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Boomer Shooters
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A community about boomer shooters, a type of old-school FPS games before Half-Life revolutionized the genre. Boomer shooters have emphasis on shooting and sometimes traversing mechanics, are light or devoid of cutscenes, and the fun of making things go boom takes precedence over story. The name originates from a tongue in cheek description of the 2018 game Dusk and since stuck as a shorthand for the type of FPS.
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Half-Life is not a boomer shooter.
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I cannot over state what a revolution in gaming playing Doom for the first time was.
The only other things that come close were GTA III, Mario 64, and Ocarina of Time
Well, Wolfenstein 3D came out a little more than a year before the original Doom. Wolfenstein 3D was the groundbreaking FPS. Doom certainly extended on Wolfenstein 3D, but Wolfenstein 3D was the first.
I'd argue that GoldenEye was as big if not bigger for the future of gaming than either of the other N64 titles.