Comment by Nition
1 day ago
I've always assumed that isometric as used in describing videogames refers to the isometric projection, which is a very specific angle - or at least games that look approximately isometric. Age Of Empires, SimCity 2000, Constructor etc. Some of them were actually Dimetric or something else, but I'd never have referred to, say, SimCity 1 as an isometric game.
Are you possibly thinking of "orthographic"?
A top down view and a 3/4 view can both be isometric.
I don't think that's true. Do you have a definition you can link to maybe, that matches yours? Or can someone else here back one of us up?
They're definitely thinking of orthographic. (Of which isometric is a tiny subset.) The opposite of perspective.