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Man in charge of Diablo thinks we should start calling games that he thinks are like Diablo 'Diablo-likes' (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

submitted 4 months ago by ZippyBot@lemmy.zip to c/gaming@lemmy.zip

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[–] dabu@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A term "hack & slash" already exists since before 2000

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 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 *

[–] ClockNimble@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

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

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

I think we should call future Diablos POE-clones.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 12 points 4 months ago

I think he should read the room. They killed the franchise.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought we did tbh

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 2 points 4 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

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

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

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought we used arpg for that already.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago

Hack'n Slay. arpg feels more like an umbrella term for any RPG with an action combat system. It's at least how we described it back during SNES times with games like Secret of Mana, opposed to games like Final Fantasy with their turn based combat.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 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

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago

Wait, we don't?

I mean, I was there when the discourse around Diablo 1 was "it's not a real RPG, it's mostly just Gauntlet with loot", so "not ARPGs" and "Diablo-likes" have been in my lexicon from the ground floor.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

I always thought of diablo as a Gauntlet clone

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

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