| lestatdark said: How is it any different from my first post? I said that today, video game genre boundaries are being crossed over by different games from different genres. It is still true, yet, to imply a pre-determined type of classification for video games is to dwelve on those boundaries with care. Oh and taxonomy being the only one science to classify things...trust me, you don't want to go there. It's the most incoherent one, and it changes based on superfluous nuances that are added with each new taxonomy convention. You tell that to a PhD and he'll laugh at you, so you better do some proper research before you claim things like that. |
In your first post, as well as others, you said you agreed with the method I went, just not with what I thought were core aspects of some genres and games. In the post I just quoted previously, you mentioned how the basis of my method is absurd. So which is it? You fully disagree or partially? Also taxonomy includes any form of classification. Any method that accurately classifies something is using taxonomy. Like you said, there are many methods you can use, all of which would be considered taxonomy. Now biological taxonomy in the instance where you you categorize by Kingdom, Phylum, etc may have its ups and down, yet the science as a whole seems to be accurate enough to be taught in High School as well as many classes of Colleges. If it was as muddled up as you say, why teach it? You make it sound as crude as alchemy, when in reality it is quite valid.
Also, I think you are misunderstanding my posts. I created(actually I doubt I'm the first one to use this method) a method to categorize video games. In such method RPGs are not a genre, but a collaboration of genre's. There is one thing that all methods must utilize though. The focus towards Gameplay exclusively in order to determine a genre. Now, I started this thread with a question, and I chose to answer it using my method and my ideas of what the core Gameplay of some of the macro genres are. I opened it up for debate, as well as other peoples methods. You argued against my basis for the Strategy genre, yet when I asked what YOU thought the basis of the strategy genre was, and how Chrono Trigger differed from it, you still didn't answer. I opened the thread up for discussion. I didn't make my method absolute. One thing is certain though, games are classified by the type of gameplay they have. Everything else isn't necessary to have a game, and therefore are necessary for classification. If you wanted to classify it by those other aspects as well, you may, yet you would have to be quite specific in the basic description Btw this is a direct response to this:
"consider one scientific term to categorize games, just because you (and by you, i mean the OP) feels like it."
