A term “hack & slash” already exists since before 2000
Well yeah but we also call anything that’s like Doom a boomer shooter now. So you see, your argument is invalid * tips fedora, vanishes into Cheeto dust *
Eh, if Diablo 3, Immortal, and 4 didn’t exist…I could see it.
I think we should call future Diablos POE-clones.
I think he should read the room. They killed the franchise.
I’ve always heard hack n slash and diablo-clone for years.
I thought we did tbh
I did as a kid when i didn’t know what the genre was called. But for me it was sacred like as that was what i played
I thought we used arpg for that already.
Hack’n Slay. arpg feels more like an umbrella term for any RPG with an action combat system. It’s at least how we described it back during SNES times with games like Secret of Mana, opposed to games like Final Fantasy with their turn based combat.
we will continue to call your game an action rguelike, sir. you don’t get to add a twist to a genre and then be who’s the genre
Wait, we don’t?
I mean, I was there when the discourse around Diablo 1 was “it’s not a real RPG, it’s mostly just Gauntlet with loot”, so “not ARPGs” and “Diablo-likes” have been in my lexicon from the ground floor.
I always thought of diablo as a Gauntlet clone
I just call them “wester-style RPGs”. It’s like the contrast to JRPGs.
