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Hades 2 already plays like a perfectly ambitious follow-up to one of the greatest-ever roguelikes (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

*roguelites

[–] businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

although you're right, i'm not sure this battle is worth fighting anymore tbh. i used to care about which word to use, but it kinda seems like splitting hairs now.

i don't think the distinction between the two matters to most people anymore, especially since most modern titles fall into the -lite category rather than -like.

[–] StitchIsABitch@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is not the hill we should die on. Also, according to a post I saw recently, a true roguelike needs to fulfill a bunch of very specific requirements that already disqualify 99 percent of the games in the genre, so why even bother?

Games evolve, that's a good thing, let's not start gatekeeping genres too much.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

If you are talking about the Berlin definition, that was decided by the roguelike dev community for their own use in discussions.
The more points of the definition, the more roguelike. Roguelites are games with fewer of the criteria fulfilled.
It's really not a matter of gatekeeping and more a question of having a definition to stop endless discussions in the roguelikedev community on that same subject.