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wcSyndrome , (edited )

Maybe cheating a bit but there are several genres of games that are named after the games that popularized their mechanics such as roguelike/roguelite, souls-like, metroidvania

Aussiemandeus ,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

Ocarina of time, 3d, lock on, one enemy attacks at a time. So much of modern gaming pulled from ocarina of time

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

I know the “hold a button to lock-on to an enemy” was in Mega Man Legends, but in the first game you had to stand still for the lock to work. On MML2, you could lock and run around freely, but that game came after OoT

ZombiFrancis ,

The fact they used Navi to do the targeting really demonstrates how the devs felt they needed to explain the new mechanic and not just use it ‘because game.’

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

Skyrim for the horse armor dlc.

stealth_cookies ,

That was Oblivion believe it or not. Ahh, the good ol’ days where everyone got up in arms over even cosmetic DLC.

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

My mistake you’re totally right there!

chiliedogg ,

I remember them having a sale on Oblivion DLC one time where the rest of the DLC was half-off, but the horse armor was double.

Oblivion was weird on DLC. Knights of the Nine was pretty good, and Shivering Isles was amazing. But they also had bullshit stuff like Horse Armour.

H1jAcK ,

Quake revolutionized fps games

Ape Escape was the first PS1 game to require the dual shock controller

Qwazpoi ,

I’d argue that quake did far more for 3D graphics then it did for FPS. Like Doom is what got FPS into the spotlight even though Wolfenstein 3d came first. Like quake is pretty much what made real 3D possible and doable on the hardware of the time thanks to everything going on under the hood

RootBeerGuy ,
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Absolutely, we didn’t even have any special graphics cards at the time for 3D, I believe? I remember that started some time around Quake 2 but I am not sure, I might remember wrong.

Qwazpoi ,

While I don’t know much about video cards, the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) is often called the first video card and had a couple of contenders for first that were either designed earlier or released at almost the same time in 1981 and were all for displaying text only. The first GPU card sold to the public was the GeForce 256 in 1999. I’m assuming there’s some in between that were not really used by the public that would have been used in movies and whatnot.

The reason why nobody was selling GPUs before Quake was because quake was THE first 3D game. Doom and other games before Quake were 2.5D and didn’t have 3D models only sprites. Games before Quake essentially mimicked 3D while Quake IS 3D

H1jAcK ,

That may be what I was thinking of. I actually never played Quake, I just knew it was groundbreaking

over_clox ,

How about the flowing hair on Lara Croft in Tomb Raider 2 and later?

From my understanding, they wanted to have that working for TR1 but missed the deadline, so Lara got a static hair bun in TR1.

Sterile_Technique , (edited )
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Iirc (edit - apparently incorrect) Halo was the first to use left joystick as forward/backward and left/right strafe; and right joystick as look up/down and pivot left/right.

I even recall articles counting it as a point against the game due to its ‘awkward controls’ …but apparently after a tiny learning curve, the entire community/industry got on board.

acosmichippo , (edited )
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

I thought goldeneye had that basic controls concept a few years before. and Turok was pretty close before that.

edit: ah forgot n64 only had one joystick. but basically the same with the left d-pad and middle joystick.

chemical_cutthroat ,
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

I think you are right, but the N64 controls used the C buttons as analog inputs for camera movement.

Chozo ,

If we're talking Goldeneye, I believe the C-button aiming was an alternate control scheme. IIRC, the default controls had the stick control both your forward/backward motion, but also your left/right turning, instead of left/right strafing, so your aim was controlled horizontally by the stick, but vertically was pretty much locked on the horizon at all times. To do fine-tuned aiming, or to aim vertically at all, required holding R to bring up the crosshairs which you could then move with the stick, while standing still.

In hindsight, it's amazing that we ever tolerated that.

faercol ,
@faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You’re correct. In addition you could strafe using left/right C buttons, and you could look up/down using up/down C buttons, but that was awkward and not really designed to aim.

But we also must remember that those games had an auto lock system. Your character would actually target the ennemies by himself, you would only use the crosshair to dona headshot when you have time to aim, or to aim at a specific object in the game.

But yeah, that seems so clunky compared to what we have today

AsakuraMao ,

One of my friends still owns an N64 and wants to play Goldeneye and Perfect Dark sometimes. This control scheme raises my blood pressure so much lol.

Denjin ,

They have options to switch to a more “traditional” control scheme.

chemical_cutthroat ,
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

I got anxiety just reading your post. Ugh.

catloaf ,

Tank controls.

Metroid Prime used them too, and it worked fine. The game was designed around it, so enemies were either already on your level, or were slow enough to react that you could stop and aim.

The remake has other control schemes, but I don’t use them because I like the one the game was made for.

Denjin ,

Goldeneye scheme was forward and back on the joystick moved forward and back but left and right on the stick turned the camera in that direction. The opposite movements were on the c buttons (strafe left and right and look up and down).

It was incredibly disorientating going from that to Turok which used the strafe on the c buttons and looking on the stick. It’s the same feeling I now get when I try to go back to Goldeneye now that the other orientation has been made universal.

On a side note, the goldeneye controls allowed for a unique way of moving around the map with circle strafing that you can’t really replicate in other games.

ampersandrew ,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

If not GoldenEye, then I believe Perfect Dark would let you plug in two controllers for a dual analog control scheme.

Katana314 ,

Goldeneye got it functional, but it was janky. Try playing 4p with the old N64 controllers and you’d sorta struggle to move and aim.

Halo updated the standard with something usable in modern games. I think a few games in that genre also set the expectation that weapons should have no aim penalty while strafing, since console players would use small strafing motions to do light aim correction.

mememuseum , (edited )

The original Medal of Honor for the Playstation 1 had an alternate control scheme that let you move in the modern dual stick manner.

GetOffMyLan ,

escapistmagazine.com/alien-resurrection-playstati…

Alien resurrection was the first and got panned by critics for it

dabu ,
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First thing that came in to my mind was Gears of War with its specific third person view and hiding behind covers. I don’t think it was the first game with that mechanic but the most influential one

RootBeerGuy , (edited )
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Third person view in an FPS (first person shooter) type of game was first seen in the first Lara Croft game, I think?

MagicShel ,

I 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 ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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.

MagicShel ,

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.

GeneralEmergency ,

Operation WinBack from 1999 is considered the first third person cover based shooter.

sirico ,
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This is true but Gears popularised it

sexual_tomato ,

This game is a broken buggy mess but in a good way

Katana314 ,

The term I refer to is “hiding behind cover” singular - so when I hear “hiding behind covers” I think of the COG seeing locusts, getting scared, and wrapping themselves up in blankets. Lol

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