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OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre (www.inverse.com)
submitted 2 years ago by MrEUser@lemmy.ninja to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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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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[–] MrEUser@lemmy.ninja 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope that genre is the next to return. I think that people are mostly split between warfare simulators and these older shooters. On the one hand you have a heavy tactical simulation, and on the other you have a fast paced, low development overhead game that costs 25% of what the AAA warfare simulator runs. Arena shooters are in the middle, and most people that play them just jump up to warfare simulators. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying it’s hard to find enough people that didn’t go one way or the other to make arena game development worth it.

[–] Percy@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Then there's tf2 the middle group youre looking for