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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new category: games-adventure/
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:42:59
Message-Id: 20130714174249.14106.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new category: games-adventure/ by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
2 > > I don't think anyone can dispute that there exists a genre called
3 > > adventure games..
4 >
5 > How comes scummvm is not in the list then? Just saying.
6
7 Yep, it could also be included! OTOH the VM itself isn't technically
8 a game.
9
10
11 > Seriously, a category for 10 games is *not* a good idea.
12
13 I bet you a tasty beverage that it will grow over time! :)
14
15
16 > Maybe consider adding a few more, and if we reach the 20 games I
17 > wouldn't object.
18 >
19 > But 10 are way too few,
20
21 So your number is 20. My number and the number of at least one other
22 is lower.
23
24
25 > and a roguelike would *not* fit in the genre to begin with.
26
27 Says you, while I and at least one other say that such a game does
28 have strong focus on adventure/exploration.
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30 Wikipedia says "Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game" and, well,
31 dungeon crawling seems like an adventure to me..
32
33
34 //Peter

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