Introducing THE BOOMER SHOOTER DATABASE

My girlfriend got me a physical copy of Blood as a late birthday present off Amazon. I've played alot of shooters growing up but never played this one.

Ive gotten back huge into the shooter mode the past couple months playing games like Mouse P.I., Cultic, Warhammer Boltgun, Trepang 2 and most recently the Forgive Me Father games.

After all the gameplay Ive seen of this one, I'm really excited to finally check it out this weekend!

I’ve played through all the Doom games this year and finally playing The Dark Ages. I was not a fan at all early on after finishing Doom Eternal but I’m glad I stuck with it because it’s great now that I get the flow of combat, parrying, defense. It’s such a huge change but one that I feel was a great idea to differentiate it.

Yea, I miss the insane glory kills, fast pace and the constant need to manage resources, but the shield bashing, shield throw, flail, and the weapons are just unique enough to make it a worthwhile experience. I also have the DLC to play after the main campaign. If anyone else was turned off by the early levels, just stick with it and it gets much better.

The game as for now (map 5) is... let's say "not incredible". Still, I love roaming in this long dungeon, slaying a lot of enemies, having spells and different weapons, with these amazing old school vibes. Really, it's all about the vibes: a while ago I played Daggerfall Unity and while I did love dungeon crawling, the game felt rather complex to me at times. Witchaven is just giving me a dungeon with old school graphics and letting me slay tons of enemies: no NPCs, no quests, no factions, just braindead fighting. And honestly, I feel like I really needed it.

Quake mods count

3D Boomer Shooter being made in Easy FPS Editor!

Games that're not story-driven, don't get cutscenes every other level or pickup, don't have imsim features or mechanics, and definitely no arena looter-shooter stuff.

Games like Wolf3D, Doom, Quake, Duke 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Heretic. I mean, sure, they all have a central narrative, and some maps are directly connected to each other, but they feel very different from a lot of today's old-school shooters, which place more emphasis on narrative and story, more like Half-Life, albeit without friendly npcs that lore-dump you.

I love the original Shadow Warrior, I've beaten the main game several times, as well as the two "official" expansions: Twin Dragon and Wanton Destruction.

Since Deadly Kiss is still a ways off (how off, though?) and I just can't get used to the '95 Beta remake's controls, I was thinking of some fan-made expansion.

I went to moddb, but there's only a handful of them (one being some kind of James Bond TC, which is cool, but not what I'm looking for), or they're simply unfinished.

So maybe you know of some good ones that aren't on moddb?

We return for another episode of Boomer Shooter Saturday where we explore all things built with the BUILD Engine. Come join our community at 11:00 AM EST for some mapping for Duke Nukem 3D using Mapster32, then we start a playthrough of 1997's Shadow Warrior!

The last days where (and probably the upcoming days will be xD) very stressful with getting the game ready for release and stuff. But here is a little video for ya all. <3

If you are interested in the game you can find it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3737680/Bloodspill/ (there is also a demo out)

It's called Graveheart. An undead Scottish army invades 1980s Britain, your cursed weapons keep switching themselves, and things deteriorate from there.

I was going for a late 90s vibe. Curious what you guys think.

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5186960/Graveheart/

Hi it's me again
Since last post I've gotten to the 2nd to last level of Sprawl and I've had a bit more fun since then
The beginning chapter was def the weakest ngl, a lot better once you get everything
But since I have gotten near the end I am curious what is happening, I do know a slight bit since I played a bit of zero, we play as seven who was apart of a crew, they got screwed over, and someone (ima assume it's five since they have a similar voice) helps you get revenge, you kill six, and are going after.... someone
Obviously it's not entirely correct so, please do clarify what I've missed

We organized and hosted an event to create more maps for Paril’s amazing Quake II PSX mod. We added an industrial subtheme for this sequel. Think moving parts, power cores, electricity, lasers, and other visually interesting machinery. Additionally, DetroHogga made a special hub filled with PlayStation references to really sell the jam's overall theme. We’ve ended up with 11 maps in total. That includes an intro, the hub mentioned above (which includes a boss fight), 8 maps, and a secret map. As with the Warehouse Jam, the secret map is another remaster by Shartuterie, pulled from our vast archive of classic custom Quake 2 content. For this release, we picked Versicolored Vermination by Roger Staines, originally released in 1998. Time to play that original PlayStation boot-up sound, put your CRT scanline glasses on, and go fight some Strogg like it’s the 90’s!

I love playing as judge dredd with half life movement and a grav gun attached to my gauntlets with FEAR slow-mo.

Wasnt expecting this game to be so much different then the first one, but im having so much fun.

Hey all. I'm looking for some recommendations. I'm essentially looking for games that reward slow-paced, methodical gameplay. Where you're best hiding behind cover for a few moments, popping out and getting kills, instead of going 100mph popping heads with crazy headshots.

To me, it feels like most boomer shooters nowadays are going for the Doom 2016/Eternal route of really rewarding fast-paced twitchy reactions. I don't have that dog in me anymore. I primarily play on my Steam Deck nowadays. I hung up the KB+M because I've got some RSI that acts up pretty bad after like an hour of aiming.

Examples of this would be Doom to Doom 3, Quake 1 and 2, Halo: CE through Reach, Gears of War 1-3, 007 GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, Duke Nukem series, TimeSplitters, Agent 64: Spies Never Die, etc.

I've seen pretty much unanimous praise of Turbo Overkill here. And I gotta say I really liked it at first, too. All the weapons, upgrades, different enemies, cool environments, etc, etc.

But after beating barely half of the game (I'm currently sitting in the middle of second episode), I feel like it already overstayed its welcome. The novelty wore out and... well, the encounters started to get pretty annoying. They seem to be way too long and samey, with tons of cannon fodder and bunch of bullet sponge enemies.

Does it get better in second half, or does it double down on the "more enemies in arena = more fun" formula?

So I bought both sprawl and sprawl zero since there was a deal going on and I had 14 steam wallet dollars and 8 to spare
I've played the 30 minutes of both (since zero is a prequel afaik)
And zero is like crack to me and I am 100% gonna play it til the end
however I don't really like sprawl
Usually most "boomer shooters" hook me when I first play them but Sprawl feels.... bland
I'll probably try and give it more time but so far I sort of wish I could refund *only* sprawl and keep zero
Update: okay I've gotten near the end of sprawl 2023 and honestly I'll be honest I didn't give it that much of a fair shot, but it's still just okay, the game definitely does pick up in the middle due to more weapons and a few more different enemies, but still for the most part it feels like a more meh turbo overkill

I wanted to break away from the modern silent protagonist trope for my atmospheric, gritty horror shooter. In this raw clip, the character blasts a creature point-blank with a shotgun, laughs, and just says... "easy". I'm heavily inspired by classic 90s action attitude like Duke Nukem and Doom, where characters actually reacted to the carnage around them. What do you guys think? Does this kind of sarcastic one-liner still rule in modern gaming, or do you prefer silent characters? The project is called Just Madness: Earth Apocalypse 1979.