Comment on What would a 3rd person shooter equivalent be to "Boomer Shooters"

• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nah, I think in reality it really was meant to mean “shooter old people used to play”. But personally I also prefer the “shooters with more boom” interpretation, because of course action games back then had more action and were better, now get off my lawn!

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I blame the success of Halo for dragging FPS into almost 2 decades of slow af protagonists with shield mechanics who could only carry 2 guns. Then id broke the cycle with Doom 2016 and made shooters fun again.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are, are you me? I basically stopped playing FPS when Halo and CoD made them slow and boring.

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I just wish I’d known about the Doom community sooner. I played it when it first came out but had no idea that people have basically been making (free) maps for just about the past 35 years. I’ve gotten into it a bit recently but I could’ve just been playing doom during the long boring drought of Halo

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