• WarTowel@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Nowadays? You mean like how every first person shooter after doom was called a “doom clone?”

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        1 month ago

        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