[Ahoy] What genre is DOOM?

freddo@feddit.nu to Games@lemmy.world – 109 points –
What genre is DOOM?
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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.

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

Doom was a top down 2d shooter that just happened to be rendered in first person 3d.

L take.

His worst video.

And an entire month too late for April Fools Day.

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

And what defines that genre?

"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