Comment on What would a 3rd person shooter equivalent be to "Boomer Shooters"
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day agoNah, 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!
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 19 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.
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.
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