• A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I agree with the other guy, I’ve always thought of “arena shooter” as describing the multiplayer aspect. IMO, “boomer shooter” is a good way of distinguishing the game from being more similar to Quake’s multiplayer vs singleplayer

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      10 months ago

      Arena shooter is descriptive of certain mechanics. Armor/weapons with tinted spawns on the map, usually some kind of bunny hopping, but that’s not mandatory, and often portals/verticality.

      I’m talking about quake, unreal, warsow, xonotic, etc…

      I think what you guys are on about are games like doom, Wolfenstein, Duke nukem and so on. Not so much quake but single player.