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[onQ123]

The Internet & more money happened

 

[Laptop1991]

They became part of bigger open world games like Fallout 3, with only a few being made afterwards like Singularity and the later Wolfenstein's, then came GTA online and all the money made of MTX and Gaas games that the companies wanted especially Bethesda,, so now its just Steam games like Robocop and Terminator Dark fate that really carry the torch, other than Doom of course, but i wasn't impressed with the latest Doom, they were great games back in the day Fear 1, Half Life 2 and Crysis 1.

 

[drganon]

Fuck that, I want an Area 51 arcade remaster.

I wasted so many quarters playing that. Probably tied with time crisis 2 as my favorite light gun game.

As for the topic at hand , aaa fps seems to have died off, but there is a glut of indie ones. Hopefully they'll move beyond just aping doom.

 

[RoadHazard]

SP First Person Shooter games got labeled "Boomer Shooters" and they don't sell well. See Doom The Dark Ages.

I recommend 2.

Warhammer 40k Boltgun
Dusk

Isn't a "boomer shooter" specifically the old 90s ones like Doom and its clones? I didn't think that term applied to modern games.

 

[cash_longfellow]

I wasted so many quarters playing that. Probably tied with time crisis 2 as my favorite light gun game.

As for the topic at hand , aaa fps seems to have died off, but there is a glut of indie ones. Hopefully they'll move beyond just aping doom.

Agreed. I used to love playing that game after the cheat where you don't shoot anything at the beginning, then you shoot the first officer.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Isn't a "boomer shooter" specifically the old 90s ones like Doom and its clones? I didn't think that term applied to modern games.

It does apply to new games if they are designed in a similar way as the old games.

Out of the games he posted, Dusk is 100% a boomer shooter. Boltgun, I don't know, heard that one is more of similar to DOOM '16 with the focus on arena fights.

 

[LazyParrot]

SP First Person Shooter games got labeled "Boomer Shooters" and they don't sell well. See Doom The Dark Ages.

Doom 2016 and Eternal sold just fine. If Dark Ages is a boomer shooter, then so are they.

It's obviously not that simple. If being SP focused was all it took for an FPS to qualify as a boomer shooter, then everything from Far Cry 6 to COD campaigns would be boomer shooters as well.

 

[Griffon]

OP you're blind, great solo FPS are coming every year.

And those are just a sample.