Game genres

[victordamatta]

Why isn't there a shooter genre in the store? Seems like a no brainer to me...

[MADDOGGE]

What do you mean by shooter? From what I have seen, a shooter can be almost anything. A FPS, a TPS or even old school games like Alien Invaders.

[victordamatta]

all shooters, just to make it a little more specific than action

[Dreadjaws]

There should be many more genres in the Steam store, and yet they have "indie", which is not even a genre. This problem has existed for long, I don't see them fixing it anytime soon.

[crunchyfrog555]

Based on the categories on offer, I can certainly see why.

Shooting is rather a means to an end, so to introduce such a category would rather mess up everything that is there, as it may well apply to more than one category.

Naturally, games already are like this, but I'm just saying that this might be a step too far.

You yourself referenced Action, so you know where they're likely be - ergo, it serves it purpose.

[Tryp]

I'd be happy for just a 'horror' genre myself...people who play horror games tend to seek them out and more often than not we have to dig them out of a huge list of adventure or action games. It gets to be a pain having to see games like Amnesia or Killing Floor listed alongside of games like Call of Duty and Terraria. >.<

[Cattleclysm]

Indie should be tag, not a genre.

Also +1 for proper genres.

[Foey]

The Adventure genre in Steam -- a real, decades old, easy to categorize genre -- is completely useless. Right now the "featured" games in that section are Torchlight 2, Yesterday, Lone Survivor, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, A Valley Without Wind, The Walking Dead, Rayman Origins, Legend of Grimrock, Alan Wake, and Sword and Sorcery. Only two of those ten games, Yesterday and The Walking Dead, are actually Adventure games. The rest aren't even described as Adventure games when you go their store pages. They're listed as Action instead but Steam still clutters up the Adventure section with them.

[GusTheCrocodile]

Originally Posted by Cattleclysm

Indie should be tag, not a genre.

Also +1 for proper genres.

Well, even genres should be (and indeed are) treated like tags; there's no explicit, divine rules and games can be in more than one genre.

To that end, they could rename the "genres" menu to "categories", or just "tags", or something (free to play is not a genre either, for instance, it's a business model). More importantly though, they should have a set of checkboxes on the advanced search page to let you tick all the ones you want to look for. As long as there's a good way to filter them, you can add as many different tags as you want.

[CTRL ALT DEL !]

The store is the first place genre are needed.

The games list is another, it would be nice to call games up by genre in both.

I don't see this happening any time soon though.

[Tryp]

Originally Posted by Foey

The Adventure genre in Steam -- a real, decades old, easy to categorize genre -- is completely useless. Right now the "featured" games in that section are Torchlight 2, Yesterday, Lone Survivor, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, A Valley Without Wind, The Walking Dead, Rayman Origins, Legend of Grimrock, Alan Wake, and Sword and Sorcery. Only two of those ten games, Yesterday and The Walking Dead, are actually Adventure games. The rest aren't even described as Adventure games when you go their store pages. They're listed as Action instead but Steam still clutters up the Adventure section with them.

The hell is Grimrock not under rpg for? It's a grid-based dungeon crawler.
And it's fricking awesome.

[GusTheCrocodile]

Originally Posted by Tryp

The hell is Grimrock not under rpg for? It's a grid-based dungeon crawler.
And it's fricking awesome.

Grimrock is under RPG. Games can be in more than one category.

Edit: also, the store page may be different where you are, Foey, but viewing from Australia, it's absolutely incorrect that those adventure games aren't marked as such on their individual store pages. They all are; as they should be, since those tags are exactly the same ones used to classify the genre pages.

And I'd dispute that adventure, as a genre, can only ever mean extensions on the old point-and-click, use-cucumber-on-speakerphone kind of game anyway, the same way Torchilight and Grimrock can both be RPGs but are completely different games.

[Tryp]

Originally Posted by GusTheCrocodile

And I'd dispute that adventure, as a genre, can only ever mean extensions on the old point-and-click, use-cucumber-on-speakerphone kind of game anyway,

I lol'd.

[crunchyfrog555]

Originally Posted by GusTheCrocodile

Well, even genres should be (and indeed are) treated like tags; there's no explicit, divine rules and games can be in more than one genre.

To that end, they could rename the "genres" menu to "categories", or just "tags", or something (free to play is not a genre either, for instance, it's a business model). More importantly though, they should have a set of checkboxes on the advanced search page to let you tick all the ones you want to look for. As long as there's a good way to filter them, you can add as many different tags as you want.

Well said. This is more succinct than I put it.