but fr i do prefer having a "game-agnostic" genre names, otherwise we'd call a Doom 4 a "doom-clone" and that has as much in common with doom as carpenter does with a car.
@hj@triodug@vriska They did call them doom-clones when the games just cloned doom. It's a derogatory term that implies the game offers nothing that isn't already in doom. Once the FPS genre diversified the genre became more generic (hey those words are similar isn't that crazy its almost like genre means generic which means not specific to one thing).
Souls-likes, Thief-likes, and DMC-likes never diversified. They made clones and sequels and derivatives but always felt identical to their core entry. Doom 2016 took from hundreds of other games that released in the 20 years since Doom 2 and made a unique FPS out of it. Dishonored just made Thief out of Bioshock, which was already a watered down System Shock 2.
Add comment