Re: FREE GAME: Classic Marathon Infinity

On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:12:10 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 8/24/2024 6:52 AM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:15:13 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
 
 

All the usual caveats apply; it's a boomer-shooter made in the
boomer-shooter era,

 
Tangential thought...  wonder who thought up the term "boomer
shooter"?  I've encountered very few baby boomers that were into
gaming. Gen X aged folks were the norm when early FPS shooters first
arrived on the scene.
 
I'm guessing a moron gen Z kiddie that thinks they have all the
answers thought that one up.

>
Maybe it's not related.  They have shooters that go boom?

Probably a bit of column A, a bit of column B.

Still, even if the nomenclature is not entirely accurate, I've no
problem calling those sorts of FPS games "Boomer shooters". It
differentiates it from run-of-the-mill first-person shooters and is a
better name than "Doom-clone".

Not to mention many (but definitely not all; Carmack, for instance,
wouldn't qualify) of the people who developed games from that era were
of the so-called "Baby Boom" generation.

And, as pointed out, there is a lot of 'boom' in these games. After
all, one facet of 'boomer shooters' is that high-explosive weaponry
can be used recklessly and in close proximity to the user. When you
have games where your hand-held rocket-launcher can fire multiple
missiles per shot, or where rocket-jumping is an ordinary method of
traversal, calling it a 'boomer shooter' isn't completely without
merit. ;-)