22nd December 2003, 1:29 PM
Um, if you deny that RE is an adventure game then you disagree with everything I've ever read about what genre that game is in.
See, RE is "Survival Horror". The "Survival Horror" genre was created with the game Alone in the Dark. Alone in the Dark was an adventure game. RE is in many ways similar to AitD. It is also an adventure game. I've played it some, it's clear. I mean, you wander around an envorionment collecting items you've got to use to solve puzzles, while looking at your interesting environment! Could there be a better definition of 'adventure game'? Sure, sure, there's combat, but it's not the main focus of the game really... certainly not as much as the adventuring. And anyway, it's not illegal to have action in an adventure game, given that there are some with it, including some of Lucasarts' best... Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (one of the best adventure games ever), The Curse of Monkey Island, Full Throttle... sure maybe call those games 'adventure games with action sections', but if you give them a one-genre name Adventure is the only one that even remotely fits. Same with RE (and, I bet, Silent Hill).
Exactly. The genre you call 'adventure' is properly labelled as 'action-adventure' for consoles. Especially since there ARE some adventure games on consoles..
Oh, that brings up another thing -- Eternal Darkness. Clearly the focus is an action game, but it's got significant adventure game aspects too... I'd call it 'action-adventure' since there is no better category but it really is a different type of action-adventure, one with real, strong influence from both established genres...
See, RE is "Survival Horror". The "Survival Horror" genre was created with the game Alone in the Dark. Alone in the Dark was an adventure game. RE is in many ways similar to AitD. It is also an adventure game. I've played it some, it's clear. I mean, you wander around an envorionment collecting items you've got to use to solve puzzles, while looking at your interesting environment! Could there be a better definition of 'adventure game'? Sure, sure, there's combat, but it's not the main focus of the game really... certainly not as much as the adventuring. And anyway, it's not illegal to have action in an adventure game, given that there are some with it, including some of Lucasarts' best... Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (one of the best adventure games ever), The Curse of Monkey Island, Full Throttle... sure maybe call those games 'adventure games with action sections', but if you give them a one-genre name Adventure is the only one that even remotely fits. Same with RE (and, I bet, Silent Hill).
Quote:Action-adventure (aka the console adventure) = Zelda, etc.
Exactly. The genre you call 'adventure' is properly labelled as 'action-adventure' for consoles. Especially since there ARE some adventure games on consoles..
Oh, that brings up another thing -- Eternal Darkness. Clearly the focus is an action game, but it's got significant adventure game aspects too... I'd call it 'action-adventure' since there is no better category but it really is a different type of action-adventure, one with real, strong influence from both established genres...
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