OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre

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OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre
inverse.com

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.

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Note the date of the article: October 2021.

I didn’t realize that made it irrelevant. Especially when I’m using it to lead in to three other articles that are all based on that article, and one of the games that falls in the class of this article has been released today.

Maybe we should pull a Hacker News and start a culture of putting the year of articles in the title