Goronmon@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoGalacticare Has Got That Old Bullfrog Spiritaftermath.siteexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down10
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minus-squareNighed@sffa.communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·6 months agoIt’s refering to a defunct games company: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bullfrog_Productions_games
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down6·6 months agoI’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
minus-squareosprior@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoHow do you feel about Doom-likes from 30 years ago?
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down5·6 months agoWe 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.
It’s refering to a defunct games company: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bullfrog_Productions_games
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
How do you feel about Doom-likes from 30 years ago?
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.