It's so funny to be reminded of that period in the 90s where any first person game was described as a "DOOM clone", because DOOM itself was the first FPS that hugely took off.
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Exactly, DOOM is DOOM. I remember hearing Wolfenstein calls a DOOM Clone too.
Doom was a top down 2d shooter that just happened to be rendered in first person 3d.
It’s the first “person shooter”
After Wolfenstein
Nazis don’t count as people
In that sense Doom doesn’t count either
Ahoy always delivers.
Parkour
A parkour game without jumping?
Doom & Captain Toad Treasure Tracker are in the same genre.
When the only choices are parkour or menus? Yes.
I thought it was a Christian game…
[Hello] i don’t know, probably a shooter?
I have not seen the video but I think the correct modern answer nowadays is: "boomer shooter"
Yeah
I thought doom was just doom
L take.
His worst video.
And an entire month too late for April Fools Day.
Hack and slash