OK, i concede to your point, but i still think that some RPGs, not all, but some should be near the center, as in oblivion, to go back to that example, if you can adapt to your crummy stats, you can easily do the same things as a higher level player, par se, you can hit from a very long distance, even at a low archery level if you simply adjust to arrow drop, and yes,damage is decided by stats, but how is that different than borderlands? or any other FPS that has stats
283: Introducing The Escapist's Genre Wheel
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Also, to twentydragon, vehicle sims are where you say, virtually test drive a car, racig is like NFS or grand turismo
Action: The bus is drifting to the right. OH SHIT! BETTER STEER LEFT!garjian said:
Conflict: This game sucks ass... but they're paying us to keep playing it...
Exploration: They want us to *what!?* That's a new one. Well, sure, we can give it a shot if that two hundred dollar donation comes in... just give me time to limber up, first... and... actually, make it $250 because we'll need to rent the llama and the fog machine.
Strategy: Are you kidding me? Pee first. Bring friends. Sleep in shifts. Ration your caffeine. Desert Bus is ALL about strategy!
Does this idea of a chart to classify games comes in pair with Yahtzee's Extra punctuation "contest, challange and gratification" idea for rating games? Do you think it was discussed as a whole? Anyway, this is just a tool, it can't possibly cover all the videogames in this world. Definitions change over time, and label as "RPG" and "action/adventure" seems to be inadequate to definy a lot of games, recently. Finally it's not really useful by itself, since a review needs to elaborate on the game's content, but once you elaborate on it, you describe the game far better than by using the "tag" you place on its genre, thus making the creation of such a system a bit pointless. So, it's just something you have to put in front of the article to steer away people that wouldn't be interested in the genre, but this is already achieved by the "old" labels (of course, this is just my opinion).
In case I didn't make it clear previosly (I am sorry, I don't speak english very well), I think that both this system and the previous one are flawed, but get the job done either way (giving basic informations on what to expect in a game before even bothering to read a review), so I feel it isn't particularly useful.
In case I didn't make it clear previosly (I am sorry, I don't speak english very well), I think that both this system and the previous one are flawed, but get the job done either way (giving basic informations on what to expect in a game before even bothering to read a review), so I feel it isn't particularly useful.