In Mario you don't control the camera but you control the Lakitu, I think it counts but only just.direkiller said:Professor James said:I've played first and third person games; but I've never played or even heard of a 2nd person game. Do they even exist? And what exactly is 2nd person?
2nd person is from the perspective of a non controlled charter that is a charter in the game you interact with. So a floating camera is 3rd person(this includes the cloud cam in mario 64). as you can see this is rather hard to do.
MindJack and i think a few chase sections from Crash did it as well.
I would like to introduce you to EXperience 112, the first game that i have ever played that is entirely in the 2nd personProfessor James said:I've played first and third person games; but I've never played or even heard of a 2nd person game. Do they even exist? And what exactly is 2nd person?
In Siren -series the big gimmick of the games is that you can see through the eyes of your enemies or other characters. There's a pretty clever mission in Siren 2 (never released in America) where you're playing with a character who has a very poor eyesight, so if you want to see anything beyond near incomprehensible blur you must use the afore mentioned "sight jack" to look around through the eyes of your pet dog.DementedSheep said:I think prince of Persia (2008) had one level with a 2nd person camera (since it was through the evil gods eyes) but I don?t think you could have a whole game like that.
he is non interactive omnipresentVeldt Falsetto said:In Mario you don't control the camera but you control the Lakitu, I think it counts but only just.direkiller said:Professor James said:I've played first and third person games; but I've never played or even heard of a 2nd person game. Do they even exist? And what exactly is 2nd person?
2nd person is from the perspective of a non controlled charter that is a charter in the game you interact with. So a floating camera is 3rd person(this includes the cloud cam in mario 64). as you can see this is rather hard to do.
MindJack and i think a few chase sections from Crash did it as well.
Hmm about the closest i could think of would be bastion, just because of the way its narrated, the kid grabs his hammer etc...Eclpsedragon said:First person = I, me, myself
Third person = He, his, her
Second person = You
When it comes to games, first person is supposed to be from the perspective of the main character (looking through the character's eyes), third person is from the perspective of a camera viewing the main character.
Second person.... I don't know how that would work, I suppose maybe "over the shoulder" like Resident Evil 4, could be considered second person.
I'm pretty sure second person would essentially playing a game through the eyes of a second character. Besides the occasional monster-chase scene, i don't think there is much going for playing a game through another character's eyesDaystar Clarion said:Do you mean in terms of camera viewpoints?
Because I don't think a '2nd person camera' is actually possible.