• Bluewing@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Just make your games first person view only, no third person view. You can be who/what ever you imagine yourself to be. You can be male/female/androgynous or a magic unicorn with rainbow farts and chewing cotton candy cud with the blood of the vanquished dripping from your horn. And it’s all in your head.

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      1 day ago

      That sounds like “just make your games totally unplayable for some people” (which also includes me.) Technically I can play some first person games but because there are so many that would give me motion sickness so in general I just avoid them

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        22 hours ago

        To be perfectly honest while it’s neat in the rare case when a game attempts to model the body properly in first person.

        And in being blunt here. Its a stupid fucking choice.

        It makes animations hard as hell to do that don’t cause more motion sickness if not impossible. It makes many actions physically impossible to do in a playable manner. And basically breaks every trick in the book to make things look real.

        Remember even in 3d games there’s a LOT of optical illusions and trickiery that has to happen to make things look right.

        There’s some bullshit you can pull to give characters a proper body in third person, but it comes with a lot of restrictions that just arnt worth it in most cases.

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        1 day ago

        In quite a lot of games if you look down you can only see your own legs, which of course is totally unrealistic.

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      1 day ago

      Can confirm. It took me a while to figure out my character was Someone™ in Portal