I’ve been on a bit of an old school/ boomer FPS binge in the past few weeks (Thanks Civvie 11) and throughout it i was genuinely surprised how well some Build Engine games like Blood hold up graphically
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Heretic was a cool game too. Is blood or was it heretic where you had the flare gun that was awesome because you’d shoot people with it and then they’d catch on fire and be flaming zombies?
Boomer FPS lmao
Love the old school.
On the Oculus there is a port of zdoom that is pretty great. It even comes with a good mod and wad list to download. It’s really wild to play doom in VR, its like something I’d dream of doing when I first played it as a kid.
Boomer fps was atari 2600 games
Is there a Build equivalent of Delta Touch for mobile? Civvie praises Blood to the moon and I so want to try it.
build engine boomer shooter?
Ion Fury
hope you’ve heard of it.. Civvie did a video..
Correction: old school/millennial FPS binge
For people who like the subgenre: Humble has a games bundle with 8 more recent, but retro-inspired “boomer shooters” – [https://www.humblebundle.com/games/best-boomer-shooters-bigger-and-boomier](https://www.humblebundle.com/games/best-boomer-shooters-bigger-and-boomier)
It’s available for another ~ 4 days.
Spites hold up a lot better than early 3d polygons. These days we can up the res and even re-rerender in new engines. These games are still a blast to play!
[Nice fuckin model!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlBy0raZJ6A)
Easily top 5 best fps game ever.
Up vote for the Civvie!
Blood is just fuck you hard at times.
But so, so good.
Civvie 11 and MandaloreGaming and LGR are great yotubers if you want to get in to old school PC games.
Man When it comes to old school FPS im not sure If Blood or Duke 3D is my top 1 or maybe both and Shadow warrior is my second favorite.
Just saying if you are enjoying these types of games right now there is a boomer bundle for 90 style shooters on humble bundle. It ends in a couple days I think.
I somehow missed this one back in the day. Picked it up last year and played through it to teach myself flick-stick & gyro controls. It was a lot of fun, game still holds up very well (not counting the god awful early CG cutscenes).
ok so what are the good boomer shooters now?
Done the Serious Sams / DOOMs / Amid Evil / Dusk (may be the best recent) / Prodeus (v good)…
Anything else?
Blood, what a game!
Starring a dead guy rising from the grave who quotes Shakespeare and sings Sinatra (and goes guns akimbo)
what source port are you using? i usually use BuildGDX but have thought about trying nBlood because the mouse look just feels funky
also there are some great mods for Blood! i use a weapon pack and LOTS of campaigns. one of the best is getting an update or id say play it asap, Deathwish.
highly suggest Duke Nukem: Alien Armageddon, its quite possibly the highest quality mod ive ever played.
There’s a timeless quality to good sprite work. Throw in many fan and community engine upgrades with good uprezing and the like and you have a genre of games that manages to still look today the way I remember them looking 20 and 30 years ago (as opposed to looking worse than the memory)
Blood is amazing, and if you haven’t checked out Deathwish I HIGHLY suggest it.
Also look into Cultic, a modern game heavily inspired by Blood but managing to do its own thing.
Blood is amazing. It was my first shooter