I think he should read the room. They killed the franchise.

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.

we will continue to call your game an action rguelike, sir. you don’t get to add a twist to a genre and then be who’s the genre

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I’ve always heard hack n slash and diablo-clone for years.

I just call them “wester-style RPGs”. It’s like the contrast to JRPGs.