...Is the idea of looking down and being able to see your feet. I mean, just try it now. Stand up and look down. Do you see a pair of feet disappearing into the bottom of your view? Of course not, you see your whole body. So why are FPS games so insistent in only showing your feet?
Something I don't get in FPS games
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FPSs have only just started showing that, I guess it's just an early stage in the evolution of being able to see your own body in FPSs.
Not really a big deal for me. I don't walk around staring at the ground and neither do I in an FPS. It did bother me in CoD4 however, when you were being driven in that car. I looked down, expecting to see my character's lower torso sitting on the seat but there was nothing. Broke the immersion for me right there.
The Left 4 dead games did it.
Though I don't really mind either way, it's mainly useful for judging jumps, it doesn't really break immersion for me or anything.
Though I don't really mind either way, it's mainly useful for judging jumps, it doesn't really break immersion for me or anything.
The Darkness, I think, shows your whole body.
But at least they make the effort of showing your feet. A bunch of 'em don't even do that.
But at least they make the effort of showing your feet. A bunch of 'em don't even do that.
i dont really focus on how well i can see my character's body. its probably to save memory. and you cant have the range of vision in a video game that your eyes have in real life. go ahead make a box with your fingers and touch the bottom to the tip of your nose. thats about how much they have to work with
I don't know but it bugs the hell out of me. Doesn't make me feel part of the game when I realize that I'm just a floating camera with arms.
The only games that allow you to see your feet in FP view are all the Halo's except the first, Left 4 Dead 1(provided the video settings were high enough), the Mount and Blade games, Dark Messiah: Of Might and Magic, The Darkness, Mirror's Edge, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, and The Chronicles of Riddick games. Well the first one at least, haven't played the newer one yet.
EDIT: Oh yeah, F.E.A.R. does it as well. Not sure about the expansions, haven't played those.
It just annoys me, especially when your in a vehicle. Like the Battlefield games, where the steering wheels are controlled by ghosts it seems.
And when you supposed to judge a jump. I'm looking at you Half Life 2.
But then again the whole first-person perspective in games is already pretty unrealistic. Try aiming an actual gun(or a prop gun or something that can be improvised as a gun, like you used to do as kids. Or hell even just your fingers), try holding it like they do in the games. Wholly different. Ironsights is also not like real life. Same with head-bobbing.
The only games that allow you to see your feet in FP view are all the Halo's except the first, Left 4 Dead 1(provided the video settings were high enough), the Mount and Blade games, Dark Messiah: Of Might and Magic, The Darkness, Mirror's Edge, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, and The Chronicles of Riddick games. Well the first one at least, haven't played the newer one yet.
EDIT: Oh yeah, F.E.A.R. does it as well. Not sure about the expansions, haven't played those.
It just annoys me, especially when your in a vehicle. Like the Battlefield games, where the steering wheels are controlled by ghosts it seems.
And when you supposed to judge a jump. I'm looking at you Half Life 2.
But then again the whole first-person perspective in games is already pretty unrealistic. Try aiming an actual gun(or a prop gun or something that can be improvised as a gun, like you used to do as kids. Or hell even just your fingers), try holding it like they do in the games. Wholly different. Ironsights is also not like real life. Same with head-bobbing.
The second one doesn't. I've played with all the settings, but couldn't get it to work.Outright Villainy said:
It does, but the way legs work in the L4D games have always been a bit iffy. Try a game cache check.Irridium said:
OT: It depends on the game. It makes sense in Half-Life since you are Gordon Freeman, not playing as Gordon Freeman. So putting some legs there might break that.
Playing a Floating Gun or a fully rendered person makes no difference to me whatsoever. I can't think of anything with less impact on an FPS' quality than this. I could play a shooter in an ultra-realistic dark grim harsh setting, look down, see my character riding a pink unicycle and be totally okay with it.
Maybe they're leaning forward heavily?
One game that tried to avert this was Mirrors Edge, I say tried but the camera was situated snugly in her cleavage or tit height if you want to be crass.
O know WHY they did it but it made it really noticeable, looking down my center of gravity seemed off an it made me feel a bit ill(it took me half the game to work out why) and since faith's head was situated above the camera you couldn't crawl under objects that you would've had the camera been at the top(this is how I figured it out).
One game that tried to avert this was Mirrors Edge, I say tried but the camera was situated snugly in her cleavage or tit height if you want to be crass.
O know WHY they did it but it made it really noticeable, looking down my center of gravity seemed off an it made me feel a bit ill(it took me half the game to work out why) and since faith's head was situated above the camera you couldn't crawl under objects that you would've had the camera been at the top(this is how I figured it out).
It's the armor. Prevents you from looking all the way down, whilst also making your legs absolutely massive. Think an elephant with clown feet massive.
I didn't know Left 4 Dead 2 didn't include the feet anymore, and so many people on the Steam forums were complaining about it for some reason! I didn't even know L4D1 had feet! :O
