In the first option you then get into the debate about what genres deserve their own categories, what is and isn't a genre, how many categories to have, etc. Do you shorten them to their common abbreviations and hope no casual people get confused (RPG, FPS, RTS), or do you spell them out fully and have enormous category names? Is Card-Based RPG a genre? What's Pokemon? Do Adventure and Platformer overlap? Do genres like Puzzle, Sandbox Game, Survival Horror, Tactical RPG, etc get included or is that breaking it down too much? Is Metroid a First-Person Shooter or an RPG or a Platformer? Does anyone care about the Sports genre? Do racing games count as Sports?
Ad nauseum.
Ad nauseum.
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Topic survey!
- 02/09/2009 02:45:25 AM
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I think Other Games would be a pretty simple and effective catch-all.
- 02/09/2009 03:52:23 AM
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Game Design!
- 02/09/2009 03:55:12 AM
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Why?
- 02/09/2009 04:19:53 AM
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The second option is certainly simpler.
- 02/09/2009 04:30:35 AM
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Because the genre of a game is more relevant to it's content than the system it runs on.
- 02/09/2009 04:36:32 AM
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True, but you have to consider what topic relevance is used for.
- 02/09/2009 05:22:49 AM
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Your analogy is messed up.
- 02/09/2009 05:27:46 AM
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No no, you're twisting it. 
- 02/09/2009 01:31:19 PM
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- 02/09/2009 01:31:19 PM
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I see what you're saying, but that's a pretty convoluted way to make an analogy. :p *NM*
- 02/09/2009 04:19:26 PM
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Handhelds, Console Wars, News
- 02/09/2009 07:14:28 AM
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Well, they did. There were fairly regular posts on DnD, and related games. 
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- 02/09/2009 01:32:06 PM
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- 02/09/2009 01:32:06 PM
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After reading all the posts so far, here is my newest suggestion...
- 24/09/2009 08:59:47 PM
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