| Feylic said: @OP So what you're saying is all games are action games? and then are subgenres of that? |
No. There are 6 macro genres of which have sub genres. Then there are genres that don't fit in any of the macrogenres.
The 6 macro genres are: Action, Action-Adventure, Adventure, Strategy, Racing and Simulation. Examples of genres that don't fit into any of them are Rythm and Sport games. Actually they might be able to go under Simulation.
Some sub-genres of them are.
Action- 2d & 3d Platformer(Super Mario World, Super Mario Galaxy) , 2d & 3d Fighter( Street Fighter, Tekken), Hack N Slash(God of War, Ninja Gaiden), 2d & 3d Shooter(Contra, Call of Duty) , Linear Role Playing games(Kindom Hearts, Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII), etc.
Action-Adventure - Survival Horror(Silent Hill, Resident Evil), Traditional Action-Adventure(Zelda, Ico, Oblivion), 2D Sidescrolling( Metroidvania, Odin Sphere, Muramasa) and others that don't have a name but would make a different sub-genre from these.
Strategy - Grid Turn Based Strategy and SRPGs(Fire Emblem, Advanced Wars), Turn Based Role Playing games(Final Fantasy Dragon Quest), Real Time Strategy(Warcraft), Not named( Little King Story, Pikmin), and probably others that aren't named.
Racing - This one I'm going to be a little iffy on. I'm not a big racing fan. Racing Simulation(Grand Turismo, Forza), Arcade Racer(Need for Speed), Kart racer( Mario Kart, Crash Team Racing), and probably others I don't know of.
Simulation - There isn't really any sub-genre. You classify a simulating game based on what it is simulating. Also some may consider Racing Simulations part of the Simulation genre, depending on whether they are playing for recreation or practice as a simulator.
Adventure- Point & Click(Broken Sword, Myst), Can't think of anything else that would be listed under adventure. Anybody can help if they want.
Other- Everything else.
Yeah that is basically my categorizing system. It goes from general to specific for anybody who wants it that way. The only problem is that the "core gameplay element" of each major genre as well as sub genre can be debated.
Edit: I use to list Role Playing Games as a different genre, but after thinking, which sparked this thread, Role Playing isn't a genre.
