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"FPS Absurdity" and the reason why genres based on presentation need to go.
Flamecannon:
--- Quote from: Shell on February 19, 2013, 11:31:32 PM ---and removing genres will only lead to annoyance when looking for a specific type of game.
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again, this isn't what he is argueing for
Tomcat:
--- Quote from: Shell on February 19, 2013, 11:31:32 PM ---in portal, do you shoot things until they stop moving? no. plus, it is literally impossible to make an mmorpgrtsfpsflightsimulator. you are overreacting. mixing genres is perfectly fine because otherwise, we would end up with too many genres for specific games which is silly when we can just mix them, and removing genres will only lead to annoyance when looking for a specific type of game.
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He's asking for more specific genres from what I can read.
fred da kiko:
--- Quote from: Shell on February 19, 2013, 11:31:32 PM ---in portal, do you shoot things until they stop moving? no. plus, it is literally impossible to make an mmorpgrtsfpsflightsimulator. you are overreacting. mixing genres is perfectly fine because otherwise, we would end up with too many genres for specific games which is silly when we can just mix them, and removing genres will only lead to annoyance when looking for a specific type of game.
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"until they stop moving" isn't a requirement for something to be an FPS, only first person perspective and shooting, also, saying it's literally impossible to make an mmorpgrtsfpsflight simulator is like saying it's impossible to make chocolate cookie dough icecream. I don't think anyone will have issues if people stopped calling things FPSs and described them based on something else other than "you shoot in first person."
Shell:
very possible and easy to make chocolate cookie dough ice cream but that is clearly not your point so ill ignore that
after rereading, i see what you actually mean and it will likely only lead to complications by classifying games that way because fps, rpg, etc are vague because they refer to a large genre of games and having a bunch of subdivisions for an fps instead of just an fps is unneeded and allows for little exploration when looking for games of a specific genre.
sorry if there are any mistakes, foruming on phones is impossible radda radda
fred da kiko:
The thing is that FPS is based on a style of presentation and a single action, while RPG is based on the way in which you play the game. This ends up making the FPS genre so diverse that many of the games have very little in common, making it unreliable.