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There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

2nd person is watching your character from the viewpoint of someone else.

3rd person is when you see your character from the viewpoint of someone who doesn’t exist.

Mario 64 is played through the viewpoint of a guy in a cloud with a camera. Which makes it 2nd person.

If the character wasn’t there it would be third person (like the side scrolling Mario games)

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    There is one better example of second person perspective than Mario 64, which I don't really agree with since the disembodied camera isn't a character's perspective per se. Unless it is. I don't really know the lore of Mario 64. So I shouldn't comment.

    In one of the need for speeds you are pursued by the cops and then the camera goes from your normal racing game perspective into the cops perspective, but you're still driving your car, so you're seeing your car that moves around and responds to your controls from the cop who's chasing you's point of view. Pretty trippy.

    I never played it myself, but I once watched a YouTube video about second-person games. And this was the example they used.

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