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      5 months ago

      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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          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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              Yeah, Rogue-like is a notable exception. The difference is that it’s an established term for a genre, whereas a single journalist saying something like “Theme Hospital-like” is not a genre.

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                whereas a single journalist saying something like “Theme Hospital-like” is not a genre.

                Exactly. Which is why your comments here do not make any sense at all; they’re not saying it’s a genre. They’re saying these games are like the games of a long gone company of the past. There’s no established way of saying that other than “Bullfrog-like.”