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

• Quicky@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah I wondered that, but they do that in all FPS games.

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  • 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

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