He's not talking about America.
huginn
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Soulslike and Metroidvania spring to mind.
As games become more and more complex these kind of genre defining sets will become more common I think.
Rogue was the start of the genre - games that came after we're always measured against it.
Rogue was a dungeon crawler - a type of game that had been done plenty of times before. Starting over on death had also been done.
But it became genre defining by being the best at both.
Spire I'd say is similar. It is genre defining because the combination of gameplay elements was so perfectly executed that it will become the measuring stick against which all roguelike deck builders will be measured. So Spirelike fits, I think.
Right but Rogue isn't much like modern Roguelikes either. It's still the genre.
It's not that common with previous connectors though. They snapped in and without a full connection did not work.
It's not about how tight the spec is - it's about how poorly designed the connector is if it is easy to partially connect.
You can have very tight specs and not be failure prone.
They still do.
You can interpret that as better or worse, as you see fit.
The genre can be called "rogue like deck builder" all you want, we all know what it really is: "Spirelike"
AFAIK it can handle all the power totally fine - it's just very easy to partially connect instead of fully.
How do you remove slurs from a boardgame where you pick and place letters?
I feel like Epic wouldn't be so strident about it without proof that it negatively affecting install rate.
But maybe the perception that it affects the rate is sufficient.
Didn't we start this chain by saying this genre needs it's own name?