Talk:Action game

message: The "Action Game" genre is not a genre at all. It is more of a loose description. As no-one can come up with a good set of criteria for an action game, it is subsequently difficult to classify any game under it, and we lose the entire genre aspect. This is opposed to the adventure genre, which while having a rather vague title, has a number of games that all follow similar lines and fill criteria. It was also kick-started by the game "Adventure", which helped define it. I do propose that we dissolve this page, but rather state that labeling a game as an "Action Game" is more of a buzz-word then a definition.      
:Agreed. I think the origin of the term was waaaay back when it could be used to describe simplistic shoot-em-ups, platformers and adventures, I seem to remember this term being bandied around a lot in my ZX Spectrum magazines. The listing of sub-genres also looks totally out of whack, mainly since they all could have been described as action games once upon a time, but have now become genres of their own. I'd wholeheartedly support the change or removal of the so-called sub genres and the rewording of this article pointing out that the term is now out of date. QuagmireDog 10:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redefinition Please

message: I'm looking through some Top-priority articles that happen to be Start-class, and this was the first Top article on the alphabetical list. So I'm going to provide some sites to use as references for experts on the subject to improve this article to above a pitiful Start-class.
*The Designer’s Notebook: Why Action Games Suck (And What To Do About It) Page 1 | 2 | 3 (A criticism of modern action games)
*Action video game modifies visual selective attention (A research report explaining the potential consequences on perceptual and motor skills)
*Action video game modifies visual selective attention (A different page with the same info as above)
*Playing an Action Video Game Reduces Gender Differences in Spatial Cognition (A research report explaining how action games virtually eliminate the gender difference in spatial attention and simultaneously decrease the gender disparity in mental rotation ability)
*Apple - Games - Getting Started - Action (Apple's explanation of action games)
*Game Politics: Action Games Improve Women’s Spatial Abilities, Says New Study (News article explaining the report in the fourth link)
*Action-Video-Game Experience Alters the Spatial Resolution of Vision
Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 13:07, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some sites to use as references 

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message: Upon stumbling across a sentence stating, essentially, how 3D action games in general suffer issues in control difficulty severe enough to negatively affect their market viability in relation to 2D action games, I had a chuckle. Turns out this obviously incorrect/outdated info is taken from a rather ancient article, and so I removed it, along with the accompanying image (seeing how it didn't really relate to the text in any kind of purposeful manner). Encoctmebreux (talk) 17:01, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 2006 is ancient is it? bridies (talk) 17:20, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Considering context, I'd say it's old enough to be considered outdated. As to whether or not it's old enough to warrant the use of [], it's debatable. But then again, you were just mindlessly nitpicking, weren't you?:) Encoctmebreux (talk) 18:43, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. :P bridies (talk) 18:46, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  2D vs 3D, difficulty and the mass-market appeal-related repercussions that follow 

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