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OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre (www.inverse.com)
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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] 7 points 2 years ago

Call of Duty and Battlefield currently define the FPS genre, signaling a trend towards realism

What version of reality does this author live in, anyway?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I assume by "realism" they're talking about setting, not that those games are simulations of what it's like to get shot at.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree, those are very arcade-y, but in relative terms they do aim for realism. ARMA obviously isnt an option for people that want a fun 20 minute game and alternatives like Destiny aim for far less realism. In the range of "very realistic" to "completely absurdly impossible", CoD and Battlefield are more to the left.

Edit: ugh, just had to think of the endless "realism" debates when battlefield V came out and people insisted women characters were breaking the "immersion".

this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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