I prefer 3rd person because of the height problem in 1st person camera. Super annoying.

I can never play a bethesda game in 3rd person.

1st in combat, 3rd for anything else.

also this

I used to play exclusively in first, but the more I started taking screenshots (or ghetto pics of my tv-screen at first ), the more I started to play in third. Now I almost exclusively play in third, I only go to first person when I decorate my home (and need to place items with precision) or sometimes in narrow dungeons when I aim with my bow.

Funny. It used to annoy me how the game forces you to play in third when you ride a horse, for example. Now, I get annoyed when the game forces you into first person during certain scenes.

And, as others have stated, I spend so much time in character creation trying to get the right look, so I want to see my characters!