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Steam adds "Boomer Shooter" as an official tag (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Are they seriously calling arena shooters that? I'm mad. This should be generation X shooter!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I dislike the term, but I think Arena shooter implies multiplayer whereas a Boomer Shooter is a modern, retro inspired single player shooter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

millenial shooter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I agree with the other guy, I've always thought of "arena shooter" as describing the multiplayer aspect. IMO, "boomer shooter" is a good way of distinguishing the game from being more similar to Quake's multiplayer vs singleplayer