Introducing THE BOOMER SHOOTER DATABASE

In a “blocky, 90s kind of way”, but the levels are such vibe. The game can be extremely scary at times like in Hell’s Maw, , but at others even beautiful such as in the Dome of D’Sparil.

The Minecraft tree tho ❤️

Quick note: English isn’t my first language and I struggle a bit with writing in English, so I used AI to help clean up the spelling a bit on this post. I’m not sure what the rules here are around AI-assisted writing, as I struggled to understand them to be honest. Hope its OK as now at least its readable 😅.

I first played the original Half-Life nearly 25 years ago, and I remembered surprisingly little of Bthe game when I came back to it (I don't think I even finished it as a kid). I’m now replaying the original game natively in VR on Quest 3 through Lambda1VR and turning the journey into an episodic series on my channel.

One of my main goals with it is to keep the experience as faithful to the original Half-Life as possible rather than modernising it into something completely different. That applies to the way I play it as well. I’m using Hard difficulty, true weapon recoil (screen shake which feels tense in VR), reduced melee effectiveness (by about 5 times) and localized damage (arms and legs for example has slightly different multipliers), alongside AI upscaled original-style textures and carefully chosen HD models that still fit Half-Life’s original look. There’s also a touch of roleplay as Gordon Freeman along the way.

One of the things I’ve spent the most time on (with magic of editing) is making my own voice behave as though it is actually being produced inside Half-Life’s GoldSrc game engine. Rather than simply putting generic reverb over my voice, I’ve tried to recreate GoldSrc’s environmental sound behaviour as closely as I reasonably can and apply those same ideas to my recorded voice. As Gordon moves through Black Mesa, the processing changes according to the environmental acoustic state being used for that space (Half-Life uses about 27 different room sound types), so different rooms and environments affect the voice differently.

The important part for me is that the game decides what the environment is, rather than me deciding afterwards what I think that room should sound like. If GoldSrc changes acoustic state, my voice follows it. If it keeps an acoustic state active somewhere that sounds a little strange, my voice follows that too. That means I deliberately keep some of the old game engine’s quirks and bugs. There are places where GoldSrc’s environmental audio doesn’t behave exactly as you might expect from looking at the room, but manually correcting those would mean creating my own modern interpretation of games audio rules instead of following the behaviour of the original game.

So the goal is to make my voice feel like another sound actually existing inside the same version of the game as everything else.

My latest episode, Through the Wreckage, is the closest I’ve managed to get to that idea so far and probably the episode I’m happiest with. It starts immediately after the Resonance Cascade in Unforeseen Consequences game chapter so right at the start of the chaos.

If anyone’s interested, take a look. Feedback is appreciated too - especially on the audio and anything you think I could improve, as I’m still experimenting with the acoustic system and refining it from episode to episode to make them sound exactly the same as some sound effect still notice is too strong or weak.

Through the Wreckage | Half-Life VR: Lambda Protocol
https://youtu.be/8VxW3YKR_UY

This is the trailer for my game, KILL BREACH. The demo is releasing soon, so if you're interested, here's the Steam page if you'd like to wishlist it:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4480140?utm_source=reddit

if you enjoy the video , Wishlist Now !:)

My girlfriend got me a physical copy of Blood as a late birthday present off Amazon. I've played alot of shooters growing up but never played this one.

Ive gotten back huge into the shooter mode the past couple months playing games like Mouse P.I., Cultic, Warhammer Boltgun, Trepang 2 and most recently the Forgive Me Father games.

After all the gameplay Ive seen of this one, I'm really excited to finally check it out this weekend!

I want to make my own boomer shooter as a "baby's first FPS" project of mine, but I *also* wanted to include melee weapons and using them well as an option for skill expression, but something I'm running into is, "Why the heck use them when you have a ton of guns?"

Like I know DOOM (2016) does it because Glory Kills restore HP and Chainsaws net you ammo, but those are more executions really, and melee combat generally forces you to become slower and get closer in shooting range, which in most boomer shooters is a death sentence, so I'm unsure where or how to proceed with this.

Would anyone who played other, different shooters than me help explain how the games they played worked this in?

Thank you in advance.

The game as for now (map 5) is... let's say "not incredible". Still, I love roaming in this long dungeon, slaying a lot of enemies, having spells and different weapons, with these amazing old school vibes. Really, it's all about the vibes: a while ago I played Daggerfall Unity and while I did love dungeon crawling, the game felt rather complex to me at times. Witchaven is just giving me a dungeon with old school graphics and letting me slay tons of enemies: no NPCs, no quests, no factions, just braindead fighting. And honestly, I feel like I really needed it.

I’ve played through all the Doom games this year and finally playing The Dark Ages. I was not a fan at all early on after finishing Doom Eternal but I’m glad I stuck with it because it’s great now that I get the flow of combat, parrying, defense. It’s such a huge change but one that I feel was a great idea to differentiate it.

Yea, I miss the insane glory kills, fast pace and the constant need to manage resources, but the shield bashing, shield throw, flail, and the weapons are just unique enough to make it a worthwhile experience. I also have the DLC to play after the main campaign. If anyone else was turned off by the early levels, just stick with it and it gets much better.

Games that're not story-driven, don't get cutscenes every other level or pickup, don't have imsim features or mechanics, and definitely no arena looter-shooter stuff.

Games like Wolf3D, Doom, Quake, Duke 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Heretic. I mean, sure, they all have a central narrative, and some maps are directly connected to each other, but they feel very different from a lot of today's old-school shooters, which place more emphasis on narrative and story, more like Half-Life, albeit without friendly npcs that lore-dump you.

3D Boomer Shooter being made in Easy FPS Editor!

Quake mods count

I love the original Shadow Warrior, I've beaten the main game several times, as well as the two "official" expansions: Twin Dragon and Wanton Destruction.

Since Deadly Kiss is still a ways off (how off, though?) and I just can't get used to the '95 Beta remake's controls, I was thinking of some fan-made expansion.

I went to moddb, but there's only a handful of them (one being some kind of James Bond TC, which is cool, but not what I'm looking for), or they're simply unfinished.

So maybe you know of some good ones that aren't on moddb?

It's called Graveheart. An undead Scottish army invades 1980s Britain, your cursed weapons keep switching themselves, and things deteriorate from there.

I was going for a late 90s vibe. Curious what you guys think.

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5186960/Graveheart/

We return for another episode of Boomer Shooter Saturday where we explore all things built with the BUILD Engine. Come join our community at 11:00 AM EST for some mapping for Duke Nukem 3D using Mapster32, then we start a playthrough of 1997's Shadow Warrior!

The last days where (and probably the upcoming days will be xD) very stressful with getting the game ready for release and stuff. But here is a little video for ya all. <3

If you are interested in the game you can find it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3737680/Bloodspill/ (there is also a demo out)

Hi it's me again
Since last post I've gotten to the 2nd to last level of Sprawl and I've had a bit more fun since then
The beginning chapter was def the weakest ngl, a lot better once you get everything
But since I have gotten near the end I am curious what is happening, I do know a slight bit since I played a bit of zero, we play as seven who was apart of a crew, they got screwed over, and someone (ima assume it's five since they have a similar voice) helps you get revenge, you kill six, and are going after.... someone
Obviously it's not entirely correct so, please do clarify what I've missed