Man in charge of Diablo thinks we should start calling games that he thinks are like Diablo 'Diablo-likes'

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• dabu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A term “hack & slash” already exists since before 2000

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well yeah but we also call anything that’s like Doom a boomer shooter now. So you see, your argument is invalid * tips fedora, vanishes into Cheeto dust *

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• psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think we should call future Diablos POE-clones.

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• ClockNimble@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Eh, if Diablo 3, Immortal, and 4 didn’t exist…I could see it.

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• Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve always heard hack n slash and diablo-clone for years.

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought we used arpg for that already.

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• Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  we will continue to call your game an action rguelike, sir. you don’t get to add a twist to a genre and then be who’s the genre

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought we did tbh

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  • Sas@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I did as a kid when i didn’t know what the genre was called. But for me it was sacred like as that was what i played

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• sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I always thought of diablo as a Gauntlet clone

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• RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just call them “wester-style RPGs”. It’s like the contrast to JRPGs.

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