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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

What "slop"? Stop using "slop" for everything now. Fucking kid.

It's only slop if it's bad. Otherwise it's core. In this case, Grampcore.

[–] Cellari@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I can assure you, a millennial or older wrote this list to rile up his fellows :D

[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Go for the eyes Boo, go for the eyes!

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

As soon as people started calling staples of the FPS genre "boomer shooters," I knew it was over.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That never made sense to me, since Boomers by and large weren't the ones playing games then.

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Boomer is shorthand for "old". Accuracy is not a requirement for a snappy genre title.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I guess it irks me because us Gen Xers were the first ones who really started playing video games, damn it! XD

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

You are the boomer now. Passes the mantle

[–] DODOKING38@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Oh I thought it was because stuff goes boom 😔

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is it called a "boomer shooter" because it has exploding barrels (or other things) you can shoot?

[–] krisevol@lemmus.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, it's because they are styled like old fps like doom or hertic

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

like doom

So, a doomer shooter?

[–] krisevol@lemmus.org 1 points 5 days ago

Boomer doomer shooter

If someone said this to me. I would be violent instantly.

[–] Jo4ted@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

Thanks for the game recommendations. Can't wait to try them out!

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago

Where is GoldenEye?

[–] Gust@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If these games were cars you could register them as classics in California. If you played any of them on release, you should probably stand up and stretch after you read this comment

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I remember playing the shareware OG doom after my not-uncle installed it on the family computer back in '94.

Yes, I'm basically dead now.

-Slop?

The distance between a new term’s invention, its ironic use, to it then being abused is getting shorter and shorter.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Besmerch my Fallout! How dare you! Good DAY sir!

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago
[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I ain't see no Heroes of Might and Magic 3 or Red Alert 2.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

I find it amusing that the old meme dude looks like Heihachi from Tekken 2, one of their examples of "slop".

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Age of Empires II shouldn't be on this list, unless it's exclusively talking about the old CD version.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 89 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Sorry but "slop" has been reserved for AI-relater insults only and I will not accept any dilution of that.

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

lmao this takes me back to the olden days of bait when you could just call something shit and people would argue.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

checks comments

Old days, huh?

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This contextless superficial review of classics denies the groundbreaking gameplay, art styles, storytelling, and direction that these games contributed to the artistic medium that is video games.

Like saying that The Godfather sucks becuase it is derivative and stuck in the time that it was created.

Alright I'm done yelling at clouds.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Alright I'm done yelling at clouds.

Plural? I only see one.

[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago

It's fine. 40 is the new 30, 30 is the new 20, and this kind of youthful confusion about time and aging is exactly what I'd expect from a 10 year old, so it tracks.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 25 points 1 week ago

I love my gramp games :(

[–] yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

2004 was 10 years ago right? Please?

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

I wasnt even born in 2004 and I will technically be able to legally adopt children in a few months

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
  • The 90s was about 10 years ago.
  • 2005 was about 10 years ago.
  • The 2010s was about 10 years ago.

I don't know why and I know it doesn't make sense, but apparently everything feels like it was about 10 years ago to my millennial brain.

Except 2020, that was like last year.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are they just mad that the best year in gaming was 1998. Games back then can still be played today they don't need a always online servers that will get shutdown. Every multiplayer game came with a free dedicated server and you could vote kick the cheaters or just people being assholes. Mods were everywhere and encouraged by the devs not lawsuits. Most games didn't come with with a rootkit pretending to be DRM.

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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS

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