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Chasing the fragon (startrek.website)

submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

In my mind boomer shooter is more doom, blood, and quake, while UT and halo started the genre of more modernish arena shooters (though quake is probably more like a stepping stone between boomer and arena shooters so I consider it kind of both). and yeah the people who played those games in the early to mid 90s are at the very least in their mid 30s right now which is definitely boomer age by current internet definition of the word (nobody can ever even agree what age is technically what generation). Hell im in my early 20s and pretty sure kids born in 2010s would call me a boomer.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Hexen/heretic, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, those are original boomershooters.

RCTW, UT, Q3A are much later games. I specifically named RCTW and Red Faction because they released basically at the same time as Halo