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After a brisk nap · 08-09-2005, 04:16 PM

Well, Metroid Prime is a first person adventure. Just not the kind of first person adventure we usually think about. No amount of Wikipedia edits is going to uproot the well-entrenched use of "adventure" to refer to games that have nothing to do with the games we talk about on this forum.

You know, if I wanted to be helpful I would suggest that instead of trying to squash other uses of the word, you should be informing people that it also means something else. Something wonderful.

I mean, you're not going to reduce confusion by telling people something that is inconsistent with what they already know.

Meanwhile, there's a much more serious, absolutely egregious slight to our adventure game genre somewhere in the Wikipedia linkspace. Anyone find it?

08-09-2005, 04:16 PM	#13
After a brisk nap Elegantly copy+pasted Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,773	Well, Metroid Prime is a first person adventure. Just not the kind of first person adventure we usually think about. No amount of Wikipedia edits is going to uproot the well-entrenched use of "adventure" to refer to games that have nothing to do with the games we talk about on this forum. You know, if I wanted to be helpful I would suggest that instead of trying to squash other uses of the word, you should be informing people that it also means something else. Something wonderful. I mean, you're not going to reduce confusion by telling people something that is inconsistent with what they already know. Meanwhile, there's a much more serious, absolutely egregious slight to our adventure game genre somewhere in the Wikipedia linkspace. Anyone find it? __________________ Please excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.