Poll: Shooters: First or Third Person?

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DaveyJones99208

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Which type of shooter do you prefer and why? I think both have their merits, but I personally prefer third. Lets you see more of your surroundings and opens up game play options.
 

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3rd-person all the way. In 1st-person, you can only see in front of you and you have no peripherals. Yeah, you see too much in 3rd-person but I'd rather see too much than too little.
 

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I'm afraid I can't choose between the two. The debate between first and third person is like the debate between most gaming types. It's an entirely subjective thing. I know that that's the point of a poll; to gather peoples opinions and see how many sway to which side, but I think it's a little more complicated than a simple one or the other.
 

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DaveyJones99208 said:
Which type of shooter do you prefer and why? I think both have their merits, but I personally prefer third. Lets you see more of your surroundings and opens up game play options.
First, for it being leagues more immersive. If there's going to be any kind of platforming, third, for reasons Yahtzee has already harped on.

I couldn't do without either, so my favorite is only my favorite by a slim margin.
 

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My favorite is when you can see aspects from both accounts put into play. R6:Vegas is a good way to look at that, get on walls, and you go third person, being able to do what people in real life already can, look around corners stealthily without getting your brain blown to bits. But you're also 1st person for the rest of the game as well.

Unlike Halo, fully 1st person where you pop around the corner and you're already dead, and Gears where you can sit behind the cover watching the enemy rush toward you and knowing they have no idea you're there because the screen sees more then it should allow.
 

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Spencer Brelje said:
My favorite is when you can see aspects from both accounts put into play. R6:Vegas is a good way to look at that, get on walls, and you go third person, being able to do what people in real life already can, look around corners stealthily without getting your brain blown to bits, unlike Halo, fully 1st person where you pop around the corner and you're already and dead, and Gears where you can sit behind the cover watching the enemy rush toward you and knowing they have no idea you're there because the screen sees more then it should allow.
Yeah, I'm really loving that in Deus Ex Human Revolution, the game being in first person, but going into 3rd any time you go into cover.
 

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Zeekar said:
DaveyJones99208 said:
Which type of shooter do you prefer and why? I think both have their merits, but I personally prefer third. Lets you see more of your surroundings and opens up game play options.
First, for it being leagues more immersive. If there's going to be any kind of platforming, third, for reasons Yahtzee has already harped on.

I couldn't do without either, so my favorite is only my favorite by a slim margin.
I agree with you there. First person puts you more in the mind set of you're the hero doing all the cool shit on screen.
 

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I never got used to FPS's, as much as I tried. I couldn't even bring myself to finish HalfLife.

Sometimes I get the feeling that using 3rd person view is like cheating (especially in stealth games), but I just have more fun that way.
 

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I prefer third. First person feels very awkward to me. I can get over this for a very few number of games (TF2, Metroid Prime). I just feel so limited in that viewpoint in games because you lack the sensory feedback that provides your non-visual spatial awareness in life.
 

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RGman said:
I never got used to FPS's, as much as I tried. I couldn't even bring myself to finish HalfLife.

Sometimes I get the feeling that using 3rd person view is like cheating (especially in stealth games), but I just have more fun that way.
Agreed...Ever played Gears for Xbox 360 or PC? People will sit behind the cover, and you'd never know they were there, because they are completely invisible to you until your in range of their shotgun and are blown to pieces.
 

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I have no preference. I like both, since both have their own advantages. FPS is more accurate and fine-tuned, while TPS lets you see your environment more and the game almost seems faster-paced than an FPS.

Wait, hold on. FPS's are still doing that two weapon bullshit. Third-person shooters are better by default.
 

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I prefer third-person myself. I like watching my character do the things I tell him to do, instead of being a pair of disembodied hands. Seriously, with FPS' 9 times out of 10 your just hands, they don't even show you your feet. On the technical point of it, I always felt that most FPS games narrow your field of vision too damn much. It's like trying to watch a widescreen format movie that had the sides cropped to fit on a square screen.
 

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DustyDrB said:
I just feel so limited in that viewpoint in games because you lack the sensory feedback that provides your non-visual spatial awareness in life.
I think first person may be an aquired taste. The first time I tried it, it was disorienting and felt like tunnel vision. Getting shot randomly from some direction I couldn't see in shook me up too. I'm amazed that I didn't quit immediately.

I don't know what changed that, but over time I grew into it and now there are plenty of games I couldn't imagine playing without first person. Accurate shooting certainly wouldn't feel the same.

I think you just have to get over that initial alien feeling.
 

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I think that third person is a nice change of pace but some of them I have trouble aiming if the character takes up too much of the screen. Having said that I do prefer first person because its more immersive and I generally enjoy first person more.
 

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Judging by my game collection I seem to very much prefer 3rd person perspective. Couldn't tell you why other than you can actually see what the hell is going on. There is also a lot more variety in the types of games that are in 3rd person.
 

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I generally like both, as long as it fit the game. Which it usually does.
But Uncharted's in third person. So I have to say third person. I do like me some Uncharted.
 

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They both have they're merits and although I do prefer third person for the most time, I would like it if more games had the option to let you change on the fly like the Star Wars Jedi Knight games, I think Battlefront let's you do that too but I'm not sure I didn't play that much.
Now the reasons I prefer Third Person are the enhanced view range which is great for platforming and a nice replacement to the lack of the other missing senses, and also for the fact that it let's you see you're character better which some people claim it breaks immersion but I quite frankly don't think First Person is all that immersive anyway since I find myself breaking immersion often (when playing in First Person) due to the fact that I don't have a way to detect someone behind me and that I keep falling of the simplest jum ever because I can't see my feet.
Now as for First person there's just one thing that I like better in first person which is that you can aim better, and that's pretty much it.