Stop saying "welp" instead of "well"!

[A Black Falcon]

Bah, it's not THAT bad... a little silly sure, but as good as any other...

Do we call games like Streets of Rage a 'bemup'? Why dont we call MMORPG's Mogs? Why dont we refer to third person action adventure platformers as thipeturformers (and of course thipeturcons)? Why doesn't it work? Because no one has any fucking clue what you're talking about if you call something anything with a term that retarded.

Erm, MMORPG already IS a short form term of course. What's the difference really between an acronym like MMORPG or RTS or something and a merged word like shmup (for 'shoot 'em up' obviously)? Not much.

Also, MMORPGs are often just called MMOs. You are right though that some genres are usually not used in short forms, like action/adventure or beat 'em up or fighting game or something. I'm not sure why some are and some aren't... I'd think word length has a lot to do with it, but that doesn't explain everything... it's just the way it happened I guess. Language is funny, particularly the English language. :)

Okay then, if pressed to describe such a game, it would probablybe "overhead shooter", since it usually is from a top-down perspective. Something like R-Type I'd call a side-scolling shooter.

Really, every game and genre has its acronyms and shortened versions of words... shooters have theirs like shmup, hori/vert, tate mode, etc, but every popular game or genre has plenty of them too. I guess 'shmup' is just a funnier word than many of them.