/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2119946
here ya go you fucking idiot

>>1896178
>Doom wasn't the first FPS...

You don't have to tell me that. Hell, I know that's not even Wolfenstein 3D. I guess you're not quite as long in the tooth as some of the other folks here. Believe it or not, there was a time when the term "first-person shooter" was unheard of, and the most popular term going about was "Doom Clone". A similar thing has happened in recent years with "Minecraft Clone", but even some of the more dense people are starting to realize that there's room for more of... well, whatever specific name for this subgenre of sandbox games becomes popular, than just Minecraft, that some of these games aren't necessarily uninspired knock-offs and expand upon the concept in valuable ways.

I guess you'd call it something like "genre infancy". People have a history of getting very defensive when others start having their own take on a new and popular idea.

Pic related is even one of the first things to show up when searching "doom clone". Though it's something you wouldn't have needed a chart for if you were there. Like discovering WASD was a little unpopular popular before Quake.

>>549998
>many FPS's were interchangeable Doom clones,
That's not what that word means.
Doom clone was the term that meant FPS before people were slightly less ignorant about them.
There actually weren't a lot of doom clones at all.
In much the same way as platformers where you collect things and jump around are not simply mario clones.
Games that are supposedly 'doom clones' back in those days are Dark Forces, Rise of The Triad, Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Duke Nukem 3D, Wolf3D (despite predating doom along with others that do the same), Blake Stone, Power Slave.
The fucking majority of them were barely like Doom except for being first person and shooting shit and maybe some quirks like no reloading guns and similar movement effects.
They were all their own games.