Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Action game

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. howcheng {chat} 16:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Action game

Incoherent text Ben Epsilon 00:45, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

• Redirect to Action-adventure game. There is no significant content there now, but the title itself is okay. Tom Harrison ^(talk) 03:01, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Action-adventure game as per above, OR consider moving Action-Adv game to action game... - Naif 05:09, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and also have Adventure game as a separate category. Historically, Action and Adventure are different categories. Adventure games came first, and were text-only games - they don't exist anymore (at least not commercially). Some free games exist that are text only though, like Angband (game) - THAT is adventure. Action game has graphics. Adventure game doesn't. Not historically. They are totally different games. I realise that some genres have combined, and so forth, but the fact that many gaming sites have 1 category for Action and a completely different category for Adventure suggests that they should be separate. Whether we should keep Action-adventure game is another matter. I would dispute that article's existence, not this. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 06:07, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Note: Adventure game already exists as a category. Action game should too. Get rid of Action-adventure game. Simple. They are totally different categories. Oh, and Roguelike should be a sub category of Adventure game. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 06:10, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this, keep action-adventure as a separate article. This isn't a very good article at the moment, but they're definitely not the same genre and even though the term action game was more popular in the past, it's still used ([1]). And yes, action-adventure games are a completely separate genre from action games and adventure games. - Bobet 13:12, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this article. An action game is something along the lines of Gradius or Final Fight. An action-adventure is something like Zelda. Two completely disparate but important genres deserve two different articles. Mo0[talk] 18:13, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep the topic should have its own article and the current text is not too bad.--Bkwillwm 18:19, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and improve Jcuk 22:49, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Agree with Mo0. —Brim 06:57, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but needs work. --King of All the Franks 04:57, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per above. -- JJay 19:37, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment - thanks everyone for pointing out to me that action-adventure is its own category. I had just thought that it was a lazy way to describe adventure type games or action type games without giving them their own categories, since nowadays there are so few action games or adventure games. By the way, is there consensus that roguelike should be a sub-category of adventure? I personally can't see how it can be considered to be action. Does it really deserve its own category? Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 13:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.