We should make games with 2000s FPS aesthetic more
>>744568953sorry we lost the technology. it's all UE5 slop from now on
holy fucking barrage of unc slop
The real appeal of early-mid 00s graphics is their readability. Everything is crisp, clean, understandable, with minimal visual clutter, allowing gameplay and art direction to shine.
>>744569496>readabilityYeah, which is exactly why they won't happen because you have to have a good artistic vision and actually know what you're doing to pull them off. Notice how every single "game" aping PS1 aesthetics looks like shit and looks nothing like an actual PS1 game because the faggot zoomers making those don't have the skill and don't know how these games really looked like because they've never even seen a PS1 IRL. "It's all a vibe" to them and that's it.
>>744569407Your throat should be slit
>>744569062Soldier of Fortune was the SHIT back in my youth. We were mesmerized by the gore, lmao.
Primitive lighting technology and photographed real world textures compliment each other well
Threads like these remind me that video games are fucking over. Nothing really captures the purity of creativity anymore.>inb4 some fag says indie games
>>744569941>Capturing the 'purity' of creativity>Generic FPS games from the 2000sOld faggot doomers like you are so fucking retarded man holy shit
>>744570118Kek, this game was so ass, I couldn't believe my eyes when thr game told me to rescue a fucking kitten
>>744569927game??
shame Warner Brow didn’t make Lithtech an open source engine
>>744570256Sniper: Path of Vengeance
>>744570072I wasn't specifically speaking "only" about these games, but go ahead... Be angry fag.
>>744570421what the fuck is that p90 looks like a railroad track
i miss when games weren't filled with obnoxious amounts of clutter objects.
>>744569243Everyone back at release said that NOLF2 looks mediocre but I always thought it's good looking and I still think it aged like fine wine.
>>744570382god that game is shit
>>744570914game? title gives me nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znz7KfZO4HU
>>744570914Always have to fuck it up with that weapon sways
this
daily reminder that a modern PC is about 1000 times as fast as the typical PC from 2000 and all of it is wasted on retarded normalfag subanimals who think having many resources means you should waste them by being lazy and shitting out code at mach speed instead of optimizing
>>744569423Deadly Dozen, huh. I wanted to play these but always had better games to play instead. I bet you can't even play them today.
MAYBE YOU COULD MENTION THE NAMES OF THESE GAMES TOO YOU CUNTCall me a newfag but I dont know all fps games and im interested in them, I recognize shogo, igi, sof etc but come on nigger
>>744571812daily reminder you are gay
These are what I would call slavcore games. Played almost exclusively by slavs, always exclusive to PC, and when you look them up, most of the websites mentioning them are in Russian.
>>744571993From top to bottom with IMG filename>Project I.G.I>US Most Wanted>Soldier of Fortune 2>New World Order>Code of Honor: Foreign Legion>Specnaz: Project Wolf>No One Lives Forever 2>Tactical Ops>Line of Sight: Vietnam>Deadly Dozen: Pacific Theater>Elite Forces: Navy Seals>US Special Forces: Team Factor>Global Operations>Secret Service: In Harm's Way>Sniper: Path of Vengeance>Devastation>Chaser>Shogo: Mobile Armor Division>Rainbow Six 3 Raven Shield>HEAT Project>Chrome
>>744572231Slavjank FPS began to emerge around 2005s.There's a collection you can buy on Steam but too bad most of them are broken on modern machines.
>>744572264Thanks man, you're the king of this thread
>>744570575He had a point that these were highly derivative even back then, and a lot of them being basically 'X but lower budget'.
>>744571074Klostyn
>>744572328these look fun, thanks anon
>>744572514>>744572545what's wrong with you exactly
>>744569959Devastation was pretty cool
>>744572328I actually recognized Instinct characters in this pic, huh. A perfectly average game and story.
>>744568953I love gwot coreThis is a new Delta Force clonehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2437670/Dagger_Directive/
>>744568953Ehh, there was an awkward period in the mid 00s where everything just kind of looks bad. It wasn't good enough to actually look photo-real, but simultaneously too good to have low-poly charm.A handful of games from those years stand out, but most don't.
>>744570746that's just what p90 magazines look like
>>744572018why do you sound like an abused dog
>>744570631Something about this screenshot does something for me the way modern game cityscapes don't.
>>744568953Project IGI right? I played the demo once when I was 12 and all the memories comes flooding back. Never played the full game. Is it good? Is it on GOG/steam/whatever?
>>744572328Boobajank
>>744569176Are you even allowed to shoot black people in games anymore?
>>744573373yes in GTA
>>744572328Are there more collections like this? The only other one I found was thishttps://store.steampowered.com/bundle/2649/This_is_war_FPS_classics/
You don't kno how much I wish for a Korea War shooter made in the style of early COD
>>744574125These actually take a shit ton of effort to make
>>744574125I'd take some new WW2 games in the style of CoD1/UO, H&D2 or MoHPA in general because there haven't been any good ones released in years.
>>744571812I heard that you are gay
>>744574758thanks for the (You)
>>744573205Only GOG sells them
Clean, simple and colorful textures is actually my favorite aesthetic.Think old FPS, GTA VC and SA, Warband.
>>744568953people do. they call em boomer shooters. now ok, the majority are 90s PC shooter like DOOM / Quake inspired but the younger crowd are also making ones with PS1 - PS2 inspired graphics.
here, for free.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2195910/Darkenstein_3D/
>>744576171Not a single game posted in this thread is even close to being a "boomer shooter", and even the most retarded gen alpha assbreathers won't call them that because not a single screenshot here resembles a "boomer shooter", not even close. Why the hell would you even bring Doom and Quake here.
>>744576305>pixelated ps1 tier texturesThese retards really don't get it
>>744576354thats what people call “old shooters” that arent the newest cod or fortnite i thought. i dunno man dont get mad at me
>>744569183Retard
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3748520/SPRAWL_zero/PS2 inspired.
>>744576930Sorry. Boomer shooters are very "arcade-y" shooters, all are set in some kind of unrealistic setting, with monsters, crazy weapons, nonsensical levels architecture, healthkits and other bonuses just casually scattered around the map. No attempt at realism. The genre basically ended once Half-Life 1 got released, until the Dusk "revived" the genre. Even if it's quite different now, it still basically never tries to be realistic.The shooters posted here don't have any "umbrella" term to describe them. Until someone comes up with another quirky chungus title. Like Fortunate-like or Draft Slop or something.
>>744577454y2k shooters?
>gloomy atmosphere>neon green GUI>military fpsyep, SOVL
>>744568953Deepstate on steam
>>744570631>with modern technology, we could have this but actually populated with hundreds of npcs, all with unique routines they follow, every building enterable, a shit ton of interactables, incredible physics, environmental destruction, you name it>instead it's just as empty and non-interactable but it looks somewhat like a picture
>>744577576The genre is not that interesting to be honest desu. It's quite literally the realism slop, boring modern-ish realistic setting, generic modern weapons, boring humanoid enemies, super retarded super boring badly designed boss fights with boring humanoids except extra bullet-spongy. The only good things about these games are crystal clear crisp graphics and cool interesting set pieces, and if the first part is easy to reproduce, the second requires an actual talent, and we all know how "talented" the indie devs are, considering none of the so called boomer shooters came close to surpassing Doom or Quake or Duke.And without cool levels set in exotic locations, or just well designed encounters, there's basically nothing this sub-genre has to offer imo.
>>744568953this is the thread for me, holy shit. I love these. Budget later 90s/early 2000s shooter kino.
>>744578121I legitimately only play FPS for how the guns sound shooting or reloading.
>>744571812This is a trve daily reminder. Instead of using that graphical power for NPC populations, their routines, physics, interactive depth etc we're wasting all that on muh gwaphix. Fucking normalnigger cattle.
>>744572328a ton of the older shooters were played by eastern yuros even though they were making very few of them themselves at the time
>>744572575what's this one?
>>744571812>>744578354
>>744578463Judging from the excessive bloom and ""detailed"" yet still shitty lowres textures it's some PS3 era garbage. So nothing like the rest of the games here.
>>744578121nah, I wouldn't call them all realism slop.
>>744578463>what's this one?Exodus from the Earth
>>744578516the jeetening of everything.>>744578679you must be blind because that's firm early 2000s nostalgic shooter to me. Probably 2004. Bloom doesn't disqualify it, it has a fucking heath and armor bar, PS3 era shooters were by and large all regenerating health bullshit with few exceptions.
>>744578919>Exodus from the Earth>2008well nevermind I was wrong about the date but I'd definitely play it. The soul of an early 2000s budget shooter is definitely in there.
>>744579051It's not that bad. I played through it last year on Steam.
>>744578984>released august 2007I won this round bro. The excessive bloom really ruins everything. The sub-genre basically died once the PS3 opened the floodgate of horrible post-processing effects.
>>744579102Nice, I'll maybe give it a shot someday>>744579120I really don't mind the bloom at all, I'm far more concerned the mechanics matching those older shooters, which this one does. Very few of those older shooters were truly super good anyway.
>>744577286unfortunate troon dev
>>744568953I remember the early to mid 2000s when I would visit my cousin and we'd spend an entire day trying to beat some random CoD mission to no avail. Those were the times.
We need a new FPS game centered around the realities of present-day modern warfare. Drone warfare like in Ukraine for example.
this is peak
>>744579886I'm not sure that would make for interesting gameplay
>>744572328what's that weeb slavjank at the right?
>>744579461it's over...
>>744569738What happened to SoF gore technology?
>modern games that are spiritually 2000s shooters
>>744579941>chasing down vatniggers and seeing corpses and bits off ass fly everywherenah, it'd be kino
>>744579886>Drone warfareThe most boring dogshit imaginable? Yeah, it would be really a great game.
>>744580349We kinda just forgot how to do it.Joking aside, that's actually what it is. Or rather, all these new fucks don't know how or they don't peruse it. Things like that are just programming and have been capable for years. Graphics were a lot more simple back then so they put their programing efforts into doing cool gameplay shit. Perfect Dark comes to mind. Now all that coding effort is going towards visuals. Constant talks about this shader that shader, ambient occlusion, Paralax, Deferred rendering, particle systems, global illumination, raytracing, blah blah blah. Gone are the simple light-mapped based maps. Now all that focus is on trying to make it look better than the competitor.Though to give credit that stuff is harder to do the higher poly and detail you go. A couple of simple gibs is easier to make look good in an old game than the high fidelity shit you see today. The effort on everything goes up exponentially so they don't bother.
>>744569496These all look like ass and take me a couple moments to interpret what I'm looking at.I guess it's fine if you grew up on them since you recognize the colors and shapes far quicker.
>>744577965Modern CPUs wouldn't be able to handle it. There's no point in having GPUs capable of rendering a bunch of sophisticated effects when, in the end, it's the CPU that has to handle NPCs and things like that.Even games like Rollercoaster Tycoon can cause problems for modern computers when there are too many guests in the park.
>>744580545Drones are extremely fun to fly.
>>744580569Okay, I'll admit it. I'm triggered.
>>744580670You sound extremely underage
>>744569602indie devs are all lazy shits who dont want to put in the same hours that OG indie devs put in. its why all we get are games with good ideas and lackluster execution.
Why do 80% of these look like half life 1 or CSS clones made by russian children with fetal alcohol syndrome?
>>744572384most have bad game/level design too
>>744579957Metathrone. I think it's supposed to be generic cartoon styled fps
Currently replaying the 1985 campaign
>>744581313I spent so many hours creating my own adventures in the level editor for Operation Flashpoint. I'd make fun scenarios like my helicopter crashed in some random forest and I'd have to try to find my way out with the place surrounded by enemies.
>>744569407this, literally the most grim era of videogames, only Stalker and EYE had something interesting going on with their art styles
I know people joke about it with old games in general but the vast majority of these games are not even on the level of being mediocre, it's pure nostalgia.Some have a nice look to them but even then there's nothing that captivating about the actual gameplay and level design.
>>744581449I was a bit more autistic and just put a couple platoons of infantry and tanks against each other and see who comes out on top. I did this in particular on Desert island and that one fjord like place on Malden.
>>744570118>>744570242>I know we can make it together~
>>744581632>muh graphics
>>744583102stalker and EYE are also some of the only games mentioned in this thread with interesting gameplay
>>744583262lollmao
>>744583434Go on then, mention some. I'll give you one for free: Operation Flashpoint.
>>744579706I hate source.
>>744583262>>744581632they're also far too modern to be called early 2000s shooters. The thread is about late 90s and 2004 at the latest shooters.
I know people love DF:Black Hawk, but for me it will allways be 2
https://x.com/ZOOMPlatform/status/2083939027711881568?s=20
>>744583521Nigga you gay. It's virtually the last big engine with SOVL and proper anti-aliasing.
>>744583671source will always be a comfort engine for me, but goldsrc outcomfies it I think
>>744581164The demo for this reminded me of Rise of The Triad. Not very good.
You can just play old games
>>744573205Project IGI was a freeware game, you can still just download it for free if you search.
Nice spam, would make sense to name the unc game images correctly, this way your thread could have been useful. Of course you are just wasting time here.
>>744568953How about some pixelshit metroidvania instead?
>>744580621Modern cpus are thousands of times more powerful than they were back then, how could this be the case?
>>744574491Check out Easy Red 2, they made the AI to behave in better fashion. It's now like "we have CoD/Medal of Honor at home" game.
>>744586875I know about Easy Red. It's good for what it is but it's definitely not like the original MoH and CoD games. It's more like BF1942 than those two.
>>744586978Why are you posting like a primary schooler? I don't know every identical B tier fps game from 2003 and to be honest you weren't even born yet.
>>744569062I wish SoF2 wasn't such a pain in the ass to run in modern windows
>empty low-poly maps with nothing to do and bare-bones dumbed-down gameplay that consists of pressing two buttons/v/ yearns for mobile games
this game got the aesthetic right
>>744587645but enough about VNshit
>>744575891GoG doesn't sell Project IGI
>>744587708You had nothing to refute him so you deflect onto something completely unrelated.
>>744568953The problem is there are no modern engines that recreate those vibes. Unity is unoptimized slop for jeets and unreal engine is too modern.You would have to build an engine from scratch and copy their exact rendering code to get the same feel as early 2000s FPS
>>744579934My biggest problem with Soldier of Fortune is medium difficulty is literally journalist mode. You can stand in front of enemies and they cant hit you. Then you tick it up to hard mode and suddenly every enemy has instant hitscan 1 shot death guns.SoF 1 and 2 didnt age well. They were all about the multiplayer anyways.
>>744589363Are you still talking?
>>744590052(unreal tournament female announcer voice) concession accepted
>>744589513Godot
>>744589363>N-not him butshut up fag
>>744589513idtech 3 (quake 3 engine) is open source. there's no excuse.
>>744592296Where do you even learn to make stuff for Quake 3 engine of all things? Quake 1 has a lot of mods but almost nothing for Quake 3. >>744592074Isn't that literally just gamemaker but with extra tranny community? What the fuck has even been made for Godot?
I loved playing delta force as a 4 or 5 year old and not understanding anything because I didn't bother reading the mission brief but just roaming around the map and figuring out all the controls on my own
the terrorists' death screams were funny in this game
>>744592463
>>744587317this website has been shit for ages, we have literal zoomers defending skyrim here now
>>744594569thats because nothing better has come out since 2011. Even if Skyrim is shit, all zoomers have is fallout 4 and starfield
>>744594337Pure soul. Imagine if someone made a kino FPS campaign in the quake 3 engine in the year of our lord 2020+6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uUO2ZapJSM
love having the bullets eject straight into my face
>>744570072What game would you say captures the purity of creativity to you?
>>744570684Isn't that game especially terrible?
I think OP might be onto something.
>>744599492Why hello there Frau
>>744596186based, still one of the coolest FPS ever made. Over the top action but still with super serious military setting
Strike Force
>>744599492
>>744600282clickclickclickclickclickclickclick
We had battlebit and the devs fucked it up. Yeah it's not 2000s graphics but it ran just fine.
>>744589513Unreal can easily recreate those vibes with baked lighting. No one forces you to use Nanite + Lumen
>>744572286What game?
>>744605578Perfect Dark Zero
>>744589709Yeah, challenging is harder than unfair in SoF1.In SoF2, hardest diff is fine once you realise leaning and single-fire mode are OP.
2004
>>744569062Still looks great.
>>744568953*ahem*
>>744572264based fucking nigga
erm i thought we all agreed heckin brown and bloom is problematic i need to replay black
>>744570072You know what he means faggot. These games all have a similar structure sure, but they were made by people who just wanted to make vidya and push the medium and technology behind it to its limits. Which makes them feel pure.
>>744568953Too much effort for most indie developers.
>>744606262Thanks, looks pretty good>xbox 360 exclusiveLame, oh well, emulation feels smooth anyways
>>744607929What could've been, damn it
>>744572264Thank you, based anon
>>744608248game?
>>744608308brigand oaxaca
>>744572264thx anon
>>744570065Chaser was good and anyone who says it was bad is a spastic who never played it and only watched some idiotic youtuber get filtered.
>>744607181I liked that era of vidya where everything was shiny and plasticy looking.This, Doom 3, Timeshift etc.
>>744608883The era right before bloom cancer and UE3 was peak
>>744609106Too bad that was a shitty Breakdown-lite based on a shittier franchise.
>>744586869jeet finds a way
>>744609106It's ludicrous how modern games can still skimp on shadows if they aren't deemed important enough. Riddick goes to show how important self-shadowing is under all circumstances.
>>744608883games just had more soul back then
>>744598417Roller Coaster Tycoon, Noita or maybe Brood War.
>>744609106Absolute peak. FEAR, Chaos Theory, Doom 3, Riddick, Blood Money. Best looking games ever.
>>744593104Are you me? Did your dad occasionally stop by to guide you in the right direction?
I like this era because everything is easily readable.When I play a new shooter I don't even know where to look at.
>>744583521>>744583671>>744579706fucking love it, feels like homealthough my go-to source game was DoD:S
>>744583671Funny, we thought graphics would only get better but it turns out they had already peaked long before.
>>744596186>Still no BLACK cloneWhat a shame
>>744609237are you high? escape from butcher bay was a damn fine game
>>744580016>filenameis this a L4D1 map?
>>744617726Search your feelings, you know it to be true
>>744603997tbf though the baked lighting is a lot harder to do in UE5 than in previous versions. It was obviously an afterthought given all the shit they put into lumen
>>744618179I don't even feel like calling you a retard
>>744609106damn I always forget about Riddickthe original version on xboxhueg looked better than the eventual remaster they put out, too
>>744609106>The era right before bloom cancer and UE3 was peakI hate that you're right about this but it's true.UE3, while it still had some pretty impressive and fun games, was the beginning of the great decline.
anybody finished this?
>>744582162>but even then there's nothing that captivating about the actual gameplay and level designThat's great and all... but we're talking about aesthetics here and how visually simple it is to see things. I will never ever care, about some random anon claiming I like something for nostalgia sake anyway. Go post somewhere else.
>>744620380I did. It's a mid game, with an interesting, yet half baked concept. And a sequel hook with no sequel
I don't get nostalgiafags. Literally the only way to be nostalgic for a game is if:>A). You currently do not own the game and want to have it or play it (you can)>B). You currently own the game and do not want play it (why not, i mean if nostalgia = thing you're *dying* to play)>C). You played it to death and want more novelty (thus meaning nostalgia is obsoleted by... novelty = new games, thousands of games you are refusing to play)>D). Your headcanon for what the game is *meant to be* is not in the market (i.e. not only does the game not exist, it has not ever existed and cannot exist unless some external force specifically makes [game in anon's mind])>E). Your emotions have absolutely nothing to do with the game at all (nostalgic game = rosebud/ratatouille) and thus no future game will ever provide sufficient sentimental value beyond "sparking the memory of" [anon's game]it's a toxic mindset that results in shitty remakes in both indie and AAA space. keel over and let people do something else in gamedev.
>>744609237Lol, dumbass.>>744609106This was the game that really fucked with me when I got an Xbox. Incredible game and incredible use of shadows.
>>744599423It's pretty bad, funny to hear dukes VA in it tho
