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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 11 points 1 year 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 8 points 1 year ago

Call it a Classic Doom-like.

That's basically reverting back to calling games "DOOM clones".

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Still better than boomer shooter

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year 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.

[-] Alteon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But then the media post won't be totes edgy and get people to click on it....

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Maybe it should be called Doomer Shooter instead

Then you're catering to the peppers

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