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OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre (www.inverse.com)
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Games like 'Dusk', 'Amid Evil', and 'Into the Pit' are shining examples of a new FPS subgenre: the "boomer shooter" inspired by games like 'Doom' and 'Quake'.

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

Fucking hell this is super weird. I was going through my comments history, and one of them was "what's a boomer shooter?"in reply to someone who mentioned the term a few weeks ago.

Since it wasn't replied I looked it up like a minute ago, and came across this very article.

The very first thread I clicked on after I came back to my feed was this one :0