• Koen967@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

    I wonder. Does that also mean Fromsoft has a case against games marketing themselves as soulslikes?

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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      9 months ago

      They can try, nintendo never did, doubt they will win, and cost them the decades of good will they’ve gained. The genre name is either a part of the title mixed with the word clone, like, lite, or a portmanteau like Metroidvania, so it’s not 100% case.

      That’s why Palworld did not mentioned Pokemon on the steam page and the trailer.

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      9 months ago

      Don’t give Nintendo or Konami ideas about Metroidvanias…

      Jokes aside, IMO its a common term and <game>like has been a thing for a long time, roguelike as an example

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        9 months ago

        It’s also good for business. If someone comes in not knowing about Souls games and starts seeing it, they’ll wonder why it’s called that.

        I played both Metroid and Castlevania when I was a kid so I knew where those came from. I quit gaming for a decade or so and didn’t know anything about Souls-like games when I got back. I started seeing it everywhere and it made me curious. Now I’m a fan of From and games like what they put out.

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      9 months ago

      Can you imagine the ego stroking it must be to have an entire genre named after your work?

      They probably could have had a case against the first game to market itself as such, but I think once the terminology gets utilized as a “common term”, you can’t do anything. It’s why Nintendo in the 80s and 90s was so fucking adamant on pushing parents away from calling any and every home game console a Nintendo

      Fromsoft would have 0 ground if they wanted to today, but honestly, again, I think it’s one of those things thats such a pedestal that there would be no reason to go after it.

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        9 months ago

        Imagine what the developers of Rogue must feel. Games in that vein are still called Rogue-likes 43 years later