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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.

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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Roguelike.” <- 44 years on and we still don’t have a real name for this genre.

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- otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
  
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  - Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    whereas a single journalist saying something like “Theme Hospital-like” is not a genre.
    
    Exactly; which is why your comments here do not make any sense at all; they’re not saying it’s a genre. They’re saying these games are like the games of a long gone company of the past.
    
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    otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Is there really no other way to say that? Lol
    
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