005 is the most influential game you’ve never played.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨atomicpoet@kbin.earth⁩ to ⁨retrogaming@lemmy.world⁩

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Now, why is it super unlikely that you’ve played this game? Because it was only ever released in arcades. And it wasn’t exactly a huge runaway success. But in terms of actual gameplay mechanics, this game had some monumental firsts.

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Just because some unnoticed game implemented some fairly easy to conceive game mechanic doesn’t make that game influential. It’s just makes it first. To be influential you have to show that later game developers had played it and been inspired to build on it.

And I can confidently state that without 005, there would be no Metal Gear.

Ah c’mon

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- Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Very valid, I also noticed he goes off talking about the motivations for a cartridge-based deployment system, and he misses the mark completely.
  
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BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

And I can confidently state that without 005, there would be no Metal Gear. There would be no Tenchu: Stealth Assassins. There would be no Splinter Cell. Everything that relies on vision cones as a game mechanic traces itself back to 005.

I don’t really buy this statement. If 005 could independently invent stealth mechanics, why couldn’t other games invent them also? If this game didn’t exist, some other game would have eventually done it.

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Usually_Lurker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
This game has been at the top of my mame rom list for 20 years, and I’ve still never played it.

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- f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Right? Hundreds of thousands of people have scrolled over it and yet never seen it.
  
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Redkey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I did jump through the hoops necessary play this, years ago, although I can’t remember why. It was probably due to reading an article much like this one.

Honestly, while I think it’s important to make a note that this game existed, I also think some people overreach a bit on just how influential it was. I wouldn’t say that anyone needs to play it these days unless they really want to. Just look up a few screenshots; it plays almost exactly how it looks like it plays.

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