I'm always one for immersion, helmet should be optional, but I don't mind if it isn't.

They toyed around with "visor vision" for helmets in previous games, but it never made the cut. It would get irritating having blurry, black borders around your viewing area while wearing a helmet.

Though personally, as a huge nerd who loves the idea of too much realism in my RPGs, I would relish the idea. For me, it would add a new layer of role playing to see through the slit in my visor, and take my helmet off for viewing comfort when I don't need it. Bonus points if there is a quick button that allows me to quickly equip and de-equip the helmet, complete with first person arms coming up and removing the helm, then storing it away. Double bonus points if wearing the helmet muffles sounds around you somewhat.

NPC - "Mmmmfff mfflll mmm mmmff..."
YOU - "What?" *Removes great-helm*
NPC - "I said, I saw a mudcrab the other day."

Agree--would be awesome, but only if done really well and would also have to be optional, 'cause you know half the people out there wouldn't want it, at least until they tried it a few times and got used to it.

As for the last bit of your post: :lmao:

Yeah.. I'd want to see my body when I look down.. something reassuring about that. As for visual things like glasses, hair, helmets..... It just doesn't work on a t.v. .. for the main fact that in real life when your vision is blocked you see around it.. incorporate it and don't notice it. Just think how bad it would be to constantly be aware that you were wearing glasses.. or constantly aware of your nose or hair. If they put these things in a game you stay aware of them and it blocks vision.
Seeing your own bangs blow around I don't think could ever look right.. I mean it's just blurs that hang down in front of your face if your even paying attention to it.

:thumbsup:

AMEN

I think you're mistaken and I think a lot of people are failing to actually visualize what some of us are talking about. Let me ask you this; Do you own a hoodie. If so put it up around your head and tell me what you see.

Completely agreed!!!

Lets hope we can now have a body in 1st person with skyrim! If not, please a mod like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtP4rkJBky4

;D

- I don't want to see the helmet-vision or my hair getting in the way. No.
It would just be annoying. Be in my way. Sometimes too much realism is just too much.

- I do want to see my arms when I run/swim, when I fall from a height and so on. This is a must for me.
- I also want to see my legs, could be pretty awesome.
It all adds for a much greater 1st person feeling, rather than being a camera in the air.

- I don't want anything else.

Would be great if you had to remove helmet because the fog/weather just made it all too much, and you couldn't see a thing.

I'd like to see my body to get proper footing for a jump.

But no helmet pieces covering my eyesight.

Arma2 for what I can see in 1st person (own body, and freelook), and Farcry2 for the immersive animations in 1st person (healing animations i.e.).

I'd like to see the option for less HUD, first person archery so you don't need a crosshair. I don't really care if they don't do anything to the game to make it so you know when you are getting low on HP/Magic/Fatigue but at the very least I'd want an option to just turn it off.

I personally hate stuff obstructing my view to a point [including massive HUDs. The HUD in the Witcher drove me crazy], however, I would actually very much like to see the body in first person, and hold my sword and shield naturally... not in front of me all the time, as others have said.

But as for the hair/helm/hood, I would rather it be an option you can turn on or off in the menu, simply for preference. Since I don't actually know if I'd like it or not, and of course, some will love that and some will hate it.

With an option, you can cater to a much larger group of people.

Options are always better than not having a feature at all.

btw love your mods

Helmets and hair obscuring the vision are the sort of things which sound nice in text, but in practice would be extremely annoying. I do want to see my body though, and I'm glad they've removed the HUD. I often tried to play Oblivion and Fallout with the HUD at 100% transparency, and it made the game look so much beter, but it was very hard to do since you had no crosshairs or health bar. Hopefully the fact that they're implementing no HUD means there are alternate ways of knowing your health and magicka levels.

If you look at the GI screens you can see that only your magic hand is visible when casting and your weapon is in view when idle but you hand is not. Slight improvement over Oblivion it seems like Mount and Blade's first person perspective but tweaked a little. Ah I would visible Helmets and bodies, the amount of immersion they produce is great, also it makes people choose their armours carefully, now you don't go for the highest armour rating but maybe the one that allows greater movement and sight. Also it's easy enough to have it as an option for those who wouldn't like it. But I think in the end I would much rather have head bob and bow sway. I hate floating around Oblivion like I'm in action packed spectator mode.

Good to see more people concerned about this...
I made a thread a while ago but the response was not to good:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1157817-1st-person-view-improvements/page__p__16965699__fromsearch__1#entry16965699

I would be really sad if the FPV in Skyrim is not as god as Mirrors Edge.

I don't mind if it stays the way it was in Oblivion.

I definitely do NOT want to see anything that covers my sight, but seeing your body when you look down would be great.

Hair floating in your view would be a little annoying, but a helmet decreasing your view field would be interesting... like... you gain some points in armour, but also get some penalties in your view... But i think THIS we will get only with mods... A body viewable i hope to be available in vanilla game!

In Bioshock 2 I loved how water falling onto my helmet obscured my vision....pure awesome.

This.

I just want the ability to travel in one direction, and look in another (free look). They create this beautiful world for us to look at, but they don't gives us an easy way to take it all in while we travel.

If I was able to easily hack their default camera system in http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=9499 (and both Fallouts) to provide this feature, there is no reason why they can't do the same.

I liked the way it was in Far Cry 2. I would hope they could get it that good. If not, I might try 3rd person. I never would have before but after getting used to it with the Assassin's Creed series I might try it.

I hope we'll at least get to see our bodies in first person. The floating camera with arms thing has always looked rather unrealistic. It might not have seemed so bad back in Doom, but it's starting to look really dated now, and I hope Skyrim does away with it.

As far as actually seeing your helmet in first person, that would depend on how it is implemented. Mainly how much it obstructs your vision, I wouldn't object to it as long as Bethesda made sure to do it in such a way where it wouldn't severely interfere with seeing in the game.