sc94597 on 25 October 2009
No of course they won't be shooters. Shooters are a sub-genre of Action games. You can't put a sub-genre into another sub-genre. Also if you didn't know all ready, I get irritated when people call Metroid Prime a shooter when in reality it is an Action-Adventure game. Also your metaphor has very little do with my method. I'm talking strictly gameplay, content has very little to do with what a genre is. Why would I classify a game by the weapons it has? Makes very little sense. What is a good way of classifying a game is how it plays. Chrono Trigger plays like a strategy game.
