• otp@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months 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