Comment on OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre

Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nah, Genres being named after the first game that does it is pretty uninspired. It almost makes it sound like players can’t articulate what makes the game interesting.

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• legion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Call it a Classic Doom-like.

  That’s basically reverting back to calling games “DOOM clones”.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s basically reverting back to calling games “DOOM clones”.

    Calling something like Amid Evil with its spectacular map architecture a mere Doom clone does it a disservice, though, because Doom closes were basically flat and had 90° walls. Descent and Quake 1 aren’t clones of Doom either.

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  • CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Still better than boomer shooter

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck that noise. Call it a Classic Doom-like.

  Except that other than a few GZDoom-based games, Dusk and such have more in common with Quake than Doom, being fully 3D.

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• Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But then the media post won’t be totes edgy and get people to click on it…

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• ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe it should be called Doomer Shooter instead

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then you’re catering to the peppers

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