Phantasy Star online is what those types of games should be grouped with which was an Online RPG (ORPG) as opposed to an MMORPG.
That battle seems to have gained little ground over the years, unfortunately. Enshrining better genre nomenclature is one of the few things gaming journalists actually could have helped with but alas they were too busy demanding developers shove trannies and niggers in games.
"metroidvania" is the other bad one. A Metroidvania is a castlevania game that copies Metroid as opposed to the earlier "ClassicVanias" because Metroid came out over a decade before SotN so naming the genre Metroidvania and giving credit to SotN for a formula solely established by Metroid is silly. The real term is "platform adventure game". I think Extra Credits is to blame for this one like so many other bits of mis-information that people still repeat today.
I would love to see the adventures of Autism Girl continue.
Probably better than having your name slapped on a ton of useless shovelware. Warhammer 40k has TONS of video games over the last couple of decades and only a handful are any good.
A POLICE game involving the Coruscant Guard where you start off arresting people protesting against the war, work up to fighting gangsters and well-armed Separatist sympathizers/saboteurs, then you have a level where you descend to the lowest levels of the city chasing down a Separatist scientist who wants to gas the city-world with a bioweapon and you have to fight through some ancient maintenance robots that have gone haywire for thousands of years, then your final mission is to blockade the side entrance of the Jedi Temple and gun down any Jedi that try to come through. The final boss is one of the Jedi Council masters who has their whole entourage accompanying them, making a beeline for the exit.
But why the fuck do you want to play all this garbage?
Not particularly. Most licensed games back then were shovelware because IPs would shill out licenses to the lowest bidder. If anything, I think all that shovelware made licensees less prone to provide them to companies. Consumers would be more aware that they're shit, therefore, they'd sell less than expected.
Prodeus is a Quake game!
They've probably played a role in making things worse (as usual). I think it was Spelunky and Binding of Isaac that made normie "roguelikes" a thing. There were already action games with random elements but they were never called roguelikes, and they weren't as trendy. The first top-down shooter with random levels that I know of is Berzerk, from waaaay back in 1980 -- same year as the original Rogue, and a far more mainstream game in its day. And Berzerk is never connected to Rogue and almost certainly couldn't have been influenced by it.
Supposedly the Japanese call them "Search-Action" games, which is a pretty good descriptor.
I like it. I've also heard "exploratory platformer" honestly, I don't care what people call them as long as it's not metroidvania because that means something else already. Metroid-like is fine too.
New games are made by "game devs", "older games" where made by software engineers who happened to be playing around with entertainment software. These new "developers" are making games without having an attachment or experiences outside a computer screen, they want to make "games" because they "want to make games" inspiread by other games. That's why they can't comprehend that they need to evolve and make something that isn't a cheap digital imitation of old digital shit. Also, nu-devs see tech as something you just slap on and don't need to optimize, so everything is just "meh, it runs".
That is my biggest gripe with the whole "remaster/remake" shit that has been so prevalent these past few years. If you want to do some DEI slop, go ahead. Cobble together some Frankenstein's monster consisting of different versions. Fine. Make something that is between remaster and remake because it has no clear direction. Have fun. Or release a version that is missing stuff because you couldn't be bothered to do your job. But for the love of god, give me the unaltered original game to play. Preferably packed in with what ever shitmaster you are doing.
Its even worse when it comes to mods. I'm all for silly shitpost mods as they have their time and place, but they decided to take it too far and push out anyone making actual mods beyond bug fixes. To the point we have several community watch threads documenting this phenomenon.