1st in combat, possibly 3rd when traveling.

I'll play in first person, but I'll occasionally switch to 3rd to stroke my ego, with all that cool armour and whatnot. :disguise:

3rd person always gives me an odd detached feeling that feels much less responsive.

Third person always!

I have never actually played in 3rd person. I've changed to it just to look at how my armor looks, but other than that it just takes you out of the experience. I generally don't like 3rd person games (excluding Demon's Souls, Metal Gear Solid, and a select few others).

Yes First Person

1st person for combat/majority of game play (quests, stealing stuff, etc.) third person for strolling through town/world.

traditionally i always used 1st person. If the animations are good enough Ill try and stick with 3rd person. personally ive always found 1st person melee combat to be fairly unintuitive. I place this on the fact that in real life you have a mental image/understanding of the space around you, partly because of your senses other than sight. lacking those senses in a videogame, i find 1st person melee to be a more limited understanding of space. It was never that important before because the combat in the previous games was kind of meh. since they seem intent on ramping up the combat, and the animations, i have high hopes for the game being exciting from both perspectives.

This.

that's how I use them as well

1st Person

1st for combat, 3rd for running aroound.

I'll admit to checking out my characters new threads on occasion, but apart from that, first person all the way.

first person with the occasion romp around the countryside in third. third person tends to detract from the experience.

I do 1rst person alot more than 3rd, I don't know too many other games/companies that offer both options (outside of Bethesda) but I've always had a person with the way a person moves in 3rd person. Many times when I move diagonally, it just looks like I'm gliding across the landscape. They put alot of attention into these games, but they always seem to miss out on the way the character (in 3rd person) should move according to the direction they move and the layout of the environment.

I feel much the same way.

I use 3rd person as much as I can in games, mostly because 1st person always feels like I'm wearing blinders. You really can't tell what's on your left or your right unless you're constantly swinging the camera view around.

In computer games, simulating combat is very imperfect, obviously, but you're missing a lot of senses which would be available in real life-- the rush of footsteps to your side, movement out of the corner of your eye, a shadow or sudden glint of steel. To me, the 3rd person perspective kind of helps with that.

Unless you're constantly flinging the camera back and forth, you lose all of your side vision and what's above and below you in 1st. Any sort of jumping, walking across treacherously placed logs, etc., becomes almost impossible.

3rd person for me helps to really represent all of the senses and scope of vision I would have in real life, as opposed to some very narrow field of view with two disembodied hands floating about.

YOU'LL DIE FOR YOUR INCULENCE FIEND!!!!!!!!









How do you spell inculence??_°

i would mainly use 3rd person as much as possible unless im in a narrow dungeon otherwise ill stick to 3rd person. playing in 1st person never felt right to me. constantly seeing 2 hands floating in the air always made me forget who or what i was.

I play Elder Scrolls in first person only.

3rd person; feels more immersive to me. In 3rd, I feel like I'm playing the character; in 1st, I feel like I'm playing my computer monitor floating through Tamriel.

3rd person wherever practical (and I'd use point & click to get them to walk if it was an option :chaos:).

It really depends

When I'm just travelling around or if melee spam fighting , 3rd person

If I'm stealing things or assassinating someone , or anything else that requires more aim , then 1st person

How does one view their own body from a third person perspective? :tongue:

Assasination/aiming/stealing - 1st person

Traveling with and or without AF/ Running from gaurds/ Sword Fighting - 3rd person

Taking in the scenery- both

First person. 3rd person feels almost clunky and fake, like I'm playing with a toy.