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first person shooters are extremely fun, but the industry rarely makes the ones i like anymore There’s something about that anticipation as your dropship passes over open ocean and the fighting on the beach comes into view…

Hey! New article! This one's about the history of first person shooters, what makes 'em work, and why I like the shooters I like. It's also me lamenting how they've died, and talking a bit about why I want to go ahead and make one.

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Looking for someone who can design unusual weapons?

I'm open for work as a concept artist or 3D artist — happy to collaborate!

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As an absolute, unwavering fangirl of Unreal (in spite of all Tim Sweeney has done), I can relate.

I want to make a game like that, it's one of my goals in life. It feels like no one else has really done it, because they always just end up making yet another Doom/Duke/Quake hybrid instead.

Yay new Doc article :D

I'm sure this'll be a very fun read in regards to my own FPS-making ambitions 👀

I absolutely adore FPS, and I'm really glad this article exists, although that said, I kind of never even tried Halo (the only one I played is Infinite), as I grew up on those kinds of "diluted" open world FPS described that rose up after FC2. All of the Borderlands games, FC3-4 and stuff like that.

so disappointing how many ppl I see preemptively convincing themselves they can't learn a thing w/o giving it a real effort over time bc they think natural aptitude is the defining factor of skill acquisition. the only diff btwn them & the ppl who can do the thing is that the latter just kept trying

Whenever I hear comic creators talk about what an ‘honor’ it is to work on this character or that IP, this sort of quote is what my mind flashes to. These publishers want you to think that it’s an honor to compromise your work and get screwed over. Don’t buy into that.

I'm still pissed at EA for repeatedly sandbagging Titanfall 3

Thank you very much

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Another amazing article by Doc, you should absolutely read it and if you can, consider supporting him, man deserves every penny for putting out so much quality work

i realized I would run out of time (i wanted to get some streaming in) if I spent time differentiating between a bunch of other types of shooters, including the console/pc split, milsims, rail shooters, online-only games, and so forth

it's one reason why I didn't get too into the open world stuff

yeah

ten thousand percent this

I feel like this era is often considered the "consoleization" era for shooters, but it's hard to deny this much quality, and you'd break your spine bending over backwards far enough to pretend Halo 3 wasn't a genre classic just because it didn't have a PC version for a decade

did you ever try with a wider FOV, closer to 100?

titanfall 2 selling poorly because they put it back to back with battlefield was a bad move, but I think the big thing had more to do with fortnite taking off and everyone deciding they wanted their own fortnite, including call of duty and titanfall (apex legends)

if it's as bad as eternal I can't see myself satiated

yup, I didn't love how Vegas played and the story of 2 is dumb, but never got around to SWAT, which I hear is excellent. I'm not really into realism in my shooters, as you could probably guess by the article

Everything about THE MATRIX seems so amazing and modern, and then you see Neo using a flip phone and I can't tell if it's out of date or if he's just trying to avoid using social media.

600 to getting the bills paid, 800 to being able to afford physical therapy

You can always trust someones shooter opinions if they know about Gunman Chronicles.

already did it. it was easy. games are a medium, just like books are a medium. some books are art. others are doing other things, like being instruction manuals

Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

we can make better games than these. particularly resistance 2

Doc has a new article, this time about shooters!

I've got my own takes on the genre, but doc's stuff is always thoughtful and worth reading. And if you want to support more things like this, consider throwing him a tip.

This goes along super well with our latest podcast on halo the first OG one that absolutely hung for 20min and then let me play it again on my win11 of 👏🏻

thank you everyone for joining. it was fun!

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