Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (PC, PS3, 360)

Not to mention the fact they don't even GIVE a best platformer award because it's so damn ubiquitous.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

So NICE that I had already edited it into my post while he was posting. Metroid was basically the definition of Action/Adventure back then. What else would they have called it?

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"Listen to EGM! Wait, don't listen to EGM!"

Name a 1980s action game.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Absolutely no one called any action game a platformer in the 80s or 90s. That is revisionist idiocy from the same stupid kids who now write for garbage sites like IGN.

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That doesn't mean anything. All generic taxonomy is "revisionist history." It's an innately post hoc practice. No one called The Maltese Falcon "film noir" until five years later after several American films sharing its characteristics had been released and a pattern emerged. Today, no one would argue that Maltese isn't the quintessential noir, even though "film noir" was a term invented by critics (!) well after its release (!!).

Taxonomy is the observance of pattern. Think about what it means to determine pattern. If we have a sequence of two numbers:

2, 4

Is the pattern that the numbers are increasing by two, or is it that they're doubling? Is there any pattern at all? We won't know until we're given more numbers. Then, we can look back at the whole sequence (or period of literature, movies or videogames), see if there was a pattern, and give that pattern a name.

The Maltese Falcon is more a kin to Metroid, where it was blazing new ground, and there was no way to properly describe it at the time. This ridiculous argument is more a kin to deciding 20 years later that a John Wayne movie wasn't a western but rather an animal movie because it had horses.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Is Mario Galaxy a different than SMB3 because it takes place in outer space and is 3D?

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Yes

If they were ill-equipped to be an authority figure about these semantics then why did you bring them up like they were?

For the record, according to Yoshi, the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon is more like Metroid than Castlevania is.

I'm beginning to understand his disdain for the liberal arts.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Yes

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Which genres are they?

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Originally Posted by alan_fatima

If they were ill-equipped to be an authority figure about these semantics then why did you bring them up like they were?

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Eh? Everyone was ill-equipped to categorize Metroid, because it was basically a genre of one.

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Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me

For the record, according to Yoshi, the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon is more like Metroid than Castlevania is.

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Yes, in 1941 categorizing a noir film was just as difficult as categorizing a "Metroidvania" game in 1994. It was easy as hell to categorize Castlevania in 1987, because everyone knew what an action game was already.

edit: It was pretty easy to categorize Rambo in the 1980s too.