Do We Need to Rethink Video Game Genres?

nice_cuppa - 387 days 18 hours ago

strange picture !

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ElementX - 387 days 17 hours ago

Must...not....comment

(For you Loot-Ninja fans)

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BRACHATTACK - 387 days 17 hours ago

I enjoy FPS', and i wasn't impressed with mirrors edge.

I would much rather have a solid shooter with GREAT graphics like killzone 2, rather than a clunky new EA IP

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ps3freak18 - 387 days 17 hours ago

Mirrors edge pissed me off. On one hand i was running around jumping off walls and doing crazy jumps and such, and boy did i ever enjoy the game. As soon as a gun was introduced though, the game fell flat on its face. The shooting is terrible. You can only zoom in with the sniper rifle, if you get shot you start shooting upwards, and every gun has barely any ammo and can't be reloaded. I hope they get rid of the guns and anything related to guns in the next 2 mirrors edge games(rumoured to be a trilogy).

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Highatus - 387 days 16 hours ago

Personally i enjoy ME,It's a break from your run-o-the-mill FPS.
It's challenging and intuitive, which is also seemingly rare nowadays, while frustrating at times thats where the gratification and payoff is felt most, especially when your able to pull the parkour element off seemlessly.

As for the gun element, it's discouraged to use it to begin with and is mostly unnecessary most of the time(i think only 2 levels require it) even then use slow time, disarm. it works way better than using a gun anyway. I didn't shoot anyone through my first playthrough, and the only time i was forced was on a couple speed runs.

Genre's don't really define a game wholly i don't think and nowadays where innovation is being used as a selling point i think slapping a specific genre title is slipping away as well.

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Jenzo - 387 days 16 hours ago

We need a new genre called Shallow Art Director Crapfest games.

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Synex - 387 days 16 hours ago

Wouldn't this game be action/adventure?

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deeznuts - 387 days 15 hours ago

Not to mention Mass Effect was about as RPG as God of War was. You got to choose your character, and which weapons abilities to level up. That's about it. The evil vs. good stuff didn't even affect the game.

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Xander-RKoS - 387 days 12 hours ago

I think this person is greatly confused about how we classify games.

Like his last example for instance, makes no sense. Sci-fi classifies the style of the game, but RPG classifies the game mechanics. Like is Halo a sci-fi game or a shooter game? That's easy, it's both!

Even some of this less "I can't believe he can't figure it out" examples don't make much sense. If a game is strictly linear, meaning you go stage by stage, it's probably not an adventure game. If you do a lot of jumping around and have to use precise timing to get from one platform to another, it's probably a platformer (even if it has a gun).

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cactuschef - 387 days 6 hours ago

One thing i really did enjoy from this article is this noodle scratcher we are presented with. "For instance, should we classify Too Human as a sci-fi game, rather than an RPG?"

That article is nothing but filler. Guess he had a blog entry to do, and had absolutely nothing to write about.

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