OFFTOPIC: Sense-of-scale In EverQuest!

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Rooj [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I know most people don't play EQ in first person, but I do. I only zoom out if I really need to, to look around a corner or see something I normally wouldn't. I've really wanted a 1st person MMO since EQ. The LACK of perception and requirement in combining the perception of everyone in the party for awareness is something very important in EQ, but much less so in any game afterwards. It's annoying to me that pretty much every option out there is a 3rd person game. There needs to be more 1st person MMO options. More variety.

Vanguard had a good first person view mode--better than EQ's even. You could look down and see your body/legs/etc, which EQ does not render. However the game world was still designed with a third person camera in mind, so it was full of massive vaulted ceilings, cavernous interiors, and generally lots of wide-open spaces indoors. It did attempt to have complex dungeons as well with the result being that some of them were so physically enormous that hardly anyone ever did them fully due to lack of time. It was exhibit "A" as to why merely having the view mode available--by itself--isn't enough. The world has to be designed to be seen and played that way.

Lot of pressure nowadays for third person. People love their easymode goodyear blimp perspective.

Danth