Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters?
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoThe terms are used because of the narritive forms of a story.
1st person is from the point of view of the character, thus the view from the eyes of the playable character.
3rd person is he/she perspective. You follow the character from the narration of an external narrator. You see the playable character do actions from a perspective that isn’t their own or someone’s else.
2nd person would be from the point of view of a person involved with the character but isn’t it. So you would see the actions of the character through the eyes of an NPC. There was a demo floating around YouTube where a player was shooting zombies, and the camera was from the POV of thr zombies. It made it look pretty weird.
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I imagine certain tactics games could possibly count in this vein - you as the commander on the uplink give orders to the team what does the actual shooting.