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MrEUser Jun 21, 2023

OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre

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. >

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socialjusticewizard Jun 21, 2023

These are millenial shooters dangit, boomers were too old for doom.

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SpaceCadet2000 Jun 21, 2023

Millennials? No way. The oldest millennials were 9 when Doom came out.

It is most definitely a Gen X game. It has all the hallmarks of mid 90s GenX culture: unapologetically rebellious, anti-establishment, edgy and violent. The developers are also all oldish GenX-ers (Adrian Carmack, John Carmack, John Romero, Dave Taylor) or young Boomers (Sandy Petersen and Tom Hall)

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beefcat Jun 21, 2023

A lot of us older Millennials still grew up playing these games as they came out.

But you're right, they are thoroughly a product of '90s Gen-X culture.

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SpaceCadet2000

A lot of us older Millennials still grew up playing these games as they came out.

Of course. Especially the ones that came after Doom I guess. I listened to a lot of older music at the time too (like 80s new wave or 70s hard rock and punk), but that doesn't make it "GenX" music.

But you're right, they are thoroughly a product of '90s Gen-X culture.

Yeah, Doom, Quake, Duke et al are like '90s GenX culture personified for me. Millennials' era (and this is sort of in the name) is ca. 2000 and afterwards, and gaming had already shifted to something else by quite a bit by then.