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    22 hours ago

    Second person perspective is basically a choose your own adventure book or speaks directly to the reader (like many an HP Lovecraft novel). But I take it that’s not what they mean here. So I gotta wonder: What do they consider a “second person perspective?” 🤨

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      8 hours ago

      There’s a second person perspective FPS where the game is a split screen of all the POVs of every enemy in the level. You still control your character and the shooting is doom style. So, just shooting in the correct direction of the enemy is enough. But essentially, you only see yourself when the enemy NPCs can see you. The views disappear and the split screen shifts as you kill enemies.

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      21 hours ago

      The go-to example I always think of for 2nd person is Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, the boss battle against the Tyhrranoid Mother. You cycle through phases of the boss, and one shifts the camera’s perspective to the targeting system of the boss, while you still control Ratchet.

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      17 hours ago

      Somebody made a whole-ass video about it a while ago, and there’s essentially two notable examples in video games.

      One where there’s a chase scene where you’re the protagonist controlling your car but seen from the perspective of the antagonist (from the camera perspective you’re chasing yourself), the other is a horror game where you see yourself from the perspective of your dolls (which you carry and place)

      Edit: the video I was thinking of (but it doesn’t actually have this specific example, I found that later)

      https://youtu.be/mC8QoRa8y_Q?is=4jOUa2Mdm65ACV8y

      That other game; https://store.steampowered.com/app/2526310/Out_of_Sight/