ironmanDX said:
The gameplay in Diablo is a little deeper than your typical hack and slash IMO. It's more an RPG. |
The term is used different ways.
Hack and slash is a certain style of dungeons and dragons quest where the game is just about killing stuff with no other point. Since D&D influenced a lot of earlier rpgs (and a lot of newer ones), games that were influenced by that style were called hack and slash. Diablo is that sort of gae.
Hack and Slash also became a term used for beat em up games that used edged weapons. Because beat em up really wouldn't be an appropriate term for something like Golden Axe since you're not really beating anyone up. You're hacking them and slashing them.
So, they're both hack and slash games, but different kinds of hack and slash games. Either way though, I don't think being deeper necessarily disqualifies it from being a hack and slash game. If the vast majority of your game revolves around hacking and/or slashing, I'd say it qualifies. Hack and slash and RPG aren't mutually exclusive.
