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

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• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Max payne

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Millennial online battle arena.

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• Quicky@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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?

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  • Nihilore@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because Gen X get forgotten about

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  • Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gun go boom

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    • Quicky@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel like about the time of doom2 is where they really took off.

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  • 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.”

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  • Playstation 1: Syphon Filter
  • Nintendo 64: Jet Force Gemini

  Those are third person shooters. But it depends on what you mean by “Boomer” and “stylized”. The way you frame it, its more like a clone of DOOM. I am not aware of a one or two most influential third person shooters that defined all other, and created a clone that played very similar to it. So I don’t think there is anything like that for third person shooters.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dang. I thought it’d be a game about class warfare.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tomb Raider would be my guess.

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t call Tomb Raider a shooter.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not only was it a shooter, it had some of the coolest dual wielding gun mechanics for a game even in modern times.

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• Kojichan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I only learned of the phrase “Boomer Shooter” the other day. I feel old because my old bread and butter is considered Boomer material…

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  • MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    don’t worry, it’s boomer as in lots of big explodey boom-booms not boomer as in old and out of touch 😁

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    • Kojichan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Really? Good grief. Really poor choice of wording, then. Thanks for confirming!

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• gridlock@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  GenX-ers of War?

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  • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cover shooters was the genre I thought of as being the equivalent of boomer shooters.

    You’ve got Gears, Uncharted, etc. that all are from a similar era and have a lot of similar elements. However I don’t know if they’re as homogenous as boomer shooters.

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• Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Would you consider Ratchet and Clank more of a platformer with gunplay or a TPS with jumping puzzles?

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  • jackod@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Surely by the time you get to Gladiator it would fit the category

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tomb Raider

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• NihilSineNefas@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you want to ruin your life and sink a couple thousand hours into something, Warframe is free, has a decent backstory and a few bangers on the soundtrack.

  The regular gameplay loop boils down to “Be a ninja with space magic, build weapons and biomechanical suits of armour out of blueprints that RNG drop from different enemies to customise powers/damage types, level up weapons to rank up so you can get bigger and better weapons, save the solar system with the power of friendship and this gun I found.”

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• mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I never played but I immediately think of Sunset Overdrive.

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• VivianRixia@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The FPS genre slowly became more realistic and methodical over the years, so the Boomer Shooter is a callback to its origins of fast paced unrealistic frantic action. You have a lot of health and a lot of guns and there are swarms of enemies that you meet face to face.

  TPS are things like Last of Us, Resident Evil 4, Uncharted, Tomb Raider.

  A stylized version of this would be something like Control, Returnal, Mass Effect.

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• _Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Vanquish? It’s a fast paced cover shooter from Platinum. It’s closer to a CAG, kinda like Ultrakill.

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• who@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Silent Gen TPS.

  It’s equivalent because third-person shooters didn’t exist during the silent generation’s youth, just as first-person shooters didn’t exist during the boomer generation’s youth. The phrase “boomer shooter” is ignorant, nonsensical, and according to the people I’ve spoken to who actually made or played those early shooter games, a bit offensive. So I try not to use it.

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• DeadEndLink@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Duck Hunt

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