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submitted 2 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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[-] corvett@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Note: read "first" as "first popular/important", not just for this thread but for most conversations across media like this.

Spelunky was the first "Roguelite" that brought permadeath with meta progression to another genre, starting the modern wave of Roguelites.

Pokemon kicked off "monster collection" as a mechanic

To my knowledge, Halo was the first major game to do regenerating health

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