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Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam

MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Yeah I get that they created roguelite for games that are based on rng runs and has some sort of async progression and I think that has become a pretty practical genre to categorize a wide array of hands that share those traits.

But roguelike should be kept to games like nethack, pixel dungeon etc that share the basic concepts of rogue.

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kip@piefed.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
agree re roguelikes but roguelite seems far too broad to work as a genre? like if there was a ‘combos’ genre that included blazblue, bayonetta, and bejewelled

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- tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Combos are one specific element in a game, roguelite is the basic concept the game is built on. Also since when are genres very specific? Rocket League and Mario Tennis are both Sports games.
  
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  - kip@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    i think i agree with this which means i only dislike roguelite as a top level category. in your mario tennis example it might go something like
    
    sports ¬ tennis ¬ arcade (as opposed to simulation)
    
    a mario tennis where it would be practically impossible to win a randomly generated tournament without grinding out some progression would be
    
    sports ¬ tennis ¬ roguelite
    
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- jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  And yet I tend to like most games that fall into the “rouge lite” category. It feels too broad and yet also seems to work to classify games.
  
  I think it may just be a bit like “RPG” or “Action” that are actually very wide categories that now have a lot of subcategories to help better explain them.
  
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  - kip@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I like most games that fall into the category
    
    same. but thinking about it a bit more, i still think it’s a bad name for a sub (sub sub) genre at best, not a top level one, your RPG and Action examples are quite right
    
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    jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Let’s be honest with ourselves combocore is really just another phrase for rhythm games, which let’s you aggregate things like guitar hero (rythmncombos) and DMC (actioncombos), as it’s all about hitting buttons at the right time interval. Surprisingly many darksouls also fall into the combocore/rythmn category - sekiro and Lies of P (with their parrying/dodging timing) which we’ll now call soulcombos.
    
    Now we just need to start promoting this through the steam tags.
    
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