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 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’ve always heard hack n slash and diablo-clone for years.
I thought we used arpg for that already.
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.
