Hmm... I think the download genres should be redone and I think I remember a post somewhere about someone else who felt the same way. So.. any suggestions?
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I think theyre fine as they are now. They could be improved by having fewer categories.
The fact that there is a bat&ball section is weird. It should be renamed the n00b category.
Hell no, they're not fine as they are. Real time strategy and Real time strategy (RTS)? 2 Platform categories? I thought about following with the genres from other non-klik sites, but klik has so many games in certain genres that it's not really right (ie. platform and bat&ball and maybe even shooter).
On another thing, some people would argue that platform isn't even it's own genre. But there are plenty of (good) games out there that only aspire to be platformers, not RPGs or anything.
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Platformer (This includes Beatemups, shooters and mario clones)
Action (shootem ups, games that aren't platformers, pacman)
Retro (old school games)
Board games (Tic tac toe)
Rts (a spot no one will put games in)
RPG (zelda /pokemon clones and text adventures)
Klick (engines, tutorials, objects, extension)
Screen Savor
Other (tdc vertical scrolling image, abandoned games)
Beat em up shouldn't come under platformer, it should have it's own shiny catagory. I think the catagories at the moment are mostly fine, some of the similar ones just need consolidating, like Muz said the two RTS catagories, there's also Platform and Platformer, and Racing and Drive em Up should probably be made into Driving, and I reckon Shoot em Up could be stuck into Action.
i definitely think they should be redone. I even think i made a post about it a couple of years back. I mean, how is "demo" a genre? or "tutorial" ? :S
DEMO (either pay or free)
SHAREWARE (obviously a pay game)
EDGY (Anne Frank's Artillery Showdown)
GOTW (A game of the week award winner)
GOTY (A game of the year award winner)
ADMIN'S CHOICE (Maybe a good game that didn't win GOTW because its competition was Eternal Daughter or something.
I don't think platformer should have it's own section, since that describes the game's engine and not really the game itself. Hasslevania is a platformer but if anybody asks me about it I say it's an adventure game. I don't know where "Bat & Ball" would fall into on the above list though.. It's not really a shooter, and not really a puzzle. Hmmm, maybe bat n' ball should also have it's own category.
EDIT: Oh, and you could have beat 'em up fall into the action category. River City Ransom? Double Dragon? Even Street Fighter could also be considered an action game, couldn't it?
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