• conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    I am, and you’re wrong.

    Developers can say anything they want. Genre is defined exclusively by players and how they experience the end result. Players label games.

    If a developer makes Doom and calls it a JRPG, they’re wrong regardless of what their design goals were.

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      10 months ago

      It’s just a bad jrpg

      Developers are the ones marketing it

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        10 months ago

        Marketing has literally zero impact on what genre a game is.

        Literally nothing but the gameplay can ever, under any circumstance, contribute to the discussion of what genre a game is.

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          10 months ago

          You’ve never read the description on steam or seen an ad for a game that tells you what kind of game it is?

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              10 months ago

              Well good luck with your future pitches when you open up by saying the public is going to decide your genre