Submitted 4 days ago by Quazatron@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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A retro shooter inspired by classics like Wolfenstein and Doom. Think of it as a tribute, a love letter to the games that defined a generation, with a few modern touches of my own. It’s tough, fast, and demands skill, just the way those old-school shooters did.
Ugh, not available in my country because of stupid laws. My steam account is old enough to vote and drink liquor. But god forbid i could see the shop page of a game which wasnt rated properly.
The dev/publisher is working on a solution and is considering the USK rating.
Sweet. I didnt want to throw any shade towards the developer btw. Just in case.
Is this the greatest game ever written?
No. It’s just a tribute.
Doom and Wolf weren’t “fast”: while Doom had some fast moments, Wolf demanded a slow and methodical approach.
I was lazy and just copy/pasted the Steam page blurb.
… that you wrote yourself, right?
Eh, Wolf3D (not to be confused with the OG top down stealth games that NOBODY played… and where the original levels fundamentally don’t exist anymore for fascinating reasons) was fast paced, for the time.
Yeah, it was very much slow room clearing early on. But from probably episode 3 on, you were generally run and gunning just because of resource limits and enemy health pools. Not to mention encounter design and more “hidden rooms” that open up when a fight kicks off.
And DOOM 2 was similarly fast for its time with encounter design specifically negating the effectiveness of the proto-cover shooter gameplay that DOOM1 actually was.
But yeah. This is very much more of a Rise of the Triad game. And ROTT was genuinely fast paced even for the time (and can be REAL disorienting if you play any of the remakes).
But, I’ll take people comparing stuff to DOOM over calling it a “boomer shooter” any day of the week. Even if the vast majority of those are actually Quake-likes. Similar to how this gets the Wolf3D nod when it is very much an ROTT-like.
this is a rottlike for sure but marketing - the vast majority of gamers never played Rise, or Hexen, or Heretic.
it’s just a blurb.
I just gave this a go not expecting much. Man is it fun! And works great on the deck too! Playing with a controller makes it extra hard, but then again the originals were hard too and had even worse controls, so it fits well.
Oh wow. I thought this was just a fun little tribute to wolf3d. After two days and six hours of playing I now understand how wrong I was. After a few levels it turns out to be so much more, and just keeps getting better.
Looks up my alley! Thanks!
Looks like fun, I’ve grabbed it and will give it a shot
The video looked very like Serious Engine, so I downloaded it to see. Nope. Its Unity.
Comically long intro of a narrator and text. Ok, I’m a homeless traitor in Nazi Germany, trying to get my dog back.
Got out of the truck. Oh good. A box jumping obstacle. Hit the space bar. No jump. So I keep trying. And it knocks this box back into the corner, where I can see a mug of something floating there. Health or powerup or some shit. But I can’t get to it because I just kicked this box in the way.
I finally checked the controls. There’s no jump, just kick. You don’t jump in this game. Like old DOOM.
I gave up. I’m in this far. I’ll try it again later.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
When you add a picture to the post the way you did, it eats the link. Here it is for anyone looking: store.steampowered.com/app/…/Darkenstein_3D/
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 days ago
TIL. Thank you.