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Hello everyone! I am back after all these years. Thanks to Phoenix for approving my account. I have tried registering again in past 1-2 years or so (even tried using two different usernames) but for some reason my account wasn't approved back then.

Anyway, I feel sorry for my behavior in the early to mid 2010s, because I was a stupid teen/young adult and kept Phoenix busy with many questions unrelated to Generations Arena when sending PMs. Then I left the forum twice for various reasons but now I came back and I will not leave again. I will try to participate in some topics and be a somewhat active member.

I will continue following the progress of Generations Arena because this was my main reason why I registered the forums initially back in 2010 and I am glad to see the mod is still alive and getting a lot of cool status updates.

Cheers!

I liked them. I honestly was never into the original quake 2 campaign to the point where i never actually finished it. It always felt a little sloggy because i had to go back in forth constantly in extremely samey environments, but the N64 maps were clean and to the point. Now i totally love the new levels, the ability to make larger maps with an appropriate amounts of enemies  totally changes the game for me. That was kind of my problem with Quake 1 too i didn't care for the "we can't have the same number of enemies with killing the users system so we're just going to make the enemies that are here really spongy" thing didn't work for me at all. But that's the benefit of having a game stay active for so long, the level design can evolve with the hardware.

I did.  I had played an emulated version a while back, so this was my second time through.

Did anyone else play through the N64 levels?

it just rhymes thats all

I never understood the whole "Boomer Shooter" phrase. It's not even intended as an insult, and covers everything from Wolfenstein 3D to Quake 2 and even beyond, depending on who you ask.

It makes no sense.

I was kind of making fun of the absurdity of the labels.  Like the whole "Boomer" thing.  Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964.  Most people using the "Boomer" label as an age insult are aiming it at Gen X'ers.  They say "Boomer Shooter" for games like Doom and Quake.  Sorry kids, the only Boomer Shooters were Korea and Vietnam.

well to clarify age wise i was thinking more of junior millennials than zoomers, people who started in working in earnest around 2008-2010 

You're both right to a degree.  It's not as simple as "All Zoomers are Twats" or "All Boomers Are Dull", as the malcontents of society would want people to think.  Nobody has to take a "side" on this.  There's plenty of toxicity in the gaming world without us turning on each other.  That's what the trolls would want us to do to "prove they're right".

I don't think we are referring to the same people. You think I'm talking about people genuinely concerned with real bigotry and I'm not . I'm referring to smug, malignant narcissists who make frivolous character attacks and false accusations of bigotry because they are drunk on an unearned sense of righteousness. I don't appreciate the stereotyping of gamers that way, i think it's mostly untrue and unfair i don't think the outrage from faux progressive game developers to be at all genuine, i think they are just lashing out at a consumer base that are rightfully disappointed by an increasingly disappointing product. You don't need to take it personally i didn't know you were on the cool kids when we started this.