OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre
https://lemmy.ninja/post/12496
OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre - Lemmy Ninja Clan
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ninja/post/10393
[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. >
These are millenial shooters dangit, boomers were too old for doom.
I completely agree with the generational… “faux pas” in the naming. But it SOUNDS good…
boomer shooter…
I’ve also heard retroFPS.
I wasn’t a fan when these originally came out. I was too busy with more “complex” hoity-toity puzzlers and “deep” rpg’s…
Now that I’m almost 50, I enjoy the HELL out of Boltgun. If you buy ONE game… I HIGHLY recommend it. It’s starts with the pedal to the metal and then hit’s turbo at some point (you’re too busy to notice).
REALLY… give it a try.
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