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So in the movie world you have different genres of movies. Comedy, horror, sci-fi, all sorts of stuff. And we have that in gaming too, but rather than being named after what their story is centered around (some times) they're named after what their game plays like.
RPGs
Before there were RPG video games, there was the game of Dungeons and Dragons. A table top role-playing game in which players could go on adventures involving anything from slaying dragons to fighting an alien race on the planet Zorku IV. Eventually RPGs made their way to the gaming scene around the NES era, and while video RPGs are basically one of those cheesy and stupid pre-made D&D games crammed into a disk (or cartridge) they still can be a load of fun if done right.
JRPGs
RPGs from Japan, often times staring or featuring androgynous teens with silly hair and clothes trying to save the world from so really evil guy. Or some times they'll try to be like anime, and the ones that do that have made their way onto my list of game styles I don't like. And there needs to be a word for this subgenre of a subgenre so I'll coin one now. In an AJPG (Anime Role Playing Game) you can expect to see generic anime character designs, a plot more predictable than the Transformers movie and characters with stereotypical personalities. JRPGs tend to focus more on story rather than game play, and you end of just kind of pushing the characters from one event to the next with no say in anything. But this isn't always a bad thing, if the story is good enough it really doesn't matter.
WRPJs
Here's another term I just made up. Standing for "Western Role Playing Game" these tend to learn more toward Game Play rather than story. Or, they have a lot of both. And rather than having a character with a preset personality it's pretty much up to you how the main character acts. Is he a nice guy who gives puppies to the orphans or a heartless ******* who eats them instead (interpret that anyway you want).
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Fighter
It's not like there's much to a fighting game. You drop two characters into an area together and force them to beat the crap out of each other. Sure, some times you're beating them up with your fists, some times with swords, some times with super powers. And some times you're a noble warrior, a half-naked woman with an unreasonably large bust or a Japanese school girl in her underpants but in the end there's not that much difference between them. Still fun as hell though when done right.
Platformer Fighter
Yet another term I just made up, a Platformer Fighter is a game like Super Smash Bros. or Jump Ultimate Stars in which a fighting game does the Dragonball Z fusion dance with a platformer and mixes the two. Often times they still retain the general concept of fighting games (beat everyone up) while having the openness and free-running of a platformer.
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FPS
A game in which the players take control of a man with a gun or two and has to get from point A to point B, all the while shooting everything in sight. These games are often targeted by the media as games that "MAKEZ UR KIDZ KILURZ!!11!" Stupid media, what are they going to do next? Make some half-black guy with an Arabic name look like Christ himself?
TPS
Third Person Shooter, pretty much the same concept as a First Person Shooter with the only difference being that the camera is in third-person. And that you're often able to a load of athletic stunts and such.
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Action/Adventure
If you're not sure if the game's an FPS, Platformer, RPG, Survival Horror or what then you can always automatically default back to this. Games like Zelda (IT'S AN RPG PEOPLE) or Luigi's Mansion sit inside of this bucket.
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While that's not even close to all of the game genres out there, I'm kind of getting tired. And I don't feel like writing anymore. So there you have it, various game genres as told by Ark.
So in the movie world you have different genres of movies. Comedy, horror, sci-fi, all sorts of stuff. And we have that in gaming too, but rather than being named after what their story is centered around (some times) they're named after what their game plays like.
RPGs
Before there were RPG video games, there was the game of Dungeons and Dragons. A table top role-playing game in which players could go on adventures involving anything from slaying dragons to fighting an alien race on the planet Zorku IV. Eventually RPGs made their way to the gaming scene around the NES era, and while video RPGs are basically one of those cheesy and stupid pre-made D&D games crammed into a disk (or cartridge) they still can be a load of fun if done right.
JRPGs
RPGs from Japan, often times staring or featuring androgynous teens with silly hair and clothes trying to save the world from so really evil guy. Or some times they'll try to be like anime, and the ones that do that have made their way onto my list of game styles I don't like. And there needs to be a word for this subgenre of a subgenre so I'll coin one now. In an AJPG (Anime Role Playing Game) you can expect to see generic anime character designs, a plot more predictable than the Transformers movie and characters with stereotypical personalities. JRPGs tend to focus more on story rather than game play, and you end of just kind of pushing the characters from one event to the next with no say in anything. But this isn't always a bad thing, if the story is good enough it really doesn't matter.
WRPJs
Here's another term I just made up. Standing for "Western Role Playing Game" these tend to learn more toward Game Play rather than story. Or, they have a lot of both. And rather than having a character with a preset personality it's pretty much up to you how the main character acts. Is he a nice guy who gives puppies to the orphans or a heartless ******* who eats them instead (interpret that anyway you want).
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Fighter
It's not like there's much to a fighting game. You drop two characters into an area together and force them to beat the crap out of each other. Sure, some times you're beating them up with your fists, some times with swords, some times with super powers. And some times you're a noble warrior, a half-naked woman with an unreasonably large bust or a Japanese school girl in her underpants but in the end there's not that much difference between them. Still fun as hell though when done right.
Platformer Fighter
Yet another term I just made up, a Platformer Fighter is a game like Super Smash Bros. or Jump Ultimate Stars in which a fighting game does the Dragonball Z fusion dance with a platformer and mixes the two. Often times they still retain the general concept of fighting games (beat everyone up) while having the openness and free-running of a platformer.
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FPS
A game in which the players take control of a man with a gun or two and has to get from point A to point B, all the while shooting everything in sight. These games are often targeted by the media as games that "MAKEZ UR KIDZ KILURZ!!11!" Stupid media, what are they going to do next? Make some half-black guy with an Arabic name look like Christ himself?
TPS
Third Person Shooter, pretty much the same concept as a First Person Shooter with the only difference being that the camera is in third-person. And that you're often able to a load of athletic stunts and such.
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Action/Adventure
If you're not sure if the game's an FPS, Platformer, RPG, Survival Horror or what then you can always automatically default back to this. Games like Zelda (IT'S AN RPG PEOPLE) or Luigi's Mansion sit inside of this bucket.
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While that's not even close to all of the game genres out there, I'm kind of getting tired. And I don't feel like writing anymore. So there you have it, various game genres as told by Ark.
