Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?

BigLgame@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are you smoking? That’s like a 2005 game.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_shooter

  Jonathan S. Harbour of the University of Advancing Technology argues that Tomb Raider (1996) by Eidos Interactive (now Square Enix Europe) is “largely responsible for the popularity of this genre”.

  Hell, Max Payne was definitely more popular, and it came out in 2001.

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  • BigLgame@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well you are right but I’m talking about the style and feel that one of those earlier pivot resident evils created. It plays the same as gears of war and all other cover shooters that followed. Sure third person existed but everything today plays in a way that series established.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So like the other person said, specific camera things in the genre, not the genre itself.

      Which would be more accurate, since the genre exited for decades pre-RE4

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  not 3rd person shooters, but over the shoulder camera.

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  • BigLgame@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s a better way to put it, everything that followed took that same path

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah it was such an improvement so instantly adopted that people forget 3rd person shooters used to put your character right in the middle before that.

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