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Do you prefer first-person gameplay or third-person gameplay?

First-person 15 27.27%
 
Third-person 40 72.73%
 
Total:55
d21lewis said:
I see a few people saying that first person makes them feel more immersed. It's often the opposite for me. I often feel like a head strapped to a gun. In the early days of 3D gaming when we had games like Doom, Quake, Powerslave, etc. I'd often pretend I was a robot on wheels.

I always feel like I'm a midget when I play FPS the gun height always feels low compared to the environment.



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Unless more context is provided, first-person. Usually controls feel better and it's more immersive. The Assassin's Creed games are pretty good and I especially love their worlds, but they would be so much more immersive if they were first-person games instead. It would possibly hurt the experience otherwise, but those are some games where it's actually painful to see how much the immersion suffers from the camera.



First person for immersion and object/world interaction.

Third person for looking at a character (literally about it).

This is why I'm glad Cyberpunk is first, because I can focus on myself and not something else. The car being in third person is fine with me as well.



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I prefer first for most games, but i also like third for some games.



Depends on the game, first person might be more immersive, but lacks movements options. Especially taking cover in first person games feels awful, as does sword play more often than not.



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1st person unless it doesn't work for the game. Especially love 1st do to my monitor being 21:9.



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It depends on the game. If I must aim ranged weapons I usually prefer first person, and I prefer it too for racing sims, OTOH in arcade racers I can be fine with third person too, as long as the camera never move in a way that my car doesn't let me see well the road anymore. Third person with sudden camera changes and controls tied to camera instead of to the character, I hate it so much that I stopped playing Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, while instead I really liked third person in Heretic II.



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I like both but lately third person has been winning.



Third-Person. Probably the most off-putting thing for me when it comes to gaming is First-Person perspective. The most disappointing I’ve ever been by this is Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Super excited for that game and when I booted it up I realized it’s First-Person. Games like Skyrim and Red Dead 2 that allow the player to toggle back & forth got it right. I play Skyrim in Third-Person but do all the game’s archery in First-Person.



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No hardly prefer one, it's just both, but depends on how they designed mechanics & levels/maps for games like The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim or Fallout 4, i had problem with both perspective, you've read right what i just said. So, this is how i played:

-Outdoor open world = Switch to third person to see open wide space.
-Indoor dungeons/rooms/cities = switch to first person to see trashes for looting, to focus on monsters for killing and to talk people narrowly place.