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in everyones quest to catagorize everything, people just cant agree about this game...so what do you think?

I think genre distinctions are meaningless these days. You've got made-up genres like "Survival-Horror," and then you've got your hybrid "pseudo-RPG-FPS-Adventure-Puzzle/Fighting" genre, and all this other extraneous crap.

Games are games. Some games play differently than others. React accordingly, but don't attempt to classify them. There will ALWAYS be someone who disagrees with you.

It's quite obvious.

APFPS.

It's not directly a FPS even though that's the meat of it's presentation, it dosen't rely on constant shooting for the bulk of it's game play. It's about exactly the same amount of exploration as the previous games which where deep with lots of things to find.

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I dissagree with you Wookie, You wouldnt claim Time Crisis is the same as RE just because they both feature guns would you? There are action games and adventure games and subgenres for all. Some games fit more than one and some create their own specific niche. Sure Survival Horror was coined by Capcom but every game that plays like it still ends up with the same gener discrpition.

I do not see crap as a choice on the poll.

Originally Posted by DenisDFat I do not see crap as a choice on the poll.

Did somebody forget to take his happy pills today?

"Did somebody forget to take his happy pills today?"

Fanboys are never happy.

"You wouldnt claim Time Crisis is the same as RE just because they both feature guns would you?"

No, but there comes a point where the industry coins new and decidedly meaningless terms to classify games that are so wishy-washy in terms of formal definition that it's just not worth giving them any classification at all. I think we've reached that point.

I fully recognize the differences between games. That's not being argued against. All I'm saying is that we should start recognizing these differences without having to give them labels, because these labels have proven to be all but useless.

A key example? Metroid Prime. Is it an FPS? A platformer? An adventure title? All three? Who cares? It's a game, and should just be played the way it was intended.

Fanboy?

Fanboy of what? Good games?

Makes no sense. Is fanboy all you can pull out?

Wookie you make it sound as if someone's try to label it so it can be sent off to the gas chambers by storm troopers or something. Don't make a big deal of it, it's just a discussion, not like this actually mean anything to anyone other than they people interested in discussing it.

Some game fit into catagories better than others and some dont fit at all, usually it's because they cross genres like Metroid Prime does.

There's no choice for "The Most Fun I've Ever Had Playing a Video Game"

If you were a fanboy of good games, you wouldn't call Metroid Prime crap. Hell, I'm sick to death of Nintendo, but I still regard Metroid Prime as one of the best games of 2002 (for good reason).

I understand that the matter is subjective, and that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But that doesn't mean everyone's opinion is right. Thinking a good game is "crap," for instance.

Maybe fanboy wasn't the right word, though. I'll admit that. "Hater," maybe? I dunno. It's up to you. All I know for sure is that you're no fanboy to good games, because you've got a great game on the wrong list.

Originally Posted by DenisDFat Fanboy of what? Good games?

your right. theres no way you can e a fan boy of good games and hate metroid prime. so you must be a fanboy of sucky games. or x-box *games*. (you happy now?)

that was being redundant

"Wookie you make it sound as if someone's try to label it so it can be sent off to the gas chambers by storm troopers or something."

Uh...no I don't, and it seems to me like you're the one making the biggest deal out of what I said.

It's a total non-issue. Don't dwell on it for too long.

~sneakypenguin

That wasn't being redundant. That was being moronic.

Don't start preaching that someone else doesn't know the good games when you don't know them yourself.

Looks like I played the "fanboy" card prematurely. That term doesn't describe DennisD, but it describes you pretty well.

PS: "x box" isn't a game, Einstein. Just thought I'd bring that to your attention, since you can't seem to make that distinction on your own.



Jesus, why are there frickin' fanboys on EVERY gaming forum? That's what mainstream gaming will do to the industry, I guess...

erm, i aint a true fanboy. i own all the systems. even xbox and it has the same number of games as my gcn. i was poking fun because it pisses people off. i was successful. and it is my opinion that dennis' opinion is wrong about metroid prime. not saying im right. just think differently

btw: its not a game? it worked fine when i put it im my ps2. gee ill have to make note of that. you're so helpful!

Wookie, dude, dial it back a notch no one's trying to make this a big deal here all i did was reaspond to your statment, let it go.

Penguin, just ignore Dennis, he dosent like the game, big fat deal. Frankly from half the posts I've seen of his, he dosent seem to like any game really.

Part of the problem of labelling a game into a certain genre is that the way we judge games (and really everything) is to compare it to like things.

It isn't fair to compare one type of game against another. Example: I can't say that Mario Kart kicks Halo's ass, or vice versa. They aren't the same thing. They're different kind of games entirely. It's almost like me saying that my PC kicks your car's ass. It's a gibberish statement.

That's why it's difficult, and yet important to classify games correctly.

Is Metroid: Prime an FPS or an Adventure game?

Is it something so new that we need to invent a new genre for it? Like First Person Adventure?

There may be complaints of too many genres being created at the drop of a hat, but occasionally a legitimate new genre rolls out (take Herzog Zwei, or Dune as RTS's) and needs a name.

That's why this is actually a really important gamer question.

This is also the heart of the "Which Console is Better" question. I'd argue that the consoles themselves are totally different genres, and should be treated as such.

~Alpha2

There's obviously some miscommunication between us. It's no big deal, so the best thing to do is just leave it as is. You've said your piece, and I've said mine. So, to each his own.

~Penguin

Being sarcastic doesn't change the fact that you called the Xbox a game. But I guess if you get kicks out of pissing people off on purpose for whatever reason, that's the least of your problems.

Geez. And I thought GameFAQs was bad. Guess the only worthwhile forum section on this entire site is the one about deals.

"I'd argue that the consoles themselves are totally different genres, and should be treated as such."

Hm...interesting way of putting it.

Well I'd say in an effort to not create a new genre(although I've seen the title Firstperson adventure already used several times for it);

MP is simply an Adventure game but played from a first person perspective. Metroid at its roots is an adventure game and the only thing that diverges form that in MP is it's view point.

As for the "Which console is better" argument: it'll never go away because when people can't blow the money to buy all the ones out they have to focus on one and hope that it survives. And in oder to help it they try to convince people it's a worth while purchase, when two opposing sides meet there's always going to be an argument.

i think its a fps, me and my bro had a long arguement about this, if u c through a first person mode and shoot at things, then its a fps.