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Frogacuda mentioned this in the Western Games in Japan thread and I thought it deserved it's own thread. We need to come up with a name for the subgenre of Action Games that include Prince of Persia, Blackthorne, Flashback, Oddworld and various others. Simply referring to them as Prince of Persia type games doesn't seem right. So does anybody have any good ideas for what we should call them?
Mechnermers?
They should be called, "Stylish Hard Action" games...yeah, that sorta just rolls of the tongue...oh wait...
How about 'Edge-Grabbin' Platformer'?
I'd call it a Puzzle/Action game...or something thereof.
Not bad!Quote:
Originally posted by catty
How about 'Edge-Grabbin' Platformer'?
Or since your hero generally moves like a cripple and/or a finicky tap dancer concerned about injuring his money makers, how about Lurching Character Action Game with Grabbing Elements?
I like that one
How about action puzzle platformer?
It days of yore these games were usually referred to as "flickscreen adventures" because you tackled one screen at a time, usually with a challenge on each screen. Typically, scrolling is absent.
"Flickscreen platformer" would do also, but there was usually an element of adventure and the platforming bit is a given anyway.
Pluzzatformer.
Action adventure games? I thought that's what it's always been called.
Precision Platformer
Super Kicky Action Mecha Supreme Axe-Handle Massacre
I'm on board with kabuki. PP for me.
Make it Precision Platforming Action.
Now. It sounds right.
Brilliant. Either this, EGP (edge-grabbin' platformer), or APP (action puzzle platformer).Quote:
Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
Mechnermers?
Hey bbobb, why not turn this into a poll using the entries submitted thus far?
I like it.Quote:
Originally posted by Shou-sama
How about action puzzle platformer?
Hmmm... appropriate, and not likely to get confused with anything else...Quote:
Originally posted by kabuki
Precision Platformer
Here's another suggestion: Non-scrolling Platventure.
Or maybe "Methodical Platventure"
Meh, that could just as easily describe something like wario Land.Quote:
Originally posted by Shou-sama
How about action puzzle platformer?
Nah, then we'd have to include Metroid Fusion and the ilk.Quote:
Originally posted by catty
How about 'Edge-Grabbin' Platformer'?
I'm going with either precision platformer or action puzzle platformer. For some reason, I think these types of games had a specific name attached to them, but I've long since forgotten it.
*Ponders deeply for a momment*Quote:
Originally posted by Kidnemo
Super Kicky Action Mecha Supreme Axe-Handle Massacre
Sounds about right...
That's what I'm saying!Quote:
Originally posted by Tragic
*Ponders deeply for a momment*
Sounds about right...
Wait... So, I can't call them "Prince of Persia Platformers" anymore? Damnit.
EGP sounds nice to me.
Boring.
*rimshot* . . . sorry, sorry
I think Adventure Platformer is fairly descriptive of them, and isn't very long.
Again, it's not a glamorous name but they're "flickscreen adventures." Just ignore this post too and I'll post the answer again later: "flickscreen adventures." Your minds should retain it the third time. If not I'll post it a fourth time, and so on.
Enviornmental Puzzlers.
Precision Platformer is still the best. Sounds good, and is fairly accurate.
I refer to it as step action, due to how you have to make commands with the character's animation. Some games work with it, others (like tomb raider) seem broken.
APP sounds good, but how do we actually define it? I mean if we base it on Prince of Persia's style, isn't it generally the same thing as calling it a Prince of Persia type game?
I'm with you here. But if we never did sub generas then Resident Evil would still be an action adventure game (ala Alone in the Dark when it first came out.)Quote:
Originally Posted by opa-opa
If I had to choose a new one I would say Puzzle Platformer
I still like "Side-scrolling Adventure."
Prince of Persia and Another World used to get refered to as 'cinamatique' games.