Legs in First Person

[Kapitän Käsig]

This is just a suggestion and a small thing I noticed while playing.

One of the first things I do in almost every video game is look down to see whether I'm just a floating camera or an actual character standing in the world. Call it a personal pet peeve, but I really appreciate it when devs go the extra mile to add visible, fitting legs in a first-person game. A weird obsession, maybe — but hey.

It doesn't affect gameplay or serve any real purpose, but being a "real" character in the world I'm playing in just feels so much better.

So maybe — just maybe — with the work being done on the third-person camera, it might be possible to give first-person a small enhancement too?

[Forrestern]

Originally posted by Lord Edgar Snortlebottom:

This is just a suggestion and a small thing I noticed while playing.

One of the first things I do in almost every video game is look down to see whether I'm just a floating camera or an actual character standing in the world. Call it a personal pet peeve, but I really appreciate it when devs go the extra mile to add visible, fitting legs in a first-person game. A weird obsession, maybe — but hey.

It doesn't affect gameplay or serve any real purpose, but being a "real" character in the world I'm playing in just feels so much better.

So maybe — just maybe — with the work being done on the third-person camera, it might be possible to give first-person a small enhancement too?

Not really a weird obsession. These are games with body visible that are pretty damn popular:
Dying Light 1 and 2
Far Cry 5, New Dawn, and 6
Wolfeinstein
Indiana Jones and Great Circle
KIngdom Come Deliverance 1 and 2
Avowed
Cyberpunk 2077
STALKER 2
Metro Exodus

All of these are first person games. DOOM, Call of Duty, and Bethesda games are the only ones I really know of that don't have body visible in recent memory.

Playing as a floating camera was acceptable in the early 2000s. But we're closing in on 2026 now. We have the technology to be able to render and animate bodies in first person. But even then, Dark Messiah Might and Magic had a fully rendered body in first person released in 2006.