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by beebeepka 960 days ago
Frankly, they should have pulled the plug years ago. The game has been dead for years. I try to watch every QPL grand final and it has been a borefest. Most exciting moment was the million dollar tournament. Newcomer beating Vo0 in spectacular manner.

StarCraft, which MS also owns these days, at least had traction for about a decade. Quake Champions was a bad game and it failed immediately. Maybe NS could finance proper Quake and StarCraft games with their infinite cash
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2c2c2c 960 days ago
it's a genre issue. these types of games will never be popular to most people given the alternatives now available
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pixelpoet 960 days ago
Agreed, and people (presumably under 20) even call them "Boomer shooters" :( I get pretty upset about that, especially considering how unbearably Fisher Price Fortnite and Valorant etc look, to say nothing of their completely lacking the hardcore, balls-to-the-wall fast aiming, prediction and spatial planning.

It takes the most difficult mechanical aspects of Counterstrike and makes it 10x faster; apparently "kids these days" have no appetite for the challenge.

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kderbe 960 days ago
John Romero wants you to feel okay about the term "boomer shooter". [1]

Pull quote:

"The funny thing about boomers, it doesn’t even matter because for people who made up the term boomer shooter, anyone who’s old as a boomer, boomers are actually the kids of World War Two vets.

"That’s my mom. My mom is 20 years older than I am. She’s actually a boomer. So, boomers are not typically developing games.

"It’s funny. It’s a funny name. And I usually say it is a boomer shooter. It’s got a shotgun in it. It makes a big boom sound and you’re shooting. it doesn’t bug me. It’s really like you’re trying to nail the aesthetics of the style and that’s like that’s a phrase that kind of says what you need to know."

[1] from https://howtomarketagame.com/2023/09/25/john-romero-on-his-b... and HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37649594

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beebeepka 960 days ago
I am old and don't get upset. Some of the best games over the last few years are Boomer Shooters. My favourite do far is Turbo Overkill - double jump and crazy air control right from the start. Plays better than Doom
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