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Halo POV
by Maarten Goldstein, Oct 28, 1999 6:22pm PDTVoodoo Extreme has an email up that one of their readers got from Bungie's Allan Turner on why Halo is a 3rd person game:
>>Why is the game HALO a 3rd person view only? please give one good reason. PLEASE MAKE IT A FIRST PERSON VIEW!!! we don't like tomb raider controls. thanks.You didn't miss that new screenshot yesterday, did you?
Because for the level of environmental control and interaction you'll need int he game. It is nothing like Tomb Raider so please don't judge camera controls you've never experienced or used until you use them. The things you can do with the camera and the POVs that can be obtained are what makes this gmae what it is. If you want and like Quake 3 then I'm happy for you but that's not our game. Our game is Halo and it has a camera control that you have to expereince before you love or hate it.
Comments
Where have you been for the last year? You can emulate the N64 on a PC and do higher resolution graphics than the real thing at full frame rates.
they were running it on an Apple G3 w/ rage 128, and it was running smoothly... so theoreticly you could run it on a PC w/ 286, 128kb video ram with the same performance.... maybe even better... j/k
but it\'ll rin nicely on the GeForce, and it\'ll probably run on the TNT1... just shitty like on a mac.
Third person multiplayer...SUCKS!!
Halo single player I\'ll probably check it out, but any multiplayer action in third person is gonna fucking suck....case closed!!!
I guess IÂ’ll have to play something else in the meantime.
Ok, you\'re on. I bet it\'ll be a smash hit. For 2 reasons:
1. Its made by bungie
2. At the risk of being labelled as shallow... just look at it fer chrissakes!
To the rest: its an action game!
Action != fps
The perspective in a game, if done correctly, has very little affect on the game itself. A good game, is a good game. You can\'t take some game that was designed around one method, then just had other methods hacked in, since of course the secondary view mode(s) will suck, no one spent the time to make it right.
Exactly. Halo ISNT a fps. If you want a fps *buy* a fps.
#20 but...god damn, 3rd person just FEELS wrong for this kind of game.
What is \'this kind of game\'? You\'re thinking quake again.
</me beats a plank over my head>
Its not a FPS! Its not a FPS! Its not a FPS! Its not a FPS!
Just for the record, Heretic II rocked. It was perfectly easy to aim and hit your target. If Halo is any better, than the aiming system can only get better, right? Right.
We\'re gamers, damnit. Adapt for chrissakes.
-Tx
and, using heretic 2 as an example (because it\'s really the only one we\'ve got, of a good 3rd person action game) it was nest to impossible to aim in 1st person mode, and very easy to aim in 3rd.
i read somewhere else today where somebody said that 3rd person is not realistic, because who walks around viewing themself from behind all day. first of all, if i wanted real life, why would i play a game to begin with? and secondly, last I checked, nobody walks around with a gun strapped to their right cheekbone either.