I went searching for platform games just recently and found 24 game categories to choose from.
Now, some may find this useful but I found it damn annoying. Not only is there platform, but there is also platformer. And if an uploader still cant figure out where to put his/her game there is the miscellaneous category.
Seriously, let's kill a few categories because they are totally unnecessary.
Beat-em up! What is this? Couldn't that fit under platform or something similar? We do already have shoot-em up.
Sport/ racing, they are the same thing!
Turn-based strategy/real-time strategy?? What's the difference?
Drive-em up- again 'what the hell?' get rid of it!
Bat & Ball?? Couldn't this come under sport? I mean how many types of bat and ball games can you have. Why does this get its own category? Why don't we just make a category for games with the colour blue in it!
Adventure- what kind of adventure? RPG, Platform???
A lot of these categories are pointless. Interactive fiction? What the hell is that??? Abandoned- I don't want to play someone’s unfinished game! Finish your damn game or don't upload it!
I mean please, put it in the Demo section if anything.
Same with Retro (what kind of retro- platform/RPG/shoot-em up???)
Okay, I think I can break down the categories into something much simpler:
- Platform
- RPG
- Puzzle
- Sport
- Shoot-Em up
- Application
- Engine (I suppose this site accepts people engines now, not just games. So I guess we need a spot to put all these custom movement engines. And tutorials can come under this too)
- Demo (only for demos- any type of game!)
- Other (For those lazy people who can't be bothered putting in one of the above)
I looked up video game genres on wikipedia and they seem to have it right. They have 8 major genres for video games: Action, Fighting, RPG, Massively Multiplayer Online, Platform, Simulation, Sport, Strategy.
So that's my rant.
But please Daily Click staff, sort out the game genres.
Make a poll and see what people think, but do something.
i totally agree, and a few years ago i suggested the removal of some genres but they wouldn't have it. I still think there are too many. I mean, "demo" is not a genre, it's a description or something like that :S
And the sub-categories idea isn't a bad one, but why not have it so that the uploader can choose two from the main categories instead, I mean like adventure/platformer or RPG/strategy, etcetera. That'd be cool.
Edwin you're an ignorant fool who doesn't know his categories. Adventure games are it's own genre and have been around since the early 80's. Maybe even earlier with some of the text only adventure games. Beat-em up is a fighting game like Double Dragon or Street Fighter. Sport and Racing are the same thing? Now I'm really concerned about your lack of knowledge. There are a lot of genres, they may have gone overboard on TDC so you've got a point but you've also made a point on how much of an idiot you are.
We have talked about this in the past, and we had decided to keep them inplace as is, simply because some games are tagged under one category and not another of the same type. I don't think it's one of those things we can edit either.
I'm gonna explain it to you. Read carefully as there will be a test on it next week (no, not really...)
Beat-em up! What is this? Couldn't that fit under platform or something similar?
Beat em up is another name for fighting games. More specifically scrolling fighters (like Streets of Rage)
Sport/ racing, they are the same thing!
I say keep them separate. You can race for sport, but Grand Theft Auto is hardly a sports game.
Turn-based strategy/real-time strategy?? What's the difference?
In the first one you take turns (think of a game of chess), while in the second one the game "keeps running" while you make your choices (think of Warcraft). The two different categories of RTS should be condensed into one though.
Drive-em up- again 'what the hell?' get rid of it!
This one I can agree with. Could be condensed into the Racing genre.
Bat & Ball?? Couldn't this come under sport? I mean how many types of bat and ball games can you have.
Since when is Breakout a sports game?
Adventure- what kind of adventure? RPG, Platform???
The Adventure genre is very loosely defined. Monkey Island and Tomb Raider could both be defined as Adventure games, while they are still two very different games.
Interactive fiction? What the hell is that???
Fiction are made up stories. Interactive means you can interact with something. So essentially Interactive Fiction are stories which you can change the outcome of as you play.
- Ok, you must admit that was the most creative cussing this site have ever seen -
DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
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15th May, 2007 at 15:43:58 -
Bat & Ball?? Couldn't this come under sport? I mean how many types of bat and ball games can you have.
Since when is Breakout a sports game?
Yes, but it could still rather be under the "arcade" genre.
The reason it is a problem to "fix" is because there are games which have already selected different categories - so if we remove and change some categories, then games will appear in the wrong category or won't appear at all. I suppose it depends on whether that bothers some people or not
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