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[Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The title used "is." They should've said, "What genre was Doom? Hint: FPS wasn't a genre yet." It's a little more wordy, but I probably would've watched it. I'm not watching this out of principle because the title sucks, and I don't want to reward that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My quote is not the only content of the video; I've just included most of the introduction. The 13:23 long video has the following chapter markers:

00:00 Introduction 00:50 How was DOOM originally described? 02:20 DOOM clones 04:33 Quake Killers 6:06 A hypothetical question 12:05 Conclusion

Only the first half of the video is accurately described by your suggested title. The video as a whole is described by the existing title with reasonable accuracy. It's not a bait-and-switch: the video also discusses what genre DOOM is, not only what genre DOOM was.

It seems that you (and many others) have used a heuristic of "clickbait-y sounding titles don't accurately describe the contents of videos" and left corresponding comments. Although often accurate, that heuristic has failed in this instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I ended up watching it, and I thought it was generally just okay. Basically, here's the tldr from what I remember:

  1. Doom was originally a "virtual reality adventure" game - I guess that was the terminology for "first person" game back in the early 90s
  2. Doom clone became a thing for a couple years until Quake came along, at which point "Quake killer" was the term used; just prior to this, "first person shoot'em up" was used
  3. Some random discussion about what Doom would've been called if it didn't get popular - not sure what that speculation is worth imo, maybe trying to discard biases?
  4. conclusion that Doom was actually an action RPG? Because it has similar gameplay as gauntlet? Gauntlet was a hack and slash dungeon crawler, not an action RPG, so the proper conclusion imo is "first person shoot'em up dungeon crawler," the "action RPG" argument came out of left field

So that's my take. I don't think it was a particularly noteworthy watch, and I'm not particularly motivated to subscribe to watch more. It was okay though, so I'm not going to avoid the channel or anything.