| thatguymarco said:
I think that's because these people find platforming elements to be in their games to be ok, but find boring games that are centered around it. You can call Uncharted a platformer, but what comes to mind with the word "platformer" for most people is Mario or Sanic jumping into enemies and killing them that way, not Nathan Drake jumping from rock to rock while shooting his enemies. |
I think you mean to say that they find it boring when platforming is the only thing to do. Uncharted definitely centers around platforming, but it also centers around cover shooting. Uncharted has two part which make it whole, while Mario and Sonic only have the one.
I think that anyone who can only see Mario when they think of platforming is seriously limiting their definition. Sonic and Mario are pure platforming. Uncharted is not, but you wouldn't hear someone say it isn't a cover shooter just because it doesn't have a Gears of War focus on it.
And honestly, I think that people don't like the word "platformer" because the most identified platformers are aimed at children, and so they consider it a juvenile genre, which just makes my eyes roll. Game genres are defined by mechanics, not aethetics. There can, have been, and forever will be M Rated adult platformers.
