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What? Rogue-like has been in the gamer vocabulary for years, certainly well before Returnal. Returnal might be one of the few AAA rogue-like games[1], but the t
by kuang_eleven 5y ago
What? Rogue-like has been in the gamer vocabulary for years, certainly well before Returnal. Returnal might be one of the few AAA rogue-like games[1], but the term is very common in indie video game circles. Common enough to warrant sub-terms like rogue-lite and plenty of digital ink has been spilled trying to narrow in on what it actually means.
1: One could make a very reasonable case that the Diablo series is a rogue-like or at least a rogue-lite, but I don't know how much the term was applied to it at the time of release.
- philsnow 5y agoMy understanding is that the term "rogue-lite" came about sometime around / after the Berlin Interpretation of what it means for a game to be rogue-like was agreed upon. It's called the Berlin Interpretation because it was discussed during the International Roguelike Development Conference in Berlin in 2008. So, Diablo and Diablo 2 being released in 1996 and 2000, they pre-date at least common usage of the term "rogue-lite". edit: see http://www.gamesofgrey.com/blog/?p=403 http://www.gamesofgrey.com/blog/?p=403 for a critique of the Berlin Interpretation as written.