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A Definitive List of Gaming Genres?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the captain-of-categories dept.

An anonymous reader puts forth this challenge for the Slashdot readership: "Construct a definitive list of game genres for PC and/or console that doesn't dribble off into silly categories like 'licensed movie franchise,' or include redundancies like 'action', '3D adventure' and 'platformer.' My friend and I have been messing around with this for awhile, trying to do a better job than the game news sites, but we're finding it's harder than we thought."

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  1. I like to split the genres into ... by OzPeter · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Games I play
    2) Games I don't play

    And if you really want you can expand section 1) into:

    1.1) Games I enjoy playing
    1.2) Games I don't enjoy playing

    Although 1.2) should really be grouped in section 2) as:
    2.1) Games I didn't enjoy playing

    There .. that wasn't too hard.

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  2. Re:I like to split the Ask Slashdot into ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    1. Google or Wikipedia would have gotten you the answer faster
    2. Seek professional advice not the advice of anonymous Slashdotters
    3. What??? OP was swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool.

    Guess which one this?

  3. I'm guessing .. by OzPeter · · Score: 3, Funny

    All three????

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  4. There are 10 genres of games in the world by SteroidG · · Score: 2, Funny

    1: Games I have
    0: Games I don't have