First-Person or Third-Person?

[d21lewis]

CaptainExplosion said:

CuCabeludo said:

Before RE4, third person shooters were a mess, none of them worked properly. RE4 showed how to make a 3rd person shooter work and Gears of War refined it.

I still don't think the over-the-shoulder view looks good. When you say your game is a third-person-shooter, shouldn't that mean the camera is right behind the player like in Splatoon?

That's not what third person means at all!

• -First person is the I/we perspective.
• -Second person is the you perspective.
• -Third person is the he/she/it/they perspective.
• Basically, first person just means you're seeing everything from the main character's perspective. Third person means you're an observer of the main character.