So what you're trying to say is that you don't like First Person RPGs?
In that case, stay away from classic Shin Megami Tensei, Dragon Quest I-VII and Shining the Holy Ark, I doubt you would like those either. I wouldn't say it was lazy either, just a design choice that's looking back to a past gaming convention that was almost universally accepted; from the little I've seen of the Mother series I would say it is anything other than lazy.
I do like first person RPGs when they are like skyrim etc. Or well when I see myself /an arm wielding a sword or gun whatever. (i would probably not play COD or BF3 or PerfectDark or TimeSplitters when I would not see any arm holding a gun)
And btw I highly doubt that Mother is a first person RPG because I have a party of 4? people how the hell would that be a first person rpg? At least I should be ablte to see the other 3 members then right? Or do they mix up into a strange monster where everyone is inside the same body with 4 heads and 8 arms and stuff :) ?
BTW noone said the Game was made lazy they just didnt care to make a better "battle screen/hud/whatever"-
Yeah, I know what you mean, Mother is the strange combination of 3rd person exploration, but first person (though I guess that is arguable given, as you said, it's kind of impossible to have 4 people's 1st person views at once). Usually first person RPGs have dungeon exploration in the first person as well, see SMT2 below:
DQ (up to VIII) is the only other RPG series I can think of with first person battles, but 3rd person exploration:
Rightly or wrongly, I think a lot of Mother's appeal comes from it's quirky nature, which some might argue it's battle screen is a part of. Personally, I'm not at all fussed about it, but I can understand if some people have a problem with it.
Paladin's Quest for SNES is similar to Earthbound as well in terms of first person view in battle and third person view/helicopter view while outside of battle.
Etrian Odyssey or however one writes it is one of the games for the DS that I bought but never played because of obvious reasons. Btw I have all Dragon Quest games for DS I am planning on playing them but didnt pay much attention to the battles lol. I'm a bit worried now lol
Etrian Odyssey
P.S. Oh man i turned the thread into a "before person view" thread
