• WarTowel@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

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

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      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