What are you most hoping for from E3 re: Destiny?

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, May 06, 2013, 22:09 (4009 days ago) @ Xenos

(Seriously, who gives a crap what arbitrary genre label retailers file it under? That game is what it is.

Agreed. Genres especially mean less nowadays. Both Call of Duty and Bioshock are both classified as FPS, but those games are barely similar.

They are barely similar because one is an FPS, the other and FPS with RPG elements. Different genres.

Sorry if it seemed like this, mine was not to argue against your point, it was agreeing that retail and industry genre labels suck. Another example is putting Mass Effect and Chrono Trigger in the same RPG genre. Usually the genres they choose are completely unhelpful in making a purchasing decision.

Chrono Trigger: JRPG
Mass Effect: RPG With shooting elements

Those labels are completely descriptive and I know what I'd be doing when playing those games. But you do have a good point, in that most people probably do not know how to assign genre properly, or worse, try to shy away from genre recognition altogether.