• @Wahots
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    325 days ago

    Wasn’t TF2 the first hero shooter?

    • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      25 days ago

      Well TF1 and probably a mess of random games but TF2 is seen as the one to invent the genre (vs just being an fps)

      • @Wahots
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        125 days ago

        I’m sure there’s some small game that technically invented it, but was rather obscure. TF2 was the first mass market hero game I can think of. I guess TF1, in some respects.

        • @Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social
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          The “small” games that inspired, if not invented it were Doom and D&D. There was a Doom map called Fortress where you’d attack each other’s base and the further you’d progress into your opponent’s base, the better weapons it’d unlock for them to use.

          A few guys in Australia combined the ideas in a Quake mod called Quake Team Fortress. Then they got hired at Valve to remake it on the Half Life engine as Team Fortress Classic.