Boomer Shooter?

[Xhanth Da Klown]

Who came up with the idea to sell older and retro shooter game as boomer? how is that going to sell more game lol. Alot of the Boomer games are not even old. What a derogatory way to title a genre of games

[Princess Luna]

Are you from the game marketng team? Sounds like you want to advertise the game

[WorldofShadows]

Someone who thought it's funny. Same ppl that reguarly use those nonsense generation terms for specific age groups, mostly to mock them.
Just astrology for even more stupid ppl.

[zirkustier]

At least it's more imaginative than naming a genre after the most popular first title and then adding a “ ...-like” to it. Souls-like, Rogue-like...

And the term “4X” was just a stupid joke and was then adopted.

As long as people know what it means, it doesn't really matter.

[EliteEndermanzz]

What games are you talking about, I have never seen any advertised as that

[Start_Running]

Początkowo opublikowane przez zirkustier:

At least it's more imaginative than naming a genre after the most popular first title and then adding a “ ...-like” to it. Souls-like, Rogue-like...

And the term “4X” was just a stupid joke and was then adopted.

As long as people know what it means, it doesn't really matter.

Well back in the day wecalled them clones.

Doom clone,
Civ-CLone
Mario-Clone
Quest-Clone
Ultima-CLone

[WorldofShadows]

Początkowo opublikowane przez EliteEndermanzz:

What games are you talking about, I have never seen any advertised as that

Take Nightmare Reaper as an example:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1051690/Nightmare_Reaper/

Really great game btw.

[EliteEndermanzz]

Początkowo opublikowane przez WorldofShadows:

Początkowo opublikowane przez EliteEndermanzz:

What games are you talking about, I have never seen any advertised as that

Take Nightmare Reaper as an example:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1051690/Nightmare_Reaper/

Really great game btw.

AAh I see, tags are user defined of course (I only get the third and first person shooter genres)

[xBCxRangers]

Being a boomer myself, i would consider "boomer games", the PS2 era and prior. But i've seen these 35 plus year old COD Hate Tubers called "boomers".

It's sort of a name for anything mid age or older, including games i suppose.

[ReBoot]

Kinda-sorta makes sense in a twisted way: I like things going boom in a shooter and this kind of games is all about making things going boom.

[rawWwRrr]

Kind of wish Doom Like or Quake Like or something similar would replace the category in the same vein that we have Souls Like or Rogue Like these days.

[wesnef]

As I understand it, it has nothing to do with the actual "boomer' generation, it's just silly modern internet slang for "retro/classic/90's" shooters. Doom/Quake clones.

[Start_Running]

Początkowo opublikowane przez ReBoot:

Kinda-sorta makes sense in a twisted way: I like things going boom in a shooter and this kind of games is all about making things going boom.

And Boomer Shooters are typically the sort of games where you can often use a rocket launcher as your primary weapon.

I suppose another name for them would be 'twitch shooters'

[Crazy Tiger]

It's just a name for it. Don't make more of it.

[sfnhltb]

Początkowo opublikowane przez wesnef:

As I understand it, it has nothing to do with the actual "boomer' generation, it's just silly modern internet slang for "retro/classic/90's" shooters. Doom/Quake clones.

So essentially it would be Gen-X shooter I guess, but that isn't very snappy.

[Chika Ogiue]

Początkowo opublikowane przez sfnhltb:

So essentially it would be Gen-X shooter I guess, but that isn't very snappy.

Gen-X shooter is a highly forgettable name. Which is fitting, seeing how Gen-X is so often overlooked and forgotten.