• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Boomer shooter is a moniker to try to be cute with language. Because these shooters go “Boom”.

    Fuck that noise. Call it a Classic Doom-like.

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Nah, Genres being named after the first game that does it is pretty uninspired. It almost makes it sound like players can’t articulate what makes the game interesting.

    • legion@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Call it a Classic Doom-like.

      That’s basically reverting back to calling games “DOOM clones”.

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        1 year ago

        That’s basically reverting back to calling games “DOOM clones”.

        Calling something like Amid Evil with its spectacular map architecture a mere Doom clone does it a disservice, though, because Doom closes were basically flat and had 90° walls. Descent and Quake 1 aren’t clones of Doom either.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Fuck that noise. Call it a Classic Doom-like.

      Except that other than a few GZDoom-based games, Dusk and such have more in common with Quake than Doom, being fully 3D.

    • Alteon@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      But then the media post won’t be totes edgy and get people to click on it…