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  • Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded

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  • ARPG + MORPG hybrid with looter shooter characteristics.

    It doesn’t really fit anywhere cleanly, though.

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  • Terms can definitely be confusing. Diablo is definitely a hack-n'-slash, but it's very different from the likes of Golden Axe and God of War.

  • Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded

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  • The ARPGs you're probably referring to, I call them Diablo-likes to distinguish them from all the other action RPGs.

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  • RNG = random number generator. In gaming, this just means random chance. Whenever loot drops, critical hits land, enemies spawn, or dice rolls decide outcomes, that’s RNG at work.

    Eurojank is a term for European-developed games (usually from Central or Eastern Europe) that are ambitious, creative, and full of unique ideas… but also full of technical rough edges.

  • Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded

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  • There's a lot of subgenres I wanted to include, but I felt this document was already too long. Here's more of them:

    • DBRPG = Deck-building RPG
    • SurRPG = Survival RPG
    • RLRPG = Rogue-like RPG
    • SLRPG = Souls-like RPG

    I don't know why I overlooked GRPGs since Germany has some pretty important ones. You mentioned Gothic, but there's also both the Sacred series and ELEX series.

    I'd say that while both GRPGs and PRPGs are releated to each other, there's some big differences that go beyond nationality. I'd say GRPGs are more like a muddy Renaissance faire going on while PRPGs have more of a storybook style.

    EDIT: In the interest of thoroughness, I added even more subgenre acronyms.

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    Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded

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    Will Rock: A shooter held together by boom and glue

  • Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released

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  • Tetris Plus is quite neat because, not only is there PlayStation and arcade versions, it was released for Game Boy too.

    I regularly play it on my cabinet—it’s got a great PvP mode.

  • Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released

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  • They’re gone. No mascots. No background worlds. Just the “elemental” machine skins.

    Tetris Worlds had eye monsters because THQ wanted a console-friendly mascot game.

    Tetris Elements has industrial pipes because ValuSoft (THQ’s budget imprint) wanted a cheap, self-contained PC release that didn’t require any cross-project asset wrangling.

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    Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released

  • Renovation was right—and we're ahead of schedule

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  • Use vJoy + Universal Control Remapper (UCR), or reWASD, to mirror the controller input to all emulator instances.

    This means pressing A once sends “A” to all 8 games.

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    Renovation was right—and we're ahead of schedule

  • When You Wish for World Peace

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  • Helen of Troy? Oh, don’t even get me started on her! She didn’t just cause the Trojan War—that was her warm-up gig!

    The Crusades? Helen. Napoleonic Wars? Helen again. Both World Wars, the Cold War, Star Wars, Cola Wars—every single one is her fault!

    Honestly, if she’d just stopped wishing for wars, we’d all be riding unicorns and eating ice cream for breakfast by now.

    Thanks a lot, Helen.

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  • That woman’s name? Helen of Troy.

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    Spectrum Holobyte’s 1988 DOS Tetris: the first official release – the start of a global obsession

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    Operation Thunderstorm – Polish Wolfenstein with bouncing corpses

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    Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z – if Ninja Gaiden were a can of Mountain Dew

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    Ninja Gaiden for DOS: rated M for "mistake"

  • Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery

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  • Really want to find GBA Tribal Edition in the wild—if it actually exists.

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    Meet Demonlisher, the maze game that's actually a demon slayer

  • The Steam controller was ahead of its time

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  • Actually, those rear buttons are unique. They are not the same triggers and buttons. They are highly useful in FPS games for functions like crouch.

  • The Steam controller was ahead of its time

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  • The em dash? I always use it—love it—you’ll have to take it from cold, dead hands.

  • The Steam controller was ahead of its time

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  • Yep, the key is to use mouse instead of joystick-mouse.

  • The Steam controller was ahead of its time

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  • I admire the cut of your jib.

  • The Steam controller was ahead of its time

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  • You’re not wrong that the market has changed.

    I often tell people that the biggest innovations in PC gaming are not graphics but form factors and inputs.

  • The Steam controller was ahead of its time

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  • That’s more of a killer feature for Linux in general.

    And I can’t undersell how big of a deal that is. When Windows 10 dies, I’m switching my desktop to Linux simply because Proton makes me want to use Linux.

  • The Steam controller was ahead of its time

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  • And yet, when I look at my library, only half of new games released within the past five years support X-input. They are still exclusively keyboard-and-mouse.

    Granted, that’s way more than what was available 10 years ago, but it’s still a problem.

    Or it would be if the Steam Deck didn’t make it trivially easy to adapt keyboard-and-mouse controls to a controller. Which happened because of the innovation first introduced with the Steam Controller.

    It’s now at the point where keyboard-and-mouse is optional—just a preference if you want to use it.

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  • Okay, but I didn't want to buy a new console. Instead, I wanted to use my PC as a console replacement.

    But also, there's a surprising amount of games that never got a console release. For example, Blood and Septerra Core—never arrived on any console. I own those games, and the Steam controller let me play them on my TV very easily.

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    The Steam controller was ahead of its time

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    I'm impressed by Rambo III for DOS

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    Silverfall is low-poly and low mercy

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    Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

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    Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become

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    In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch.

    www.engadget.com /gaming/nintendo/nintendo-is-increasing-the-price-of-the-original-switch-in-canada-220145966.html
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    Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation

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    Resident Evil fans, meet your Victorian cousin

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    The magic of remembering—and talking about—video games

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    Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo