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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

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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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[–] MaxPower@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for that. TIL I liked "Boomer shooters".

[–] MrEUser@lemmy.ninja 4 points 1 year ago

Glad to be of service. I picked this article as it relates to a couple others I did. One is on todays release of Trepang^2. It’s crossposted in the community if you are interested.

[–] ramius345 1 points 1 year ago

If you haven't seen it, look up civvie11's channel on YouTube.