Comment on Galacticare Has Got That Old Bullfrog Spirit
otp@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoI’m very familiar with Bullfrog. Loved a lot of their games.
I hate the trend of gaming journalists using “-like” to describe genres of games
Comment on Galacticare Has Got That Old Bullfrog Spirit
otp@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoI’m very familiar with Bullfrog. Loved a lot of their games.
I hate the trend of gaming journalists using “-like” to describe genres of games
osprior@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How do you feel about Doom-likes from 30 years ago?
otp@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
We call them first-person shooters now. And I think they were usually called Doom-clones. But it makes sense that they’d use a word like that when a word for the genre hadn’t really been codified by that point.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 weeks ago
“Roguelike.” <- 44 years on and we still don’t have a real name for this genre.
otp@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, Rogue-like is a notable exception. The difference is that it’s an established term for a genre, whereas a single journalist saying something like “Theme Hospital-like” is not a genre.