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Game Genres Are Completely Meaningless, And It's All Your Fault
- Genres are broken beyond repair, being arbitrary and lacking meaningful categorization.
- 15 years ago, there were calls to abandon genre titles as they felt restrictive and confusing.
- However, the industry quadrupled down on genres with the Era of Tagging to manage the growing number of game releases.
- The categorization of video game genres is like labeling fruits and vegetables - arbitrary and subjective.
- Initially, genres like 'text adventures' and 'platform games' made sense but became inadequate as game ideas merged and evolved.
- Steam's exponential growth in game releases led to chaos as users had newfound power to tag games, rendering genres meaningless.
- Genres like 'adventure' and 'point-and-click adventures' on stores like Steam lack specificity and are used as clickbait.
- The proliferation of genres has led to a post-meaning era where genres have lost their ability to effectively categorize games.
- Finding specific types of games has become challenging due to the misuse of genres, contributing to noise in the gaming landscape.
- There seems to be no easy fix to the genre chaos, with the gaming industry stuck in a state of confusion and meaninglessness.
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