From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B3D1381F3 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE776E0950; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:42:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from foo.stuge.se (foo.stuge.se [212.116.89.98]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99770E0919 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 14107 invoked by uid 501); 14 Jul 2013 17:42:49 -0000 Message-ID: <20130714174249.14106.qmail@stuge.se> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:42:49 +0200 From: Peter Stuge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new category: games-adventure/ Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <51E1D0FD.8090403@gentoo.org> <51E2D953.30700@gentoo.org> <20130714172631.11607.qmail@stuge.se> <51E2E00F.1040401@flameeyes.eu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <51E2E00F.1040401@flameeyes.eu> X-Archives-Salt: 90568030-10c0-4c82-9a3f-790b385d54ed X-Archives-Hash: 4fcc9ffca5c8f22088f1a72b7f789d32 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > I don't think anyone can dispute that there exists a genre called > > adventure games.. > > How comes scummvm is not in the list then? Just saying. Yep, it could also be included! OTOH the VM itself isn't technically a game. > Seriously, a category for 10 games is *not* a good idea. I bet you a tasty beverage that it will grow over time! :) > Maybe consider adding a few more, and if we reach the 20 games I > wouldn't object. > > But 10 are way too few, So your number is 20. My number and the number of at least one other is lower. > and a roguelike would *not* fit in the genre to begin with. Says you, while I and at least one other say that such a game does have strong focus on adventure/exploration. Wikipedia says "Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game" and, well, dungeon crawling seems like an adventure to me.. //Peter