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People always forget that resident evil 4(? There is a million of them) made third person shooters mainstream.
not 3rd person shooters, but over the shoulder camera.
Yeah that's a better way to put it, everything that followed took that same path
yeah it was such an improvement so instantly adopted that people forget 3rd person shooters used to put your character right in the middle before that.