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OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre (www.inverse.com)
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[โ€“] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years 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.