Everyone who saw 50 min uncut demo was blown away. Whether it's first or third person, I'm pretty sure they'll handle it well. It's CDPR after all.

Again, if you're reffering to how characters look (and you obviously do), yes, the moment it was possible to be implemented it was - yet it was still as irrelevant as before, because it had no impact on how you're characters behaves in the game world, or how game world perceives him/her.

To my knowledge, only few games ever have actually tried to connect (to a certain degree) your apperance/body type/body mass with how your character behaves in game (Exanima pops to mind).

You can just stop now, man. The fact that character creation is so prevalent in RPGs now means it's important, even if only for aesthetic purposes. People care about what their character looks like regardless of its impact on gameplay, just like people care about any artistic aspect of a game when it's mostly disconnected from gameplay itself. 

I don't mind either, but it's not eletism to like both at all.

If it's elitist to like one over the other, then that would also apply to the 3rd person only crowd. There is nothing wrong with this game going with a 1st person camera view. The argument for 3rd person is entirely subjective. 

And in the case for this game, it's what you choose to play as, not what you choose to look as. 

No one here will have even played the original Cyberpunk tabletop game, so none of these "3rd person or death" people will know what you base your characters on at all.

I can see why they are rare these days, seemingly due to another crowd wanting them dead by way of "no first person mode".

As opposed to the exact same thing with a third person camera?

I don't have anything to stop about, mate.
Visual character creation might be very important to some people, yet it's completely irrelevant to RPGs as a genre in its core. If that's what's preventing someone from enjoying the game, then I'd suggest that maybe RPGs are not really what they should be playing in the first place.

There really is.

So is animation, character design, sound design, lighting... Gameplay isn't the only thing that makes a game good, so it's not the only important thing. Take character creation out of Elder Scrolls and see what happens.

What is's the problem with first person for a shooter. I mean sure a hack and slash game does not work well in third person. But shooting works just fine if you ask me.