What is it about the games Rogue, Doom, and Diablo that got whole genres named after them? Doom-likes later came to be known as FPSs, but still, we never had a "Final Fantasy-like" or "Mario-like" genre. And both of those are unquestionably influential games!
@monorail Is there another name for the Diablo-like genre?
@Rosemary something something action rpg hack and slash dungeon crawler
@Rosemary a lot of genres started as "game-likes". we had GTA-likes for a while iirc
my understanding is that everyone hates "roguelike" as a name for the genre but no one has come up with anything bettec