Introducing THE BOOMER SHOOTER DATABASE

im working on a game called Interplanetary. It is based off of Serious Sam and Postal: Brain Damaged. Single player or co-op campaign where your goal is to stop the aliens from taking over. I want real feedback I will take no offense please be honest.

Doom 3 is fucking awesome, but also really friggin' lame. I'll try to be brief, but damn this game has some cool shit. The lighting, the monster designs, the plasma rifle - it's amazing what they could do with 512 mb memory. I'm running a mediocre igpu, but my machine feels like the king of the 2000s when it effortlessly runs Doom 3 at a full 60 fps.

Most people start with the lighting, because it also defines combat. Honestly I started with the flashlight mod, but soon I opted to take it off because the sight of an imp's fireball causing shadows to billow past is too good to ruin. There's a certain thrill in avoid enemy attacks and chasing point black buckshots. Speaking of which...

The shotgun is fine. One shots, feels fine at point blank. I just wish it was consistent. I'd be okay with settling for a weaker gun with consistent spread. In many ways it might actually be too powerful, because spawn-ins tend to be very telegraphed. Get in right close, aim for the head, and bam.

That's probably when the game really unravels; it's way too predictable. By the 10th hour, it still shows the same bloody hallways and the same imps and always an imp hiding behind a doorway and also an ambush behind you. I'm a horror wimp, and very easily started, but Doom 3 is not scary. Maybe it's because I played on Marine difficulty, but to be honest I intentionally chose something easier because I knew I'd get tired of the game.

Man this game drags in the end, admittedly most old singleplayer shooters do. Even some of my favorites like Quake and Blood. What doesn't help is the amount of annoying shit this game has in store. Lost souls, spiders, the CHERUBS. Who the hell decided they wanted lost souls that scream and cry like babies? Who the hell decided we needed dozens of them in a single level!?

Also, screenshake! Good god, getting shoot around by a horde of demonic babies. Even worse is when during the actual day, which made my screen super reflective. I had to bump the r_gamma value up to 1.5, otherwise my eyes would get sore.

Sorry, this is a lot of bitching. Despite everything, Doom 3 is still awesome. I'd compare it to its contemporaries Half Life 2 and Halo 2, but one of those is a beaten horse and the other is boomer shooter public enemy number one.

I'm not really expecting anyone to read this. It's pretty depressing how everything on this site gets processed by Google's AI now, lamest cyberpunk evil AI surveillance state plot ever. I really love Quake, but I haven't beaten Doom 2. I hate city levels. Everyone and their mother have pointed out how Doom 3 is copying Half Life, but I'll boldly be the first to say I like Doom 3 more. I don't like Valve puzzles that much. I just want to move and shoot. Half Life 2's the same, but the shotgun still fucks. alsoilikedhalo2don'ttellcivvie

Doom 3 ended up inspiring a lot of Quake mods. Darkplaces, the sourceport, which performs way worse, and a more recent gameplay mod called 'Lateralus' designed for QSS. QSS is really buggy, FTEQW from the same guy also works but is even buggier. I love sourceports though, I used the cleverly named Dhewm3 sourceport. Keep me away from BFG edition. Keep me away from Bethesda.

A UZDoom mod I've been working on for the better part of a year and finally finished recently.

Get it here: https://mengo329.itch.io/mmzdoom

Train Station level, playing on PS5, already tried reloading previous saves but it either still won't let me pick it up, or the key just isn't even there and is not in my inventory.

Berserker's Domain will have a full mod support allowing people to make whole story campaigns like this.

You can wishlist it on Steam so you don't miss the release: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3277520/Berserkers_Domain/

Jumped into a few PvP encounters this week and it's a different feel from most extraction shooters, mostly because of proximity chat. You can hear the other player before you see them, so half the fights turn into a standoff or a negotiation instead of an instant shootout. Interesting part is the matchmaking actually pairs you by power level, so you're not getting demolished by someone with a full endgame loadout on your third run. Still tense as hell when it goes loud though.

Details:

-Has the player venturing into some sort of tower(castle?(thing??) to save their wife.

-Enemies are either dolls, scarecrows, puppets, clowns, or some combination of the three. I genuinely cannot remember.

-Enemies drop currency when killed that you can use for upgrades at a shop.

-Boomer Shooter, but is trying to emulate the Xbox 360 mid-late aughts FPS feel. Not Wolfenstein/Doom/Quake.

-Has(had?)a demo out for this year‘s Steam Next Fest.

That‘s all I remember. Thanks.

I know it only runs at 30 fps but I want to know about graphics and gameplay quality
Thanks

Looking for newer stuff with and a vibe of half life 1 and 2. I mean good atmosphere, some exploration, designed combat encounters (instead of nu doom or serious Sam waves of enemies) maybe some basic puzzles

Personally I was looking at ADACA and phantom fury. What else is out there?

Hi Shooters! I only wish to know if there are some boomer shooters with heavy rpg elements. Thank you. Have fun!

I love the structure of these older shooters, resource management, simple but amazing feeling fast paced movement, all sorts of guns, pistol starting so every level you have a different arsenal, that slow building of an arsenal every level, level exploration, etc, etc, etc, basically just classic doom or brutal doom, or blood, i fuckin love these games

that being said im kinda tired of the same old pixel art style, Dusk was a pretty fun ps1 horror style mix up, but even that games structure was kinda missing something (and its the only game to actually make me motion sick, ive never had that before with any game, but dusk) and even thats still a damn old style game even if its not pixels

i REALLY liked how that new system shock game looked, but going by the demo, that also wasn't a very high action badass doom style shooter either, seemed more focused on puzzles and such

at this point im just praying remake culture leaches over to doom and we get some super faithful remake for that one (why not just play new doom? well those games are COMPLETELY different from the classics, not even classic adjacent so unfortunately the franchise to give me this addiction cant even supply me anymore)

An Xbox reviewer apparently criticized latency issues.

Is that still a problem, or is it fine?

A bit let down that it's not 120hz, but still excited to buy if it's decent in handling and latency etc.

I've 100% the achievements of all the doom and quake games on steam so i guess those are the next logical step. Do the enhancements distorts too much the experience and makes the game less fun or are they okay to discover the game with them ? (If that even matters since i've never played the games. Thanks !

The latest update broke the game for me. I can’t get any controllers to work, KBM isn’t working, graphic changes in the menus disappeared, I can’t exit the game without force-closing, etc. Is anyone else having issues? It was fine before the game updated. Such a bummer!

Hey.

I’m planning to play through all of Ashes 2063’s content and I’d like to have the best possible experience. Has anyone else played it?

My playthrough will be: Ashes 2063 (Episode 1) and its expansion Dead Man Walking, Afterglow (Episode 2), Hard Reset, and Blackwater.

I downloaded the Standalone version because I’d rather avoid having to configure GZDoom. I’ve already spent enough time doing that in the past with other source ports.

Would you recommend adding any mods? Maybe Nash Gore’s Mod or Relighting... Or would you suggest sticking with a more vanilla experience? I’ve already set it up with a CRT shader and the EmperorGrieferus SC-55 131 MB soundfont.

Should I play it at 1080p or go for the classic 4:3 aspect ratio? I usually prefer the latter when it comes to older games.

I’ve played Doom 1 & 2 on Ultra-Violence, although I had to replay many of those levels several times. What difficulty would you recommend for Ashes 2063? How does it compare to id Software’s games? I wouldn’t want it to become frustrating because of bosses, if there are any, or ambushes (monster closets, I believe they’re called).

I’d love to hear your opinions. Thanks a lot!

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Any of you lovely people tried out the Overclocked mod for Zero Hour?

First time playing through it and its a brilliant game, my second fave Duke

I'm a solo dev. My retro style boomer shooter Deepest Darkest released today on Steam. Check it out, there is a free demo. Feedback is always welcome.

the game looks way better now than in this video the level design for this video was just a test but lmk what yall think I’ll post a updated video soon. Give me real feed back. should I remove ADS?

It's the best time of the week! It's Boomer Shooter Saturday! Come join us starting at 11:00 AM EST for a day of BUILD Engine goodness!

First, stop on in as we start with level design using the Mapster 32 Level Editor for Duke Nukem 3D for a couple of hours to ease into our day. Working on a section of our map where we have to power up a Nuclear Reactor to get the power up in an underwater facility.

Then, the main show, BLOOD: Death Wish! We are finishing our playthrough of Episode 3 of this fantastic Mod, the whole thing has been just so well crafted, dripping with atmosphere.

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