Has the "Shooter / Gun" genre been replaced with just "Shooter"?

[Johnny T]

I had a lightgun playlist that auto-populated by the system being Arcade and the genre being "Shooter / Gun".

A new game didn't show up and I noticed the genre was just "Shooter" so I went to the LB DB to edit it (thinking it was wrong) and the Shooter/Gun genre doesn't seem to be there anymore??

https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/105186-golgo-13

But this now means that this lightgun game is the same genre as something like "1942" (a traditional 'shooter') ?

Is this a mistake somewhere in the system or is there another way of distinguishing between shooters like 1942 and shooters that used physical guns ?

[skizzosjt]

It might have been different in the past, but for as long as I have been paying attention they all get lumped into "Shooter".

This drives me nuts because I think Shoot 'em up, Run 'n gun, First-Person Shooter, Light Gun, etc, are all too different to each other. It's too wide of net to only use just plain old shooter in my opinion.

I eventually searched for "shooter" games in my library and re-categorized them to a more granular and appropriate genre.

 

For a way to distinguish Light Gun games from others, if they actually have "light gun support" under "controller support" then that might be a way to filter them

[sundogak]

8 hours ago, Johnny T said:

I had a lightgun playlist that auto-populated by the system being Arcade and the genre being "Shooter / Gun".

A new game didn't show up and I noticed the genre was just "Shooter" so I went to the LB DB to edit it (thinking it was wrong) and the Shooter/Gun genre doesn't seem to be there anymore??

https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/105186-golgo-13

But this now means that this lightgun game is the same genre as something like "1942" (a traditional 'shooter') ?

Is this a mistake somewhere in the system or is there another way of distinguishing between shooters like 1942 and shooters that used physical guns ?

It was never in the LB DB. The Shooter/ Gun" was likely coming in from the MAME import XML during your initial import if used full set import or told LB to use MAME metadata. If you ever update via LB DB it overwrites the MAME genre (and player modes). 

[Johnny T]

23 minutes ago, skizzosjt said:

It might have been different in the past, but for as long as I have been paying attention they all get lumped into "Shooter".

This drives me nuts because I think Shoot 'em up, Run 'n gun, First-Person Shooter, Light Gun, etc, are all too different to each other. It's too wide of net to only use just plain old shooter in my opinion.

I eventually searched for "shooter" games in my library and re-categorized them to a more granular and appropriate genre.

 

For a way to distinguish Light Gun games from others, if they actually have "light gun support" under "controller support" then that might be a way to filter them

Great idea - thanks!

 

20 minutes ago, sundogak said:

It was never in the LB DB. The Shooter/ Gun" was likely coming in from the MAME import XML during your initial import if used full set import or told LB to use MAME metadata. If you ever update via LB DB it overwrites the MAME genre (and player modes). 

Thanks for the clarification sundogak. I wasn't 100% sure. It certainly seems like a better way to categorise them though but not to worry. 

 

Appreciate the feedback folks cheers