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OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre (www.inverse.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe we should pull a Hacker News and start a culture of putting the year of articles in the title