I specifically mean games or series that featured some kind of niche subculture/activity/lifestyle that appealed to teens and young adults as opposed to ones that were just fads among kids like Pokemon in the 90s or toys-to-life games in the 2010s or just generally popular games

DDR (no, not that one) probably counts as one, though that might’ve been mostly confined to Japanese arcades

Does this sort of thing even happen anymore? I assume these days youngins just play Fortnite, Call of Duty Warzone or whatever else instead of extreme sports or rhythm games

    • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Unless you’re playing a yakuza game LOL

      Though their worst offenders are definitely the mid-2010’s tbf, except for Lost Judgment’s weird multi-input QTEs. Dead Souls in particular speeds them up so fast on higher difficulties that it’s basically impossible to hit them consistently unless you use the PS3 menu to buffer them