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[–] kip@piefed.zip 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

most-played roguelike/roguelite

hit action roguelike The Binding of Isaac

highly acclaimed roguelite and roguelike games, such as Hades, Vampire Survivors, and Balatro

i'll accept that roguelite means fuck all except 'has meta progression' but none of the games mentioned in this article are roguelikes

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

Roguelike was the term generally used for all roguelites before they became so popular someone invented a separate word for it.

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I get that they created roguelite for games that are based on rng runs and has some sort of async progression and I think that has become a pretty practical genre to categorize a wide array of hands that share those traits. 

But roguelike should be kept to games like nethack, pixel dungeon etc that share the basic concepts of rogue.

[–] kip@piefed.zip 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

agree re roguelikes but roguelite seems far too broad to work as a genre? like if there was a 'combos' genre that included blazblue, bayonetta, and bejeweled

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 points 45 minutes ago

And yet I tend to like most games that fall into the "rouge lite" category. It feels too broad and yet also seems to work to classify games.

I think it may just be a bit like "RPG" or "Action" that are actually very wide categories that now have a lot of subcategories to help better explain them.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I can't even figure out what "rougelike" is supposed to mean anymore.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

The headline says "roguelite", the Berlin Interpretation is safe for now

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 1 hour ago

It means “similar to red”

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The game itself is really fucking good, I'll give them that, but I stopped playing the moment I learned about the cast list and McMillen doubling down on it. Incredibly disappointed in this centrist bullshit to the say the least.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ugh I know, imagine playing a game and hearing idubbz, the n-word/f-slur guy. Fucking gross.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

idubbz changed for the better tho

[–] peacefulpixel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

all white people have to do is say "sorry i guess" and they instantly get equipped with iron clad armour that prevents any further discussion of their bigoted harm and the kind of generational harm they've contributed to. try telling the black kids who had to grow up during his peak that he's apologised. it's not gonna change anything

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yeah honestly, like I can't say I forgive his past shit but he's absolutely come a LONG way from those days, credit where it's due. I'm more concerned about Edmund including literal nazis (the Kleins) and an actual rapist (Chrischan), along with not clearly communicating any of this to the people he pulled in. On top of that, he pulls the centrist card so hard to defend himself.

I used to love this dude's games, sunk SO much time into the original SMB and both Isaacs, but he's clearly stuck in 2012 4chan.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I was just memeing on idubbz, Chrischan is in the game, fucking oedipal rapist Chrischan.

[–] justsquigglez@leminal.space 14 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Hot damn, that's actually wild considering his original game being so popular already, and also the first Hades AND Vampire Survivors existing.

Definitely gonna pick it up myself at some point soon.

[–] Hazardous_area@piefed.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Super worth picking up if you like grid based tactics type games. It has so much more depth than I was expecting, every run or two I’m getting some new twist or ability that makes it play quite differently to anything I’ve tried yet.

Plus the sound track is great.

[–] justsquigglez@leminal.space 25 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, after doing some research, it seems the person who wrote this article did not do theirs. I'm pretty sure Don't Starve Together, Megabonk, and Elden Ring Nightreign (if you want to count that) all still beat out Mewgenics (especially Nightreign if we count it, by like such a large gap.)

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

The article is bunk, but oddly enough the all time high by Steamdb suggests it's around tied with DST, Megabonk, Hades II, and a few others at 115k-ish.

Nightreign, as AAA go, 313k at peak, lol.

You can still tell the article is bunk for comparing it to Stray as a cat game. Oh yeah, sure, while we're at it let's compare to Hello Kitty Island players, eh? AI logic. Lol

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Gotta wonder where Binding of Isaac falls on the list since it's been out so long and it's players tend to be the ones that put hundreds, if not thousands, of hours into it.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The previous was actually Hades 2 which surprised me too.

[–] wobblyunionist@piefed.social 0 points 6 hours ago

The title being a play on the word eugenics is enough to get me to not want to support the game