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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 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.