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

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“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] 1 points 2 years ago

my brother is a young boomer and not many of his gen played video games. This should likely be XerShooter or something.

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