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Slimebeast on 08 December 2009
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CGI-Quality said:
Slimebeast said:
CGI those are very reasonable arguments about genres of Uncharted and Heavu Rain and in my soul I agree with them, but u realize ur going against the majority consensus rite?

Majority consensus says Uncharted belongs in the action genre, and sub-genre would be action-adventure.
Majority says Heavy rain belongs in the adventure genre, and sub-genre would be adventure-thriller perhaps.

Uncharted 2 is an action-adventure, but I never argued that. The genre is still adventure in Uncharted 2's case though. In fact, the only reason I mentioned Uncharted 2 is because it's adventure game that I thoroughly enjoyed. Other than that, it has no real relevance to this discussion.

Now, most people I talk to about HEAVY RAIN think it's a horror game of some sort (or see it as a serial killer style game) so I'm not aware of this " majority consensus" you speak of in regard to that. Furthermore, I doubt when the average customer looks at the box, they say "wow, this looks like an adventure". Yes, it will have adventurous aspects, I've said this before, but it will not be an adventure game, relative to genre.

As different as Alan Wake and HEAVY RAIN are, they are still in the same genre, and are both sub-genres of that: Psychological Thriller (Horror Genre).

Yeah, Heavy Rain and Alan Wake both belong to the horror genre when it comes to thematic genre classification.

But when it oomes to genre classification from a gameplay mechanics perspectivce they're in different genres - Alan Wake is an action game and Heavy Rain would be what people see as 'adventure'.