Sorry if this has already been asked about, discussed, debated, considered, and decided on...if so - I haven't seen it anywhere.
Anyhow - can we not (for accuracy's sake) include more genre sub-divisions for both the games already existing in our database here (...and, if this would perhaps be too overwhelming of a task to undertake) -at the very least-could we not add/implement more specific & relevant "Sub-Genres" of the basic/main genres that we presently have access to use?
Since RPG's/SRPG's are what I know the best...I'll use the RPG genre here as an example.
Unless I'm missing something somewhere - It seems that (with the system that we are currently using here)...
*ALL* RPG's must be submitted, titled, described, and categorized under the one *HUGE* 'BLANKET'/'UMBRELLA' Genre-title of simply: "RPG".
While it *may* be *possible* to consider this as "technically" accurate (in the loosest interpretation of "accuracy")...
It would also be categorizing & typifying all different kinds of RPG's as the same.
In this instance all of the FF RPG's, Disgaea SRPG's, turn-based RPG's, Action RPG's, WRPG's, JRPG's...would be considerd the *exact* same type of game.
W/O even getting into or starting (re-starting) of the whole argument concerning "the difference" (*OR* even the *Existence* of a difference) between WRPG's vs JRPG's)...
Well...I really don't feel the need to come up w/ all sorts of different types of rpg's...and how...clunky, half-assed, and non-inclusive it seems (to me) to not have access to labelling the genre of the games we submit more accurately.
YES...
I can certainly see how a change like this could very easily be seen as the "opening of the floodgates"/"slippery-slope" kind of thing -BUT- w/ the mature, helpful, and pretty down-to-earth and unbiased *CORE* active community of posters that we seem to have here...I would think that there could be some sort of vote, discussion, agreement, and -in the end- a new & improved system of Genres/Sub-Genres in place here...
Thoughts?!