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[โ€“] Deestan 61 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's so funny to be reminded of that period in the 90s where any first person game was described as a "DOOM clone", because DOOM itself was the first FPS that hugely took off.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Exactly, DOOM is DOOM. I remember hearing Wolfenstein calls a DOOM Clone too.