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

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ZippyBot@lemmy.zip [bot]⁩ to ⁨gaming@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think we should call future Diablos POE-clones.

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  • ClockNimble@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought we used arpg for that already.

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought we did tbh

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    • Sas@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always thought of diablo as a Gauntlet clone

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  • RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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