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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do we not have genres anymore? Why are games being called X-like nowadays? Lol

[–] WarTowel@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nowadays? You mean like how every first person shooter after doom was called a "doom clone?"

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm specifically referring to to X-like.

In the 90's, we also had Street Fighter-clones!

But nowadays we know better. But gaming journalism seems to have gone backwards into calling everything [X]-like.

My guess is that it gets them more hits for people looking up games that aren't actually related to the one they're writing about

Also, it's different when a name for a genre hasn't been coined yet...lol