Re:Roguelikes: The Misnamed Genre (2011)
by morelisp on Saturday January 15, 2022 @06:23PM
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I would be more forgiving to hand over the term "roguelike" to roguelites and other PGC-based games if I had a term to replace it. The problem is - what's a better term than "roguelike" to mean "more like Rogue than the other things which are (sometimes only very slightly) like Rogue"?
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What's wrong with "classical roguelike" or "traditional roguelike"?
Definitions change over time, often you can't do anything about that. But I would expect those two not to deviate too much in the future (hopefully).
Re:Roguelikes: The Misnamed Genre (2011)
by morelisp on Sunday January 16, 2022 @01:10PM
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"Classical roguelike" usually means "direct descendent of Hack/Angband/Larn/Moria" (Rogue itself produced very few descendents, I think). "Traditional" excludes several interesting categories which are uncontroversially roguelikes: games not part of the current 'body of practice' like Dungeon Hack; radically different PCG approaches like 868-HACK; and the Japanese design lineage in e.g. Shiren or Baroque which uses a very different approach to progression dynamics than today's roguelites.