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The Boomer Shooter Revival (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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the boomer shooter revival genre that the Doom Reboot saga started actually has a good amount of female protagonists.

In fact, it may be the only modern game genre where i can safely say the gender split is roughly half and half with games like Selaco, Ion Fury, Forgive me Father, Hedon, Nightmare Reaper, Project Warlock 1 and 2, Rise Of The Triad, Supplice, Zortch, Ghostware, Beyond Sunset, Viscerafest, The Citadel, Sprawl

There are genuinely so many boomer shooter female protagonist and you know what, and i say this with full confidence as i am very active within boomer shooter communities and follow boomer shooter youtubers like Civvie11 and GmanLives: NOBODY CARES.

Which is a hilarious fact in and of itself since the boomer shooter genre, more than any other videogame genre is DOMINATED by a male audience. And yet they do not care.

Selaco is one of the most beloved and best selling games of that entire genre and it stars a female protagonist that kicks all sorts of ass. And yet not a single outcry of "muh woke" from the community,

don't know if it's cos the boomer shooter genre has mostly grown and prospered in the indie scene so there's less toxicity there or the fact that the devs of these games themselves are openly progressive or if the fanbase of these games is just naturally older therefore they don't have the time nor patience to engage in culture wars but whatever it is, it's a nice thing to see

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I played Doom 1&2 for the first time last year and it ruled. Where should I get started with boomer shooters? Say I care more about what's the best one than playing in some sort of historical context order.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

DUSK is imo the best Doom successor in terms of modern boomer shooters. if you prefer a more abstract/fantastical setting over the demonic cult horror theme of DUSK then AMID EVIL is pretty good too

honorable mention goes to ULTRAKILL which is fantastic, but the only thing that makes it a boomer shooter is the aesthetic: it's a really modern and fast paced high-score focused FPS with much faster movement

in terms of the timeless classics, Quake 1. it's like a cosmic horror/fantastical version of Doom with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack, the aforementioned Amid Evil was inspired by it. The rest of the Quake franchise past the first game unfortunately became a lot more generic sci-fi

and one last but important recommendation: if you never want to stop playing Doom 1&2 you don't have to, it has probably one of the biggest backlogs of custom made maps in the history of g*ming, shit like Eviternity and its sequel are peak, shit like MyHouse.wad is an experience, the list goes on for basically forever https://www.doomworld.com/10years/bestwads/

also shout out to Thatcher's Techbase, the doom wad where you go to the tenth circle of hell (the UK) to kill margaret thatcher again and piss on her grave