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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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[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee -3 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Please people, help me out with this, which game popularized any modern game to be a huge ass open world action RPG?

My best bet is that it is The Witcher 3's fault.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

GTA3 is the one that started the trend.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, it lacked the RPG part though... GTA San Andreas on the other hand 😀

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't call most of the modern ones real RPGs either.

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