Can you imagine the ego stroking it must be to have an entire genre named after your work?
They probably could have had a case against the first game to market itself as such, but I think once the terminology gets utilized as a “common term”, you can’t do anything. It’s why Nintendo in the 80s and 90s was so fucking adamant on pushing parents away from calling any and every home game console a Nintendo
Fromsoft would have 0 ground if they wanted to today, but honestly, again, I think it’s one of those things thats such a pedestal that there would be no reason to go after it.
Can you imagine the ego stroking it must be to have an entire genre named after your work?
They probably could have had a case against the first game to market itself as such, but I think once the terminology gets utilized as a “common term”, you can’t do anything. It’s why Nintendo in the 80s and 90s was so fucking adamant on pushing parents away from calling any and every home game console a Nintendo
Fromsoft would have 0 ground if they wanted to today, but honestly, again, I think it’s one of those things thats such a pedestal that there would be no reason to go after it.
Imagine what the developers of Rogue must feel. Games in that vein are still called Rogue-likes 43 years later