Will there ever be a gothic shooter like Quake again?

[Romo Lampkin]

A lot of games nowadays are fairly conventional and boring. Doom 4 looks like a cartoon, it's not scary or unnerving like the originals. Quake took it up a notch and I loved the Lovecraftian influence, it had magic/mysticism but it was also hardcore, the NIN soundtrack was out of this world. Are there any modern games like this and do you think we'll ever see a return to that kind of style of game?

 

[Kemaiku]

Wolfenstein bro.

 

[SPCTRE]

Thread title sort of made me want to see what a Gothic FPS would look like.

Although it probably would be basically a Bethesda take on the Gothic franchise. No thank you siree.

 

[Romo Lampkin]

Wolfenstein was good, I played it in 2002. Yes, I think Bethesday would ruin it, it would just be vanilla gothic, like Elder Scrolls, not scary, not menacing, just bland. What was cool about Quake is that there was an artistic vision behind it, it was gothic but not generic gothic, I like hearing the descriptions of it as basically being a world of grim castles and oppressive environments with weird, mystical elements. I read HP Lovecraft and I think Quake evokes the ambience in his stories, it's just weird, alien and hostile, like a Meshuggah song. We need more of that in games, they're too generic these days!

 

[B.J.]

Wolfenstein is gothic? Oh wait, I forgot they remade it. Only ever played the original.

 

[Jono]

Warhammer 40K is quite gothic. They did do a FPS back in the early 2000s called Fire Warrior and it had a very gothic feel, which isn't surprising given you fight a lot of it on an Imperium capital ship.

There is a third person MMO shooter that's been in early access for a while called Eternal Crusade. I haven't played it and given its time in EA and the development issues its had I'm very wary of it.

 

[Kemaiku]

Wolfenstein is gothic? Oh wait, I forgot they remade it. Only ever played the original.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001) opens with Wizards and demonically possessed Germanic warlords, the game features all kinds of demons, spirits, zombies and occult themes. Battling through catacombs and castles.

Wolfenstein (2009) has the player actually having dark powers to help destroy a Nazi regiment that's experimenting with harnessing black magic and becoming half monster.

The New Order takes place in the 1960's and takes the series into a new Steampunk era instead, dropping a lot of the supernatural themes. But the smaller prequel The Old Blood takes you to a re-imaged Castle Wolfenstein and features a blend of the 2000's occult version with the 2010's streampunk acting as the crossover.

RtCW is definitely the most gothic of all of them, a lot of the levels have stuff right out of horror movies. At least in Doom you have massive armour and futuristic weapons, in RtCW when people raise demons to kill you, you only have a flak vest and 1940's weapons...

 

[think]

sometimes it feels like I am back at quake shooting the bad dudes... just more intense and ... really really fast...I do not know how Gothic a space ninja is when he is called necro or say draco and the stalker 000 but mmmm maybe warframe is that 000 robotic like quake I used to play... --- I know there are no pentagrams lining the walls or Gothic noises making sounds but third person shooter --- four person teaming 00 if you want 00 and such http://www.warframe.com might be that ninja gothic and - all inclusive world thing.. (did I just say thing.?)

warframe! ninjas play for free... so this means you kill and play and can advance at a slower rate without paying oooo hhhh unless you are ninja fast

 

[Mr. Adventure]

There is more Quake to play now.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/24/free-quake/