boomer shooters. (or alternatively: indie fps games)

[kamille]

a lot of indie fps games that try to replicate the old school fps have been released what are your favourites?

mine is the citadel. and its sequel beyond citadel which combines the art style of old schlocky anime movies. (you know the ones. md geist, genocyber, ninja scrolls, etc.)

 

[Yousef Yousef]

I vastly prefer doomer/boomer shooters over doom2016/eternal. Doom 2016 was, compared to OG doom, one of the most agnonizingly boring games I’ve ever played. Just made me itch to play a treyarch CoD because you could finish those levels on a few minutes and see cool WWII set pieces that my history-coded brain prefers over generic lifeless sci fi.
Sorry for the rant. I’m not usually this negative.

 

[SkunkyBeaumont]

Castlevania: Simon's Destiny by Batandy

Castlevania: Simon's Destiny is a non-profit GZDOOM based fangame born as a love letter to this legendary franchise.

batandy.itch.io

 

[DunkeyKong]

I vastly prefer doomer/boomer shooters over doom2016/eternal. Doom 2016 was, compared to OG doom, one of the most agnonizingly boring games I’ve ever played. Just made me itch to play a treyarch CoD because you could finish those levels on a few minutes and see cool WWII set pieces that my history-coded brain prefers over generic lifeless sci fi.
Sorry for the rant. I’m not usually this negative.

I felt AVGN vibes from this lol

 

[Yousef Yousef]

I felt AVGN vibes from this lol

??unironically one of the best compliments I’ve received
Avgn is an inspiration

 

[DunkeyKong]

Also I've liked this one shooter called Paperhead, not sure if it counts but it's fun af

??unironically one of the best compliments I’ve received
Avgn is an inspiration

Lmao yeah, he's the GOAT

 

[RustySK]

Hmm, there's quite a few that I like that would fit that description...

I'm gonna go with Ion Fury
I think that one nails the feel of my favourite retro shooters like Blood and Shadow Warrior the best.

The levels are definitely too long and it could have done with a couple more enemy types (and less skull spiders), but I genuinely loved the time I spent with it.

 

[Cu-Neo]

More actuals ones I would say:
Mullet Madjack

And Severed Steel

 

[Enian]

ULTRAKILL

 

[DunkeyKong]

ULTRAKILL

ULTRAKILL MENTIONED

 

[RustySK]

ULTRAKILL

I never really considered ULTRAKILL a boomer shooter, personally.
The aesthetic is a throwback, sure, but the gameplay is more in line with Doom Eternal than just about anything else.

That said, I guess "boomer shooter" is a pretty vague descriptor in the first place. I always thought of it as a gameplay style.

Hell of a game either way!

 

[UrielSol]

If I may I would said this one

 

[RageBurner]

If classic Doom mods count...

 

[Yousef Yousef]

If classic Doom mods count...

This mod has mods too

 

[RageBurner]

This mod has mods too

Yes, my favorite is V-Classes, even if it is not as famous as CBM.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Yes, my favorite is V-Classes, even if it is not as famous as CBM.

V-classes is what I actually hear more about

 

[RageBurner]

V-classes is what I actually hear more about

CBM is lame IMO, V-Classes is great.

 

[YuriSukiSan]

I've played Ion Fury and Hedon so far, I haven't played any others yet but I have a ton of my watch lists on steam! There's way too many that have come out now but they all generally seem really good!

 

[RedNin3]

I vastly prefer doomer/boomer shooters over doom2016/eternal. Doom 2016 was, compared to OG doom, one of the most agnonizingly boring games I’ve ever played. Just made me itch to play a treyarch CoD because you could finish those levels on a few minutes and see cool WWII set pieces that my history-coded brain prefers over generic lifeless sci fi.
Sorry for the rant. I’m not usually this negative.

I for one love 2016/Eternal, and I'm excited for the new one. But I can see where you're coming from.
I'm completely the opposite, I can't stand any more "feels like real war" stuff, no matter if they are classics or new ones.

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I never really considered ULTRAKILL a boomer shooter, personally.
The aesthetic is a throwback, sure, but the gameplay is more in line with Doom Eternal than just about anything else.

That said, I guess "boomer shooter" is a pretty vague descriptor in the first place. I always thought of it as a gameplay style.

Hell of a game either way!

ULTRAKILL is 100% a DMC-Shooter and not a boomer shooter. Everything screams "STYLE" in that game.

 

[kamille]

I never really considered ULTRAKILL a boomer shooter, personally.
The aesthetic is a throwback, sure, but the gameplay is more in line with Doom Eternal than just about anything else.

That said, I guess "boomer shooter" is a pretty vague descriptor in the first place. I always thought of it as a gameplay style.

Hell of a game either way!

Facts. Ultrakill has too much of a modern feel to be inspired by old shooters. It's more of it's own thing which is a mix of dvil may cry and doom eternal.

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I vastly prefer doomer/boomer shooters over doom2016/eternal. Doom 2016 was, compared to OG doom, one of the most agnonizingly boring games I’ve ever played. Just made me itch to play a treyarch CoD because you could finish those levels on a few minutes and see cool WWII set pieces that my history-coded brain prefers over generic lifeless sci fi.
Sorry for the rant. I’m not usually this negative.

The thing with sci fi is that the genre is so overdone that it's not very easy to stand out. There are thousands of shooters with a samey scifi art style and environments so the setting has to stand out in other ways.

Using the citadel as and example here, it's a game that has a generic defeat the mechanical angels (demons in beyond citadel) but the level desing and art style combined with the music and the disturbing gore give it a kind of surreal quality. The game also has some simulation element's in it's gunplay for example: your gun can jam, and certain weapons in beyond citadel need more work to be reloaded. (Reload each shell one at a time with a certain type of shotgun) Your charracter also has to eat and they die extremely quickly. After a while it almost resembles a survival horror game.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

??unironically one of the best compliments I’ve received
Avgn is an inspiration

What a shitload of fuck

Arent they more like gen x shooters though? it was mostly teens of the 90s that grew up with them, atari stuff is form boomers

 

[RageBurner]

Hm... fond memories of Duke 3D.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

I quite enjoy HROT, it unites two things I like: quake 1 and the horrifying history of the soviet union + eastern european stuff

I also like Wrath of Aeon for feeling 00s
It couldve had better cover art though

 

[kamille]

I quite enjoy HROT, it unites two things I like: quake 1 and the horrifying history of the soviet union + eastern european stuff
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I also like Wrath of Aeon for feeling 00s
It couldve had better cover art though
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[Sonic Boomer]

I accidentally discovered the game and immediately bought it. I will make my own video review on it down the line, this is a playthrough video someone made so I'm using it to show the game to you guys.

This is a 3 euro/3 dollar Steam game made in the style of old DOS games.
It has that unique, almost creepy yet fascinating atmosphere of old DOS games too, like when you'd get a CD with a ton of pirated games on it, dunno if you had this in the 1st world and you explore all these weird ass DOS games as a teen/kid and each one is more weird and creepy than the next lol.

The music is some sort of synth, like dark Synth which works surprisingly well for the dark urban atmosphere the game is going for.

It's a simpl run and gun game or hack and slash depending on which weapon you are using
it's very easy but that's the whole point, it's a pick up and play short game that just oozes atmosphere and vibes.
No deep mechanics, no complicated enemy patterns, you find a few keys here and there and hit e in front of locked doors to open them and that's it but nothing is overly complex, difficult or confusing.