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What games popularized certain mechanics? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by ApollosArrow@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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I was trying to think of which games created certain mechanics that became popular and copied by future games in the industry.

The most famous one that comes to my mind is Assassin’s Creed, with the tower climbing for map information.

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[-] BigLgame@lemy.lol 10 points 3 months ago

People always forget that resident evil 4(? There is a million of them) made third person shooters mainstream.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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

https://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.

[-] BigLgame@lemy.lol 1 points 3 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.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 existed for years pre-RE4

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] BigLgame@lemy.lol 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 3 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.