I had been assuming up until lately that games in the "Strategy Games" genre were not all war games but my research into this area would seem to have proved me wrong...
"Although the majority of strategy games are probably war games there are quite a few popular strategy games which do not follow the war theme."
This is a comment i made in a post a few weeks ago when i had been assuming that games like Theme Hospital, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Railroad Tycoon were strategy games. However, since then i have found that these games are actually classed as simulation games which leaves me without any non-war games in the "Strategy Games" genre.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
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Interesting Fact. I would have thought that games like “Rollercoaster Tycoon” and “Railroad Tycoon” were strategy games also.
I suppose that when the word “simulation” is used that I usually thing of more advanced type games than these....
Would I blow everyone's mind if I submitted that strategy games are simulation games? War simulation games!
Rollercoaster Tycoon is a simulation of being a theme-park owner. Age of Empires is a simulation of being a king. That's the only difference as far as I see it.
I think strategy games and simulation games are pretty loose definitions and don't seem too attached to their respective names. From strategy, I gather it would be some type of tactical or skill based game, such as Go/AOE/Command and Conquer/Commandos.
There is some overlap with Simulation, but I expect a game to be present some world or scenario that tries to depict a situation based challenge such as Sim City/real-world-training-based-games.
But looking at games categorized under each, it seems not so.
Stop distracting me from my essay
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