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OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre (www.inverse.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

OG doom is so awesome. It basically fathered the FPS genre and speedrunning. There's still so much development and so much being done. Even artistically there's a lot happening. Have you seen myhouse.wad? That's just brilliant meta storytelling.

If you're not going to play myhouse.wad there's a great (albeit long) video essay on it.