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 4 weeks agoI 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.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
MagicShel@programming.dev 4 weeks 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.
lorty@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Your examples are of bird’s eye view games, not third person.