Comment on What would a 3rd person shooter equivalent be to "Boomer Shooters"
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 hours agoYou clearly misunderstood the question OP is asking. Doom is the granddaddy of “boomer shooters.” OP is asking what the granddaddy of TPS are, not what TPS games are similar to boomer shooters. 🤦♂️
Tomb Raider is not a boomer shooter for third person shooters. And surely not comparable to what DOOM did for shooters. You conflict Action Adventure with shooters. Clearly you misunderstand what these genres are. As in your opinion GTA is a racing game and Zelda a boomer shooter with Jump’n Run elements. That’s not how genres work.
There is no Boomer shooter equivalent for third person shooters. That’s the simple truth. And Tomb Raider is surely not one either.
You really don’t get how inspiration and evolution work or, again, what the premise of the topic actually is, do you? If you think Tomb Raider hasn’t been wildly influential on multiple genres, you must be too young to have actually played the original games or to know the landscape of gaming at the time.
Just because I do not agree with you does not mean I’m young. Tomb Raider just does not fit the description of 3rd person shooter equivalent be to Boomer shooters what Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM and Quake did for the genre. In fact, there is a chance that I’m even older than you. But age doesn’t matter for opinions about genres.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Are you seriously considering GTA is a racing game now? omg are you actually trolling?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 hours ago
Are you illiterate? Because I did not say that it is a racing game.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Are you dumb? Because this is a mockery of you, because your dumb reasoning. With your logic, you have to conclude that GTA is a racing game. Especially now you come up with the argument it was born from a racing game. Why would you else specifically point that out?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 hours ago
Grand Theft Auto’s development started off originally as a racing game, but it had a gimmick where the cops would chase you. In play testing of one of the first iterations of that design, the cops were insanely OP and would mob you to death. They thought this was so much more fun than a boring race, that it changed the entire design of the game to what GTA1 eventually launched as.
I pointed it out because I found it amusing.
I also never said Doom was an RPG. Tho, arguably, Strife was the first crossover between an FPS and an RPG; it was built on the Doom engine.