It was new technology, 3D was a fairly new concept in gaming in the mid 90s. But it took so long to get properly implemented. You have super mario 64, gex enter the gecko, lemmings 3D. I am wondering if it was a business decision and not the devs who pushed for a free roaming camera, since it was clearly not a satisfactory result gameplay wise. Because at the same era, you have games with fixed camera angles that are much better experiences overall.

  • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
    3·
    20 hours ago

    I don’t know if it was in 1.0 but definitely before the final version. I tried it before 1.666 was around and chose to play keyboard only.

    • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      19 hours ago

      Yup, I know it was there later, just not sure if it was always there. I do remember that later versions had significant improvements to their setup utility (which may have included mouselook)