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I’m thinking more arena shooters like quake and unreal.

A strict definition is hard. The first thing that came to my mind was 'like quake'.

Fps games have come in phases. Most recently looter shooters, before that battle royals, before that hero shooters. And quite early in that chain you had boomer shooters.

Fixed pov would certainly be a step down that path but I wouldn't call it a requirement. If Quake got a faithful remake with all the advancements of 2024 and non of the industry trends that'd be a boomer shooter.

If you made a brand new arena shooter with no classes and an array of ~8 distinct weapons (think one rocketlauncher, one SMG, one pistol etc.) laid across the map focused on something like TDM or KotH, that could be a boomer shooter.

It's kind of like porn, you know it when you see it.

From my comment to the first guy:

They're just shooters that are mechanically similar to old shooters like Quake and Doom, so you're typically gonna have a mix of these traits:

• A wide range of weapons with unique uses (think rockets, railguns, shotguns, machine guns...)
• Chapters that you can complete in any order but the levels in them are completed linearly
• Colored keys to open colored doors
• A level-end screen when you reach the end of a level that tells you your completion time and what % of items/enemies are left
• And my favorite part, a lot of them have advanced movement techniques, which are usually identical to Quake (if not Quake 2/3) like bunnyhopping and rocket-jumping

Would this be like a "fixed perspective" fps ( like of doom or quake or Wolfenstein)?

That's what "first person" means in the context of videogames lol. That's the FP in FPS