| LegitHyperbole said: This thread is now hurting my brain, how did all these other genres get lumped in with this crowd. The Last of Us is technically an adventure game but you wouldn't categorise it as one of these games. What the hell is the genre called anyway, cause it can't be categorised as just adventure. |
Last of Us is part of the Adventure-Action genre.
But yes technically, the games in the OP are all factually part of the Adventure genre. The genre evolved in notorious different ways in the west than it did back when most of them were in majority FMVs or point n click/puzzle adventure games.
Knowadays that landscape evolved into a much more cinematic approach to the ordeal emulating what is being done by movies/tv shows which is where the episodic adventure craze of the early 2010's came in with the release of The Walking Dead by Telltale which previously had only moderate success with games closer to the old-formula of adventure games from the end of the 90's- beginning of the 2000's which low key died with Lucas Arts demise.
Though in Japan, Adventure games(VNs and command based and such) remained decently popular so they didn't see big evolutions appart from a few titles that made themselves known like Ace Attorney, Danganronpa and the Nintendo's Adventure games of the DS era like Hotel Dusk and Trance Memories(Another Code).
Today the bigger games of the said Adventure genre definitely adheres to the codes layout by their more significant movie-like counterpart, just that they vary in their ways of interactions and narrative aspects.
Though, Disco Elysium is a CRPG at it's core, I'd definitely accept it as an Adventure game too. Just it's systems of interactions are all linked to character stats.
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