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Are the real spiritual successor to Quake.
#3 posted by
Joel B on 2017/11/14 21:45:20
Another contender (haven't played it): Midnight Ultra
http://store.steampowered.com/app/731590/Midnight_Ultra/
Got a few thoughts on theme/atmosphere at least... will put those in a separate post.
#4 posted by
Spud on 2017/11/14 22:15:13
While I haven't played or heard of everything on that list, there seems to be two main flaws that most of the 'new wave of retro shooters' always hit. The first is name-dropping every old school shooter they can think of, by name specifically, in the game's trailer- Doom, Quake, Heretic, and Hexen, primarily- but playing much more like Serious Sam instead, full of large but enclosed arenas with waves of identical enemies for the player to mow down. The second is a graphical complaint- either making the game too dated looking, worse than the actual FPSs of the time, or trying to make it look like Quake 1-era graphics but ignoring palette limitations, texture scaling, etc. so it looks like a typical ugly Darkplaces mod.
Also, controversial opinion: these types of games rely very heavily on good level design, this site still existing being an obvious testament to that, and using procedural/random generation for your levels (no matter how many rooms you've made) immediately makes them crap.