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orphiebaby@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠agoWikipedia is written by humans, a.k.a. non-objective people, which is why they call it âduodecimal countingâ instead of âdozenal countingâ and used to have Talk wars on that page about it. The irrational side won.
If a game has classes like I said before, then itâs a class-playing game, a.k.a. RPG. Something can be a roguelike but not an RPG. Also âroguelikeâ is a pretty dumb name for a genre and itself causes a lot of problems, but I digress.
Syrc@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Itâs just one of many genres/subgenres that has one groundbreaking game/saga as origin and all the games that took inspiration from it, like Metroidvania or Soulslike. Just creating a new term for each of them would make initial discussions much weirder, although it would probably be clearer later on (nowadays most people that know what a Roguelike is donât even know âRogueâ is an actual game)