[STEAM] Man in charge of Diablo thinks we should start calling games that he thinks are like Diablo 'Diablo-likes'

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The genre of 'Action

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' is supremely annoying to write about, because the term can mean different things to different people, but here’s how I see it:

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and similar games, such as

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, are 'ARPGs'. Which stands for 'Action RPG'. But Zelda games are 'Action RPGs', which is a totally different genre that you could, if you felt like it, also shorten to 'ARPG'. So, to summarise: ARPGs and ARPGs are two different things, and both are Action RPGs. Got it? Great.

It’s because of this kerfuffle that I’m not exactly **** at Diablo boss Rod Ferguson recently suggesting that we just call games that are similar to Diablo 'Diablo-likes'. I just find it very funny that he’s the one saying it, in a bold faced act of admittedly very inconsequential linguistic colonialism that carries the unspoken connotation that something is "like the game I make, but a bit *****".

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