Galaxy brain: "hehe boomstick go boom"

133+.pk3@geocities.ytmnd.com Level 80 gamer... :
"Who cares. My ego isn't so delicate as to have my sensibilities offended by whatever the fuck you want to call it. If you think something like 'MyHouse.wad' is something that is for "bOoMeRs" (a.k.a. anyone old enough to know that it's called a "VCR," not a "VHS player") then you're the one missing out... not me."

I’m STEALING this and pretending I wrote it. You are a jeeneus and get all the interwebz points for the day!

“IDK why the OG FPS are now a considered subgenre”

I don’t know why people keep thinking, saying, and implying this. The OG shooters are not being called “boomer shooters.” Modern games based on them are. I don’t know why the confusion.

Doom (1993) NOT a boomer shooter. Quake (1996) NOT a boomer shooter. Boltgun (2023) IS a boomer shooter.

can you imagine kids today trying to play Myst or Riven?

One of my earliest memories is spontaneously picking up the phone to call a friend, hearing a bunch of modem screeching, then hearing my boomer dad cursing up a storm in the other room because I had probably just killed his Doom session. Some of the boomers were Dooming just fine! The younger boomers were only in their early 30s when it came out, it's not like they were too old to adopt new tech at the time.

• Rookie Level 1 Gamer: “They’re called boomer shooters because they’re old like baby boomers”
• Veteran Level 20 Gamer: “Baby boomers thought Doom was satanic, that’s a stupid term”
• Enlightened Level 60 Gamer: “They’re called boomer shooters because of the huge debt they owe to the original Doom modding scene and therefore “Boom”, one of the first limit-removing source ports”
• GigaChad Level 80 gamer: “Who cares. My ego isn’t so delicate as to have my sensibilities offended by whatever the fuck you want to call it. If you think something like ‘MyHouse.wad’ is something that is for “bOoMeRs” (a.k.a. anyone old enough to know that it’s called a “VCR,” not a “VHS player”) then you’re the one missing out… not me.” Credit to @smart_boy@beehaw.org and @133+.pk3@geocities.ytmnd.com

I thought it was a reference to the phrase 'Suck my boomstick' which I think came from Duke Nukem.

This is answered in the comments.

Back in the day we used to just call them "Doom Clones". If it wasn't for Doom (2016) we could have gone back to that.

Gen X: forgotten by our parents and everyone else

whatever

Looks like boomer is experiencing some semantic drift to mean 'old.'

Elder millenial here. Grew up on Doom and Quake.

The fact that we’re not talking about arena shooters would be a big reason.

I don't see why people really hate on Doom, for me (16) it's still a great game with tons of mods and also a great base game

I am 90% certain it was never meant to refer to the generation that played it, but to the over the top action.