Elysion
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This is something I‘ve wanted to know for a while, but I never found a conclusive answer. As many probably remember, in early 3d games on console you usually used the shoulder buttons to move the camera (or sometimes the c-buttons on N64), since the original PS1 and Saturn controllers had no joysticks at all, and the N64 only had one. It was only with the first DualShock controller released by Sony in 1997 that dual-stick controls became possible, though for the rest of that generation games typically still used the shoulder buttons for the camera, while the left stick could be (optionally) used for character movement (while the right stick usually didn’t do anything).
So which game first used the dual-stick control scheme we‘re so familiar with today? I‘m especially talking about 3rd person games here, since I know that the first fps with standard dual-stick controls was the 2000 game Alien Resurrection on PS1 (unless you count the optional dual-controller set-up for Goldeneye on N64). I know that by the time the OG XBox came around, right stick camera control had started to become somewhat commonplace, but surely there was a 3rd person game with that control scheme that came out before that, either on PS2 or PS1? Such a game would‘ve most likely been released sometime between 1997 and 2001, but I don‘t know what it was (if it even existed).
So which game first used the dual-stick control scheme we‘re so familiar with today? I‘m especially talking about 3rd person games here, since I know that the first fps with standard dual-stick controls was the 2000 game Alien Resurrection on PS1 (unless you count the optional dual-controller set-up for Goldeneye on N64). I know that by the time the OG XBox came around, right stick camera control had started to become somewhat commonplace, but surely there was a 3rd person game with that control scheme that came out before that, either on PS2 or PS1? Such a game would‘ve most likely been released sometime between 1997 and 2001, but I don‘t know what it was (if it even existed).
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