Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?
r00ty@kbin.life 4 weeks agoThere have been "open world" games since the 1980s. Just of course, memory limited how big that world could be, and how much you could do in it. The genre as a whole is ancient.
TheMinions@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
For sure. AC just popularized it.
Ageroth@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
The first ones I can think of is legend of Zelda and final fantasy, but I think there was also Adventure for the Atari before those even. The first Assassin’s Creed was 2007, Adventure was 1980
smeg@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Which Zelda games were open world (before BotW)? I’ve always found them annoyingly linear.