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

    All three????

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

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