Escapist News Network: GearGasm 5: The Perspectiving

[Imper1um]

Awesome comment: "Wow, did I pirate my life?"

I didn't know Denny's made Salads either. =/

 

[Fellwarden]

Second Person view could be awesome, although it would require the protagonist to never be alone. And now I'm thinking how hard that would be to script.

I just got an idea (and I hope I haven't been ninja'd on this).

A cooperative game (which would require two human players to be remotely playable), played in second person. To know what the hell you're doing, your teammate has to have you in view, so you can see what you're doing, and you'd have to keep your teammate in view for him to know what he's doing. I think this could be quite interesting, although it would surely be extremely difficult, and would most likely be implemented in horrendous ways.

 

[Mosstromo]

Saw it with my eyeballs and laughed with my mouth.
Very cool episode.
:-D

 

[Incredible Bullshitting Man]

Wait- wha- Second person...
Curses!
They've stolen my Idea!

But seriously, if I could find a way to make it work, I would make a second-person game.

Someday.

How about a fifth person game then: A game played from the perspective of a person, who has absolutely nothing to do with the story or the main character. He may not even be on the same planet as the protagonist.
A capital idea, but you can have it.

 

[lacktheknack]

Sorry, Innovative Developer... "Siren" beat you to 2nd Person view.

 

[lacktheknack]

There's no e in wobbly.

Or is there a canadian E?

No, this Canadian says that there's no "E" in "wobbly".

 

[Dana22]

With Kathleen anytime is a sexy time.

 

[danm36]

Isn't second person 'You', as in 'You walk to the door' rather than 'I/He walked to the door'?

 

[Endocrom]

'Clairvoyance' in Psychonauts is 2nd person. I don't remember if you can use it on enemies or just NPCs and that one boss though.

 

[Vohn_exel]

Haha, that was pretty good. I liked the Final Fantasy thing, because I'm much more excited about Versus XIII then I was about XIII. It sounds like something I'm gonna enjoy. And LOL at the end and Denny's salads

 

[alzwded]

Awe man, I've been thinking about 2nd person perspective since the first time I played Half-Life. I think I'll actually do a 2nd person game one of these days. Hm...

 

[Sampsa]

That battery thingy would really save some time.

 

[themanwithfournames]

i dont get it. final fantisy is sopesed to have a story? i alwase assumed it was just random sentincess and cutsceans being thrown together in some sort of dialog frankistien.

mei no mei spel muchh Bed rong

 

[BrotherRool]

Second person could be interesting

 

[El pup]

There wasn't sexy time, there wasn't sexy time at all

 

[Ubervelt]

"Wow, did I pirate my life?" Funniest thing I have heard XD.

 

[Exort]

World of World of Warcraft is played in fourth person view. It is nothing new.

http://www.theonion.com/video/warcraft-sequel-lets-gamers-play-a-character-playi,14240/

It is just a joke.