VERSALIA'S PROFILE

author=kentona

author=Raekwon
As I was saying, these genres are fading, and as Prexus said, there is lack of innovation in many areas.

Compared to what?

There has been an explosion of innovation since my days as a young lad gamer. And it seems like the developers continue to push the envelope these days.

Automobiles - to further my own analogy - are another industry in which innovation has been explosive. Solar power, electric, hybrids, biomass fuels~...

So I guess that's a fundamental change now isn't it, if these cars aren't all using internal combustion

I guess tigers aren't covered with fur and walk on all fours and have tails and fangs

OH WAIT YES THEY DO

this is a fun game

author=Raekwon
That was horrible. Cars still exist. You ignored the very clear point.

No, they were talking of it those platformers that way because they were MORE THAN ONE GENRE. There never was a change.

Like I said, Evolution can replace at times.

How do you manage to continue to not make sense?



Cars exist but in a very different (yet still similar) form

Tigers still exist too, just not in the same form

author=Raekwon
Evolution replaces...

So the cars of today aren't cars because they are so different from original automobiles? I'm not buying this. Games are a combination of features and qualities, not definably different DNA sequences.

I remember in the PS2 vs. Gamecube war. People were saying, THOSE PS2 PLATFORMING GAMES AREN"T REAL PLAT-FORMERS, THEY ARE SHOOTING GAMES. I am sure you were in that same crowd when it happened.

I have no idea what you are talking about and where your self-assuredness on this particular point came from. And this all goes back to semantics. They're not platformers as those people knew platformers. The definition of "platformer" can change without the entire genre "dying," because the IDEA of what makes up the genre ITSELF changes with time. This is pretty much fact

author=Beaker

author=narcodis
Genres dying out? Can you tell me when a genre of anything has ever died out of anything ever? Seriously. One example would be great.

Wargames. Used to be an actual genre back in the day, but now, at best, is described as a subgenre of strategy games. Adventure games have also nose-dived since the 90's, I mean, adventure games used to be big business and the main type of triple A titles. At least with adventure games, they just recceeded into more of a niche market now, but wargames? Man, you'd have to be crazy to make one of those.

Again, this is an evolution. How do you specifically define a Wargame? Or an Adventure game? All of the mechanics, features and definitions you would provide still exist in a vast number of games. They just don't exist precisely as you know them.

Panzer General is just an RTS with a war skin