I dunno about specific genres or styles, but there's some crossovers I'd love.

Just in the videogame field, I'd LOVE a RainbowSix or X-Com style game about monster hunting, sort of like the book Vampire$. Either tactical or fps-tactical, with different loadouts, that type of thing. For that matter, a "Last Man on Earth" simulator, a la I Am Legend or Dawn of the Dead would be great, too.

I'd love to see more games with open-ended tech-trees.

While most games go for a 'this tech leads to this tech, etc.' I'd like to see more game where you could 'invent' completely new technologies.

I would love to see more nonviolent games. Entirely nonviolent games would be cool, but maybe just limiting the ways that the player can win/progress to being something other than bashing on bad guys. Or being bashed on by bad guys, for that matter.

Don't get me wrong, GTA is brilliant fun, and I've played the hell out of 3 and Vice City. I love Doom(II)/Quake(I,II,III), and it's ilk, and have played them through to the very end. I've even bought expansion packs (usually to the derision of any friends present at purchase, and sad disappointment later). However, the more I see these done, the more "standard" FPS or RTS games I see, the more I wish game marketers would try to convince the higher ups to try new stuff, rather than try to make a hit game by doing what everyone else is doing.</soapbox>Whoa, sorry about that.

Japan has got dating games, convenience store simulators, and train-conducting games. None of these would handily port to the western audience, but are offered here as food for thought about how many weird things about which we /could/ make games.

The Savage game sounded like a great new hybrid, but probably not well enough funded to realize its full potential.
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In and of itself though, it looks like a realtime strategy game that requires players to take the role of individual units in a 3rd person combat game. A neat concept, even it is only taking two existing (and somewhat played out) ideas and putting them in a blender.

Apex sounded nice (I don't own an xbox); I wonder how many things would work by taking one kind of established gamplay, then strapping some kind of RPG/empirebuilding element into it.

The X-Com/vampire/zombie game is a swell idea, btw.

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Alout is missing, as Well as we should stop calling everything NextGen. I mean how can it be next gen if it coming out this gen? im asumming its just a flash lable to sell things. sorry off track *cough*
Games that have great interactivity, reguarless of the type of game. Being able to do meaninless things in a game, that programers put there just for the hell of it.

Overall gameplay is mising from games!!!!!
So meny games come out that are just horable? im sure its alout.
I own about 40 or so pc games, and I like any type of game wether its a platformer or stadegy.
only a few do I find next to imposable to set down. Games like Diablo, Farcry, Shenmue, Deus ex 1.... the 2nd one sucked.
Games like this had so much gameplay.
Diablo just had a ton of items to be had, a rich user interface that made the game adicting.
Farcray was no only beauifull the game play was fast paced at times, and fun.
Deus ex well this game is one of my faves. From a diblo like interface, but a 1st person shooter rpg. where you could. open doors with out said item if you could ramdomly figure out the pass code was brialiant! Basicly it was and Rpg 1st person game.
Shenmue, had just a ton of meaninless stuff to collect, but meaninless doesnt mean it want fun. I would spend days just collection stuff at the shops, and stores in the rich enviorment this game offered.
So whats missing in curent game. Basicly what I described in the games above.