Re: Console gamers, know the roots of survival horror games: Infogrames ALONE IN THE DARK on PC floppy disks

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From: Frans
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 19:05

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"riku" <ri...@none.invalid.com> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 17 May 2006 12:38:20 -0500, Zaghadka <zagh...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling, the first survival horror game ever 
>>set in
>>the Cthulhu mythos.
>>
>>Genre: Text adventure.
>
> This just underscores my point about how should these genres (survival
> horror, real-time strategy games etc.) be defined: by the games where
> the term was first used, or by including any game that could be fit
> into the term pedantically?

Survival horror is a bit of a stupid term. One word describes something 
about the game mechanics, and the other word describes content. A genre term 
should never define actual content. An RTS could be set in the stone age, 
WW2, or the future. Same for an FPS. A 'survival horror game' is just a 
ridiculous term for an adventure, or RPG. Name it an RPG or adventure and be 
done with it.

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Subject: Re: Console gamers, know the roots of survival horror games: Infogrames ALONE IN THE DARK on PC floppy disks
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