I refuse to use “boomer shooter” it’s a dumb moniker that ignores the single most influential person involved in the genre: John Carmack.
He’s not a boomer, boomers didn’t make the genre, boomers don’t deserve the credit.
I don’t even think boomers played these when they were popular. At the time they were still way too scared of technology, think flashing 12:00 on the vcr jokes. These games are Gen-x/millennials childhood shooters.
My boomer father pirates doom for me as a child.
It’s a joke.
It caught on because boomer is a synonym for old and a synonym for loud / explosive etc.
the single most influential person involved in the genre: John Carmack.
Why would an engine developer be responsible game design? Are you confusing the Johns and meant John Romero?
And what would the genre be called then? John-like?
boomers didn’t make the genre, boomers don’t deserve the credit.
Neither did Castlevania in Metroidvania. Metroid founded the genre a decade before Symphony of the Night game out, it’s just that it was called a side-scrolling action adventure. That’s a bit long, though, so a shorthand was needed.
Personally, I would not mind “Retro FPS” but it’s just a label and in the end doesn’t really matter much.
John Romero also isn’t a boomer but the reason I believe Carmack was more influential is because he was the single most important person in overcoming technical challenges that allowed those games to run.
I would personally prefer Doomer shooters given Doom’s influence, especially its cultural influence.
It’s like what someone who wasn’t even born when these games were made would think. Just say no to “boomer shooter”. Classic FPS is fine. Old School FPS is fine. Anything but “boomer shooter”.
Too much cod/battlefield crap… People were sick of it and wanted to go back to the good old doom days.
Lots of indie titles did that, then doom 2016 propelled it into the mainstream again which gave the green light for even more games being made.
I love it! My favorite genre
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.
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.
Call it a Classic Doom-like.
That’s basically reverting back to calling games “DOOM clones”.
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.
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.
But then the media post won’t be totes edgy and get people to click on it…
Boom shooter, OG FPS, I don’t care what you call it. Just more please.
Wow, no mention of Prodeus
Amazing game
