rogue-like

Alternative form of roguelike.

Roughly a dozen different flavors of Rogue-likes have evolved over the years, but one of the most popular is Nethack.

Diablo is not an RPG. I've been reading through the posts and some people agree with this, so just what IS Diablo (as far as game type). Well, I'd say Diablo is a "Rogue-like".

Alternative form of roguelike.

I don't know if they are stepping on anyone's copyright toes, but a local group of enterprising young programmers have implemented a very Rogue-like game in pascal running on our Dec-20s.

MAG is Rogue-like.It's almost a brother to the game we all know and love.

Alternative form of roguelike.

Also they added a skill system which I've seen in some rogue-likes, you get a skill point when you go up a level and buy skills and some skills have other pre-requisites. I agree the biggest separation from other rogue-likes that Diablo has is being real-time instead of turn-based and secondly the graphics though I see nothing wrong with having graphics over ASCII, the visual interface as far as how the dungeons represented hasn't been of much concern to me with rogue-likes so much as the randomness and storylines and quests.

Fate doesn't "look and feel" like Diablo or Diablo 2 to me. I feel much more reminded of traditional rogue-likes. What does "look and feel" the same to me are numerous shooters, and I don't see any sueing (suing?) going on in that genre.