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I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?

These games clearly took inspiration from 90s FPS games, which ๐Ÿ‘Œ, but they were played mostly by Gen Xers and Millenials, not Boomers. When games like Duke Nukem 3D or Quake were out, Boomers were what? 30 to 50 years old? I'm sure some of them played FPS games, but there is no way they were the majority.

Whenever I see the term Boomer Shooter, my mind goes to games like Shootout! for Magnavox Odyssey. Can't we call them something else, like Retro FPSes or something?

Anyway, rant over. Thank you for your time.

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[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

We were calling them Doom-likes before FPS became a thing, maybe it's time to bring it back as a sub category.

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago

Doom clones!

[-] ech@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

Appending "-like" to any genre is so unoriginal and uninteresting.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

It isn't intended to be interesting

[-] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

That's abundantly clear.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

The burn you think you are deploying, to a casual categorical label and those who use it, is not very effective.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

It's an observation, not a "burn".

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

If you observed it to be abundantly clear you wouldn't have made your original comment.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Speak for yourself. I comment on obvious things all the time.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Not a bad idea, but like which DOOM?

I ask that sarcastically, but 90โ€™s DOOM, 00โ€™s DOOM, and 10-20s DOOM all play very differently lol

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

Any of them would be more accurate than Boomer shooter.

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