OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre

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• Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I refuse to use “boomer shooter” it’s a dumb moniker that ignores the single most influential person involved in the genre: John Carmack.

  He’s not a boomer, boomers didn’t make the genre, boomers don’t deserve the credit.

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  • Its_Always_420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t even think boomers played these when they were popular. At the time they were still way too scared of technology, think flashing 12:00 on the vcr jokes. These games are Gen-x/millennials childhood shooters.

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    • Phegan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My boomer father pirates doom for me as a child.

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  • mephiska@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agreed. Carmack is Gen X.

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  • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a joke.

    It caught on because boomer is a synonym for old and a synonym for loud / explosive etc.

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    • sndmn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Try harder, it hasn’t caught on.

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  • Dukeofdummies@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ... man I never made that connection. I thought it was because there was never an explosion smaller than somebodies head. If it doesn't cause a boom it's a gun that shouldn't be in a boomer shooter.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the single most influential person involved in the genre: John Carmack.

    Why would an engine developer be responsible game design? Are you confusing the Johns and meant John Romero?

    And what would the genre be called then? John-like?

    boomers didn’t make the genre, boomers don’t deserve the credit.

    Neither did Castlevania in Metroidvania. Metroid founded the genre a decade before Symphony of the Night game out, it’s just that it was called a side-scrolling action adventure. That’s a bit long, though, so a shorthand was needed.

    Personally, I would not mind “Retro FPS” but it’s just a label and in the end doesn’t really matter much.

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    • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      John Romero also isn’t a boomer but the reason I believe Carmack was more influential is because he was the single most important person in overcoming technical challenges that allowed those games to run.

      I would personally prefer Doomer shooters given Doom’s influence, especially its cultural influence.

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    • CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Metroidvania” is a bad term too

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    • discusseded@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dude, if you think the game engine designer and programmer had nothing to do with the end result then you’re out of your mind. Romero did some design, play-tested, and wrote some utility applications for game development. He is not the star of Doom by a long shot. There were others, but Carmack was the music maker, the dreamer of the dreams at that company.

      You do know that symphony of the night is not the first Castlevania, right? The first Metroid and first Castlevania games both came out in 1986.

      Get some culture Van Winkle, you have been asleep for too long.

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• CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can we ban the use of the term “boomer-shooter” please?

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• Atralyx@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It's silly to even bring generations into this or most topics, just another politically driven divider in order to down one group of people and boost another's ego. In most scenario's this is the case anyway, yeah silly and childish.

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  • thattysonguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dude it’s just a funny name that rhymes, get over yourself.

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    • Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I really don’t get the hate over the term.

      It was ok to use “Boomer” as an euphemism to call someone old, but make it about games that often don’t take themselves seriously and are a throwback to when gaming started to grow massively, and it sucks?

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• NinjaYeti76@mastodon.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  @woelkchen it would be nice if people stopped conflating Gen X with boomers because we want nothing to do with them. If it's a joke, it's not funny to me. We dislike boomers as much as every other generation after them. Nobody gives a shit about GenX, I get it, but could you please do us the favor of not conflating us with boomers?

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    could you please do us the favor of not conflating us with boomers?

    I? I did not write the article. I just found it interesting and crossposted it here and I don’t care what others use as a shorthand for fast-paced, pixelated FPS games.

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• 2tone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wow, no mention of Prodeus

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• Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Boom shooter, OG FPS, I don’t care what you call it. Just more please.

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• Infinity187@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol, boomer shooter…wtf

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