Right this is an odd one, hear me out.
I first got the idea from Yahtzee's review of 'Mad World' where he mentioned the idea of callling Devil May Cry and God Hand and other such games as a subgenre called 'spectacle fighters' and the idea for this thread has slowly been forming. The basic idea is to group together a few games that share common characteristics and then giving them as a subgenre a name. So I'll give my example:
Half Life 2, Bioshock, Doom 3, System Shock, Stalker Clear Sky and Fallout 3 are in a category that I call 'Explorative shooters' meaning simply games where instead of an enclosed arena with contained encounters you are either
A. Given a much more detailed and varied world to explore and the game encourages you to do so
B. You have to use the environment to solve puzzles and other problems.
So that's one subgenre of games that I would like people to acknowledge them as.
What about you, got any games that can form their own seperate sub genre?
I first got the idea from Yahtzee's review of 'Mad World' where he mentioned the idea of callling Devil May Cry and God Hand and other such games as a subgenre called 'spectacle fighters' and the idea for this thread has slowly been forming. The basic idea is to group together a few games that share common characteristics and then giving them as a subgenre a name. So I'll give my example:
Half Life 2, Bioshock, Doom 3, System Shock, Stalker Clear Sky and Fallout 3 are in a category that I call 'Explorative shooters' meaning simply games where instead of an enclosed arena with contained encounters you are either
A. Given a much more detailed and varied world to explore and the game encourages you to do so
B. You have to use the environment to solve puzzles and other problems.
So that's one subgenre of games that I would like people to acknowledge them as.
What about you, got any games that can form their own seperate sub genre?