I will use first person in combat, and in situations that require me to interact with NPC's/objects. When I'm just running through the wilderness or town, I use third person because I like to admire my legendary Daedric armour.
Poll: First or Third-person view in Skyrim?
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I prefer third person. I dislike first person. Third person still needs a lot of improvement, spells don't aim quite right, picking up small things on shelves is a PITA, but at least it's bearable and a massive improvement over Oblivion's absolutely worst third person ever.
The bulk of it rests in a swarm of little choices that result in the whole experience being tailored one way or the other.
Dungeons in WoW are spacious and roomy, very little problems with camera's bumping up against walls, dungeons in TES are cramped (granted they improved it quite a bit in skyrim, but still cramped) so that the third person camera bumps up against the wall a lot.
Bosses in WoW are large, allowing the player to find and whack at the boss easier (however, large bosses are rather boring in first person, nobody likes staring at a bosses toenail all fight long). Most of the enemies in TES are human-sized, which can make it hard to find and reach them all the time.
Melee combat in WoW is all around "is the player within 5 yards? are they facing the target?", in Syrim you have to manually aim every strike, if the sword doesn't connect, no damage. Alternately, other third person games like Assassin's Creed and Dragon age will take "is the player close enough? are they facing the target?" and then automatically make your character do the proper stuff to make the sword land.
Targeting plays some role, targeting makes third person a lot simpler, aiming spells manually is rather wonky in third person.
Largely due to design.Fearzone said:
The bulk of it rests in a swarm of little choices that result in the whole experience being tailored one way or the other.
Dungeons in WoW are spacious and roomy, very little problems with camera's bumping up against walls, dungeons in TES are cramped (granted they improved it quite a bit in skyrim, but still cramped) so that the third person camera bumps up against the wall a lot.
Bosses in WoW are large, allowing the player to find and whack at the boss easier (however, large bosses are rather boring in first person, nobody likes staring at a bosses toenail all fight long). Most of the enemies in TES are human-sized, which can make it hard to find and reach them all the time.
Melee combat in WoW is all around "is the player within 5 yards? are they facing the target?", in Syrim you have to manually aim every strike, if the sword doesn't connect, no damage. Alternately, other third person games like Assassin's Creed and Dragon age will take "is the player close enough? are they facing the target?" and then automatically make your character do the proper stuff to make the sword land.
Targeting plays some role, targeting makes third person a lot simpler, aiming spells manually is rather wonky in third person.
When spells automatically hit the boss and there's fire to avoid standing in, zoomed out third person is definitely the optimal choice (in WoW). So I guess that's mostly just a matter of the basic combat mechanics. Actually trying to hit something is tougher than the spell/arrow/sword hitting it for you, so first person is more popular for Skyrim.
Ah thanks for that, trust me to find the final mask first. I still haven't found a Dragon Priest in all my 37 levels anyway, though everyone's like "watch the fuck out, these guys are badasses" so i'm not looking forward to it...iTwitch said:
First person for eveything. Heck I don't even ride a horse anymore (more because I'm faster and they're annoying creatures). Only time 3rd person is used is to admire armour or just watch myself chill with J'zargo on the patio chairs.