Third-person option or FP only?

[You Kissed a Boy and Liked It]

Does this game have a view perspective option behind the controlled character? Or is the 'disembodied arms' / floating camera lens view fixed?

(thanks)

[HunterKiller]

I hope it's just FP.

[You Kissed a Boy and Liked It]

^ Xenophobia is indeed a neurological disorder -- I agree. But, IS the game FP-only?

[Zach]

No idea what you're talking about with the xenophobia comment, but yes, this game is only first person, like Amnesia and Penumbra.

[You Kissed a Boy and Liked It]

^ That is sad; on both counts.

[daemonworks]

I'd be very surprised if they included other camera angles as the whole point is to maximize immersion to facilitate the creation of creeping dread.

[You Kissed a Boy and Liked It]

Originally posted by Excalibur:

Originally posted by HunterKiller ®:

I hope it's just FP.

FP is better, u can see things thru the eyes of an nameless character

Sure. But, the option to not be an anonymous ghost with toilet rolls over the eye sockets would be nice... as would some peripheral vision.

[Timpa]

Originally posted by You Kissed a Boy and Liked It:

Both from a design and gameplay point the decision of making it first person is not even debatable.

[Trinidad]

3rd person would probably ruin it, as the story seems to revolve around the fact that you are a robot that thinks it's actually a human.

Which seems obvious from every preview video released and even the video that plays on the steam page clearly implies that you actually died while on arriving on that train.

I hope there is some other kind of twist to that.

[You Kissed a Boy and Liked It]

^ Options make the gaming world go 'round. Gaming isn't facsim.

[KeybladeBanditJing]

While I agree that this game should be FP only, and feel that that's a good decision for this particular game, as the FP view helps with immersion and the horror aspect, I wish a lot more FP games had a third person option as the FP view makes me very motion sick and I can't play FP games for very long at a time.

[You Kissed a Boy and Liked It]

^ Even if one accepts the notions of "realism" (no preripheral vision =/= realistic) and "immersion" (wholly subjective and fundamentally illogical), there's no excuse¹ for omitting a third-person option in default first-person games (and visa-versa) because as an OPTION, it can be filtered in competitive (/ranked) game modes if it is felt necessary from a game balance standpoint.

That, and if Johnny's lobby has TP view enabled and Timmy feels "dats teh noobish cheating, yo!", Timmy can click the "Refresh" tab and move right along to the next "manly" game lobby; leaving the girlie girl-girls to play the game with their character avatars visible. No one's got a gun (pardon the pun) to Timmy's hollow noggin, forcing him to play in such an "unfair" game environment. 👍

[¹] "No excuse" beside developer laziness, that is.