Third person gameplay?

[Jarko]

I feel like it should be an option.

[Hao Zhao]

The trailer was entirely in first person so I wouldn't get my hopes up. When the official forums open again on Monday, I suspect it will be a popular topic of discussion

[AC Denton]

Originally posted by Hao Zhao:

The trailer was entirely in first person so I wouldn't get my hopes up. When the official forums open again on Monday, I suspect it will be a popular topic of discussion

Until it gets shut down. I recall that they were muting people for bringing it up so much because everyone wanted it.

Hopefully the new devs are more open to what the players actually want.

[Hao Zhao]

Originally posted by AC Denton:

Originally posted by Hao Zhao:

The trailer was entirely in first person so I wouldn't get my hopes up. When the official forums open again on Monday, I suspect it will be a popular topic of discussion

Until it gets shut down. I recall that they were muting people for bringing it up so much because everyone wanted it.

Hopefully the new devs are more open to what the players actually want.

It's not the devs that make the rules, it's the publisher and the publisher is still Paradox. As a general rule, you're not allowed to spam -anything-. You can say your piece but some of the third person advocates were doing it in dozens of topics. Not a great look.

[Gesuma]

Originally posted by AC Denton:

Originally posted by Hao Zhao:

The trailer was entirely in first person so I wouldn't get my hopes up. When the official forums open again on Monday, I suspect it will be a popular topic of discussion

Until it gets shut down. I recall that they were muting people for bringing it up so much because everyone wanted it.

Hopefully the new devs are more open to what the players actually want.

Not everyone wants it.

[AC Denton]

Originally posted by Gesuma:

Originally posted by AC Denton:

Until it gets shut down. I recall that they were muting people for bringing it up so much because everyone wanted it.

Hopefully the new devs are more open to what the players actually want.

Not everyone wants it.

"Everyone" is not used literally. It's an expression. A lottttt of people want it, most people want to be able to toggle POV. It was a huge topic when the game first got announced.

[AC Denton]

Originally posted by Hao Zhao:

Originally posted by AC Denton:

Until it gets shut down. I recall that they were muting people for bringing it up so much because everyone wanted it.

Hopefully the new devs are more open to what the players actually want.

It's not the devs that make the rules, it's the publisher and the publisher is still Paradox. As a general rule, you're not allowed to spam -anything-. You can say your piece but some of the third person advocates were doing it in dozens of topics. Not a great look.

Sure, but they were muting people that mentioned it once. Their very reason given for doing it was the dev team was very set on first-person only and not changing. It wasn't just about spam.

[Gesuma]

Originally posted by AC Denton:

Originally posted by Gesuma:

Not everyone wants it.

"Everyone" is not used literally. It's an expression. A lottttt of people want it, most people want to be able to toggle POV. It was a huge topic when the game first got announced.

So now you are sure MOST people want...
It looked a lot like a vocal minority.

[Cortes]

Third person should NOT be an option.
Games are always worse when they include both first and third person options.
Sometimes less is more.

[Bumbo]

Originally posted by Cortes:

Third person should NOT be an option.
Games are always worse when they include both first and third person options.
Sometimes less is more.

I agree. Bloodlines 1 controlled like ♥♥♥♥ even when patched up. Having two perspectives was next to worthless.

[Coffee Break Hero]

I fully disagree with ya'll actually. I almost always played BL1 in third person. It's much more fun to me when roleplaying. Especially as I go stealth builds most of the time.

The only reason they won't make third person is lack of effort. The rest is handwaves.

[Akira92]

Originally posted by Cortes:

Third person should NOT be an option.
Games are always worse when they include both first and third person options.
Sometimes less is more.

Lol TES and Fallout have both first and third person mode, and there's literally nothing "worse". Third person option should be mandatory in every rpg.

[Coffee Break Hero]

Originally posted by Akira92:

Originally posted by Cortes:

Third person should NOT be an option.
Games are always worse when they include both first and third person options.
Sometimes less is more.

Lol TES and Fallout have both first and third person mode, and there's literally nothing "worse". Third person option should be mandatory in every rpg.

Agreed. Multiple camera views are a hallmark of some of the greatest RPGs out there.
Even BG3 has a mod of people that want to play it like the witcher 3 (3rd person)

[Hao Zhao]

Originally posted by AC Denton:

Originally posted by Hao Zhao:

It's not the devs that make the rules, it's the publisher and the publisher is still Paradox. As a general rule, you're not allowed to spam -anything-. You can say your piece but some of the third person advocates were doing it in dozens of topics. Not a great look.

Sure, but they were muting people that mentioned it once. Their very reason given for doing it was the dev team was very set on first-person only and not changing. It wasn't just about spam.

A bunch of people spammed out the entire board until the mods stepped in and stopped anyone from talking about it. That's the consequence of organised spam and essentially raiding because all of those spammers were signing up accounts just to flood the board over that one issue.

[Cortes]

Originally posted by Akira92:

Originally posted by Cortes:

Third person should NOT be an option.
Games are always worse when they include both first and third person options.
Sometimes less is more.

Lol TES and Fallout have both first and third person mode, and there's literally nothing "worse". Third person option should be mandatory in every rpg.

Lol, TES and Fallout are both series who got only worse with every new entry. TES3 was the last good TES game (I regret all my time spent in Oblivion and Skyrim by now) and as far as Fallout is concerned, Bethesda never understood that franchise in the first place. There is even a video about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8U4k2Ik6yk
True though, both have first and third person options but there is so little depth to these games that it does not make a difference anymore anyway.

[Coffee Break Hero]

I love (highly modded and VR) skyrim for completely different reasons than bloodlines.
Bloodlines is like wine and salmon and avocado.
Skyrim is like pizza.