cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ninja/post/10393
“Boomer shooter” is the latest term to follow the likes of “Roguelike” or “Soulslike” in the realm of hyperspecific gaming subgenres. It applies to first-person shooters that intentionally harken back to the classic PC games of the late ‘90s like Doom and Quake.
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That is because they ARE annoying, pointlessly insulting, and do not actually track with the age group it is referencing.
Terms are not magically legitimized just because they sort of rhyme. It is stupid.
A more accurate term would be X Shooter, or even Shooter eXtreme (since that’s totally how stuff was advertised to my generation). A boomer wouldn’t even be able to play the game.
I grew up seeing it referred to just FPS or early FPS. First-person shooter is the best term, it is descriptive and sets it apart from the many other genres of shooting games, like side-scroller or third-person.
Seriously, if you want to give the moniker of boomer shooter to something, give it to Asteroids.
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Did this even come from Twitch? People outside of Twitch use the word “boomer”.
No idea, I am not part of any of that. Seems like that has always been a good decision.
As a decidely non-boomer who grew up playing those original FPSs, I find it aggravating too, but it’s a pretty established term at this point.