Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?

H1jAcK@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Qwazpoi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d argue that quake did far more for 3D graphics then it did for FPS. Like Doom is what got FPS into the spotlight even though Wolfenstein 3d came first. Like quake is pretty much what made real 3D possible and doable on the hardware of the time thanks to everything going on under the hood

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Absolutely, we didn’t even have any special graphics cards at the time for 3D, I believe? I remember that started some time around Quake 2 but I am not sure, I might remember wrong.

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    • Thaurin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is correct. I remember running Quake II in software mode with hardware effects (could that have been OpenGL already?). It ran at like 1 frames per second, because I didn’t have a 3D graphics card. Although the lighting looked lovely when you shot a rocket through a hallway.

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    • Qwazpoi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      While I don’t know much about video cards, the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) is often called the first video card and had a couple of contenders for first that were either designed earlier or released at almost the same time in 1981 and were all for displaying text only. The first GPU card sold to the public was the GeForce 256 in 1999. I’m assuming there’s some in between that were not really used by the public that would have been used in movies and whatnot.

      The reason why nobody was selling GPUs before Quake was because quake was THE first 3D game. Doom and other games before Quake were 2.5D and didn’t have 3D models only sprites. Games before Quake essentially mimicked 3D while Quake IS 3D

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      • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The first GPU card sold to the public was the GeForce 256 in 1999

        3dfx cards like the Voodoo and Voodoo2 were 3d accelerators that predated nVidia’s offerings.

        And even from nVidia themselves, the Riva TNT was a GPU released before the GeForce models.

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      • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The first GPU card sold to the public was the GeForce 256 in 1999.

        No it wasn’t. Rendition had the Verite back in 1996 that was true 3D and 2D on the same single video card. At the same time as the Verite was the 3DFX Voodoo (released 1995), but it was 3D only and needed a second card for 2D. Rendition was also the only 3D accelerator natively supported by Quake.

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  • cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And then there was the Quake 2 engine which gave us Deus Ex, American McGee’s Alice and then (through the modified GoldSrc version) Half-Life, Counter Strike and countless others! The family tree of 3D engines is really interesting.

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    • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and the Unreal engine which gave us I don’t have any idea how many but just a staggering number. Both solid games on their own, but long-term the engines were the real rock stars

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  • H1jAcK@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That may be what I was thinking of. I actually never played Quake, I just knew it was groundbreaking

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