Doom was a top down 2d shooter that just happened to be rendered in first person 3d.
[Ahoy] What genre is DOOM?
Submitted 5 months ago by freddo@feddit.nu to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuyImR_dI6g
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Copernican@lemmy.world 5 months ago
aequitas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s the first “person shooter”
Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ahoy always delivers.
naticus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Parkour
otp@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
A parkour game without jumping?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Doom & Captain Toad Treasure Tracker are in the same genre.
naticus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When the only choices are parkour or menus? Yes.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I thought it was a Christian game…
TheSaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
[Hello] i don’t know, probably a shooter?
ghostblackout@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I thought doom was just doom
DarkMetatron@feddit.de 5 months ago
I have not seen the video but I think the correct modern answer nowadays is: “boomer shooter”
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
And what defines that genre?
DarkMetatron@feddit.de 5 months 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.”
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Yeah
Draegur@lemm.ee 5 months ago
L take.
His worst video.
And an entire month too late for April Fools Day.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 5 months ago
Hack and slash
Deestan@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months ago
Exactly, DOOM is DOOM. I remember hearing Wolfenstein calls a DOOM Clone too.