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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/games@sh.itjust.works

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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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[–] MrEUser@lemmy.ninja 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s been used for a couple years now. Seems like a pretty small thing to get so worked up over.

[–] Percy@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Hyperboles man. But in general I just hate the term don't subcategorize shooters based off of the era it's designed around. It's just stupid subcategorize off of different things