Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?

• MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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