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We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Boring after 20 minutes type games?

Its a passive horde survival game.

The game play is rotating the stick in a rough circle so you keep moving that you can do without even having to look at the screen while you hoover up tiny pellets that make you stronger to survive more blobs of color on the screen.
Have any of you ever tried risk of rain or heck even cuphead? You can have rapid gameplay and a point to it. This feels like the modern bathroom book as a game. Fun but just enough to be over when you have finished something more worth your time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No I didn't request anyone else to stop having fun I am just pointing out my interpretation of the games and the name I use for them.

Why does my opinion on it make you think that I am demanding you stop playing unless you care what others think about your own free time?
I just like it differently and am voicing that. Your take as an attack means you feel a need to defend it preemptively, and over assume I care about you playing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have any of you ever tried risk of rain or heck even cuphead? You can have rapid gameplay and a point to it. This feels like the modern bathroom book as a game. Fun but just enough to be over when you have finished something more worth your time

If you don't understand how that paragraph sounds judgmental then I don't know how to help you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh sure. It's a pointed jab at asking if people have tried games I enjoy while being a little condescending of a genre I find to be best at filling short moments.

It just doesn't match that comic cause that's not demanding people stop enjoying something they like.

If people can't separate criticism of a genre as not criticism of them I can't help them either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s a pointed jab at asking if people have tried games I enjoy while being a little condescending of a genre

So you came into a thread talking about the classification of a genre with admittedly the sole purpose of making condescending jabs at people who enjoy said genre, (and notibly not contributing meaningfully to the actual discussion at hand) but you did NOT tell people to stop having fun.
You were just telling them they were having fun wrong.

Glad we cleared that up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No. Pretty much exactly not that and I see you also suffer the issue.

None of that is correct. And directly against what I just said.

And I contributed a name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then you have expressed yourself poorly.

Some of that may come from the fact that you came to a post about "How should we classify X" to complain about how you don't like X, which isn't relevant to the classification and no one cares.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No you immediately took criticism of a genre as a personal attack because of your own issues. You take it as poor communication because of your own interpretation and the pushback I am giving for your misunderstanding of my point.

I have been consistent with saying it's a short term fun game for me and that I find other games to be more rewarding.

Don't blame others for being offended by other peoples opinions. I added to the conversation with an offer of classification of passive horde survivor and an explanation of how I got there.
I'm even having a pleasant conversation about that right next to yours where you have been antagonistic.

I don't even expect anything from you other than to stop insisting I care if you have fun playing a game I only mildly enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

"It wasn't a personal attack, it was condescending jabs!"

Okay? I never claimed you were attacking anything but the genre, and my point was no one cares and this isn't the place for it.

I’m even having a pleasant conversation about that right next to yours

Yup, do you notice how the conversation goes better (and you stop receiving downvotes) when you stop with the condescending jabs? Maybe start there next time.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I've always heard Arena Survival

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's a horde survival shooter with upgrades

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I thought it was a survivor-like?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This post made me install Vampire Survivors on my phone and it felt like an old flash game I used to play on miniclip during IT classes in school. Some of the assets are completely stolen from OG Castlevania too (I'm sure this has been pointed out before).

Anyway, like 45 mins passed and I have no idea where the time went. I can see this game being good for public transport, waiting rooms, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought they were auto battlers?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think the fact that you move the character around during the battle precludes it from that genre. Auto battles usually have two phases, a shopping or building phase and a battle phase. You prepare for the battle in the former but have no influence on the outcome in the battle phase itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I remembered Super Auto Pets and immediately realized I'd made an enormous mistake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've just been calling them exactly that: vampire survivors like. It's a mouthful, so I'm open to the alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Isn't it already Arena?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Robotron 2084 clones?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Haha, it is very similar, but I think robotron is a twin-stick shooter since you control movement and the shooting.

Its one of my favorite games though, my grandfather had the actual arcade cabinet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Distilled roguelite

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I call them circle spawners. The enemies spawn in a rough circle around you and close in. I think you can modify that with other terms depending on the specifics of what the game adds in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You should also crosspost on [email protected]

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