Boomer Shooter is now a tag on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Boomer Shooter

It was an esoteric gaming term for any doom-like but now there's so many it's a real tag.

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Elon_SUSk COOL/NlGGA 10mo ago #5696113 Edited 10mo ago

Soulsike, which has no real definition, is also a tag on Steam, same with "immersive sim" and Metroidvania (Castlevania wasn't like Metroid until SOTN, the correct term should be "Metroidlike"). Also the correct term should be "retro shooter"

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syscoshill re/heat Rdrama's official Sysco® rep! Ask me about Sysco® Elon_SUSk 10mo ago #5698017

I wanted to post a snarky, pedantic explanation of why Castlevania added distinctive qualities to the mix -- making "Metroidvania" a better term -- but I'm coming up empty.

I think you're right.

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Elon_SUSk COOL/NlGGA syscoshill 10mo ago #5698777

Technically Metroid wasn't even the first metroidvania, with Brain Breaker and Xandu coming out in 1985, though Jet Set Willy came out in 1984, leading some to dub the genre "willyvania".

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Elon_SUSk 10mo ago #5697002

Words are basically pointless. We know what souls is and we know what a souls clone feels like but it has no definition. Same thing with what is a woman.