| Runa216 said: Wow, some of the arguments in here have gone full retard :P But seriously, categorizing games is getting harder and harder with all the genre crossing and how various games are incorporating elements of everything. Ratchet and Clank I classify as a platformer, but it could easily be seen as a Shooter, and it has RPG elements, strategy segments, puzzle segments, and even shoot-em-up levels. It's got everything. Seriously, can anyone tell me what genre Mass Effect is? Metal Gear Solid? Uncharted? No, you can't. Why? because they all encompass many different things. One could argue that 90% of all games are action/adventure. so we should totally decide what is what. |
That's true, and Ratchet and Clank is a great example. I guess after a certain point, classifying a game is meaningless.
The only classification games should have is what developers make them to be. So if Konami refers to MGS as a shooter or stealth game, that's what it should be.
brendude13 - Having a strong story isn't criteria for not being a shooter.
I consider both Mass Effect (2) and Uncharted shooters primarily, but everyone has their own take. To be fair I beleive both have shooter at least as a sub genre.
As for MGS being a stealth game, that's true, and I would like to say shooter is a secondary genre for MGS. However you can go nuts and go on a murder streak during "avoid sequences" and poor shooter controls don't exclude it from anything. It's a game which has 1st and third person shooting mechanics, so at the very least shooter is a sub genre. I consider it stealth/shooter, not Action/Adventure (It's linear, how can that be an adventure game?)
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