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OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre (www.inverse.com)

submitted 1 year ago by MrEUser@lemmy.ninja to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ninja/post/10393

“Boomer shooter” is the latest term to follow the likes of “Roguelike” or “Soulslike” in the realm of hyperspecific gaming subgenres. It applies to first-person shooters that intentionally harken back to the classic PC games of the late ‘90s like Doom and Quake.

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[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is because they ARE annoying, pointlessly insulting, and do not actually track with the age group it is referencing.

Terms are not magically legitimized just because they sort of rhyme. It is stupid.

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

A more accurate term would be X Shooter, or even Shooter eXtreme (since that's totally how stuff was advertised to my generation). A boomer wouldn't even be able to play the game.