1st or 3rd?

[Nutter]

We know legs are coming, just one question, 1st or 3rd person?

Pesonally I can only play 1st person, I avoid all 3rd person only games.
I hope Legs is first person, happy if there is a option for 3rd but won't be using that view.

Whats your fav view?

 

[Esufer]

I'd assume it's going to be first person? Everything else in the game is first person from a gameplay standpoint, but I would be surprised if there wasn't an external camera for taking wallpaper pictures outside your ship.

 

[Vardaugas]

First person. More immersive and I know where I'm aiming and where I'm walking. Third person always confuses me.

 

[Marklar_]

In general, PC games tend to use first person while console games tend to use third person.

Think about the market they seem to be going for, and draw your conclusion.

 

[Ethaidan]

It specifically mentions first person in the release.

 

[CMDR Snailman]

3rd person isometric view

 

[askavir]

1st obviously.

Because it's miles more immersive and practical than 3rd, and also because the announcement post mentions it.

 

[Bob McBobblehead]

Oddyssey is 1st person. I'd prefer if there was an option for both 1st and 3rd person.

 

[Nutter]

In general, PC games tend to use first person while console games tend to use third person.

Think about the market they seem to be going for, and draw your conclusion.

I'm guessing they are aming Legs at consoles, so please don't be 3rd only

 

[Defacto]

I would very much doubt that we'll get 'over the shoulder' 3rd person camera. But 'selfie drone', well we already have that for our ship, so I would regard that as a likely yes.

 

[Old Duck]

We know legs are coming, just one question, 1st or 3rd person?

Many games let you switch between the two - Red Dead Redemption, Skyrim, Space Engineers, etc. I normally stick to first person unless I want to take a selfie or use my character to help measure the scale of something.

However, if Tomb Raider games offered 1st person, I'd still play in 3rd person because of "reasons".

 

[Rubbernuke]

I'd like first person, but the tease suggested its 3rd person to me.

 

[CMDR Yates]

It'll be first person. Maybe you can walk around with an external camera on yourself, like in our ships, but the Elite games have always been conceptually first-person from the outset. Moving primarily to third person makes no thematic or logical sense.

Showing us characters walking in the trailer no more suggests walking in third person than any of the other trailers showing ships flying around suggested flying ships in third person.

 

[VR SenseiMatty]

We know legs are coming, just one question, 1st or 3rd person?

Pesonally I can only play 1st person, I avoid all 3rd person only games.
I hope Legs is first person, happy if there is a option for 3rd but won't be using that view.

Whats your fav view?

The trailer is in 3rd person so it will be so!
Jokes aside I think it will be both.
Otherwise it will only be 1st because it currently is in 1st.

 

[Nikephorus Phocas]

I'm going to guess say it will have the option for both. Much like many of Bethesda's games.

 

[Ethaidan]

I'd like first person, but the tease suggested its 3rd person to me.

How does it do that? None of the camera angles are from a 3rd person playing perspective - it shows walking and ships flying from a cinematic camera view, and from the release... "Experience intense first-person combat"

 

[CMDR Yates]

It specifically mentions first person in the release.

Exactly

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey marks the birth of a highly anticipated new era for the long running definitive space simulation, allowing players to touch down on countless new planets powered by stunning new tech, and explore with unrestricted freedom from a first-person, feet-on-the-ground perspective.

Source: Frontier's official press release

 

[Ian Doncaster]

I was hoping they'd be properly innovative and go for 2nd-person view.

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

I hate first person. I'll get over it or maybe I'll start a campaign, open letter, change my avatar, refuse to buy ARX etc blah, etc, blah, etc, blah.

 

[CMDR Yates]

I was hoping they'd be properly innovative and go for 2nd-person view.

You can only see your character through the eyes of nearby NPCs.