• @huginn
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    162 months ago

    Right but Rogue isn’t much like modern Roguelikes either. It’s still the genre.

    • @Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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      -42 months ago

      I think the “rogue” in rogue-like refers to the fact that you start over if you die. Not the similarity to the actual game. Am I misunderstanding you?

      I think I get what you’re saying, that rogue-like was named after the game and therefore this genre should be named after slay the spire. But I think Rogue named the genre because there wasn’t anything else like it. Slay the Spire is still at the end of the day a mashup of two existing genres.

      • @huginn
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        112 months ago

        Rogue was the start of the genre - games that came after we’re always measured against it.

        Rogue was a dungeon crawler - a type of game that had been done plenty of times before. Starting over on death had also been done.

        But it became genre defining by being the best at both.

        Spire I’d say is similar. It is genre defining because the combination of gameplay elements was so perfectly executed that it will become the measuring stick against which all roguelike deck builders will be measured. So Spirelike fits, I think.

          • @huginn
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            132 months ago

            Soulslike and Metroidvania spring to mind.

            As games become more and more complex these kind of genre defining sets will become more common I think.

              • @huginn
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                62 months ago

                Didn’t we start this chain by saying this genre needs it’s own name?

                • @Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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                  2 months ago

                  The genre can be called “rogue like deck builder” all you want, we all know what it really is: “Spirelike”

                  Well, you did. And you also directly acknowledged that the genre already has a name in the same sentence.

                  It seems to be your opinion that it needs another one, even though the name it has is already so well established that it has its own steam tag.

                  I mean, you’re entitled to have that opinion, and I also understand the logic behind it. But this conversation wasn’t started with “us” saying it needs another name.

                  • @huginn
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                    22 months ago

                    Sorry I interpreted

                    I really think it deserves its own genre.

                    As a statement calling for a genre with it’s own name.