Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?

dabu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Operation WinBack from 1999 is considered the first third person cover based shooter.

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is true but Gears popularised it

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    • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Showing my age here, but what’s the difference between hiding behind cover in Gears of War vs what we did in LAN parties for UT or Wolfenstein 3D?

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      • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Snap to asset change camera angle Vs jiggle peak

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  • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This game is a broken buggy mess but in a good way

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The term I refer to is “hiding behind cover” singular - so when I hear “hiding behind covers” I think of the COG seeing locusts, getting scared, and wrapping themselves up in blankets. Lol

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  • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    when I hear “hiding behind covers”

    Operation Blanket Fort

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• RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Third person view was first seen in the first Lara Croft game, I think?

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  • MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you need to be more specific than just “third person”. Third person view was in Pong, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Centipede, etc. It’s the default for most games.

    First person was probably introduced with Battle Zone.

    Which, I don’t mean to sound pedantic, I just literally don’t really know what you mean here.

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    • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your examples are of bird’s eye view games, not third person.

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    • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then you will need to extend that to the OP of this comment chain as they didn’t specify either what Gears of War is. I am going to edit my comment to clarify but I do feel you are too pendantic for asking this.

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      • MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you. Sorry. Never played that game and didn’t know that was specific to FPS. I know some arcade shooter games had that mechanic, but not in the context of free-roaming FPS. I think you’re right about Tomb Raider.

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you are attempting to ask which game popularized 3d, third person shooters, then yes, the original Tomb Raider is probably the most early, widely popular game that popularized this.

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