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Valve Makes "Boomer Shooter" An Official Genre On Steam (www.gamespot.com)
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[-] 4am@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah but “Xennial Shooter” doesn’t have the same ring to it

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

How about "Doom-like"? That makes the most sense to me...

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Why try calling it that? They've been just fine with thier category the last 30 years, why change it now?

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