2005, nearly four years after their original release.
Mobile
games in 2016 are usually free to play and those that are paid are usually very
niche titles with extremely dedicated fanbases or are a ridiculously huge IP like Minecraft
which has 40m paid DL.
Enter Kickstarter,
which allowed the team to find the
niche audience for their
game that could allow them to reach their goal.
A
niche 2D fighting
game called Skull Girls on Xbox Arcade (UPDATE:
which isn't out until next week).
That length of time does not feel long enough to merit a reboot, especially for a
game which had a
niche audience.
Build engineering is one of those
niche roles in
games development — put simply, a build engineer is responsible for every build the studio produces,
which is essentially a working version of the
game at any point in time, from the first prototype to the final
game.
I prefer the smaller indie
niche titles
which are usually much more interesting and more up my alley as an old school
gamer at heart.
This is slightly lower than the previous
game, on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, but it's not that big a deal for Inti Creates: Gal Gun 2 is a pretty
niche series after all (
which means it's not going to stay in the Top 2 very long).
Their company has an interesting
niche: retro
games,
which, as Matthew explains, have «a nostalgic feel.»
Dungeons & Dragons had made it difficult (but not impossible) for other tabletop role - playing
game publishers to carve out a
niche, just as Magic the Gathering had made it essentially impossible for anyone else to compete in the trading card
game space (not withstanding Pokémon,
which was made by the same company).
It is currently the only
game of its type to be announced
which gives Angry Mob Games a massive
niche to carve out.
Aside from Final Fantasy XV,
which is receiving a mixed reception at best, and the upcoming sequel to the Tomb Raider reboot, Square doesn't really have much beyond
games with
niche appeal.
Turns out that the PC,
which has a huge playerbase for strategy
games, received Valkyria Chronicles a lot more warmly than the consoles, where strategy is a
niche genre at best.
We've seen a huge growth in the popularity of eSports in recent times — to the point where big
games have been covered on Sky TV — but will competitive matches be something that can help stoke the popularity of VR gaming,
which remains a rather
niche pursuit?
Additionally, WWO is a full - on massively multiplayer online
game, so it fills a different
niche than Red Dead Redemption 2,
which (we hope / think) will primarily be a single player experience with an additional multiplayer mode called Red Dead Online.
With a
game library of 700 titles and remote play functionality, the PlayStation TV may find its
niche in the market as a viable alternative to buying a gaming console,
which would be much more expensive.
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows actually comes in with a pretty good start,
which isn't all that common for Nippon Ichi
games, that tend to be very
niche oriented.