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I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/gaming

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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 👌, 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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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I would love to see that take place, so sign me up for the Church of the Boomest Shooter. My only real concern is where do we go from boomest?

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

Boomestest, obviously.

[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Helldivers 2 wins. You get to drop orbital strikes, launch ICBM nukes, call in cluster munitions, etc.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

Meh, I've been able to do all of those in modded Minecraft for years.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 8 months ago

That's the neat part, we don't. Can't have the messiah coming for real. Otherwise you get splinter religions.

Now I feel like playing Messiah.