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OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre (www.inverse.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Boomer shooter is a moniker to try to be cute with language. Because these shooters go "Boom".

Fuck that noise. Call it a Classic Doom-like.

[–] ramblinguy 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it should be called Doomer Shooter instead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then you're catering to the peppers

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