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This strikes me as a misinformed view. I can't be sure if it comes from a lack of understanding of the terminology or if you simply do not have much experience with first/third-person shooter games. Also, I'll assume you mean "every shooter" by "every game", because entire genres such as RTSes and bullet hells would inherently contradict your point. I can list a decent handful of shooters with neither sprinting nor iron sights off the top of my head: Doom (1, 2, 64), Halo (CE, 2, 3, and ODST), Half Life 1, Descent, Quake 4, Fallout 3, Duke Nukem 3D, Vivisector: Beast Within, and FEAR 1. Games did not always have both iron sights and sprinting, with iron sights in particular only existing in a limited capacity prior to the popularity of CoD4. Stating that any of those games above have either of those features requires bending agreed-upon definitions. Iron sights is a more specific phenomenon than being able to aim down a scope, and sprinting is more specific than the game having a form of fast movement speed. I can explain my definitions in more detail in a follow-up comment, if you wish. Have a good one!

@@marriedtomychair The problem is that you're presenting these as some quirks peculiar to games from that era when in reality it's more like they were popularized back then and are now included in virtually every FPS (that isn't deliberately trying to be "boomer.") The list you provided are all pre-2010 games. The only two "horsemen" that make sense are regen health and the two weapon limit as those can really be said to be trends that have since died out (though not sure about two weapon limit). Iron sights and sprinting just became part of the FPS palette and are in no way relics. Good video overall, though.

Ah, that's an interesting way to think of it too! Neon White clearly takes place in heaven, but it's a very abstract interpretation of heaven. So it seems oddly appropriate that MBU is so abstract that it can be interpreted as heaven. That's a fun commonality.

I believe it's the final mission of the Scorchers expansion.

I've been to that VRChat world you're talking about! In fairness, that world doesn't run super well, though my computer is admittedly a handful of years behind the curve. Still, shaders are some interesting, quirky stuff.

@@marriedtomychair Yeah VRC is not very well optimized TvT. But yeah! Shaders are sick, the gpu can do so much when it isn't tied down with communicating to the cpu.

Oh, that's interesting! I could imagine it being a light inspiration. I remember hating the way Cyberspace controlled, but thinking the concept was fun and the tech was ambitious for the time. Also reminds me I'm overdue for a replay of SS1.

Hello! Apologies for taking a while to reply. I had some difficult days, got distracted, and it slipped my mind for a bit. Regardless, it's great to know you've seen my video. It's probably the first time the creator of a game themself has visited my comment section. It seems you've taken my criticisms well. In fact, I'm writing this response shortly after seeing you released an update that made a lot of my proposed changes! I'm really happy to see it. I've never had such a major influence on a game before. I need a break from this game for a while (it's nothing bad, it's more that making these videos can be so exhausting that I have to distance myself from the games I cover for a while), but I promise I'll pick it back up again soon. I don't usually make followup videos but I likely will make one in the near future, since the update clearly fixes a lot of the issues I had. I still do wish for more dungeon layout variety and enemies with more advanced behaviors, but as things stand, it sounds like the game is in a significantly more comfortable place. A friend of mine promised he would purchase and play this game soon, so I'm looking forward to see what he has to say about this current version. I might be slightly late to the punch on this part, but I worry that hitscan enemies having "wake up" sounds could contribute to the odd soundscape I mentioned in the video. I know a lot of classical shooter do that kind of thing though, so I guess it depends on how it's implemented. Also, that tidbit about the cannon's alt-fire is interesting. It's definitely rather exotic and I would have mentioned it if I noticed it. I probably missed a terminal that mentioned it. Also, funny little side thing - the sleep cube has become an in-joke between me and a handful of my friends. I am curious if the sleep cube has any significant purpose? And what is the significance of the 1939 New York's World Fair? The sleep cube room is such a memorably strange and bizarre sight, and it's perhaps the exact moment that made me fascinated with this game. I'd love to see more odd, inexplicable sights like that in future versions of the game. And out of curiosity: Was this game influenced by System Shock 1 and Marathon? Assuming you were inspired by other games, I am curious to know what some of your inspirations for Fractal Block World were. Anyways, my channel is small, but I'm still hoping this video brought a good few eyes on this game. Have a good one, and good luck with future development!

@@marriedtomychair I really appreciate you making your video! It is always good to get feedback. Over the next 6 months I will make changes addressing your ideas. I will make monsters have a delay before they shoot the player, making some kind of indication. The indication will be a white dot that appears on the attack display. By the way, the attack display on my version (which I will upload soon) now uses a cylindrical model as you suggested instead of a spherical model (the spherical model was because the game originally had 6 degrees of freedom). That is, now it shows "verticality". I also think that some monsters should be part of a hive mind, where once you are seen by them for a few seconds, then they start shooting you. This way you cannot fly through a lot of them quickly without being hit. However you can stand at the edges and chip away at them. This is not as much of a problem for the monsters that are on a larger level of detail than the player (these monsters can simply have a personal delay). I want to have more monsters move around, which is a technical issue with the engine. The only real problem is I need to write the code in a way so it does not slow down the program. More varied dungeons is a good idea. Ideally most dungeons would be of the "hub" type of area you described. So the game would be hubs inside hubs insides hubs. I think I2 needs more of these. I2 is supposed to be the canonical place to improve your railgun. When I play that game (on the purple cat difficulty), it usually takes me an hour to get to I2, but then the game becomes more difficult and it would be good for me to put more places to explore there. I try to leave I2 as quickly as I can and go into I3, which paradoxically is easier (if you have a good railgun weapon). There I can farm nuke upgrades. By the way, have you been to outer space? You can get there from the Tau Caves. You want to go up the Oak Trees using your rockets first to kill the monsters (before you enter the tree). Having more ammo and waypoints is a good idea. In this next version you will be able to respawn while keeping all your ammo for a fee (8% of your gold). I am on a mission to replace all white box devices with alternative mechanisms (such as toll doors). For example, Montreal cities now have a 300 gold toll door, which once are open are open forever. Some white box devices are used in "arcades" where you are given infinite ammo when you enter, but all your ammo is stolen when you leave. These can be replaced by a system which when you leave, it sets your ammo to what it was when you entered. When you play it again, I would recommend the "purple cat" difficulty, which is now the normal difficulty. In this mode it is quicker to kill monsters and tanking damage is less of a problem. There is also less upgrade grind. I mostly play on the purple cat mode. I also added more to the storyline. The laser secondary is now much better at wiping out a horde of monsters. I am also going to add a weapon mode to the cannon designed to replace the primary mode. This new mode (the tommy gun) will be able to hit monsters larger and farther away. The 1939 World's Fail room is a reference to my dad, who loves that fair. The sleep box is intended to let you sleep so that you can pick up ammo boxes again (most ammo respawns in an hour). However I don't want people to abuse that mechanic. Speaking of ammo, one of the big reason for so many one-way doors and one-way waypoints was so players would not keep using waypoints back to certain places over and over again to pick up ammo instead of just picking it up as they played normally. The fix that I made in the last update was to have a new type of ammo which does not respawn. Then having that next to a waypoint is not such a problem. I have not played System Shock 1 or Marathon, but I will have to check them out! This game was inspired by Infinifrag/Infiniminer, Descent (1994), Diablo 2, and Ken's Labyrinth. I am not sure if you know this, but I was the codeveloper with Zach Barth on Infinifrag 2. He went on from there to make Infiniminer (which inspired Minecraft), and I went on to make what I called "Block Arena" which then turned into Fractal Block World. So the common ancestor of Minecraft and Fractal Block World is Infinifrag 2! You can read about Infinifrag 2 in the credits area of Fractal Block World in the game (go behind the pictures in the credit area).

It's something I've thought about covering for a good while. I could probably do it as a quick one-off at some point, sure.

Flashbacks! When I first played Ken's Labyrinth on a shareware compilation, never in my wildest dreams did I expect Silverman's tech to become the most licensed FPS engine of the 1990s.

Funny you say that, as the developer discusses on his website that Ken's Labyrinth was a significant inspiration for the game. One enemy type (that I only saw in the monster manual) even had "Ken's Lab" written right on its texture. I guess he's quite open about his influences.

"this might be autisms most fractalest cultural output so far" is a very colorful descriptor. i'll have to borrow that.

It's Hypnagogia: Boundless Dreams.