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What games popularized certain mechanics? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 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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[-] holgersson@lemm.ee 28 points 4 months ago

Minecraft Hunger Games, although a mod, is responsible for the Battle Royal hype aswell.

So Minecraft caused Fortnite twice - once as a survival crafting and building game and then as a Battle Royal retaining some of these elements

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

What's the timeline on that mod versus the Battle Royale mod for DayZ? Because as far as I could tell, the DayZ mod is the true progenitor, but DayZ was itself inspired by Minecraft.

[-] holgersson@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

I couldnt find a release history for the Minecraft mod, however according to the following article, it was released about a year before the original PlayerUnknown mod for DayZ / Arma 3.

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https://www.eurogamer.net/before-fortnite-and-pubg-there-was-minecraft-survival-games

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

It was more a server side plugin than a mod, but that only grew its popularity.

Even randomised loot existed around the map

[-] Moneo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I miss u bukkit ;-;

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Day Z the standalone game was a result of Day Z the mod for Arma 2.

While Day Z (the mod) and Minecraft were in their early phases around the same time (i alpha tested both), I have never heard anyone say that Day Z was inspired by Minecraft, beyond the idea of it being possible for an indie game with a small development team being able to become a huge commercial success.

[-] Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure the actual hunger games movie had more to do with that

[-] holgersson@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As the inspiration yes. But Minecraft hunger games was the first to do it in gaming while also reaching maybe not more people than the movies, but definitly spreading to communities that the movies and books didnt reach (e.g. i didnt watch the movies until well over ten years after I had played my first game of MC hunger games)