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"FPS Absurdity" and the reason why genres based on presentation need to go.
heedicalking:
Genres work as tags to help you find what you're looking for. When you look for "FPS", both cod and bf come up. You then DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH to find what is right for you, the genre tags just help you narrow down what you are looking for. combining FPS and RPG can help you find games like fallout if thats what you want.
I cant really tell whats going on at the bottom? Are you supporting custom tags? Are you supporting it to a degree? Were you trying to set up some slippery slope to prove a hypothetical alternate tagging system (that you devised in the first place) is stupid? im a bit lost there.
Again, with the last paragraph you (and i) seem kinda lost 0_o. i dont think you get the point of genre tags very well. they are just to classify games to help find what you are looking for and weed out what you aren't. your proposing a hypothetical they become more complicated than they are (AAS, ASS, CAS, NFASRPG), then saying "its too complicated lets remove tags!", which would only make it even more complicated to find what you're looking for.
xxxxkill:
--- Quote from: Mounds Bar on February 19, 2013, 10:51:58 PM ---No matter of what defines a FPS, we need to popularize games to balance them with most of the combat games
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Much easier said than done. Fact of the matter is that the majority of people who buy games buy shooter games, which encourages developers and publishers to make more shooter games. While indie games which don't involve killing people are popular sometimes, more often than not you're going to see games with at least some killing in it. Why? It's because that's what is popular. For many many years, punching/maiming/shooting/goring/disemboweling your enemies has been a very very common theme in games for the simple reason of people like that kind of thing. Another reason why shooters are very commonly made is because, well, they're a pretty simple formula to follow. No matter how many features you toss into an FPS (FPS in this case defining games where you shoot things that are trying to kill you with something that can kill them) in the end the base mechanics are "here's a thing to kill stuff at range go use it on bad guys". Planetside 2, despite being very very different from a game that encourages lone wolf play, such as CoD, still has the base mechanics of "Here's a gun go kill people." At the end of the day shooters are going to remain popular for a long time, and that's because dipstuffs like me enjoy that kind of game sometimes.
Aces:
best puzel game is zelda
fred da kiko:
--- Quote from: heedicalking on February 19, 2013, 10:59:46 PM ---Genres work as tags to help you find what you're looking for. When you look for "FPS", both cod and bf come up. You then DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH to find what is right for you, the genre tags just help you narrow down what you are looking for. combining FPS and RPG can help you find games like fallout if thats what you want.
I cant really tell whats going on at the bottom? Are you supporting custom tags? Are you supporting it to a degree? Were you trying to set up some slippery slope to prove a hypothetical alternate tagging system (that you devised in the first place) is stupid? im a bit lost there.
Again, with the last paragraph you (and i) seem kinda lost 0_o. i dont think you get the point of genre tags very well. they are just to classify games to help find what you are looking for and weed out what you aren't. your proposing a hypothetical they become more complicated than they are (AAS, ASS, CAS, NFASRPG), then saying "its too complicated lets remove tags!", which would only make it even more complicated to find what you're looking for.
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I'm saying that we should base tags on gameplay rather than presentation, I'll re-write the last paragraph so it's clearer.
Flamecannon:
he is saying that having a mindset of popularizing a game isn't what's going to help publishers, for one advertising is a very difficult business and opinion is also difficult to change. it all comes down to what people prefer in a game, and if people don't play it what can we do?
--- Quote from: Aces on February 19, 2013, 11:00:10 PM ---best puzel game is zelda
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--- Quote from: fred da kiko on February 19, 2013, 11:01:58 PM ---I'm saying that we should base tags on gameplay rather than presentation, I'll re-write the last paragraph so it's clearer.
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i know you gave examples of games but i think you should add what is a bad tag for it and what is a better tag