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Steam adds "Boomer Shooter" as an official tag (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 11 months ago by testeronious to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I love the term. It’s funny, unique, and you know exactly what they’re talking about.

[–] LeadEyes 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I always preferred the term "Arena Shooter" but it may have more specific meaning than any game that vaguely has elements popular in fps games of the 90s that I think "Boomer Shooter" is usually trying to communicate.

[–] Chobbes 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean… I wouldn’t really say Doom or Duke Nukem or whatever were arena shooters, though? Something like Quake 3 certainly is, but I feel like anything that vaguely has a map that you progress through instead of having a round of a fixed length / kill count in a smaller space doesn’t scream “arena shooter” to me.

[–] LeadEyes 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Doom had multiplayer over lan that I would say fits in that definition. For me personally arena shooters are more about movement speed and how weapons/health are managed as power ups to be found and managed as a recourses. I don't consider multiplayer to be a requirement for the genre basically.

[–] Chobbes 1 points 11 months ago

Doom multiplayer is kind of arena shooter, I’ll agree. Something like Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament fits the term much better to me. Genres are pretty arbitrary, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had to look it up because I thought it was about "making boom and shoot".

Also it's a bit weird because I don't know any boomer who played a shooter. Actually I don't think I know any boomer who played video games, others than mobile word games.

The only people I know who played shooters in the 90's were Gen X kids like me.

Anyway, I guess I'm a grumpy old man now but it's a bit annoying that "boomer" has become synonym with "old people" and "millennial" with young people, while Gen X are close to retirement and millennials are clearly no longer young.

[–] replicat 1 points 11 months ago

You guys get to retire?