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otp@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoWe 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 5 months ago
“Roguelike.” <- 44 years on and we still don’t have a real name for this genre.
otp@sh.itjust.works 5 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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
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.
otp@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Is there really no other way to say that? Lol