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early_riser@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters?

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There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters?

early_riser@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 days ago
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  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    That’s just called the American education system

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      Your username fits well, because with that humor you’re going to hell ^^

  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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    What, that you’re the one being shot?

    • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      That’s just me attempting to play any multiplayer fps

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    I don’t know about shooters, but there’s second person driving. https://youtu.be/mC8QoRa8y_Q

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      Glad someone beat me to mentioning that.

  • Masamune@lemmy.world
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    I’ll do you one better. What about fourth person shooters?

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      Or 7¾ person?

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    Not necessarily a shooter, but Out of Sight was a cool take on the Second Person genre, and unusually eerie because of that very mechanic.

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    There’s that Shredder fight in TMNT Turtles in Time where you’re throwing foot soldiers at the screen. Also that first boss in Battletoads.

  • PoorYorick@lemmy.world
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    SUPERHOT!

  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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    Screencheaters on steam. It’s 4 player split screen but you’re supposed to watch other players screen while playing because you’re invisible or something like tha

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    I don’t know if any whole games, but a lot of games have boss battles or segments that are in 2nd person. Where the perspective is from the target, and you can see the character you are controlling through their eyes.

    Off the top of my head, this boss fight from Ratchet and Clank 3 comes to mind.

    It’s hard to do this for extended periods for a few reasons. Part of why this is reduced to boss fights so that if you have sections with dozens of enemies, whose perspective do you take? What happens when that enemy dies, or if that enemy needs to suck under cover or go down a stairwell or look down at their weapon to reload?

    Even for boss fights, it only works if the boss’s behavior is controlled pretty strictly, like in that Ratchet and Clank example.

    You could kind of make an argument about sections where you view your character through some sort of diagetic device, like a security camera. Technically you could count Lakitu from several Mario games in that sense.

    Talking about this is giving me ideas though, especially for stealth games. Something that lets you see through the enemy’s eyes and make sure that you do NOT appear in their line of site could be really neat. Maybe.

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    I don’t know, but I think it would go about as well as this.

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    Xcom?

    Cmdr: Jenkins shoot that thinman standing in front of you with your shotgun.
    Jenkins: I missed the shot.
    Cmdr: what? How? You had a 98% chance to hit.

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    Second person is when you play a healer.

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      It becomes one of the other two when your DPS decides to stand in the no-no stuff.

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    This bit in the first stage of Battletoads comes to mind. It won’t let me upload a screenshot here for some reason, but here’s a video. https://youtu.be/iqyeq7iC5YY?t=200

  • davidgro@lemmy.world
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    Yes.

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    https://finalsentence.org/

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