A Growing Trend

[asam92]

Zelda helped with third-person games ALOT by the lock-on systems.

And, Just Cause 2!

Yeah, Zelda is an all time Fav especially Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess.

Even messing around in the game is fun. I remember in Majora's Mask doing that one thing in the Hotel where you take that guys room.

Deff, you wouldn't think that a game like that would fun to mess around in, I found just riding around in Twilight Princess on Epona shooting guys with a Bow n Arrow was fun.

 

[asam92]

They should make a 3rd person sandbox AVP game! That would be sick.
Just to be a predator and roam a city while hunting down aliens (and humans, just because you can)

Thats something I would need to deffinitly get if it existed.

 

[TheComedown]

-snip-

First person to me, practically seems like a fish eye lens half the time. Third person games give you the wideness in FRONT of you that is more accurate than a first person shooter - even if the third person game goes behind you and all that other jazz. I'm saying that for one, in real life you don't have to turn your entire freaking body to look 4 inches to the left.

This here is the problem with perspective and lighting in games. They replicate lenses and cameras, lens flair is a good example of this. Personally i like the First persons perspective better, but neither is exactly more realistic then the other in terms of FoV. The closest thing I've seen that I would say has a realistic PoV/FoV would be the IR head tracker demos I saw in arma2 that lets the player look separately from the direction they are aiming with their mouse by moving their head.

OT: Dark sector, the new Transformers game, want some classics have a look at the Max Payne games. Red Faction: Guerrilla... i cant think of any more of the top of my head but there are plenty out there.

 

[PhiMed]

Games I enjoyed that were third person perspective? You realize that describes all games that are not from the first person perspective, right? I'm waiting for a good second person perspective game.

"Third person" includes Ratchet and Clank, Megaman, every game in the Super Mario series, all the Resident Evils (even the tank ones), LittleBigPlanet, Prince of Persia, and Gradius.

I see no trend here.

 

[asam92]

Games I enjoyed that were third person perspective? You realize that describes all games that are not from the first person perspective, right? I'm waiting for a good second person perspective game.

"Third person" includes Ratchet and Clank, Megaman, every game in the Super Mario series, all the Resident Evils (even the tank ones), LittleBigPlanet, Prince of Persia, and Gradius.

I see no trend here.

Well when you put it that way.

 

[Wayneguard]

Dark Sector is like resident evil 4 crossed with gears of war. hope that's what you were looking for.

It's also a crappy crappy game.

I enjoyed it. What did you think was so bad about it?

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I enjoy third person games because I can actually see out of the corners of my characters eyes, also, they tend to require less bullshit detail on guns because you don't spend half of the game staring at them, so maybe all of the left over money goes into story and gameplay?

No, but there's no way Third Person is more realistic. FPS is much more realistic.

You go outside and tell me if you need to slowly turn left and right to see what's beside you.

FPS games are not realistic, they are quite annoying. I hate clunkily turning around trying to figure out what's going on because my character has terrible eyesight from wanking too much.

But what if you were wearing a large helmet? So as to protect your head from those annoying bullet things...

 

[Booze Zombie]

But what if you were wearing a large helmet? So as to protect your head from those annoying bullet things...

What's the point if you can't see anything?

Also, they did a test: Even a modern American kevlar helmet can't take an old WW2 rifle round without it going straight in and out, helmets are really only useful for stopping shrapnel from tearing your skull open.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Oblivion, Fallout 3...

Crackdown and Crackdown 2(eventually)

Yes&yes.
The 3rd person view isn?t as smooth as the first person view (you can switch) but those are my two favorite games from this gen... So far.
Very cool and immersive open worlds, especially Fallout3.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

But what if you were wearing a large helmet? So as to protect your head from those annoying bullet things...

What's the point if you can't see anything?

Also, they did a test: Even a modern American kevlar helmet can't take an old WW2 rifle round without it going straight in and out, helmets are really only useful for stopping shrapnel from tearing your skull open.

I meant in the game universe. Why does Master Chief wear all that armor if he has shields? Because it looks cool.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I meant in the game universe. Why does Master Chief wear all that armor if he has shields? Because it looks cool.

And yet Gordon Freeman gets through enough aliens to make Master Chief choke with naught but a suit and a goatee beard.