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It's been a point of contention recently, the question of who created battle royale. Perhaps Greene is responsible for the modern iteration of it, but the last-
by techopoly 8y ago
It's been a point of contention recently, the question of who created battle royale. Perhaps Greene is responsible for the modern iteration of it, but the last-man-standing concept has been around in gaming since Bomberman in 1983. And the concept of battle royale in general was popularized with the Hunger Games and of course the film named Battle Royale. And, "battle royale" as a phrase was used by Ralph Ellison in 1952 in his classic novel Invisible Man, describing a free-for-all boxing match that the protagonist must participate in. So Brendan Greene didn't come up with this out of thin air, or at least he wasn't the first.
On the other hand, I see no problem with him trying to profit from it either.
Edit: I correct myself -- in Invisible Man, the phrase was "battle royal," not "battle royale." It's still clearly similar however.
- beetwenty 8y agoIt was in wrestling before any of those, too. Mirriam-Webster dates it to 1671.
- Viker 8y agoYou are just nit picking. He is talking about the closing circle game mechanics. Yes simple but yet genius.
- mnem 8y agoBomberman shrank the arena when the matches went to sudden death. Pretty sure others also did this (certainly common in single player games of that era and earlier - arguably Joust with it's rising lava is close to being the first for that sort of thing)
- Felz 8y agoLike almost all game mechanics, I'm fairly sure I saw this in a WC3 custom map half a decade ago.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoOr even in a StarCraft (the first one) map. AFAIK, MOBAs were invented in SC/SCBW, and refined with the original DotA - the W3 map. (Tangentially, I'm still amazed at the variety of gameplay ideas people were testing in SCBW and W3's UMS maps).
- meestaahjoshee 8y agolookup H1Z1 also this concept was a minecraft mod called hunger games before that even PUBG succeeded and vastly popularized the BR genre but it definitely didn't invent it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royale_game#Early_games_(2012%E2%80%932016) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royale_game#Early_games... While Battlegrounds was not the first battle royale game, its release to early access in March 2017 drew a great deal of attention, selling over twenty million units by the end of the year,[18][19] and is considered the defining game of the genre.
- retromario 8y ago> lookup H1Z1 That's what the grandparent was saying: Brandon Greene, the man mostly responsible for PUBG was also responsible for H1Z1 (SOE licensed the Battle Royale mode from him for H1Z1 and hired him as a consultant): https://www.pcgamer.com/battle-royale-modder-brendan-greene-on-his-official-h1z1-mode/ https://www.pcgamer.com/battle-royale-modder-brendan-greene-...
- pbalau 8y agoI don't think the question is who started the genre, but who made it commercially viable. And I think pubg gets this
- user5994461 8y agoIf anything, it's the movies that made it commercially viable, not games that came out later and rode on the wave.
- moron4hire 8y agoI doubt 50 million people in the West have seen a Japanese cult film, but 50 million people have bought PUBG.
- user5994461 8y agoDidn't everyone see Godzilla?