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A modern shooter that takes some inspiration from the doom (probably more Quake) era is "Boltgun". It's amazing and just so much fun. Play today. You can lower
by 7thaccount 3y ago
A modern shooter that takes some inspiration from the doom (probably more Quake) era is "Boltgun". It's amazing and just so much fun. Play today. You can lower the graphics to look like Doom or adjust them to look like fairly decent, but obviously retro inspired. It's set in the Warhammer universe.
Regarding the datedness of games like Doom & Duke Nukem 3D, I've noticed a peculiar principle where they start off looking horribly dated to me, but my brain quickly adapts and I don't even notice the drop in realism after a few hours. It just becomes fun.
- mjr00 3y agoBoltgun's alright. My favorite of the neo-retro shooters is Amid Evil. (Weird to call a game with RTX raytracing support retro, but that's 2023 for you.) But honestly, IMO, if you want to play Doom or Quake... I recommend just playing Doom or Quake. The modding scene for both games has been active for nearly 30 years, and there's still excellent content coming out for both games regularly. If anything, modding popularity has accelerated in recent years thanks to "Doomtubers" like decino giving additional exposure to custom maps. Dwell[0] came out this year and is one of the best Quake map sets/mods ever, and the Cacowards[1] always has great stuff, with the 2023 edition coming soon. [0] https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/dwellv2p2.html https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/dwellv2p2.html [1] https://www.doomworld.com/cacowards/2022/ https://www.doomworld.com/cacowards/2022/
- swivelmaster 3y agoAmid Evil is awesome but I enjoyed DUSK (also published by New Blood) a bit more!
- 7thaccount 3y agoHaven't played "Amid Evil", but "Dusk" was really good (played on Switch along with Quake). I still enjoyed Boltgun more, but to each their own.