May 20, 200619 yr List the feature and the game that made it popular. I'll start with two. Physics=Half-Life 2 Location-Based Damage System=Goldeneye 64 Edited May 20, 200619 yr by Craigboy2 "Your total disregard for the law and human decency both disgusts me and touches my heart. Bless you, sir." "Soilent Green is people. This guy's just a homeless heroin junkie who got in a internet caf
May 20, 200619 yr Wow...good topic. I actually can't think of anything except for one that's most likely wrong. Co-op/FPS with decent attempt at a story/"Tactical" A.I. - Halo (X-Box) I had thought that some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, for they imitated humanity so abominably. - Book of Counted Sorrows 'Cause I won't know the man that kills me and I don't know these men I kill but we all wind up on the same side 'cause ain't none of us doin' god's will. - Everlast
May 20, 200619 yr Romanceable Party Members - BG2 Stats Pushing Role-playing Options - FO DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
May 20, 200619 yr Romanceable Party Members - BG2 Stats Pushing Role-playing Options - FO <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I agree with both. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed.
May 20, 200619 yr Bullet time: Max Payne Just because. kirottu said: I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden. It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai. So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds
May 20, 200619 yr ^Nope. Ultima Underworld was first. kirottu said: I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden. It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai. So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds
May 20, 200619 yr Story that mattered: Ultima IV Training-by-using levelling system: Wasteland (well, one of the first) Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish!
May 21, 200619 yr Fog of war - Warcraft (IIRC) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Dune II had fog of war 2 years earlier. Not sure if there was something earlier then that.
May 21, 200619 yr Herzog Zwei? kirottu said: I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden. It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai. So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds
May 21, 200619 yr Dune II had fog of war 2 years earlier. Not sure if there was something earlier then that. Wasn't Dune II the game that made the "RTS" way of playing popular ? “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
May 21, 200619 yr You guys realize that the topic isn't about 'what came first'; but 'what made it popular or standard'..... right? DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
May 21, 200619 yr Herzog Zwei? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> According to Wikipedia the first game to use fog of war was Patton Vs. Rommel.
May 21, 200619 yr I thought that standard was set by Fallout. kirottu said: I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden. It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai. So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds
May 21, 200619 yr Fallout set the standard on every game since then. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed.
May 21, 200619 yr RPG's and FPS's can work together sometime - Deus Ex (I know that System Shock belongs there too, but again, we're talking about successful games here) "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
May 21, 200619 yr King's Quest - first 3D RPG. Feel free to have the whole "it's not an RPG cos it doesn't have element X or function Y in it" argument. I cba though My generation invented the term RPG, so we'll use it as we bloody well please. There are none that are right, only strong of opinion. There are none that are wrong, only ignorant of facts
May 21, 200619 yr Baldur's Gate: Jennifer Hale <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It made her popular. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed.
May 21, 200619 yr Thief: stealth gameplay and big open levels(lol, a questionable standard) on PC. Edited May 21, 200619 yr by Musopticon? kirottu said: I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden. It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai. So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds
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