It looked like a nice little RPG, but sadly, I can't stand 3rd person view in 3d RPGs. Diablo style (isometric) games are a different story. And no, I did not play Witcher 3 because the 1st person mods sucked.


A 1st person mode is trivial to program. It is much easier than a 3rd person mode with camera positioning and environment transpararency. I have no clue why studios forgo the opportunity to sell their games to many more gamers with so little extra effort. Yes, that means CD Project RED too.

This is very much how I feel... in the opposite sense. :)

Due to severe vertigo when playing first-person games, I only play them if I think the story is worth the nausea (exceptions are few and far between, though Cyberpunk 2077 may be the next one).

So while I am coming from a different perspective, I understand and appreciate what you are saying. I also wish it were more common and/or technically and financially feasible for game developers to implement both first and third person options in games of this type.

Sorry this game has disappointed you. Perhaps there will be a decent mod available at some point.

Your loss.

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Witcher 3 is currently my favorite game of all time. You are missing out on a fantastic RPG experience.

Well, first off: Games are designed to work with the perspective they have for a reason, and often NO, it ISN'T a simple matter of just shoving the camera into first-person position and you're done. The animations that exist need to be reworked (often heavily) to look appropriate in first person. And more importantly, core gameplay which relies on the spatial awareness you have in third person means that first-person is functionally handicapping yourself and removing access to tools the game is balanced around.

And it's worth noting that, particularly for melee combat, third-person is a BETTER represenation of a person's situational awareness than first person. And I say this as someone with a history of years of martial arts, including armed and unarmed fighting in various styles (ranging from Karate to HEMA). You don't have a floating camera behind your head when you fight (obviously) but you're not stuck with a tiny 60 to 90 degree arc of vision and you have senses which videogame outputs can't provide which allow for awareness of opponents nearby and outside of your (already wider than first person) field of vision.

I won't defend D&D Online because I never played enough of it to care and that particular example sounds hilariously bad, but there are plenty of good reasons why games can - and often should - be designed without first person as a viable option.

(and yes I know I'm late to the conversation, deal with it...)

It isn't, or at least is only trivial if you want the result to be mediocre... there is plenty of games that choose ONE perspective only, be that 1st or 3rd, and stick with it, because you cannot just alter the X Y Z coordinates of your viewport and have everything working&looking as it should... most fan-made mods that do that look terrible and, well, fan-made, far from professional quality.

Plus, as others have mentioned, when the action RPG game is mostly focused on melee combat, 1st person should be considered very carefully, because it really isn't the best choice and more often thanb not leads to unpleasant gameplay

Edit: oh, sorry for the necro, didn't realize OP date... blame the guy above me ;)

Thanks for putting this into words, I've felt awkward in most first person perspective games for years and years and the closest I could get to an apt description was that it felt awkward because I couldn't quite tell where my feet were.

You're both welcome!

Weak trolling. Do better

Damn. Another call of duty kid in the forums

I am the exact opposite of you. When dungeon crawlers first came out on the Sega Genesis and the Original Nintendo I played 1st person, that's all there was, but now as I have aged, I find it completely disorienting. So, I had to pass on Cyberpunk. I gave up on Skyrim for over 18 months because I didn't realize you had to get your hands untied before 3rd person became available and it was almost too much for me to play it that long (a bit of an exaggeration more just frustration the F1 key was switching it.) So, we both are losers here.