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by piltdownman 790 days ago
Starcraft as the first eSport Game? WoW as the first mass appeal Western MMORPG? PUBG as the first Battle Royale and catalyst for Fortnite? Minecraft for defining a demographic as much as a genre? Dark Souls, Journey or Nier:Automata for redefining what actually constituted the role of 'online gamer' ?

The path from Quake or Perfect Dark -> Halo 2 was no great paradigm shift compared to the five above imo
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cbdumas 790 days ago
> PUBG as the first Battle Royale and catalyst for Fortnite?

As I recall, H1Z1 actually came out before PUBG (though it has since faded into obscurity). A quick search on Wikipedia seems to back that timeline[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUBG:_Battlegrounds#Developmen...

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sickofparadox 790 days ago
Wasn't H1Z1 a knockoff of DayZ first, which then pivoted to the Battle Royale format after the success of PUBG?
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