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Turn Boomer Shooters up to 11 in 2023 (lemmy.ninja)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MrEUser@lemmy.ninja to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ninja/post/14972

Yesterday I got lots of questions asking “I used to play (X) are there any current generation Boomer Shooters like it?” I wrote this article to answer many of those questions.

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[–] SoNick@readit.buzz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're generally called Arena Shooters, this new term is annoying

[–] MrEUser@lemmy.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

No.

An arena shooter occurs in… an arena. Arena shooters are multiplayer.

Quake was single player and not in an arena. Quake II was single player and not in an arena. Same with Heretic, Helen, Duke Nukem, Serious Sam…. And modern games like Boltgun, Forgive me Father, Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, Deadlink, Trepang^2… No, not one of these is an Arena Shooter.