Tendo City 2002 Poster's Choice Awards

[Dark Jaguar]

Ya see, about that, there's the definition aspect of it all. You define it that way, and another defines it another way. The way I define adventure in the Zelda sense is any game that's both RPG and Action. Adventure then is purely the mix of the two. A game then is not to be called action/RPG, since that's what an Adventure game is. Then there's the other adventure, the PC style adventure. To be honest, since two people claim to have invented the genre, but have defined it differently, we could just go with whoever did it first. Miyamoto's Zelda was in 198..5 or 6 I forget which. However, Mystery House, the first "graphic adventure", came out years earlier, as did the later King's Quest. I think the first Monkey Island came after Zelda 1, but my point stands. If we go for cronology, then I'm afraid that the PC style definition stands.

However, English is not a static language, or something. The other definition, any game with both action and RPG aspects, with the Zelda style puzzles, has become even more popular a definition. Since words are defined based on popular usage, I'm afraid that the Zelda game definition is JUST as valid.

In other words, two different kinds of games have the same genre name. However, to be honest maybe us gamers get WAY too caught up in genre definitions. We might get to the point where we start calling stuff "adventure adventure", like some movie rental outlet. Sorry, I don't wanna get like that. Let's just use what we will and let the definitions sort themselves out, mmkay?