Surely it'd be a case of selecting all the games from a redundant category and changing them to a valid category that fits... i.e. Platformer -> Platform, Driving -> Sport, Bat 'n Ball -> Arcade, Real-time Strategy + Turn-based Strategy -> Strategy...etc. As it's a database I'm pretty sure a line of SQL or whatever could do it.
It'd be a better system if the genres were like blog tags, so you could select 'Platform + Demo + Arcade' but that's getting a bit over the top in terms of having to keep your archive in order.
But still the Final Fantasy series are Adventure/RPG but mostly referred to as RPG. Adventure is just too broad in teams of genres. It's just the easy way out. Games like King's Quest I suppose would probably fit that agenda.
But then again those types of games would have their own category too.
I say go with the wiki video game genres:
- Action
- Fighting
- RPG
- Multiplayer Online
- Platform
- Simulation
- Sport
- Strategy
I like the categories that way. What's wrong with too much genres anyway. A lot of people who like RTS games don't like TBS games, so it makes no sense to merge them into 'Strategy'. Even if we did merge them into one genre, there'd be another prick telling us to take it apart. And sub-categories are well.. annoying, considering that we don't have enough games to really make it worth the time.
I think there's so many genres coz everyone tends to make those type of games. Bat and ball (Pong, breakout games), drive 'em ups (GTA clones), abandoned games (with code included), those things that don't exist outside the community are so common here that they get their own section. And some "Wikipedia categories" like MMOs wouldn't really exist here, lol. I'd be suprised to see a platform genre outside klik & abandonware sites, though.
For one thing, you make yourself look like an idiot for questioning things like "Adventure", "Beat-em-up", "Sports" and "Interactive Fiction". Those genres exist on major game sites, and there's plenty more on Home of the Underdogs. The more games there are, the more genres there'll be. But I think you're right in one way. Drive-em-up and racing could be combined, and so can arcade-action, engine-tutorial, platform-platformer. Retro shouldn't be a genre, but there was one time in the community when there was a 2-bit color game craze, which probably spawned it.
Maybe one day we'll clean up the whole DC system, not just the genres..
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"Adventure is just too broad in teams of genres. It's just the easy way out. Games like King's Quest I suppose would probably fit that agenda.
But then again those types of games would have their own category too."
King's Quest isn't the only adventure game in existence, you know? And where would you place those games then. Action? Platform?!
Here's my list:
- Action
- Fighting
- RPG
- Multiplayer Online
- Platform
- Simulation
- Sport
- Strategy
- Adventure (because they wouldn't fit into any other category)
- Racing (too different from most sports games in terms of gameplay)
- Puzzle (again, too different)
- Arcade (maybe)
- Engine (It would be helpful while searching for engines, etc)
- Application (because I wouldn't categorize WebWiz as an action game)
- Other
Actually, with a multicheck list view (Like most torrent sites), it wouldn't be that bad at all. Might be more manageable than changing every entry in the database.
"There was a time when you could click on a genre and the top downloads list changed to a top list for that genre. I liked that."
> I think someone got rid of that because it's bad for the littler games.
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I think,as some has said before, that a game can fit into many genres.
In the "old days", when games where very simple it might have been easier to sort them into categories. What remains of that sorting system now is very out of date. For example: modern FPS games must have a great deal of RPG in them, otherwise they're not fun to play.
Different genres also reffers to different elements of a game: Platform is a description of the graphics, Ball & Bat what you are supposed to do, and Adventure what it feels lika playing it.
Either you must have many genres to choose from, or you must be able to make a multiple choice.
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