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Originally Posted by JemyM
It does blur the lines as it does contains combat, and is near identical to the Survival Horror games of today (Resident Evil, Silent hill etc). Still the recent Survival Horror games arent generally mentioned when speaking about Adventuregames, but instead they are spoken about as a Genré in it's own.
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Alone in the Dark inspired the survival horror genre, but was itself still an adventure game. Resident Evil is widely considered the first true survival horror, just like Dune 2 is considered the first RTS, although there were somewhat similar games way before it.
And I remember that in the time Alone in the Dark first appeared nobody questioned its status as an adventure game, combat or no combat. This defensive conservativism is a pretty recent invention.
