Instead it is transparent, more like part of the interface like the keyboard and mouse which allows the human player to act within the digital realm. But the important key is that the player-character is not a ‘character’ in the normal sense of the word. The player literally builds up its characteristics and personality as they go. This is certainly the case for a Fallout 3-style RPG when there is no pre-existing character to speak of. The player-character is a digital shell that requires the player to inhabit in order to become a complete (fictional) entity.
So the player of the FP game is injected into the gameworld as the non-character within the fiction. The first way, the ‘common wisdom’ is repeated in game design manuals and states that first-person perspective is more immersive and makes the player feel more like they are the character in the game.įirst-person immersion seems to rely on a concept of self-transporation from the ordinary world into the gameworld.
The two are related, and reinforce each other, but can also operate independently and in different ways. My issue lies somewhere in between the concept of immersion and character-identification, which aren’t exactly the same thing. This is opposite to the common wisdom that gets peddled in game theory.” After the discussion, I have a better understanding of my own position, and of the ‘common wisdom’ that some of my friends also supported. What I wrote was: “Putting this out there that I think my ‘immersion’ and/or level of empathy with my character is higher in a third-person game than a first person game because I can recognise the motion of the body when I can see it than when I appear to be a floating camera-without-body skimming smoothly over the surface of the gameworld. This article is the result of a nagging concern regarding one aspect of the game that I floated on Facebook as an invitation to discuss. Now I struggle to come up with a single aspect of Fallout 3 that I actually like. This time I made it as far as Galaxy News Radio in two or three play sessions. Two years and a very cheap Bethesda Steam bundle later I tried it out again. I tried it out back then, and only just made it to Megaton before abandoning it. First or Third Person – What’s Your Perspective?īethesda’s Fallout 3 is one of those monumental titles that happened to be released during my WoW days, meaning I only even registered its existence about two years ago.
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