not 3rd person shooters, but over the shoulder camera.
Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?
BigLgame@lemy.lol 4 weeks ago
People always forget that resident evil 4(? There is a million of them) made third person shooters mainstream.
pyre@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
BigLgame@lemy.lol 4 weeks ago
Yeah that’s a better way to put it, everything that followed took that same path
pyre@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What are you smoking? That’s like a 2005 game.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_shooter
Hell, Max Payne was definitely more popular, and it came out in 2001.
BigLgame@lemy.lol 4 weeks 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.
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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