Comment

Comment on What would a 3rd person shooter equivalent be to "Boomer Shooters"

As a side question, I am a late GenX-er, essentially a Xennial, and I was a teenager when Doom was released in 1993, so surely young GenX was the target market, and the games themselves were probably written by older GenX-ers.

Why then, are these FPS games referred to as Boomer Shooters?

source

Sort:hotnew top

Nihilore@quokk.au ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Because Gen X get forgotten about

source
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Gun go boom

source
- Quicky@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah I wondered that, but they do that in all FPS games.
  
  source
  - Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    True enough, although I feel the direction towards gunplay is still boomier.
    
    Like, when I think of a modern FPS I think of having a limited weapon loadout with realistic handling and ADS mechanics, being able to sprint for short periods from cover to cover before getting winded, and if you get hurt you just have to wait it out for a few seconds
    
    When I think Boomer Shooter I think of explosions and screen shake, guns are probably cartoonishly ridiculous, red barrels are everywhere, moving fast all the time while blasting heavy metal. Things like chainsaw limbs, dual-wield rocket launchers, or a Super Shotgun that’s also a grenade launcher are all things I wouldn’t bat an eye at except to say “That’s fuckin’ awesome”
    
    Realistically though, the origin of the term is probably generational. It appears around the same time people started saying “ok boomer” as an insult, and anybody who has used the phrase knows that it’s way funnier if you hit a gen-x or millenial with it - especially if they get offended. So then using Boomer Shooter to describe the shooters of Generation X still applies when you look at it that way: it’s not accurate to the etymology of the name, but it is accurate to its common parlance
    
    source
HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I feel like about the time of doom2 is where they really took off.

source
Linken@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Marketing.

I’m not a fan myself, but I get it that when someone says Boomer Shooter. They don’t mean “Shooter played by someone born between 1946–1964.” They mean “old and/or inspired by old 90s shooters i.e. DOOM and the subsequent DOOM clones.”

source