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What games popularized certain mechanics? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks 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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[-] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 37 points 4 weeks ago

Minecraft for the fully breakable/buildable procedural open world.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 52 points 4 weeks ago

Minecraft is far more responsible for the survival crafting genre that followed in its wake.

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

I miss u bukkit ;-;

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

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

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