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Freddo@feddit.nu to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

[Ahoy] What genre is DOOM?

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[Ahoy] What genre is DOOM?

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Freddo@feddit.nu to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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What genre is DOOM?
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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahoy00:00 Introduction00:50 How was DOOM originally described?02:20 DOOM clones04:33 Quake Killers6:06 A hypothetical questi...
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  • Deestan@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      Exactly, DOOM is DOOM. I remember hearing Wolfenstein calls a DOOM Clone too.

  • Copernican@lemmy.world
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    Doom was a top down 2d shooter that just happened to be rendered in first person 3d.

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    It’s the first “person shooter”

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      After Wolfenstein

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        Nazis don’t count as people

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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          In that sense Doom doesn’t count either

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    Ahoy always delivers.

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    Parkour

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      A parkour game without jumping?

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        Doom & Captain Toad Treasure Tracker are in the same genre.

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        When the only choices are parkour or menus? Yes.

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    I thought it was a Christian game…

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    [Hello] i don’t know, probably a shooter?

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    I thought doom was just doom

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    Hack and slash

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    L take.

    His worst video.

    And an entire month too late for April Fools Day.

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    I have not seen the video but I think the correct modern answer nowadays is: “boomer shooter”

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      And what defines that genre?

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        “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.”

        Source: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/a-beginner-s-guide-to-boomer-shooters-and-how-they-inspire-new-school-fpses-like-witchfire

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      Yeah

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