A Definitive List of Gaming Genres? 119
An anonymous reader puts forth this challenge for the Slashdot readership: "Construct a definitive list of game genres for PC and/or console that doesn't dribble off into silly categories like 'licensed movie franchise,' or include redundancies like 'action', '3D adventure' and 'platformer.' My friend and I have been messing around with this for awhile, trying to do a better job than the game news sites, but we're finding it's harder than we thought."
wikipedia strikes again... (Score:5, Informative)
It's a good place to start. If you can think of more, you can always add them.
wikipedia "seriously" strikes again... (Score:1, Informative)
Incredible Machine (Score:3, Informative)
you will fail (Score:3, Informative)
I offer you the following theorem:
Any genre-based categorization of computer games will either be too generic or too specific to be useful.
Same thing applies to movies, books, etc.
Re:wikipedia strikes again... (Score:3, Informative)
Interesting that the Wikipedia artile misses out "roguelike"..