They would be better called GenX shooters. Cheesy aaaand accurate!
bearly anyone who’s a boomer is playing these games or probs has ever played them short of seeing their kids boot it up. if anything these would be gen x shooters. People don’t seem to even know wtf a boomer is. boomer for gen z seems to = anyone over 40 lmao.
I had a good laugh when I noticed this tag on steam yesterday.
I think the reality is, “boomer” as a term is here to stay and a moving target: as gen x ages into 40+, they’ll become boomers. One day when gen Z becomes old, they’ll be called boomers. At least here, there’s a fun double meaning to the term. For me, I came into the Doom franchise at Doom 2, at an age where what I played was still very much influenced by my parents and friends’ parents. So yes, Gen X were the primary player base, but it’s not unfair to say the boomers often paid for the game and maybe sat down to a round or two of it. And given that, it might have been one of the last games they were able to sit down and enjoy. I don’t know if anyone else experienced something similar, but my dad in the last 20 years of his life or so really locked in on the 1997 MTG: Shandalar game, and despite several computer upgrades along the way was never interested in any of the newer MTG digital offerings, preferring the cards and UI and experience he was familiar with. And while similar with Doom that game was played by many Gen X and Millenials, I think those demographics mostly continued to follow the franchise through newer releases: but maybe not the boomers.
I think the reality is, “boomer” as a term is here to stay and a moving target: as gen x ages into 40+
This is a nitpick, but gen x moved into the 40+ age group long ago. As a gen Xer I’ll be in my 50’s later this year. 🤮
And yeah, doom is peak Gen X probably.
In fact, millennials have begun turning 40 already. Not everybody agrees on generation cutoffs, but I don’t think there’s anyone who considers someone born in 1984 to still be Gen X.
“boomer” as a term is here to stay and a moving target
Kind of like how “Millennial” for a while meant ‘teenager’ despite the oldest Millennial being 40.
Yup. I’m apparently a millennial to some people and a boomer to others. Go figure.
I wish this wasn’t the case. I’m im my 50s, my dad is in his 70s, we have a standing get together every week to play COD zombies. People sometimes look at me like I’m crazy when I bring it up, but we have so much fun. He’s played FPS probably more than I have. So many fathers and sons have lost their connections over the years, but as long as we can both pick up a controller, we are fucking some zombies up.
Yeah, boomer is shorthand for old person now. And these are games for old people. Because we’re old now.
Boomer became an insult for anyone vaguely older then zoomer. Millennials are also called boomers if they are out of touch as well. Then boomer just meant old. More importantly Boomer ends with er and so is more fun to say as Boomer Shooter over GenX shooter or old shooter of classic shooter.
But this comment has big Boomer energy according to zoomers
What was wrong with calling them doom clones? That’s what they were called until gen z made OK boomer a meme
Because Amid Evil, Cultic, etc. aren’t cloning Doom.
If you call the whole genre doom clones then that means Doom is a doom clone. Kind of like the problem with ‘Souls-like’ games. Also calling them clones somewhat diminishes the accomplishments and inmovations of the devs within the genre.
It happened with metroidvanias
And rogue-like, but maybe we’ve all accepted that it’s a bit broader than “just like Rogue” at this point.
I agree, I was providing a counter to their point rather than lamenting the fact!
I understand it to mean “heavily randomized”
It should be:
- permadeath
- randomized runs (maps and equipment)
- usually grid-based movement
The last seems to be an unpopular definition though.
I disagree, it’s informative.
Maybe Doom-like is better, since “clone” implies they didn’t add anything. It has worked really well for rogue-like, and souls-like has also evolved a bit to not just be “like dark souls,” but any game with a focus on hard boss fights.
Because most are quake clones, not doom clones
Quake was a doom clone
Boomer shooter sounds like a game where you have both guns and grenades.
Lol I thought the genre was called boomer shooter because you have an arsenal of guns that go boom while circle strafing and holding the mouse button.
I thought it was called “Boomer Shooter” because it let you shoot conservative old people.
Same, I guess I’m a boomer.
I love these sort of games, Painkiller is my fav
I hope you’ve seen the Zero Punctuation episode on Painkiller. It was the second positive review he ever gave, and caused the sales of the game to skyrocket temporarily.
I am pretty sure boomers are not FPS gamers.
They used to be, then they took an arrow to the knee.
Thank you for this chuckle hehe
My dad was a boomer and he absolutely loved Doom and Duke Nukem.
Weird. Considering us folk born in the early 80s got lumped with millennial. I was playing all the doom and doom clones in the library in middleschool.
Yup, I’m a later 80s millennial, but I’m the youngest of four and my oldest sibling is at the top end of gen x, so I played lots of 80s and 90s games because that’s what we had available (first consoles were an Atari and NES).
I played Doom as a kid and I played gzdoom as late as college with friends, it’s great fun! In fact, if someone mentions “Doom” in a conversation, I think of OG Doom, not 2016 Doom.
That’s really disappointing. Boomers did not make or play doom clones.
Yeah but “Xennial Shooter” doesn’t have the same ring to it
Why try calling it that? They’ve been just fine with thier category the last 30 years, why change it now?
How about “Doom-like”? That makes the most sense to me…
I call anyone younger than me a “coomer” and any unnecessarily complicated rougue fps is a “coomer shooter”. Does your game have a timer to purposely slow you down? Coomer game. I feel like the word “coomer” really captures the lifestyle and essence of today’s unintelligent and entitled kids.
Most boomer comment on Lemmy
Ok coomer
I’m gonna coom on your boom
Has anybody else noticed that boomer isn’t the correct generation for this nomenclature? It’s like people aren’t using words literally or something.
Yes. Did you read any of the comments before you posted yours? Lol
Christ, sarcasm really doesn’t fly on here does it.
Eh can’t win them all I guess
