Does not include minigame collections like Mario Party. Includes visual novels, point and clicks, walking simulators, and many games without combat.Ĭompilations have multiple games in one package. I made an effort to make it more consistent by removing it from any games that were more on the “sim” side, that weren’t arcadey or had an Actiony side mode.Īdventure, as MobyGames defines it, focuses on narrative over action, and emphasizes dialog and puzzle solving. Some Sports games included it and some didn’t, confusingly. Games can be labeled with as many genres as needed.Īction is very general, covering fighting games, music and rhythm games, platformers, first-person shooters, and sometimes seemingly anything that isn’t turned based or menu driven. That’s verbatim, and yes it drove me crazy how Racing / Driving has a space on either side of the slash, but Strategy/Tactics doesn’t, and we’re reminded how Role-Playing games are abbreviated. MobyGames has 10 genres: Action, Adventure, Compilation, Educational, Puzzle, Racing / Driving, Role-Playing (RPG), Simulation, Sports, Strategy/Tactics. MobyGames is also essentially a tightly controlled wiki, but things slip through the cracks and don’t get fixed, so I made changes and made things more consistent when it seemed obvious. I’m still about to point out a lot of issues, but no genre system is going to be perfect. I made a list of 30ish tricky games to assign genre to and looked them up on 4 sites, and MobyGames seemed the best to me. GiantBomb was inconsistent and less complete. GameFAQs has an odd tiered system with a variable number of tiers that is inconsistent about describing certain aspects that I wouldn’t exactly call genres. I wasn’t totally satisfied with any of them, but I found MobyGames to be the best compromise. I searched several sites with large video game databases to decide how I was going to approach the genre section. The first part of this project has some important context about how this study was conducted.

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