DOOM/id stuff

I adore quake. I played it for absolutely years online and still go through the single player and some mods regularly.

But yes, fuck spawns!

The setting really hits home with me too. I love the gothic castle type architecture and the absolute frenzied attacks.

Not to mention Mr Reznor's contribution.

Finished 2016 tonight. Have been playing it fairly solidly for a fortnight and gave up about 2/3 on finding/unlocking everything so it could have doubtlessly lasted a bit longer still.

Anyway I liked it a lot the first time I played it but now I love it. So much that I’m really keen to dive straight into Eternal and then the DLC…but I don’t know if that’s a good idea and whether I should have a palate cleanser. Armored Core is one I have in mind as I never quite got through it on release. Think it’s probably for the best but am really looking forward to it now.

Question - can anybody remember the name of the indie boomer shooter from the last couple of years that is in this vein?

I’ve also noticed both the Quakes on Gamepass. I should probably make time for those at some point I guess.

I’m not sure the game you are talking about but this year bolt gun was excellent and just like doom.

It was Prodeus thanks guys. Was looking for it in the Xbox store last night but they don’t make it easy.

Boltgun I loved…but the navigation in it was atrocious. I never finished it because I got sick of being lost. I’ll bounce back at some point.

This probably puts it back on my radar thanks.

I’m about halfway through Prodeus at the moment and absolutely love it. I know people make digs at its originality (lack of) but they’ve effectively turned Quake 2 into Doom and that couldn’t appeal more to me. The combat and movement are both super fluid and the weapons satisfyingly crunchy.

You may gush about random FPS games if you don't call them boomer shooters. That's the only rule

I wouldn't say sprite based, as you said the category includes games like Quake, and I'd argue arena shooters like Q3A and UT were the final stage of the "genre" before it all but disappeared entirely.

I wonder what the biggest turning point was that brought about their end. Half-Life? Counter-Strike? Halo? All together?

OK boomer

True. Maybe it was also a process with several stages. I think Half-Life put an end the single player "campaign" side of them as it completely changed what people expected from a shooter campaign, but in the multiplayer space they could still thrive for a few more years.

I'm a millennial. I swear. Technically I am.

It is interesting to see where PC shooters had actual campaigns with plots and voice acting while still under the surface maintaining that "get the red key" structure. It's kinda crazy from there that a structured plotted game became quite normal very quickly way before Halo showed its face. I think of something like Daikatana really trying to bring that epic game feeling despite it falling flat on its face. I appreciate that I grew up in that time period and was able to take part in that explosion of PC fps.

I like FPS as that differentiates from shoot’em ups.

I reckon Half Life was the turning point as it introduced narrative. Until then it was see stuff, shoot stuff, and in the case of Duke Nukem 3D, ogle stuff.