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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 17:06:51 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   FPS: the documentary. It's okay. It's not so much a documentary as it is a list. You get a list of games in semi-release order, and for each you either get a dev story if devs were interviewed or random people saying how great the game is when no one involved was interviewed.
   Sometimes you get a long story, sometimes a very short one. Of course the "definitive" in the tagline of means absolutely nothing, as it is not definitive in any sense. In fact half-way through it becomes quite unfocused.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 17:08:20 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     I guess it's just not for me, a person who played a lot of FPS games and is familiar with a lot of the genre history. I have learned nothing new. Who is it for then? Would a person who doesn't play games sit down & watch a 4 and half hour doc?
     It was nice to occasionally see faces of devs who don't give many interviews, even if they sometimes appeared just to say a sentence. YMMV, of course.
     A good comparison would be the horror doc In Search Of Darkness, to which I had a very similar 🤷♂️ reaction

   • Christian Mutig 👻🚫 (ductos@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 17:08:53 UTC Christian Mutig 👻🚫

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     @dosnostalgic I found it telling who they didn't get to interview. There are quite a few key people missing.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 17:09:25 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Christian Mutig 👻🚫

     @Ductos Not a single core Valve person was really weird.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 19:54:34 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     Oh yeah, and also 90% footage of older games is recorded using modern ports that aren't credited anywhere, and sometimes differ drastically from originals. Half-Life footage, for example, is recorded from Half-Life: Source with Blue Shift models.

   • Damiano Gerli (damianogerli@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 19:58:37 UTC Damiano Gerli

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     @dosnostalgic there's also - among many omissions - the lack of any news about Duke Nukem Forever, a deliberate choice which makes the random "Bombshell" reference even stranger. I'd imagine anyone not knowledgeable about 3D Realms to be like "wait who?!".

     As for me, I can say I did learn about the development Halo but mostly because I don't really cared enough to research it. Not much else.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 20:01:26 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Damiano Gerli

     @damianogerli By the Halo point in the documentary I admit I was mostly listening and not watching anymore. Otherwise I'm sure I would have noticed more inconsistencies.

   • Damiano Gerli (damianogerli@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 20:02:05 UTC Damiano Gerli

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     @dosnostalgic yeah mostly same as you, by then I was keeping it in the background.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 20:07:24 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • nopefish :blobcatcomfcool:

     @nopefish Basically. The people aren't exactly random, but yeah, that's the general gist of it. You can see the "cast" on the official website: https://fpsdoc.com/pages/teksyndicate#erid20756106

   • nopefish :blobcatcomfcool: (nopefish@lor.sh)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 20:07:25 UTC nopefish :blobcatcomfcool:

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     @dosnostalgic so it's just a compilation of interviews and praises from a random people? Such a lazy production.

   • oscillik (oscillik@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 12:15:53 UTC oscillik

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     @dosnostalgic Yep, I immediately noticed this during the opening credits — Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM footage stood out in particular. I'm guessing this has been done to fit the 16:9 aspect ratio a bit more cleanly or something?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 12:15:53 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • oscillik

     @oscillik Could be, but they didn't have to use modern assets for some of the games like they ended up doing.