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People always forget that resident evil 4(? There is a million of them) made third person shooters mainstream.
What are you smoking? That's like a 2005 game.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_shooter
Hell, Max Payne was definitely more popular, and it came out in 2001.
Well you are right but I'm talking about the style and feel that one of those earlier pivot resident evils created. It plays the same as gears of war and all other cover shooters that followed. Sure third person existed but everything today plays in a way that series established.
So like the other person said, specific camera things in the genre, not the genre itself.
Which would be more accurate, since the genre existed for years pre-RE4