So this morning, while on a telecon, I started downloading the expansion ("DLC") for Fallout 3. This forced me to make use of the Windows LIVE Marketplace which is a strange enough beast alone, but which provided this strange genre description:



I realize that "A Post Nuclear Roleplaying Game" has been the subtitle of the series since its inception, but I am loathe to accept the notion that three games constitute a genre. That would be like offering up the genre of the Katamari games as "World Consuming Adventure" or some other tripe. I think it would have been acceptable to place "Roleplaying" or even "First Person Roleplaying" in that box (yes, I realize you can go into third person; no, it isn't a good idea).

Filling the genre box with unnecessary information doesn't make it more useful, it makes it less.

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