Licensed Computer Games [Video game] Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

[Evil Eye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3UjcYszfD8

 

Happening status: It's.

[Seahawk]

Hahahahaaaa I love this. Played classic (aka real) Doom with my brother, good throwback.

[grailkeeper]

I'm glad that like me they take the view that nothing that happened after 1999 is canon ;)

[Brother Casman]

This feels like a game that should have existed!

[DeadFingers]

Welcome to the boomer shooter renaissance, 40k. Nice to have you here.

[Sergeant Centurion]

Old school shotter, check. Doom carnage, check. Firstborn, check. Ultramarine, check. Im in.

[Harald Fairmane]

Should hire sgt mark IV the creator of Brutal Doom :D

[RedFox]

this is perfect

[Jukkiz]

Videogames:

Doom eternal 2020

in youtube description

[Blindhamster]

haha looks fun in that oldschool fast paced silly kinda way, been a long time since i played the original doom

[Alby the Slayer]

Something I want and I dont' even knew it!

 

The intro got me, damn nostalgia :D

[OttoVonAwesome]

This is rad. Oldschool doom meets Warhammer where was this when I was a kid?

Edited March 22, 2023 by Brother Tyler
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[redmapa]

I appreciate the retro vibe and Im totally getting this but I hope there's a graphic setting so the player doesnt look so pixelated. Its a really rad looking game and retro shooter fits 40k like a glove.

[Ramell]

Yes please.

[BitsHammer]

A classic Doom clone with modern hardware? Oh that could be goooooood.

[Typhonian]

Classic Doom + Spess Mehreens. This is almost like a dream. Hopefully they take some clues from Brutal Doom as well. 

 

The trailer is cool too.

[MegaVolt87]

Zoomers olny dubbed a sect of games boomer shooters because Millenials/ Gen-Y are unbeatable in them. Zoomies mad.

[Arkhanist]

And there was me thinking GW was branching out into some kind of meta story game; strong 'gone home' or 'life is strange' vibes from the start of the trailer!

 

I mean a nostalgia doom-a-like is fine, but I kinda want that game now about a lapsed hobbyist finding some old models after a move, and exploring the bittersweet memories of the friends they left behind, and finding a way to reconnect with that innocent joy we had as kids, and maybe the catharsis of resolving an old mystery...

 

Man, I'm getting old!

[tinpact]

I think it's a term of endearment (if an inaccurate one) in this case.

 

After years of CoD clones it's a breath of fresh air to have something a little less self-serious.

[DeadFingers]

After years of CoD clones it's a breath of fresh air to have something a little less self-serious.

I hope you're talking about 40k games (not that there have been many 40k shooters, I can only recall Hired Gun) and not about games in general, because there's been an absolute explosion of retro and/or retro-inspired shooters these past few years and it's been amazing.

[tinpact]

 

After years of CoD clones it's a breath of fresh air to have something a little less self-serious.

I hope you're talking about 40k games (not that there have been many 40k shooters, I can only recall Hired Gun) and not about games in general, because there's been an absolute explosion of retro and/or retro-inspired shooters these past few years and it's been amazing.

 

 

Oh yeah, I probably should have phrased that better; I meant more like the last fifteen-ish years of FPS games in general (I'm biased in my vendetta against the Michael-Bay-wannabe genre). I don't mean to imply that Boltgun is the first game to take inspiration from retro games, rather that I'm glad that it's part of that wave.

[techsoldaten]

Needs an 8-bit soundtrack. But yeah, that video is pitch perfect.

[DeadFingers]

Oh yeah, I probably should have phrased that better; I meant more like the last fifteen-ish years of FPS games in general (I'm biased in my vendetta against the Michael-Bay-wannabe genre). I don't mean to imply that Boltgun is the first game to take inspiration from retro games, rather that I'm glad that it's part of that wave.

Yeah fair enough. It's great that the genre has been expanding its horizons lately though. Even if that means taking the formula almost 30 years back and applying all those years of technological advancement to it. 

[Reldn]

This is glorious! I am definitely looking forward to this game.

[Urauloth]

This is exactly what I want out of a WH40k licensed game.