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

Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Its_Always_420@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t even think boomers played these when they were popular. At the time they were still way too scared of technology, think flashing 12:00 on the vcr jokes. These games are Gen-x/millennials childhood shooters.

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  • Phegan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My boomer father pirates doom for me as a child.

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• Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a joke.

  It caught on because boomer is a synonym for old and a synonym for loud / explosive etc.

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  • sndmn@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Try harder, it hasn’t caught on.

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    • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lol

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• Dukeofdummies@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ... man I never made that connection. I thought it was because there was never an explosion smaller than somebodies head. If it doesn't cause a boom it's a gun that shouldn't be in a boomer shooter.

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the single most influential person involved in the genre: John Carmack.

  Why would an engine developer be responsible game design? Are you confusing the Johns and meant John Romero?

  And what would the genre be called then? John-like?

  boomers didn’t make the genre, boomers don’t deserve the credit.

  Neither did Castlevania in Metroidvania. Metroid founded the genre a decade before Symphony of the Night game out, it’s just that it was called a side-scrolling action adventure. That’s a bit long, though, so a shorthand was needed.

  Personally, I would not mind “Retro FPS” but it’s just a label and in the end doesn’t really matter much.

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  • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    John Romero also isn’t a boomer but the reason I believe Carmack was more influential is because he was the single most important person in overcoming technical challenges that allowed those games to run.

    I would personally prefer Doomer shooters given Doom’s influence, especially its cultural influence.

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    • delitomatoes@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about…Doom Clones? Full circle there

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      • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’ll always be doom clones to me.

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      • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Eh it’s got to roll off the tongue if it’s going to stick

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  • CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Metroidvania” is a bad term too

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• MossBear@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s like what someone who wasn’t even born when these games were made would think. Just say no to “boomer shooter”. Classic FPS is fine. Old School FPS is fine. Anything but “boomer shooter”.

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