Today I learned that GTA and TLOU are considered in the same genre.
Do you agree?
I thought the distinctions ran a bit deeper than that.
How do we define genres?
Is it simply the perspective you are playing from?
i think in the early days, genres were more defined and devs stayed in the gameplay lane for that game/genre...if a game was labeled (whatever), you knew that was the type of game you were getting....but the industry(mainly devs) realized that was limiting games, so they started borrowing from each other....
i think in todays terms because games impliment so many gameplay mechanics from different genres, that the genre a game falls under is in the most basic term in relation to what you'll be doing the most of gameplay wise...ex: bioshock is considered a fps, even though it plays completely different from something like cod....infamous is considered a tps even though it plays completely different from gow....
which to me is a better way to look at it, cause it has simplified it.....it stopped devs/publishers from trying to overcomplicate the labeling of games to make themselves stand out....i mean, it got to the point they'd list ever game play element in a game and try to make that a genre....and if you compared their game to another, they'd list the one element that was different and be like 'that's why we're a different genre'...get the fukk outta here with that....
