HappySqurriel on 14 May 2008
| Dodece said: @Rath Your analogy was very weak. The reality is that the racing genre is very diverse. Look at the staggering differences between Prologue and Mario Kart. You have racing on land, sea, air, and space. All of which tend to have radically different presentation, and often have radically different physics. Platforming games are a sub genre of Action Adventure games. The presentation is almost always the same. A cute cuddly mascot character runs around a colorful environment jumping from one platform to another. That is the premise of platforming. Had you bothered to evaluate my post as a whole. You would see I was being hopeful that Rare can actually expand the genre. |
I'm not so sure your example is fair ... You've (essentially) taken the one exception to the racing genre as an example of diversity.
The truth is that most established genres (Sports Games, Racing Games, Platformers, First Person Shooters, and RPGs) are amazingly stale and most games produced for them are a paint-by-numbers experience. Every genre has their exceptions, but they tend to be hybrid games that combine one genre with another.
The reason why I would argue that platformers are not (that) stale is there is only one platformer of any note anymore, where there are dozens of practically identical First Person Shooters, Racing Games, and RPGs released every year.
