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Valve Makes "Boomer Shooter" An Official Genre On Steam
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MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Would be a mistake since 95% of the Steam Library would show up.
VolticArchangel
Member
Oh wow, condescending much?
Just because we prefer a certain type of game design and stand by playing it for years, if not decades, and not participate in the zeitgeist of contemporary shooters, doesn't mean you can just run around naming a collective group of people in a patronizing way.
Imagine the internet outrage if the roles were reversed and a game like fortnite or cod was named and tagged "woke shooter". The entire internet will shit on Valve for publishing it, the devs and the players for promoting "tOxIc gAmEr CuLtUrE" and the journalists will be on full meltdown mode until it's removed.
Arena Shooter exists for a reason, it pretty much sums up the legacy game design archetype, in it's entirety, just with those two words. Why fix something that ain't broken?
Just because we prefer a certain type of game design and stand by playing it for years, if not decades, and not participate in the zeitgeist of contemporary shooters, doesn't mean you can just run around naming a collective group of people in a patronizing way.
Imagine the internet outrage if the roles were reversed and a game like fortnite or cod was named and tagged "woke shooter". The entire internet will shit on Valve for publishing it, the devs and the players for promoting "tOxIc gAmEr CuLtUrE" and the journalists will be on full meltdown mode until it's removed.
Arena Shooter exists for a reason, it pretty much sums up the legacy game design archetype, in it's entirety, just with those two words. Why fix something that ain't broken?
Sushi_Combo
Member
as a filthy millennial I find this offensive
i thought Arena shooters were for more multi-player fps like quake arena etc. I never heard of someone calling Doom 1 an arena shooter?
winjer
Gold Member
Arena shooter is not the same thing as a retro-shooter.
An arena shooter is a specific genre of a multiplayer FPS, set around an arena, with set rulesets and item positions.
What we are referring as a retro-shooter or boomer shooter, is a single player experience with retro inspired graphics, art-style and gameplay.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Sounds like meme genre more then anything. FPS is still an FPS.
bender
What time is it?
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Hudo
Member
Perfect filter!
Edgelord79
Gold Member
Cool. Not really accurate but whatever helps people filter.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
That was my thought the first time I heard it. I like the term, it’s kind of silly like “Metroidvania” and “Shmup”. I mean, the gaming industry has never been great at inventing genre names anyway. Might as well not fight colloquialisms.
It's a pun with layers. Because most of the games feature a certain staple of the genre.
*BOOM-ER SHOOTER* Do you get it now?
SportsFan581
Member
Of course people in their 30s and 40s were playing games in the 90s, however the audience for video games was a lot younger on average back then. I feel like the audience that initially defined these games was younger than that. But, I was quite young myself at the time and maybe I just didn't pay attention to what ancient people that old were doing.
Elysium44
Banned
Even when you find out you were completely wrong you still think you were right... ok.
Elysium44
Banned
Yep my parents are boomers and are useless with technology, they have no interest or aptitude for it. 'Boomer' is just being used as a general offensive term for anyone over 40 nowadays it seems.
delfrickintree
Banned
Poe's Law strikes again
diffusionx
Gold Member
People in this thread:
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
It makes it easier to find the FPSes that are actually fun, so that's neat.
JimRyanGOAT
Member
Look at all the boomers complaining
John Bilbo
Member
I checked the boomer shooter section in Steam and it seems to help me find new retro styled shooters so I find this addition worthwhile.
John Bilbo
Member
It's a pun with layers. Because most of the games feature a certain staple of the genre.
*BOOM-ER SHOOTER* Do you get it now?
IlGialloMondadori
Member
Boomers were 40s to 60s. Jesus, people. wtf.
ozz ex machina
Member
It's the sad side of 'gaf. They like to moan about other places being woke and crying. Then they whinge about anything asinine like this.
It's not an offensive term. It's already in the common lexicon for gamers, it makes perfect sense as a name. "Boomer" isn't literally referring to baby boomers is it guys. Chill the fuck out. It's better than "Old Skool Shooter". Also retro shooter doesn't work imo, it's too broad.
Boomers? As in baby boomers? No way that generation is in their 40s or 50s for that matter.
sankt-Antonio
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Aint no boomer playing those games back then or now.
Gp1
Member
I'm a 80's millennial and was playing this back in the early 90's so i simply don't care.
But something like "doom clone/old school shooters", "arena shooter" (anything resembling Q3/UT99) ""modern" shooter" (any heavily scripted campaign shooter post MoH Allied Assault, which has more than 20 years on its own) would make more sense.
It's strange to think that the last revolution in single player fps has been going on for over 20 years.
But something like "doom clone/old school shooters", "arena shooter" (anything resembling Q3/UT99) ""modern" shooter" (any heavily scripted campaign shooter post MoH Allied Assault, which has more than 20 years on its own) would make more sense.
It's strange to think that the last revolution in single player fps has been going on for over 20 years.
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Soodanim
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It's a term I refuse to acknowledge, and I will double down now that I've seen the tweet about someone doing it because they thought it was funny. Just like pronouncing gif as jif because the creator thinks it's funny is a retarded, so is this.
This term does nothing but highlight how fucking stupid, or at least misinformed, so many people are. Boomer is short for Baby Boomer, named for the post-war baby boom.
The people who gave rise to the misuse of Boomer are the fools on sites like Reddit that hear the word used in some sort of economic discussion and use it thinking they're smart, with the irony being that if they had a fucking brain in their nut they'd have googled the term before using it willy nilly, but perhaps I'm asking too much of the communities that are glued to the internet to think they might use it to understand what the words that come out of their mouths.
So no, I won't be using a shit name rooted in idiocy and amplified by some dude's shit sense of humour. Maybe if it was ignorant to how stupid and annoying it all is I wouldn't mind.
This term does nothing but highlight how fucking stupid, or at least misinformed, so many people are. Boomer is short for Baby Boomer, named for the post-war baby boom.
The people who gave rise to the misuse of Boomer are the fools on sites like Reddit that hear the word used in some sort of economic discussion and use it thinking they're smart, with the irony being that if they had a fucking brain in their nut they'd have googled the term before using it willy nilly, but perhaps I'm asking too much of the communities that are glued to the internet to think they might use it to understand what the words that come out of their mouths.
So no, I won't be using a shit name rooted in idiocy and amplified by some dude's shit sense of humour. Maybe if it was ignorant to how stupid and annoying it all is I wouldn't mind.
WitchHunter
Banned
ETA Gabe Newell with blue hair?
The Pleasure
Gold Member
That's where Genital Jousting went!
GnomeChimpsky
Member
What term will you use?
Soodanim
Member
Retro Shooter.
An fps that makes the choice to forego modern shooter design philosophies in favour of older design aka Doom, Quake, etc.
pennythoughts
Member
It's a descriptive term that's been in the PC space for years now and it's almost always used to describe a game positively. The Gaf vibes being a bit negative towards it is kind of strange.
poodaddy
Member
Wildebeest
Member
What is a boomer shooter anyway, I don't understand? These games are nothing like Doom or Quake and often seem to be more like Metroid Prime or something. Then you have ones inspired by Doom Eternal, Call of Juarez, and so on. Most are retro only in superficial graphical style.
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Hudo
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GAF hates video games. Which is why I am here!
Holammer
Member
They are first person shooters usually with a retro aesthetic & sound similar to games from 93-97. Feature health & armor pickups rather than regenerating health. 8 to 10+ wildly different weapons instead of 2 real guns. Focus on level exploration and keycards, with a map screen & hidden areas.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
People continuing to not understand the slang use of boomer cracks me up.
The irony being it makes you a boomer, boomers.
The irony being it makes you a boomer, boomers.
Neon Xenon
Member
I'll acknowledge that the term "Boomer Shooter" has become more commonly accepted over time just as much as I'll acknowledge that it also sounds inherently dumb. And yes, I get that it started as an in-joke.