Which Genre of Video Game would you prefer to play on your spare time?
Vote on the poll.
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 Aug 1 2009, 12:16 pm
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Aug 1 2009, 12:21 pm
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Vic Rattlehead
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You completely forgot Sidescrollers/Platformers.
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Why bother with the poll? Just have Action there, anything that requires skill or attention is an action game, apparently.
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Cool. So if I vote "action", I could be voting for hack-n-slash, or a shooter, or a FPS, or a fighting game... oh wait...
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"Maze games have a playing field which is entirely a maze, which players must navigate. Quick thinking and fast reaction times are encouraged by the use of a timer, monsters obstructing the player's way, or multiple players racing to the finish. The most famous game of this genre is Pac-Man."
You heard it here first, Pac-Man is an action game. Now if only we could have a Gears/Pac-Man cross-over. | |
I would tend to argue that there are more useful genres of games than are reported on Wikipedia.
Why? Wikipedia tries to report what people would look for in an encyclopedia. Right now, encyclopedia data about video games would probably come from gaming magazines. Those magazines use broad terms for game genres because it doesn't necessarily benefit them much to drill everything down into a more particular genre. Compare to how musical magazines tend to throw everything into a handful of super-broad genres. On the other hand, game makers and players will tend to care more than the magazines about their favorite games and genres. They will develop and use a more sophisticated language to describe game genres which may not ever be embraced by publications but which is still valid and important in the community. Wikipedia will tend not to report on it, since it isn't encyclopedic until many sources have documented it. Compare to how musicians and fans classify themselves using a huge number of genres and sub-genres, with many musicians identifying with a number of genres, as many as a dozen. So, what does your poll really seek to find? How are you going to use the information? Why ask the question this way, and why ask for that sort of answer? If you want a useful discussion, you should take into consideration that we may have lots of information to give you that doesn't fit into the broad, vague language used by big gaming publications. | |
