Play This Thing has referred to roguelike games for the last two games it's reviewed: Meritous and Transcendence. This echoes an argument I'll always make: that games and game designers outside the genre have a lot to learn from the writers of roguelikes.I'd like to propose a new genre that encompases games of this nature, called roguelike-likes. Roguelike-like games are clearly not roguelikes but have been designed and/or inspired by Rogue and its ilk.
You've probably voted for a few in the latest poll.
That's quite funny, just the other day I was thinking that Diablo wasn't a Roguelike, but it was a Rougelike-like.
ReplyDeleteGreat!
ReplyDeleteThis should pose an end to the endless debates on wheter or not Dwarf Fortress and Diablo are rouguelikes.
Yay for the new genre of roguelike-likes! :)
If one like this new genre is a roguelike-likes-liker? ;)
I don't like roguelike-likes.
ReplyDeleteNotice I also covered my bases about whether or not roguelike has a hyphen...
ReplyDeletePersonally, I say evolve. I want to see Rouge-like-like-likes that replace NLP AI with combat.
ReplyDelete