Thread 717385691

why is the sport fantasy genre so rare in vidya?

mario is the only rep doing games

You have to go back in time. Mutant League and Blitz were pretty cool. NBA Jam as well.

people into sports dont have an imagination in the first place

>>717385691 (OP)
sports devs can't kino

I miss 00's madden bros

>>717385691 (OP)
Mario Strikers Charged. Oh wait that's a 2007 game.
There's this anime dodgeball game in development for PC but I forgot its name.

>>717385691 (OP)
Looney tunes wacky sports was fucking lit

Also, you now remember Pyre

>>717385856
Mutant League Football actually got a successor game a while back: Mutant Football League. It even managed to get a sequel.

It also did a lot to highlight why a lot of fantasy sports games don't get made: it's hard to actually appeal to people with them. The average gamer just thinks "well it's sports, and sports aren't my thing," so they won't touch it no matter how much it leans into fantasy or arcadey mechanics, and sports fans won't touch it because they'd prefer to play the games that actually have the real teams and players. When I took MFL to hangouts to play couch vidya, and people just instantly turned their noses up once they saw that the game actually had Plays n' shit.

It only works if the sport is exceedingly simple, if there's a fun character attached, or the sport is an entirely new riff on things, and even then, success can be limited. Just look at how the number of people that even know that Roller Champions exists can be counted on one hand. Not everyone can be Mario Tennis or Rocket League

There was that Captain Tsubasa game that looked ridiculous (in a good way)
There's also supposed to be that mega Inazuma Eleven game that's been delayed like 15 times. I've never played one of these games but I was interested in trying that one if it ever releases
I was kind of hoping Tribe 9 was going to be an extreme baseball game like they said it was but it was actually just mediocre action game with a gacha shoved in it occasionally featuring baseball

>>717385691 (OP)
Most games that try the niche can't draw crowds. For every rocket league there's an omega strikers.

BRING HER BACK!

>>717385691 (OP)
Because physical sports are fucking boring to watch. Just go play it if you like it so much, why even watch it? Why make a video game out of it if you don't get anything from winning? Physical sports are fucking lame.

>>717386175
Toxotransmosis moment.

>>717387010
brown Dendra