General_Norris wrote:We need a forum that should contain half of the games mentioned in this site called "Murder simulators"
ha! i traded in a couple games once... Hitman and some other "murder simulator" and the gamestop dude was like "man you sure like murdering people" ... or something like that. it was funny
Limewater wrote:I think in general this is a bad idea. There's no much point in having any sort of gaming taxonomy if, once things get big enough, they get their own entire genre. As far as I can tell, gaming now uses just a two-level classification scheme-- genres and sub genres. If anything, I think we probably need MORE levels to better describe the similarities games have.
Valid point, but as I was saying... how do you classify a bunch of games that share "stealth" or "survival horror(ness)" as a common theme? it doesn't make sense to call Splinter Cell a shooter or Tenchu an action game or Theif an adventure game... it's just not specific enough since Stealth is in fact the theme. It is a genre, it's just not recognized. Same for Survival Horror games, there's just no other name for them yet once again, it is a genre but it's not recognized. Those are really the only two sub-genres that I believe have become full fledged genres and should be treated as such. My examples of shooters was just that, an example.
