Can we ban the use of the term “boomer-shooter” please?
OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre
Submitted 10 months ago by woelkchen@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.inverse.com/gaming/boomer-shooter-definition-origin
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CarlsIII@kbin.social 10 months ago
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Boomer shooter is a moniker to try to be cute with language. Because these shooters go “Boom”.
Fuck that noise. Call it a Classic Doom-like.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nah, Genres being named after the first game that does it is pretty uninspired. It almost makes it sound like players can’t articulate what makes the game interesting.
legion@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Call it a Classic Doom-like.
That’s basically reverting back to calling games “DOOM clones”.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s basically reverting back to calling games “DOOM clones”.
Calling something like Amid Evil with its spectacular map architecture a mere Doom clone does it a disservice, though, because Doom closes were basically flat and had 90° walls. Descent and Quake 1 aren’t clones of Doom either.
CarlsIII@kbin.social 10 months ago
Still better than boomer shooter
woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fuck that noise. Call it a Classic Doom-like.
Except that other than a few GZDoom-based games, Dusk and such have more in common with Quake than Doom, being fully 3D.
Alteon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But then the media post won’t be totes edgy and get people to click on it…
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Maybe it should be called Doomer Shooter instead
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Then you’re catering to the peppers
Atralyx@kbin.social 10 months ago
It's silly to even bring generations into this or most topics, just another politically driven divider in order to down one group of people and boost another's ego. In most scenario's this is the case anyway, yeah silly and childish.
thattysonguy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dude it’s just a funny name that rhymes, get over yourself.
Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I really don’t get the hate over the term.
It was ok to use “Boomer” as an euphemism to call someone old, but make it about games that often don’t take themselves seriously and are a throwback to when gaming started to grow massively, and it sucks?
_sideffect@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Too much cod/battlefield crap… People were sick of it and wanted to go back to the good old doom days.
Lots of indie titles did that, then doom 2016 propelled it into the mainstream again which gave the green light for even more games being made.
I love it! My favorite genre
NinjaYeti76@mastodon.social 10 months ago
@woelkchen it would be nice if people stopped conflating Gen X with boomers because we want nothing to do with them. If it's a joke, it's not funny to me. We dislike boomers as much as every other generation after them. Nobody gives a shit about GenX, I get it, but could you please do us the favor of not conflating us with boomers?
woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
could you please do us the favor of not conflating us with boomers?
I? I did not write the article. I just found it interesting and crossposted it here and I don’t care what others use as a shorthand for fast-paced, pixelated FPS games.
Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Boom shooter, OG FPS, I don’t care what you call it. Just more please.
2tone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wow, no mention of Prodeus
_sideffect@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Amazing game
Infinity187@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Lol, boomer shooter…wtf
dingus182@endlesstalk.org 10 months ago
“Admittedly, most boomer shooter fans are likely Gen-Xers and Millennials, but they’re still co-opting the term in a sarcastic but positive way that conveys the old-school nature of this niche genre.”
TLDR: Ignorant statement by ignorant generation. Maybe they could do better with JAVA.
s_s@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Java programming language not even based on dem beans WTFolio?
Cypher@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I refuse to use “boomer shooter” it’s a dumb moniker that ignores the single most influential person involved in the genre: John Carmack.
He’s not a boomer, boomers didn’t make the genre, boomers don’t deserve the credit.
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.
Phegan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My boomer father pirates doom for me as a child.
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.
sndmn@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Try harder, it hasn’t caught on.
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.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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?
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.
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.
CarlsIII@kbin.social 10 months ago
“Metroidvania” is a bad term too
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”.