Man in charge of Diablo thinks we should start calling games that he thinks are like Diablo 'Diablo-likes'

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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zip · 14 days ago

Man in charge of Diablo thinks we should start calling games that he thinks are like Diablo 'Diablo-likes'

MudMan@fedia.io · 14 days ago

Wait, we don’t?

I mean, I was there when the discourse around Diablo 1 was “it’s not a real RPG, it’s mostly just Gauntlet with loot”, so “not ARPGs” and “Diablo-likes” have been in my lexicon from the ground floor.