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On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:57:23 +0200, Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> wrote:

> Am 25.04.11 04:53, schrieb PW:
> 
> >> You may actually find yourself panting after some sections, or even
> >> jumping in your chair at a noise in your home (while playing).
> >
> >
> > All right!  Deadspace 2 doesn't really startle me any more.
> >
> > -pw
> 
> Actually the main difference is, that about 99.999% of all so called 
> survival horror games are actually first person shooters with an 
> occasionally puzzle thrown in here and there. Amnesia is a game where 
> you cannot even fight but you have to survive by using the environment.
> The game has a very strong physics element to it. Btw. Amnesia is more 
> or less just the next step of the game mechanics the same company 
> developed with Penumbra, where you still could fight, they figured out 
> that the fighting mechanics did not work too well and the gameplay 
> became way better without it.


Werner,

You are correct on your comment.


My side-comment is that there has always been a overlap between most
games today it is getting harder to differentiate.

When talking about "game style" the question to ask, "how much weapons
are used?"

- Adventure games (style) have very little reliance on weapons, if at
all.  And heavily reliance on "puzzles."

- Shooters heavily rely on weapons, but may have "puzzle elements"
(like opening locks or boxes).

Of course Fist Person is just a point of view, as is Third Person.
Nothing *directly* to do with the game style.

My prime example of the blend is "Fallout New Vegas."  Is it an
Adventure or Shooter game?  I consider the question valid because
there is so much of a story-line and "puzzles" (open locks, story line
doing A before you can do B, etc).  Having said that, I do classify
"Fallout NV" as FPS.

This is why I classify "Amnesia" as FPA (First Person Adventure).



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