Back in October, we posted a super tall infographic that chronicled the history of console gaming (with some corners cut here and there). The cats responsible for that monster (Hotel Club) have concocted another massive chart, this one breaking down the various gaming genres into "worlds." Like, literal worlds. Each genre is its own galaxy of planets.

Some of the breakdowns focus on the mechanical attributes of a genre, such as the Platform and Sports worlds, whereas others focus on thematic attributes, like the Crime and Movie worlds. Each planet is represented by a few stand-out titles, such as Metal Gear Solid (War) and Ghost'n Goblins (Horror), which are then tagged with trivia like sales data and various development info.

Unfortunately, it's once again not all peaches and cream. There are some glaring errors (Star Fox on NES? A Link to the Past is an RPG?), and there will be the usual criticisms of "why isn't X game on here?" Still, it's fun for a casual glance. Give it a perusal!

Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)

aminoaccident

Those are all good games.

But I am not seeing my Disabled Girl Visual Novel World, which makes me sad.

Dancing Mad

I'm guessing Call of Duty is Uranus?

The Silent Protagonist

Zelda is an RPG, just one that veered really strongly to the action/adventure side of things and further away from stat-crunching and roleplay. Heart containers are HP, there are sword and armor differences that often have mild multipliers on them.

josmeister

Didn't really find this useful or entertaining, to be honest.

DeviantHellborn

Point Man(brother to Paxton Fettle, and son of Alma) was the main character in FEAR, not FEAR 2, Bennett was the main character in FEAR 2 and presumably (SPOILERS) dies from the freaky raping he gets from Alma at the end of the game.

and no Half-Life :(

doomknight66

how many god damn times do people have to say it, ZELDA IS NOT AN RPG!

and are we really gonna use FF7 as the final fantasy rep?
fuck it

everything else was cool though

Sir Tobbii

So much incorrect stuff here, especially in the F3AR bit.

Paxton was the antagonist in FEAR 1, not FEAR 2.

GoldenEye's "open worlds" was always a part of FPS gaming back in the day, even before GoldenEye, and it did not change "forever" as we rarely see it today, and did ANY game use GoldenEye's main control system apart from GoldenEye?

And there are no "Collectable Weapons" in GoldenEye, there are collectable cheat-codes, but that's it.

Weird pick to take Oblivion for Elder Scrolls, you'd think they'd take the latest (Skyrim) or the one with most impressive numbers (Daggerfall). But that's not a valid complaint I guess.

@DeviantHellborn
No, he dies in F3AR, Paxton took him, remember?

Daniel Stone

So I'm guessing Racing (Gran Tursimo, Forza Motorsport, Need for Speed, Burnout) and Rhythm (Guitar Hero, Rock Band, etc.) are satellites of Sports World? :P

Although, a pretty cool representation I suppose. I guess I'm just a nomad roaming around this universe.

(Just throwing this out here, but to signify SSX as a flagship sports series over say... Tony Hawk Pro Skater (which has fallen by the wayside nowadays) is a bit off. However, SSX is still a cool series overall.)

DeviantHellborn

I am not sure if these are actually meant to be flagship titles for each genre but what the hell. Here is my list I was thinking up while being slightly bothered over this list. 4 Per Catagory

Platform Worlds :
Super Mario
Sonic
Mega Man
Super Meat Boy

RPG World :
Elder Scrolls Series
Final Fantasy VI
Icewind Dale
The Witcher

Space Worlds :
Mass Effect 2
Freespace
Unreal
StarFox 64

Crime Worlds :
Grim Fandango
GTA : Vice City
Batman Arkham City
L.A. Noire

War Worlds:
Killzone
Call of Duty 4
Metal Gear Solid
Battlefield 1942

Movie Worlds :
Spiderman 2
Goldeneye 007
..
I danno, some transformer movie game or something

Sports Worlds :
Dirt 3
NHL 07
Sports Champions (MOVE)
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (NES)

Horror Worlds :
Castlevania
Amnesia
Resident Evil (GC Version)
FEAR - First Encounter Assault Recon

DeviantHellborn

I am not sure if these are actually meant to be flagship titles for each genre but what the hell. Here is my list I was thinking up while being slightly bothered over this list. 4 Per Catagory

Platform Worlds :
Super Mario
Sonic
Mega Man
Super Meat Boy

RPG World :
Elder Scrolls Series
Final Fantasy VI
Icewind Dale
The Witcher

Space Worlds :
Mass Effect 2
Freespace
Unreal
StarFox 64

Crime Worlds :
Grim Fandango
GTA : Vice City
Batman Arkham City
L.A. Noire

War Worlds:
Killzone
Call of Duty 4
Metal Gear Solid
Battlefield 1942

Movie Worlds :
Spiderman 2
Goldeneye 007
..
I danno, some transformer movie game or something

Sports Worlds :
Dirt 3
NHL 07
Sports Champions (MOVE)
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (NES)

Horror Worlds :
Castlevania
Amnesia
Resident Evil (GC Version)
FEAR - First Encounter Assault Recon

Fugly Duckling

I would put Riddick in there as a movie world, considering the game was better than the movie it was tied to. And the Lego games as well.

spartan480

"Call of Duty: Finest Hour(PS2): Gamers play through hellish WW1 combat in the first console version."

Lol

bindingofalex

stop reading after i found 2 mistakes early on

hpv

A Link to the Past is an RPG, moron. I have a good feeling for your chances at stupidest editor of year for 2012. You've always been close to the top, but starting out strong might just get you there this time 'round.

TurboKill

^ Wow, ur dumb.

Ffordesoon

Did I hallucinate the term "Action-RPG"? Why does nobody else seem to remember that those were and are things, and that Zelda is one of them, albeit one heavily on the action side of things?

Not attacking you, Tony; this is more of a general complaint I have with everyone who talks about RPGs on the internet.

Nobunaga Oda

Elder Scrolls Oblivion *Shows Screen Shot of Morrowind: Tribunal Instead.*

Nobody pointed it out, so I had too.

stevesan

err 16 programmers worked on Limbo??? I'm pretty damn sure the whole team was no more than 8 people...

Lowlander2

@hpv

Except it's not.

Stuff like that will get you a head start in the race for Destructoid's Biggest Idiot of 2012.

Sonic7877

lol @ Dancing Mad

Matat

Why is it that when anyone tries to make one of these everyone else's OCD kicks in?*

*That's not meant in a bad way! (At first I wanted to criticize the fact that they didn't put "Multi platform" or even "Multi" if a game was released on multiple systems.)

Hasney

Video game genre pigeon-holing is clearly SERIOUS BUSINESS.

I hereby decree that A Link To The Past is in the turgmundeon. Now we can all get on with our live.

Jim Sterling

Danielzilla

Is it really that slow of a news day? Aren't their games you guys could be playing or something? I'll never understand why you would waste the effort to post shit like this. I'm going to guess you're just trolling. So come on now, back to work goblins.

whosjohndonut

call of duty:finest hour i believe took place in WWII not WW1

treefittty

Zelda is an rpg for sure. You just don't visually see level ups and other sorts of rpg staples, but it definitely is. Pretty cool how they break it up into crime and horror and movie. Never looked at crime as a genre really

DethLocke

I love seeing these things. I start to read them and become nostalgic. But then I start to notice the mistakes, and realize whoever put this together was either not a gamer, or someone with limited knowledge who didn't bother to fact check. I have played and beaten every game on that chart(most of all charts made) and its sucks to see people get gaming history wrong. The problem with that is, someday these things will be read by younger gaming generations and they will take the misinformation as fact. Everyone should be bothered by this.

TurboKill

Zelda is not an RPG on the sole basis that HPV believes it is.

Fredrick2003

Pretty sure Zelda is an adventure game guys.

Its not an RPG, that's for sure.

Of course the genre of "RPG" isn't even real anyway.

Whatever.