henke on 11/4/2021 at 07:48
ok boomer
PigLick on 11/4/2021 at 08:21
Judge Reinhold
Jason Moyer on 11/4/2021 at 12:29
I kinda hate the grouping of all 90's style shooters into one genre, because from like 93 or whatever until 04 or 05 every year or two the new FPS games tended to play quite differently. Having been on a big kick of replaying them for the past year or two, I feel like there's a pretty big difference between the way each of the classics played, and simply calling something a "boomer shooter" doesn't tell me which style it is.
WingedKagouti on 11/4/2021 at 12:40
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
I kinda hate the grouping of all 90's style shooters into one genre, because from like 93 or whatever until 04 or 05 every year or two the new FPS games tended to play quite differently. Having been on a big kick of replaying them for the past year or two, I feel like there's a pretty big difference between the way each of the classics played, and simply calling something a "boomer shooter" doesn't tell me which style it is.
Pretty much.
And while there are similarities between eg. Doom, Duke3D, Quake and Unreal, they are all quite different from each other in how they play and not just on an engine based level.
Anarchic Fox on 11/4/2021 at 16:21
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
I kinda hate the grouping of all 90's style shooters into one genre, because from like 93 or whatever until 04 or 05 every year or two the new FPS games tended to play quite differently. Having been on a big kick of replaying them for the past year or two, I feel like there's a pretty big difference between the way each of the classics played, and simply calling something a "boomer shooter" doesn't tell me which style it is.
That's one of the reasons why classic FPS games are so important: they span a variety of potential genres. Sadly only one survived in the AAA realm (the Half-Life narrative shooter), but the recent resurgence has been exploring those other paths.
Anyway, "boomer shooter" is wordplay. It's "boomer" because the genre is old and because things go boom. Pedants do not control nomenclature, and the world is a better place for it.
demagogue on 11/4/2021 at 17:47
That said the actual tropes at the center of this entire thing as a thing, the only thing anyone can even be talking about if they're talking about anything here, are GenX to their core -- everything is "to the extreme", somebody or something has to be your bitch (but not yet your сука блять), levels are designed for people to literally draw out a map with a pencil to find their way around, the easter eggs, the aesthetic, the color design, the chiptune melodies... if you don't understand GenX then you don't understand what these games are ... or whatever, words have no meaning.
Edit: I guess I should qualify what I mean. The name makes sense from a Zoomer perspective. It's pre-millenium FPS that old people like, and it has "boom" in it & the games go boom... All that's fine, whatever. I don't really care about what they call it. But if we're going to talk about what the games actually are, then they're all GenX tropes.
But all that aside, it is wild that Boomer is getting hitched to anyone over I guess 30. Boomer tropes are like rolling a wheel with a stick, Far Side glasses, seeing a television set for the first time bigger the size of an oven with a screen the size of your hand, picking up a landline phone and you're talking to a person that asks what number you're calling and you say something like Transylvania 6-5000, knowing someone that's installed a bomb shelter ... I mean it's so superlatively detached from our reality. Just to put it in perspective, the Xoomer line, between Boomers & GenX, is John Travolta in bell bottoms dancing to disco... And the disco era itself seems like an eternity ago -- to not even get to the fact that it'd be bizarre to think what someone could possibly mean by disco FPS (recent popular Disco-themed video games aside) -- and that's already a sub-generation, what feels like an eternity in itself, after Boomers. Disco. It's weird the sense of time and place we find ourselves in.
Yakoob on 11/4/2021 at 19:24
And we don't have any millennial shooters because we can't afford the bullets.
(Am I doing this right?)
Anarchic Fox on 23/4/2021 at 05:18
A tangent. How in the world did (
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC21uZkfXpT8rPY-gPgMiCwA) Civvie 11 become so influential so fast? He gets shoutouts in
every new boomer shooter. Sure, his videos are solid, funny and intelligent, and he comes closer than anyone else to The Spoony One at his prime. But he's only been putting out videos for three years!
DarkForge on 24/4/2021 at 11:37
Quote Posted by Jashin
Boomer = old.
Oh, is
that what it is?
Every time I saw/heard someone say "OK boomer", I genuinely had no idea what they meant and I could never be assed to look it up.
Now I know, I guess. Thanks.
Nameless Voice on 24/4/2021 at 12:26
It's kind of been said already in this thread, but "Boomer" originally refers to people from the Baby Boomer generation - people who were born between 1946 and 1964. But it's kind of been co-opted to just mean "older person" at this point, especially as time marches on and 1964 becomes increasingly in the past.