Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoWhat 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.
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