Many of MGC’s members are passionate about our genre leaderboards. These pages reward those dedicated to a specific type of game - sports, first-person, party games, etc. Considering the recent release of Tinker, and the upcoming World of Goo and company, it was asked whether MGC would be dedicating a Genre category for these games.
On one hand, while the subject of this question was in regards to the smaller games (Tinker, etc - which are treated as XBLA games by Xbox), this change would affect all Games for Windows Live games, most of which are PC counterparts of Xbox 360 games and already have a genre. On the other hand, at the request of many, we have an East Asian genre for games released in that region (of course, many of those games defy genre classification anyway), including games released in other regions.
Even further, it would reduce the ‘doubling up’ on games needed to stay competitive in each genre (a potential loss for the top scorers, but a gain for everyone else). However, try not to think about whether this classification would help you, but rather whether it makes sense to separate Windows games from their Xbox counterparts.
Even if you’re not particularly interested in the genre leaderboards, please place your (relevant) thoughts here if you have them. Thanks for helping make MGC more entertaining for everyone!
