What's your favorite Boomer Shooter?

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17 Dec 2022, 1:40 pm

By boomer shooter, i mean old school fps's or old school styled fps games. I've personally bought a few on steam, but any recommendations would be appreciated.

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17 Dec 2022, 5:57 pm

Doom and Descent are my favorites.

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17 Dec 2022, 6:10 pm

Here's a list of every Boomer Shooter listed on Steam.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... 1329884761

Here's a list of the ones I've played and enjoyed from that list. Everything else is still on my wishlist or in my backlog.
AMID EVIL
Blood: Fresh Supply (It's not completely patched due to Atari screwing over NightDive with the rights.)
Doom 64
Doom (1993)
Doom '16 or rather Doom 4
Doom Eternal
Doom II
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
DUSK
Ion Fury
POSTAL: Brain Damaged
QUAKE
QUAKE II
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Serious Sam 2
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Serious Sam 4
Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter
Serious Sam Classics: Revolution
Serious Sam Fusion
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem
Shadow Warrior Classic Redux
Shadow Warrior '13
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

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20 Dec 2022, 10:57 am

Aspiegaming wrote:

I love AMID EVIL, but I also like Dusk and Bloom.

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29 Dec 2022, 1:34 pm

Postal: Brain Damaged, Gun Godz, and Fashion Police Squad are all really fun Boomer Shooters that are avalible on Steam. I recommend checking those games out if your looking for some new Boomer Shooters to play.

If your looking for OG boomer-shooters, then Doom 64 and Duke Nukem 3D: World Tour are also on Steam, and you should also check those out.

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01 Jan 2023, 4:23 pm

I dont the name "boomer shooter", but some games that I like that fit this category are: DOOM 1and 2, DOOM 64, Serious Sam, Painkiller and Turok

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11 Feb 2023, 11:34 pm

If you want real Boomer Shooters, you're going to have to grab an Atari. My favorites were probably River Raid and Zaxxon.

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12 Feb 2023, 6:45 am

Sminthian wrote:

If you want real Boomer Shooters, you're going to have to grab an Atari. My favorites were probably River Raid and Zaxxon.

Those aren't boomer shooters, those are what granddad played during the war

Seriously I keep trying boomer shooters and getting bored too quickly... Doom is good sure enough but it gets repetitive. I'd probably be crucified by the real Gamers for saying that but oh well.

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13 Feb 2023, 7:37 am

The original Unreal perhaps?

I do play vanilla Doom 2 on a source port from time to time.

Blood. Now that a game with the right attitude.

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13 Feb 2023, 10:14 am

I keep hearing good things about 'no one lives forever ' but never played it

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13 Feb 2023, 6:20 pm

klanka wrote:

I keep hearing good things about 'no one lives forever ' but never played it

I tried a NOLF before... It's a tad quirky. I thought I'd dig the style, but it didn't go from weird to good. I tried one of the later ones, if that matters.

I'd say XIII is in the same for artistic reasons. Though this one does have some fond memories.

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14 Feb 2023, 5:17 am

I think I heard good things about the first two.
You're the first person who I know who has a critical word to say about it

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14 Feb 2023, 5:21 am

Looks like No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way is the one I tried. Yeah, it just never got fun. It was all quirk.

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14 Feb 2023, 5:01 pm

you're probably right.

You could be a first person shooter, shooter.

If you're the 'first person ' to say something bad about it (sorry for bad joke)

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15 Feb 2023, 9:55 am

Doom
Quake (I through III Arena)
Duke Nukem
Wolfenstein 3D
Goldeneye (James Bond game)

Sadly, I've never been good at these kinds of games as I'm more of the "let me get a rifle and sit far away and pick off people" type shooter...so more recent games like the Sniper Elite series are more my speed. Especially now as I don't like competing against anyone else in the new games (reaction times and all that).

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18 Feb 2023, 1:11 pm

LaTech wrote:

Sadly, I've never been good at these kinds of games as I'm more of the "let me get a rifle and sit far away and pick off people" type shooter...so more recent games like the Sniper Elite series are more my speed. Especially now as I don't like competing against anyone else in the new games (reaction times and all that).

Sounds like Halo infinite is right up your alley. Most of the levels are open world and the gameplay is mostly just spamming enemies at long distance, rinse and repeat. The combat is too unpredictable so people just resort to exploits such as camping power weapons and spamming from a distance.

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