LoL?

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Jun 15, 2020 at 8:59	history	edited	CommunityBot		Commonmark migration
Jan 9, 2014 at 15:40	comment	added	Holger		I think the reason Riot made another name, was to not reference the original game, plus it makes sense to move away from names that are based on the original games. FPS'er are not called Wolfensteins or Maze Games.
Sep 1, 2011 at 15:10	comment	added	Decency		They're Real-Time-Strategy for sure, I'd probably say their actual genre would be a sub-genre of that. I personally favor Tactical-Heroic or something along those lines, but it's very rarely used.
Sep 1, 2011 at 15:08	comment	added	Bravo840		@Decency "is a sub genre of role playing games. Do LoL, DotA or the others officially even have a genre that we agree on yet?
Aug 31, 2011 at 13:50	comment	added	Decency		@Bravo840 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike
Aug 17, 2011 at 1:26	comment	added	tzenes		@Bravo the language is susceptable to convention. If people continue to call them DotA-Clones, that'll become the genre. However, given the track record of Doom-Clones -> FPS and GodofWar-Clones -> Brawlers, I think it is unlikely.
Aug 16, 2011 at 18:45	comment	added	Bravo840		To call it a DotA style game would imply that we should name genres after the first popular game of that type which certainly isn't currently nor should it be the case.
Aug 16, 2011 at 18:23	comment	added	Chris Rasys		True, but doom-likes eventually became FPS, just like Rogue-likes became dungeon crawlers, or even Populous-like becoming God games. When a new game defines a new genre there's often a lag time before that new genre is properly defined, in this case the new genre is 'MOBA' (for now anyway).
Aug 16, 2011 at 18:05	comment	added	Vinicius Kamakura		check wikipedia's discussion on that, it's gigantic.
Aug 16, 2011 at 18:04	history	edited	M'vy	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 2 characters in body
Aug 16, 2011 at 18:04	comment	added	M'vy		@Raven I agree. But I can't find other sources for this. Google seems also to pull more results on "DotA-like" than "DotA-clone" but still this does not proves anything. But you're totally right, this is not an authoritative answer. Edited in consequence.
Aug 16, 2011 at 17:59	comment	added	Raven Dreamer		Wikipedia shouldn't be the premier source for questions about gaming genres. Furthermore, I've heard "DotA-Clone" much more often than I've heard "DotA-Likes", which reiterates the fact that the wikipedia entry leaves much to be desired.
Aug 16, 2011 at 17:58	comment	added	user7220		I had never heard MOBA before. AoS and DotA, on the other hand, are very clear.
Aug 16, 2011 at 17:50	history	answered	M'vy	CC BY-SA 3.0