• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    5 months 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)

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      5 months 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.

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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.