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I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?

These games clearly took inspiration from 90s FPS games, which 👌, but they were played mostly by Gen Xers and Millenials, not Boomers. When games like Duke Nukem 3D or Quake were out, Boomers were what? 30 to 50 years old? I'm sure some of them played FPS games, but there is no way they were the majority.

Whenever I see the term Boomer Shooter, my mind goes to games like Shootout! for Magnavox Odyssey. Can't we call them something else, like Retro FPSes or something?

Anyway, rant over. Thank you for your time.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Lol try being a Roguelike fan.

You correctly tell people that Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is a Roguelike and they look at you like you've grown a second head.

Sometimes this stuff happens, and there's basically nothing you can do about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I hate how difficult it is to find games I like when it used to be so trivial.

2010: "I want to play another game like rogue"

"Ok try these 10 games which are all excellent, and then there's these 50 which stretch the definition but rhyme with it if you like"

2020: "I want to play a game like rogue"

"Here's a 3d looter shooter with multiplayer and 9 currencies for upgrades between short runs"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Major part of it is that some people differentiate hard between rogue-likes and lites, and others simply do not, and the two will never get along with each other. The thing being that if there are any type of permanent upgrade/unlock systems that makes the game easier the more you play, it is not like rogue, where instead of grinding for more max hp or dodge percentage, you "grind" knowledge and experience as a player.

Which means that there are very, very few actual roguelikes because upgrade systems are just so cool (tm) and every game obviously needs one. Or three.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does that make pixel dungeon an actual roguelike? Never played the original rogue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I believe it is a roguelike, yeah. Probably my favorite one too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I feel like a lot of people haven’t ever played Rogue and so struggle understand what Roguelike actually means. Fair call, it’s a very old game with essentially no graphics, but to understand the genre properly everyone needs to give it a go at least once in my opinion.

Side note; love me the whole Mystery Dungeon franchise. I still need to pick up the Shiren the Wanderer series.