I want to play an easy shooter where you feel like you're in a flow state aiming at targets, the only time I've ever felt like that was in the PS2 Medal of Honour, kneecap, helmet shot, head shot or up till MW4 original.

I've tried the latest CoD and the cinematics and cutscenes are just overblown.

Borderlands would be a kind of turn off your brain type but they haven't made a new game in awhile.

Helldiver had great shooting but the grind, limited levels and multiplayer means I wasn't too invested in it after a hard days work

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, as others have noted I think "cozy" is probably a loaded term in this context. However, I will throw these recommendations into the ring also: The first couple of Serious Sam games, and also Painkiller. Both of them are firmly in the "murdering tons of dudes" genre, and are significantly less tactical than the likes of Medal of Honor/Call of Duty/Battlefield.

That is to say, not at all.

There is none of that sucking your thumb to regenerate health, popping out from the chest-high walls inexplicably strewn everywhere taking potshots with your gun like a hillbilly jack-in-the-box. Rather, their gameplay loop involves herding and managing a massive horde of enemies, prioritizing your targets, and keeping yourself moving. Like a sheep dog with a chaingun.

People try to call the original Doom games a horde shooter. They really aren't. These two, however, definitely are.

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You've convinced me to finally play Serious Sam. I've had it on Steam for years.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It can be charitably described as above, and uncharitably described as "Hold down S and LMB for an hour at a time". I kind of bounced off these. They aren't bad games, in fact they were pretty popular but most of your gameplay loop is going to revolve around getting the attention of a horde of goons and then backpedaling while you whittle the group down from 80 dudes to none.

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

I mean, I played several other horde shooters. Firing continually while backpedaling is the most vintage of infantry tactics, after all. I get that these games are old and simpler, but their base gameplay must still be fun if they were so popular back in the day. I'll at least give it a shot, since I already have them anyway...

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

also, just noticed your username. Cool Eragon reference, took me a second to remember that it meant "dragon" in the elven language.