> This is exactly it - it's just genre bickering Not always. Genres and categories are useful to describe what it is like without sharing precise knowledge (i.

> This is exactly it - it's just genre bickering Not always. Genres and categories are useful to describe what it is like without sharing precise knowledge (i.e. finding an example that the person you talk with also knows). I don't know what the sub-categorization argument is, but I kind of understand that people want to be a bit more precise. For instance, in the "object-oriented" category it is useful to distinguish "class-based" from "prototype-based". To me, the lack of a commonly accepted definition of "roguelike" is a bit annoying because the definition of the term tends to become more and more fuzzy over time, to the point that the term will eventually become useless as a communication medium. So in my opinion, a little bit of gatekeeping is good.