By the TAG Team
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| Pirates! is surely a game full of adventure, right? |
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| And Avatar is always on an adventure, right? |
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| Heck, surely looking for diamonds in a cave full of deadly fireflies is an adventure! |
Andy Panthro noted on
his blog that Rogue-like games is a pretty strange category of games, since new players might not have even heard of Rogue anymore. Adventure game is, if possible, an even worse category. Originally, the name hails from the famed game which spawned the genre and which is often known just as
Adventure.
As the screenshots above show, a wide variety of games could be said to be about adventures. I assume there's no chance to change the name of the genre, since it is so ingrained in the minds of computer gamers. Still, if adventure games were invented nowadays, they surely wouldn't be called adventure games. Instead, they would be called... Yes, what would be they called actually? Tell us your idea what name would best describe adventure games and why. If there are many good alternatives, we might do a poll and see what name the majority of our readers prefers.
