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I’m very familiar with Bullfrog. Loved a lot of their games.

I hate the trend of gaming journalists using “-like” to describe genres of games

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How do you feel about Doom-likes from 30 years ago?

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We call them first-person shooters now. And I think they were usually called Doom-clones. But it makes sense that they’d use a word like that when a word for the genre hadn’t really been codified by that point.

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“Roguelike.” <- 44 years on and we still don’t have a real name for this genre that isn’t just “first game of its type with ‘like’ at the end.”

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