Games like 'Dusk', 'Amid Evil', and 'Into the Pit' are shining examples of a new FPS subgenre: the "boomer shooter" inspired by games like 'Doom' and 'Quake'.

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.

  • socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    These are millenial shooters dangit, boomers were too old for doom. Gen X at most.

    More seriously though I just replayed the OG doom and it still slaps, nice to see some folks are trying to recapture that. I should check these out.

    • thekerker@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s my thought as well. The only game my boomer dad ever played on our old Windows 3.11 Acer PC was some golf game. It was my gen x future brother-in-law that introduced me to shooters like Doom and Quake.

    • SpaceCadet2000@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      Millennials? No way. The oldest millennials were 11 when Doom came out.

      It is most definitely a Gen X game. It has all the hallmarks of mid 90s GenX culture: unapologetically rebellious, anti-establishment, edgy and violent. The developers are also all oldish GenX-ers (Adrian Carmack, John Carmack, John Romero, Dave Taylor) or young Boomers (Sandy Petersen and Tom Hall)

      • beefcat@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        A lot of us older Millennials still grew up playing these games as they came out.

        But you’re right, they are thoroughly a product of '90s Gen-X culture.

        • SpaceCadet2000@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          A lot of us older Millennials still grew up playing these games as they came out.

          Of course. Especially the ones that came after Doom I guess. I listened to a lot of older music at the time too (like 80s new wave or 70s hard rock and punk), but that doesn’t make it “GenX” music.

          But you’re right, they are thoroughly a product of '90s Gen-X culture.

          Yeah, Doom, Quake, Duke et al are like ‘90s GenX culture personified for me. Millennials’ era (and this is sort of in the name) is ca. 2000 and afterwards, and gaming had already shifted to something else by quite a bit by then.

    • ScrumblesPAbernathy@readit.buzz
      0·
      1 year ago

      OG doom is so awesome. It basically fathered the FPS genre and speedrunning. There’s still so much development and so much being done. Even artistically there’s a lot happening. Have you seen myhouse.wad? That’s just brilliant meta storytelling.

      If you’re not going to play myhouse.wad there’s a great (albeit long) video essay on it.