Zippy Bot@lemmy.zipB to Gaming@lemmy.zipEnglish · 6 months agoFinal Fantasy Tactics-like Trash Of The Titans dares you to be the garbage guzzling disaster mammal you always knew you werewww.rockpapershotgun.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkFinal Fantasy Tactics-like Trash Of The Titans dares you to be the garbage guzzling disaster mammal you always knew you werewww.rockpapershotgun.comZippy Bot@lemmy.zipB to Gaming@lemmy.zipEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squareWarTowel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoNowadays? You mean like how every first person shooter after doom was called a “doom clone?”
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoI’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
Nowadays? You mean like how every first person shooter after doom was called a “doom clone?”
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