Current Events > Does being unable to see your character's body in a first person game bother you

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I hit a point where even if it's more work for the dev, I prefer my player have a body so I don't just feel like a floating head when I look down

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honestly first person perspective kinda bothers me in general

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I don't really give it much thought honestly so no.

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Only when they give you an option to create a character. In that situation, what really is the point. Makes the feature useless.

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Yes, I should at least be able to see my kibbles when I look down

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Depends on the game. Sometimes the protagonist in a game just looks ridiculous too and I would prefer not seeing it.

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generally speaking no, but in VR, the addition of a virtual body really helps a ton with immersion. A lot of VR games end up making you feel like a pair of disembodied hands and a head... Which to their credit is understandable -- since it is extremely tricky to get this right. Even something as simple as simulating the arm becomes hairy quickly, because, unless your arm is extended all the way out (or, unless you use some additional tracking setup beyond just a headset + 2 controllers) the game has no way of knowing where the bend of your elbow is IRL -- and so it has to guess. If that guess isn't accurate, you get a mismatch between your IRL body and your virtual body, which totally fucks with immersion.

Extrapolate that to the rest of the body and its easy to see how complex it can become from a technical perspective. A few games however have done this with a surprising amount of fidelity, and those games benefit significantly from it. VR is all about detail; every little bit adds to the experience.

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Not particularity, but it does make any character-editor rather meaningless.