Hey! I LIKE the 10mm Pistol you dikes.

[censored] yeah Colonel you tell them.

I like the 10mm as well.

First person shooting exists within the game. It has FPS elements in that it literally contains first person shooting... FPS, action, RPG are not mutually exclusive labels.

Also you can also pass off any design issue as player preference since there's no objective standard. If you were to carry around some the same sort of weapons IRL, your field of view would not match very well with the field of view you get when you're in first person and your character is carrying them in FO:NV. That's a fairly objective way to put it. It's most noticeable with pistols, most melee, and assault rifles I think - lever and bolt actions don't seem as bad. Melee it's like your char is intentionally holding the weapon right in front of his face - and it doesn't make much sense since it's not like it even aids in hip shooting the way seeing your gun does. Having a different view for crouching, standing, and moving might've helped too. It appears the standard view is set to a certain period of the 3rd person run animation in which the weapon is at it's closest to the character's head - and with one handed melee weapons at least that's a fairly extreme perspective to have 100% of the time in first person.