Several genres in gaming existed for 10-20 years without "meaning anything". The viewpoint was important beyond Doom, everyone knew it was gonna one of the most dominant genres once the technology allowed it. First-person shooters would and did evolve outside of just iD, even though they were the industry leaders by far early on.
You're aguing against some nonsensical point of view that cant be proven. Which several gaming genres existed for 20 years without meaning anything ? Your argument is that the actual genesis of a genre is not really important because it would have been made anyway. And then your try to prove this point by saying that the viewpoint was used for 20 years without the fps genre existing. Your arguing against hard facts with supositions that have no anchor in reality.
To say that the FPS genre, Steam, and Unreal exist solely because of Doom would be like to say that every action-adventure game exists because of Zelda. Not all shooters are "descendants of doom", only run and gun games are. Most shooters these days are descendants of Half-Life, and before you say "Half-Life is inspired by Doom", Half-Life is what it is because it stepped away from the run-and-gun shooters.
Except Gabe Newell is on record that witnessing Doom is what made it want to start making games. Just like Epic is on record as switching from Jazz Jack Rabbit to making a game that wanted to be a Doom killer than a Quake killer. Shooters don't have to be direct clones in order to be descendants. You seem to really strugle with the simple concept that Doom created the fps blueprint. Everything that every other FPS has done, similar or different, only ever existed because of Doom and what it set in motion.
You continue to make my points for me but believe you're saying something different. Yes, Half Life is a game that wanted to be different than Doom and its clones. Which was something that never would have existed, if not for Doom and Valve wanting to do something different. There would have been no Valve and no desire to do something different if not for Doom. You're saying the same things i am
Call of Duty, Battlefield, these games are not shooters like Doom. Quake, Unreal, Blood, Hexen etc..., that are the games you can claim as Doom descendants, not everything within the genre. Most shooters nowadays follow completely different design philosophies. They don't follow any Doom blueprint.
PC storefronts would still exist today without Doom, and so would game engines, they are not born purely of Doom. Sweeny would still make an engine.
Yes, COD, Battlefield are not like Doom. But they exist because Doom gave the start. The shooters that exist today who dont follow Doom's DNA, mostly follow the DNA of Half Life. Which exists thanks to Doom. No matter how we want to twist the history, Doom is the singular point from where all the others came. Without Doom, there would have been no desire to make a story driven FPS like HL. No desire to make an ultra scripted FPS like MOH Allied Assault which takes its cues directly from Half Life. Without Allied Assault, the same team would not have made Call of Duty.
The lineage is Doom - Quake - Half Life, to simplify things a bit. Even if you think a game now is wildly different, you will trace this back to these three.
How do you know that PC storefronts would have existed ? You keep claiming that everything credited to Doom would have magically existed. How do you know ? You ignore the hard history facts by saying everything would have existed anyway. Besides the fact that its your own invention, how do you know ? Why didnt the FPS genre exist if there were first person games for 20 years ? Steam seemed like the biggest piece of shit conceptually at the time. Valve basically went ALONE in the industry against the grain. Things just happened to evolve over many, many years, more than a decade, as they did. That something like Steam would have existed without Valve is absolutely not true.
I can't even fathom that you just said Doom is more important than Nintendo. That is the most absurd fanboy nonsense ever uttered on this forum. You think the NES, SNES, Gameboy, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Wii-U, Switch, Pokemon, Mario, Zelda, 35 years of gaming innovation is less important than fucking Doom?
"You are not playing Mario and 2D platformers today"? what? Mario has been a massive brand for 35 years. Yes, I am playing Mario and a massive amount of platformers, just like millions and millions of others are.
You think a library of sidescroolers hostage to a singular platform is more important than a world wide genre that affected every platform in the world, affected the technology itself with which games are made for every platform and the biggest computer store in the world ? I dont blame you for felating nintendo as you do, especially on gaf and reeera, these forums are hilariously console focused, unlike any other comunity. People still think nintendo is responsible for gaming because there was a console crash in america and they still think Mario 64 was a "moment" and 3d games were created then.
What are the games coming out today ? RPG's, shooters, strategy games, adventure games, sim games, mobas, mmos, stealth games, battle royales, deathmatch, online playing and so on. Im sure you know which platform created every one of this genre that dominates the gaming landscape for 30 years. Hint: not nintendo, not a console of any kind