> For instance, Quake was the first FPS where the maps were truly 3D and could have one piece of floor on top of another
Bethesda's Terminator: Future Shock predated Quake by a year and also had truly 3D maps - which were often more expansive than Quake's (also you could drive vehicles, fly a helicopter or something like that IIRC, enter various places to find loot - though the loot variety was limited to basically ammo, weapons and grenades). I think Quake got more attention because Doom made way more of a noise than Bethesda's previous game (which AFAIK was a poor Wolf3D clone[0]) and unlike TFS Quake also had multiplayer support which was HUGE (TFS was criticized at the time for not having it).
Amusingly enough TFS controls pretty much like a modern FPS with its mouse look and the ability to configure WASD whereas Quake was still a hybrid of mouse being used to move forward/backward (unless you typed the "+mlook" command in the console) and again TFS was criticized for this.
[0] ok, they also made Arena but still id's previous game was way bigger and even at the time your last game was what people paid most attention to for the next one
I'm not sure what part of what i wrote "1" refers to. Terminator: Future Shock was made by Bethesda, not id and when i mentioned Doom i was comparing it to Terminator: Rampage (though Arena also came before Terminator: Future Shock) which had much less of an impact than Doom.
Bethesda's Terminator: Future Shock predated Quake by a year and also had truly 3D maps - which were often more expansive than Quake's (also you could drive vehicles, fly a helicopter or something like that IIRC, enter various places to find loot - though the loot variety was limited to basically ammo, weapons and grenades). I think Quake got more attention because Doom made way more of a noise than Bethesda's previous game (which AFAIK was a poor Wolf3D clone[0]) and unlike TFS Quake also had multiplayer support which was HUGE (TFS was criticized at the time for not having it).
Amusingly enough TFS controls pretty much like a modern FPS with its mouse look and the ability to configure WASD whereas Quake was still a hybrid of mouse being used to move forward/backward (unless you typed the "+mlook" command in the console) and again TFS was criticized for this.
[0] ok, they also made Arena but still id's previous game was way bigger and even at the time your last game was what people paid most attention to for the next one