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[Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] tgf@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (17 children)

This video is made by Ahoy (quality content). And it's a fairly short video (around 10min) with an interesting conclusion. I highly suggest you watch it.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (16 children)

I see the dismissiveness as a reaction to the title clickbait/burying the lede. I get that this is how you have to do video titles on YouTube to get views, but a sentence or two about what the video's actual premise is in the post body would have gone a long way to interest people who are, understandably IMO, a bit apathetic towards headlines like this.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)

Then let's transcribe part of the opening:

~~I know what you're thinking -- it's a stupid question, it's an FPS. It's the definitive FPS. And it's a fair point. DOOM ticks all the boxes required for a reasonable definition of a first person shooter. It's presented from a first-person perspective, and shooting the bad guys is a key part of it. But the FPS genre didn't exist when DOOM was released. The term "first person shooter" wasn't common until a few years later.~~

~~So what genre was DOOM? How was it originally described?~~

Edit I've now understood that quoting most of the video's opening salvo has unfortunately misrepresented the video's contents to the people who are still trying to leave comments without actually watching it. It's a video about what DOOM's genre is and what DOOM's genre was, not only the latter. The title looks clickbait-y but is honestly pretty accurate regarding the subject of the video.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The answer is still FPS.

I understand it might be an interesting video on Doom being the trailblazer of its genre, but you give me a simple dumb question as the title of your video and I'll give it a snarky dumb answer every time.

[–] all-knight-party@kbin.run 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If this is offending you as a clickbait title, I fear for your long term survival on the internet. This is a downright polite title compared to most of what you'd see on YouTube. Count your blessings.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

It is true, every time I have opened YouTube, I have died.

I now realise this video's existence is my one true blessing and will scoot post haste to the Patreon listed and hand over all of my worldly possessions as penance.

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