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I agree I just wish the genre had a different name. Turbo Overkill is basically Doom Eternal but better and isn't really all that retro, and Ultrakill has nothing to do with old school shooters. Half Life isn't a boomer shooter even though it was made at the same time as boomer shooters. The genre is more than being a throwback. The tropes are kind of funny though, like every single one of these games set in the future has a sandevistan timeslow ability. I said it in the other thread but I highly recommend The Citadel, it's the coolest first person shooter I've played recently.

>>37138
First person shooter, or "twitch shooter" if you must.
"boomershooter" is a byname that got out of control. It is not a genre.
>the citadel
Isn't that thinly veiled gore porn?

>>37139
I don't know, the creator says it's not meant to be gore porn or inspired by guro but it certainly has gore and porn. If you've played any other game of this type the actual content is not going to be shocking for you. In general the atmosphere is extremely bleak. Half the bosses barely even fight you and you just sort of kill them whilst somber music plays. It's one of the best FPS games I've played though.

>>37140
Anime girls do absolutely nothing for me, when they are not actively repellent. That is to say, I am not seeing the appeal of this game beyond aesthetics (that are not for me). What am I missing?

>>37141
The gameplay and atmosphere. Look you can pirate it and be playing in minutes, it's not much of an investment.

hope this becomes a reddit take

Are boomer shooters the successors to run 'n' gun games? Because they share quite a lot of similarities honestly. Both rely on fast movement, good aiming, insane larger-than-life bosses, bizarre over-the-top guns and lots of weapon pickups scattered around the level. Some run 'n' gun games even have secrets, although they don't require you to pick up keys or solve puzzles, that's pretty unique to boomer shooters.
>>37139
>First person shooter
This is a broader genre, not the actual subgenre. It's like calling run 'n' gun games shmups: sure, you're technically correct, but Contra is not the same thing as Gradius, they're totally different. Run 'n' gun games are closer to boomer shooters than they are to other shmups. The alternative names for boomer shooters are "retro shooters" and "old-school shooters." Which is confusing since you also shoot at enemies in shmups but those genre names were always kinda stupid, I think a more accurate name would be "retro FPS" and a proper classification would put both FPS and sidescrolling shooters under the shmup label. But alas.