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[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago

It's so funny to be reminded of that period in the 90s where any first person game was described as a "DOOM clone", because DOOM itself was the first FPS that hugely took off.

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 week ago

Exactly, DOOM is DOOM. I remember hearing Wolfenstein calls a DOOM Clone too.

[-] Copernican@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Doom was a top down 2d shooter that just happened to be rendered in first person 3d.

[-] aequitas@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

It’s the first “person shooter”

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago
[-] aequitas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Nazis don’t count as people

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

In that sense Doom doesn’t count either

[-] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Ahoy always delivers.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

I thought it was a Christian game…

[-] naticus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

A parkour game without jumping?

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Doom & Captain Toad Treasure Tracker are in the same genre.

[-] naticus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

When the only choices are parkour or menus? Yes.

[-] TheSaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

[Hello] i don’t know, probably a shooter?

[-] ghostblackout@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I thought doom was just doom

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Hack and slash

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee -3 points 1 week ago

L take.

His worst video.

And an entire month too late for April Fools Day.

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.de -4 points 1 week ago

I have not seen the video but I think the correct modern answer nowadays is: "boomer shooter"

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

And what defines that genre?

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.de 2 points 1 week ago

"The term boomer shooter has a rather nebulous origin, and it likely started as a joke. Online pedants often point out that the original first-person shooters were developed by Gen-Xers like John Carmack (born 1970) and John Romero (born 1967), not Baby Boomers. However, "boomer shooter" uses the slang version of the term boomer, as a stand-in for any older person who is closed-minded and out of touch—so please, direct those complaints elsewhere."

Source: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/a-beginner-s-guide-to-boomer-shooters-and-how-they-inspire-new-school-fpses-like-witchfire

this post was submitted on 06 May 2024
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