Best Strategy Game pre-launch discussion

[Kong Wen]

OK everyone, it's time for another round-table on qualifications for a side-event, since we like everyone to feel included in important decision-making processes.

Best Strategy Game got a lot of solid nominations. As a rule, we're going to be quite lenient on genre categorization, especially for a category like this one. Strategy is such an old staple of the video game medium that there are many deep, storied, entrenched subgenres: turn-based tactics, tactical RPG, grand strategy, real-time strategy, simulation, etc.

That said, SimCity aside, we really only got one nomination for what I would call a pure sim:

RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999, PC)

Should we include it?

Second note, we also got one nomination for a collectible card game:

Pokémon Trading Card Game Online (Mobile/PC)

I can kind of see someone lumped these in with strategic titles during the nomination phase, but I don't know that gamer tradition typically considers them strategy games. What are y'all's thoughts on this one?

Should we include it?

[Kong Wen]

If there are no more thoughts on these, I'm going to remove Pokemon TCG because it's part of an established genre that usually doesn't fall under strategy (trading/collectible card game), but leaning towards including RollerCoaster Tycoon because sims do tend to get grouped together with strategy games and we're keeping SimCity.

[The Shoemaker]

Pokemon can go. I don't really see Roller Coaster Tycoon as strategy, but I'm not against it being here.